Publications by authors named "Vishal Abrol"
Background: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one of the most successful national programs to reduce poverty and improve health outcomes, but millions of Americans who qualify still do not have access to SNAP, and limited data is available to determine how referrals to the program can be completed successfully.
Objectives: We aimed to design and develop a standards-based digital care coordination platform to support closed-loop social services referrals between patients and social and health care providers; and demonstrate the feasibility to screen, diagnose, plan, and complete interventions with selected patients in real-settings.
Methods: We partnered with community members to design the platform through Community Engagement Studios and with a Federally Qualified Health Center, Local Mental Health Authority, and Food Bank to determine the features and workflow requirements of the platform design.
Background: Social determinants of health (SDoH)a are increasingly recognized as a main contributor to clinical health outcomes, but the technologies and workflows within clinics make it difficult for health care providers to address SDoH needs during routine clinical visits.
Objectives: Our objectives were to pilot a digital platform that matches, links, and visualizes patient-level information and community-level deidentified data from across sectors; establish a technical infrastructure that is scalable, generalizable, and interoperable with new datasets or technologies; employ user-centered codesign principles to refine the platform's visualizations, dashboards, and alerts with community health workers, clinicians, and clinic administrators.
Methods: We used privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) tools to ensure that all identifiable patient data were encrypted, only matched and displayed with consent, and never accessed or stored by the data intermediary.
Objective: Our aim is to develop a patient engagement technology that makes it easy for patients to access their own medical information and share it with others.
Materials And Methods: This paper describes our design through an adapted Community Engagement Studio methodology to identify the needs and preferences of a diverse group of Latinx, African-American, and Asian-American individuals in the community. We use Human-Centered Design to interpret these needs and preferences to build a digital app platform, using national data standards, clinical data aggregators, and privacy-preserving solutions while maintaining the security and confidentiality of patients.