PRAPARE Overview

Nationally standardized and stakeholder-driven, the Protocol for Responding to & Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks & Experiences (PRAPARE) is designed to equip healthcare and their community partners to better understand and act on individuals’ social drivers of health (SDOH). PRAPARE, when paired with the Implementation and Action Toolkit, empowers users to leverage data to improve health equity at the individual, community, and systems levels.

The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) is a national effort to help health centers and other providers collect the data needed to better understand and act on their patients’ social determinants of health. As providers are increasingly held accountable for reaching population health goals while reducing costs, it is important that they have tools and strategies to identify the upstream socioeconomic drivers of poor outcomes and higher costs….