Description

In this presentation, Logan Beyer will share key results from a pilot study leveraging electronic medical record data to explore how best to identify and address social risks impacting pediatric health. Drawing on analyses of over 10,000 children served at Cambridge Health Alliance, the talk will highlight two major findings:

1. Common neighborhood-level indices, while useful for understanding broader patterns, cannot reliably identify individual families facing unmet needs and therefore cannot substitute for direct family-level screening;

2. Clinic-based social risk screening data, when aggregated and mapped, can reveal neighborhood “hotspots” of adversity, offering a valuable tool for targeting community-level interventions.

These early insights lay critical groundwork for future efforts to harness clinical data to improve health equity.