Combined analysis of data from 2 novel decision support programs yielded complementary findings that together address both medical and social determinants of health. HomeMeds, a social health program in which trained social services staff make home visits to vulnerable clients, was combined with MedSafety Scan, a medical health, clinical decision support tool. Data captured in the home visits were entered into the HomeMeds and MedSafety Scan programs to detect those patients at the greatest risk of adverse health outcomes because of medications. These two programs 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.