Linking Technology to Address the Social and Medical Determinants of Health for Safe Medicines Use

Combined analysis of data from 2 novel decision support programs yielded complementary findings that together address both medical and social determinants of health. These have the potential to reduce medication-induced harm, costly rehospitalization, and/or emergency department visits and support the further evaluation of this combined approach in other vulnerable populations such as the seriously mentally ill, frail, those confined to home, opioid dependent, or otherwise impaired.