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COHERE – COntextualized care in cHcs’ Electronic health Records

Award Number: R01MD014886
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 01/29/2020
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2025

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COHERE – COntextualized care in cHcs’ Electronic health Records - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Factors such as food, transportation, and housing instability, social isolation, and neighborhood conditions profoundly impact health outcomes. Shaped by a long history of racial, social, and economic inequity in the US, such factors also underlie health inequities. Many healthcare leaders now recommend systematic documentation of these social risk factors. Yet while social risk data are increasingly available in electronic health records (EHR), research is lacking on how healthcare teams can use these data to improve patient health and decrease health inequities. Social risk-targeted care (referrals to service agencies) can improve health outcomes, but recent research suggests that such improvements are not solely the result of addressing social conditions. Another path to improved outcomes involves social risk-informed care: modifying care plans to account for patients’ social risks (e.g., adjusting insulin prescribing so that when food benefits run out at the end of the month, patients are less likely to be hospitalized with hypoglycemia). Such social risk-informed care may seem intuitive, but very little research has examined how care teams can effectively and systematically make such adaptations. This study will be the first to examine how EHR-based clinical decision support (CDS) could support the provision of contextualized, social risk-informed care. Our Aims are: 1. Obtain stakeholder input from community health center (CHC) staff and patients on care plan adaptations that could mitigate social risks’ impact on patient health and ability to adhere to care recommendations. Develop and pilot-test EHR-integrated CDS tools that present social risks and suggest relevant care plan adaptations. 2. Randomize 12 CHCs to receive: Arm 1) a CDS tool with a social risk summary, links to social service information, and a reminder to consider social risks in care planning; or Arm 2) a CDS tool with the same summary, reminder, and links, plus specific care plan adaptation suggestions tailored to a given patient’s social risks. Assess each tool’s impact on selected national Care Quality Measures (CQM), accounting for secular trends. 3. Assess enactment of the tools’ suggested care plan adaptations, and patient / staff perceptions of the tools’ usability and impact on care quality and patient-provider interactions. Our setting is the nation’s largest group of CHCs on a single EHR. The PIs’ work on an upcoming National Academies report directly informed the social risk-informed CDS proposed here. This proposal addresses PAR-19-093’s calls for research on “using HIT to reduce disparities by increasing ... higher quality care, & improving patient-clinician communication, and health outcomes,” and on “models for the inclusion and utility of SDoH in EHR systems/CDS tools that … improve health equity.” The tools developed here will be made available immediately for implementation in any EHR system, enabling rapid dissemination and greater impact of study findings.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	5	11/13/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $575,889 )
2024	2024	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	5	11/28/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$534,330
2024	2024	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	5	5/28/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$41,559
														Subtotal = $575,889

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $594,364 )
2023	2023	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	4	11/6/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$534,928
2023	2023	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	4	2/13/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$59,436
														Subtotal = $594,364

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $607,585 )
2022	2022	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	4/28/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$60,758
2022	2022	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	11/9/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$546,827
														Subtotal = $607,585

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $617,087 )
2021	2021	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	2	3/29/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2021	2021	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	3/15/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$61,709
2021	2021	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	12/14/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$555,378
														Subtotal = $617,087

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $657,657 )
2020	2020	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	1	3/11/2020	NEW	$0
2020	2020	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	1	2/20/2020	NEW	$20,806
2020	2020	KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	1800 HARRISON ST FL 16	OAKLAND	CA	94612	ALAMEDA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	1/29/2020	NEW	$636,851
														Subtotal = $657,657

Grand Total All Awards = $3,052,582

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COHERE – COntextualized care in cHcs’ Electronic health Records

Award Number: R01MD014886

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 01/29/2020

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2025

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