About this Use Case

This use case begins to document the social care process from community generated sources with social needs screening data. Participating organizations screen patients in community settings for social need identification. This data is submitted to the Health Information Network (HIN), integrated with Active Care Relationship Services (ACRS)™ and Common Key (CK) ™ to allow for accurate person-care team relationships to be identified. This creates individual social need identifiers which can be used to move the individual level data to appropriate Clinical Quality Initiatives (CQIs).

“Social determinants of health are conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.” [1]

In an effort to better understand the link between social needs and individual health and well-being, more data is needed across and within organizations caring for people in the community.

The MiHIN Social Needs Screening Use Case (SDoH) is a first step in building a knowledge infrastructure that streamlines the process of sharing needed and permissible information across communities and throughout the State of Michigan-and it continues to evolve as the national and regional landscapes do.

Learn more about our Cross Sector Data Sharing work here.

[1] “Social Determinants of Health,” healthypeople.gov, accessed October, 17, 2018, https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-of-health#five