Health system, nonprofit launch new approach to tracking needs of vulnerable clients

Hospitals and other health care providers use electronic health records to keep track of patients ’ medical histories as they move around the system. EHRs have traditionally not encompassed social needs, such as housing, transportation and food. That recently changed — and the Legacy Health hospital system and Albertina Kerr, a nonprofit serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, were at the forefront of making it happen. The two Portland-based organizations teamed up…
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