Unite US Acquires Carrot Health to Merge SDOH Care and Analytics

Health-related social determinants Health analytics company Carrot Health will be acquired by unite US in a deal worth an undisclosed value.Health and social service providers may interact and refer patients using Unite Us’ care-coordination platform. The platform keeps track of all of patient journeys and results. United States said the enormous amount of data collected by Carrot will assist partner groups to address healthcare inequalities and develop innovative care models.

Using Unite Us’ networks that track outcomes and take social factors into account, community-based organizations, governments, payers, and providers will have an immediate impact, leveraging advanced analytics to improve health for their populations and communities,” said Unite Us cofounder and CEO Dan Brillman.Covidian epidemic emphasized the links between health and food, housing, work, and education as well as other socioeconomic determinants.

An analysis of Census Bureau data from April 28 to May 10 by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that nearly a third of the population had difficulty paying for household expenses in the past seven days, and that 19 percent had postponed medical treatment in the past four weeks as a result of the pandemicDuring the epidemic, community and social services had to deal with a huge load, as Americans lost their jobs and were left alone at home.

Taylor Justice, co-founder and president of Unite Us, remarked during a HIMSS20 Digital event last year, “What COVID-19 magnified was our lack of public health infrastructure.”Once they moved away from merely a clinical reaction, cities and states began to recognize that the higher jobless statistics were going to put an unprecedented strain on their human and social service systems.