Referral System Collaboration Between Public Health and Clinical Medicine

Résumé du livre

This paper will discuss collaboration between Boston Children's Hospital and the Boston Public Health Commission to develop, evaluate, and deploy HelpSteps.com, a web-based screening and referral system for social problems that connects individuals and families to social services (see Figure 1 for a view of the HelpSteps interface). The paper will appraise the benefits of multidisciplinary collaboration and discuss the challenges of sustained implementation within the current health care environment. The future goals and the potential for radically meeting the social needs of families are discussed.