Unite Us will integrate NowPow's tools and community partners into its closed-loop referral system, which can be used to screen for social factors that negatively affect health, like food or housing insecurity, and then electronically refer patients to resources in their community.
The NowPow referral platform, which is integrated into the New Jersey-based health system's EHR, will enable clinicians and other care team members to provide patients — whose socioeconomic conditions are negatively affecting their health — with referrals to community resources, like food banks or rental assistance.
CEO and neuroscientist Dr. Iftach Dolev on how the new device can bring a powerful tool to psychiatrists and neurologists alike.
The health system will offer NowPow's services to about 1,200 Medicaid patients who are part of Health Home, its care coordination program that provides medical, mental health, substance abuse, social and family support services.
United Way of Metro Chicago is implementing a pilot of the NowPow tool, which connects people to resources for chronic health and social conditions, in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.