Digital social determinants of health

As a result of the massive digitization of healthcare data, healthcare databases are expanding in size. Social determinants of health( SDoH) are data that describe the conditions under which people were born, lived, worked, developed, and aged. They have been incorporated into this expanding multidimensionality. The increase in SDoH variables paints a more accurate picture of the factors that may be affecting the patient's recovery during treatment. This article will look at various scenarios for collecting SDoH digitally as well as potential technologies in order to enable ubiquitous, continuous, and secure patient monitoring. The inclusion and importance of data for real-world evidence will also be covered, along with the various ways that digital SDoH can be useful allies to shed light on phenomena and processes like database bias, healthcare structural issues, health networks quality measurement, treatments outcome analysis and clinical trial design.