Childhood Obesity Preventer

Health centers are interested in managing population health but may not have the budget needed to purchase specialty suites. This tool will guide health centers in leveraging the “built in” functionality of certified EHRs to perform PHM functions by mapping the native PHM functionality available in the common certified EHRs used by health centers.  The aim is to help health centers to understand where to start in implementing PHM using what they already have available to them.

These webinars provide more in-depth information on how PRAPARE has been used on-the-ground and the technical specifications for the four Electronic Health Record PRAPARE templates (available for eClinicalWorks, Epic, GE Centricity, and NextGen). 

The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) is a national effort to help health centers and other providers collect the data needed to better understand and act on their patients’ social determinants of health. As providers are increasingly held accountable for reaching population health goals while reducing costs, it is important that they have tools and strategies to identify the upstream socioeconomic drivers of poor outcomes and higher costs. With data on the social determinants of health, health centers and other providers can define and document the increased complexity of their patients, transform care with integrated services and community partnerships to meet the needs of their patients, advocate for change in their communities, and demonstrate the value they bring to patients, communities, and payers.