US Patent Issued to UnitedHealth Group on July 1 for "Programmatically managing social determinants of health to provide electronic data links with third party health resources" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,537, issued on July 1, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Programmatically managing social determinants of health to provide electronic data links with third party health resources" was invented by Sheila Kay Shapiro (Phoenix) and Donna McClure (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments are directed to systems and methods for automatically providing data indicative of one or more characteristics of services that may be recommended to a particular patient, wherein the services are executable at least in part electronically based on data generated and provided by a system for facilitating acce...