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.
The digital therapeutics company is rolling out its remote monitoring solution — developed with Brigham and Women's Hospital — across the country, which can help hospitals rapidly implement hospital-at-home programs. The announcement comes soon after CMS launched a program enabling health systems to provide hospital-level care at home for more than 60 conditions.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
The New Jersey-based health system's culturally nuanced social determinants of health program will screen all patients for social and behavioral factors that impact their health, in the hopes of improving outcomes and encouraging appropriate use of healthcare services.