Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 11

191 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 11 EHRA and/or available external sources and flagging missing information. It extends to prompting physicians and nurses to ask specific questions or follow up on data already captured in the EHR during the visit. Finally, within the healthcare organization itself, it enables the connections necessary to make that information available to other appropriate providers, community-based organizations, and the patient when, where and how it is needed. It is important to note that the EHR is not always the most appropriate channel for gathering socially determinative data. This is best determined by how that information will be a spotlight on health inequity. In particular, it highlighted the disparities among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), Hispanics, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders (NHOPIs), as well as other National Institute of Health-designated health disparity populations. Health IT can play a clear role in contributing to greater health equity. EHRs can enable availability of socially determinative data across the care continuum. For a provider, this process begins with gathering comprehensive and accurate demographic data from the patient