Informatics study demonstrates open data integration for census-tract social determinants of health, suggesting enhanced clinical decision-making for urban populations.
Key Points
To construct a standardized open-data architecture that integrates community-level social determinants of health at the census-tract level.
Developed the FACETS (Factors Affecting Communities and Enabling Targeted Services) framework to aggregate publicly available government data sources.
Integrated and mapped multi-source social determinant metrics to census tracts across New York City.
Established an open-access repository mapping individual addresses to census-tract-level social determinant profiles.
Enabled cross-determinant analytical aggregation, while noting that update delays in federal non-census sources present a practical limitation.