Event date: 2/16/2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Export event Jodie Albert / Thursday, December 15, 2022 / Categories: Population Health, Archived Lessons Learned: Implementing and Expanding Social Needs Screening Programs in Health Centers - Session 2: Level 2: Implementing a Social Needs Screening Tool HITEQ Learning Collaborative Series Is your health center currently in the process of considering, implementing, or revamping a social needs screening program within your EHR or health IT system? This learning collaborative taught participants about health center promising practices and key considerations to support the successful collection, monitoring, and addressing of social needs data. During the series, participants explored the levels of maturity in the social needs screening implementation process. The levels of maturity included: Level 1: Coming to Consensus Level 2: Implementing a Social Needs Screening Tool Level 3: Responding to Positive Screens Level 4: Monitoring and Using Data Participants gained information on concrete strategies and IT solutions that have helped to improve internal systems, such as EHR utilization and care team workflows, and increase their capacity to advance individual and population-level health. The HITEQ Center partnered with the Louisiana Primary Care Association to design this series. Louisiana-based health centers were showcased throughout the series to share their experiences with social needs screening, including successes, challenges, and lessons learned. Session 2: Level 2: Implementing a Social Needs Screening ToolDuring this session, participants uncovered ways to evaluate and refined their EHRs and workflows to establish a solid foundation to support consistent and standardized social needs data collection. Topics: Interactive development process - starting with a small pilot, Configuring the EHR, Benefits of capturing in the EHR, Screening methods, Primary considerations for screening, Systematizing data collection, Screening frequency. Print 4329 Tags: Population Healthhealth centerssocial need dataSocial Needs Screening ToolSocial Needs Data Collection Documents to download SDoH Social Needs LC_Session 2 Slide Deck(.pdf, 2.18 MB) - 151 download(s) Resource Links Apply for the learning collaborative hereRegistration is closed. Related Resources How EHRs Can Be Leveraged to Streamline Social Needs Screening HITEQ Highlights: Crossing The Chasm of Innovation - One FQHC's Journey to Operationalize its Telehealth Strategy [Video] Managed Care Data and Contracting in Practice HITEQ Highlights: Improve the Collection and Respectful Use of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Clinical Decision Support and Care Plan Adjustment for Social Risks