Main Line Health System Wynnewood PA Linking Patients to Community Resources Via a Smartphone App

摘要

Background:Medical student advocates (MSAs) have located and vetted more than 600 community resources for vulnerable patient populations and listed them on a Wikipedia page. Residents were disconnected from these efforts and found it challenging to efficiently provide resource information at the bedside. The Main Line Heath (MLH) System Strategic Plan stresses the importance of improving the health of the community and to “seek, identify and ameliorate disparities in care.” Our aim was to provide a smartphone app to residents to facilitate referrals of patients to community services at the bedside and thereby address the strategic plan mandate.