Boston Medical Center develops EHR-based social needs screener to improve patient outcomes

(Boston Medical Center) Boston Medical Center (BMC) has implemented a social determinants of health screener for primary care patients in order to better identify and address patients' unmet social needs. Clinician researchers developed the electronic health record-based (EHR) model, THRIVE, which facilitates an automatic print out of referral information for resources based at the hospital and in the community when the patient asks for help with a need they have identified in the screener.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://bit.ly/2HxOjMC