Figure 3:

EASE only needs two lines of code (yellow and red pointer) to extract the SDOH risk factors. In the example above, we can see that the tool was able to extract SDOH-related information regarding the patient. The tool was able to extract the token ‘widowed’ which tells us about the current relationship status of the patient. The next extracted token is ‘alone’ which tells about the social isolation of the patient and can potentially cause mental and physical toll on patient’s health. The next extracted token is ‘Location’ which is a de-identified value but if the tool is being used as an internal tool then it would provide the actual geographical location of the patient that is closely related to ‘Neighborhood and the Physical Environment’ SDOH.