PURPOSE This pilot study assessed the feasibility of implementing electronic health record (EHR)
tools for collecting, reviewing, and acting on patient-reported social determinants of …

Little is known about how health care organizations are developing tools for identifying/addressing
patients' social determinants of health (SDH). We describe the processes recently …

Importance Responding to the substantial research on the relationship between social risk
factors and health, enthusiasm has grown around social risk screening in health care settings…

Introduction This paper describes the adoption of an electronic health record-based social
determinants of health screening tool in a national network of more than 100 community …

Successfully incorporating social determinants of health (SDH) screening into clinic workflows
can help care teams provide targeted care, appropriate referrals, and other interventions …

Background National leaders recommend documenting social determinants of health and
actions taken to address social determinants of health in electronic health records, and a …

Purpose: In an age of value-based payment, primary care providers are increasingly
scrutinized on performance metrics that assess quality of care, including the outcomes of their …

Objective Increased social risk data collection in health care settings presents new opportunities
to apply this information to improve patient outcomes. Clinical decision support (CDS) …

Only half of the United States population regularly receives recommended preventive care
services. Alternative payment models (eg, a per-member-per-month capitated payment model…

Background: The fee-for-service reimbursement system that dominates health care throughout
the United States links payment to a billable office visit with a physician or advanced …