We are in a time where long predicted changes in our lives are happening much faster than what...
SAFFRON LABS
SAFFRON Labs is an Incubation Hub that will support the creation of the technical capability for a secure, standards-based patient- and community-centric, open, interoperable SDOH data ecosystem.
SAFFRON Labs is the change necessary for the future of American healthcare.
Research shows that social and environmental factors explain 80-90 percent of a person’s and population’s health status.  The value of collecting and coding SDOH data for clinical care and other use cases, including SDOH-related assessments, goals, health concerns, and interventions, is well established in the literature. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted this reality daily across the nation.
No national electronic standard and reference implementation exist to represent and exchange SDOH data for health care across the disparate digital systems used by the community, clinical, and home settings. SAFFRON Labs is changing that.
The Pandemic and the Future of Telework
We are in a time where long predicted changes in our lives are happening much faster than what would have been anticipated pre-pandemic.
Over the past five months, much of the U.S. workforce has moved from working in an office or cubicle, to teleworking from their homes. This grand social experiment has been the subject of numerous thought pieces and analyses by various think tanks and publications.
