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 and apply the data they need to better understand their patients’ social determinants of health, transform care to meet the needs of their patients, and ultimately improve health and reduce costs. PRAPARE is both a standardized patient risk assessment tool as well as a process and collection of resources to identify and act on the social determinants of health. The PRAPARE Implementation and Action Toolkit is designed to provide interested users with the resources, best practices, and lessons learned to guide implementation, data collection, and responses to social determinant needs.
This is a modulized toolkit. The Toolkit’s chapters focus on the major steps that are needed to implement a new data collection initiative on socioeconomic needs and circumstances. New users are advised to go through the entire Toolkit. Other users may wish to focus on certain chapters to build or enhance capacity in certain areas.
This Toolkit is based on the experiences, best practices, and lessons learned of our early adopting and pioneering health centers. We thank them for sharing their innovations and lessons learned with us so that others can advance their own social determinants of health journey.
Building off of the roots of the PRAPARE name, chapters are organized based on whether they help users “PREPARE” for social determinants data collection, “ASSESS” social determinants of health, or “RESPOND” to social determinants of health data.
Download all PDF chapters of the full-length of the PRAPARE Implementation and Action Toolkit
Introduction to the PRAPARE Implementation and Action Toolkit
Preparing to Gather Data on the Social Determinants of Health
- Chapter 1: Understand the PRAPARE Project
- Chapter 2: Engage Key Stakeholders
- Chapter 3: Strategize the Implementation Process
Assessing Social Determinants of Health Data
- Chapter 4: Technical Implementation with PRAPARE Electronic Health Record Templates
- Click here to sign an End User License Agreement to access free EHR templates for Epic, eClinicalWorks, athenaPractice (formerly GE Centricity), Cerner, Greenway Intergy, NextGen, Athena
- *Note: Athena users (not athenaPractice) must contact their customer success managers to implement PRAPARE in their EHR
- Chapter 5: Workflow Implementation
- Chapter 6: Develop a Data Strategy
- Chapter 7: Understand and Evaluate Your Data
Responding to Social Determinants of Health Data
- Chapter 8: Building Capacity to Respond to Your Data
- Chapter 9: Act on Your Data
- Chapter 10: Track Enabling Services
Learn more about PRAPARE with our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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