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Community Resource Information Exchange (CoRIE)

Community Resource Information Exchange

Why CoRIE?

The Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) has prioritized addressing social factors that influence health outcomes, like hunger and housing insecurity in DC. Managing social determinants of health (SDOH) depends on screening individuals to identify social risks, assisting them as appropriate, and tracking efforts that meet their needs. These activities are enhanced through standardizing data captured on screening and interventions to enable data sharing among organizations addressing individual needs and to optimize whole-person care.

Aims And Gains

  • Connect health and social service providers using the DC HIE without

  • requiring a single technology platform

  • Support clinical-community linkages that address health-related social

  • needs to improve health equity, well being, and quality of life

  • Improved cross-sector coordination and collaboration

  • Better, more proactive care experiences for patients

  • Better health outcomes for individuals and populations

Stakeholder-Informed Action Plan

  • Build consensus around social screening domains starting with food and housing

  • Enable standardized capture and exchange of screening data through multiple methods

  • Facilitate electronic referrals that notify referring providers of referral status

  • Support care team follow-up through alerts to patients' providers or case managers

  • Integrate community resource inventory (CRI) into DC HIE/CRISP

  • Provide data and analysis of how social needs impacts health care use and health outcomes


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