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Impact of the CommunityRx Program on Health, Service Utilization and Costs

NCT02411409 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 113295

Last updated 2024-05-09

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Summary

The CommunityRx system generates patient-centered e-prescriptions for community services (HealtheRx) via an interface between the electronic health records (EHR) and a comprehensive community resource database. Based on a patient's diagnoses, a HealtheRx will be printed automatically at the end of the ambulatory care visit and will provide patients with a customized map and/or list of places in their community that provide health and social services as well as contact information for a local community health worker who can provide limited case management support. The CommunityRx program aims to promote: 1) better healthcare, 2) better health, and 3) lower cost. The purpose of this research is to systematically evaluate the impact of CommunityRx on health outcomes as well as health care service utilization and total cost of care for Medicaid, Medicare and other beneficiaries. The investigators hypothesize that beneficiaries who participate in the CommunityRx intervention will experience better healthcare, better health and lower total cost of care.

Conditions

  • Connecting Patients to Self-care Resources

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

HealtheRx

The HealtheRx is a prescription for community self-care resources. It includes a printed list of self-care resources provided to the patient at an ambulatory visit and tailored based on data from the electronic medical record.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stacy Lindau, MD, MAPP · University of Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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