About SHC
Sustainable Healthy Communities, LLC (SHC) is a pioneering health care information company that continuously measures population health, providing actionable analysis to clinicians, health care systems, researchers, corporations, and policy-makers as well as patients, their care-givers, and community leaders. Through its exclusive data access, uniquely SHC promotes cost-effective health outcomes for all through big data analytics coupled with impactful visualization and education.
Founded by the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF), SHC identifies health patterns in communities around the United States, over time. Disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity, and mortality, mapped together with social, cultural, and environmental determinants of health and indicators of health care access, safety, and costs are extracted from multiple sources, including national surveys, public and private administrative claims, clinical registries, and more.
Big data are analyzed and reported in multiple formats that are clear cut, guiding innovative efforts to achieve the triple aim—better health care, patient outcomes, and value—for all.
A company distinguished by its comprehensive data sources and commitment to better, sustainable health outcomes for all.
Questions our clients are answering with health indices:
- Where should I focus my efforts on recruiting patients with a specific disease for clinical trials?
- Which clinicians are providing the most immunization to African American patients?
- Which of my patients are not filling the medications I prescribe?
- How can I communicate to my legislator the importance of improving health care access for HIV treatment?
- Does increased ambulatory care and medication therapy reduce costs?
- How best should I target new medicines or new outpatient facilities given the distribution of patient need?