Appendix 2. Summary Table [8, 17, 21, 27, 28, 33-42]
Intervention
Name
Brief Description
Health Services Technological InLinkage
frastructure
Food Rx
Chicago, IL
Food prescription program giving physicians the ability to eprescribe healthy food and nutrition education at local grocers
[17].
Physician
Electronic prescribing
Exercise Rx
Chicago, IL
Exercise prescription program giving physicians the ability to
e-prescribe free exercise at local indoor/outdoor recreation
spaces [21].
Physician
Electronic prescribing
MT Diabetes
Prevention Program (DPP)
Miles City, MT
DPP using telemedicine and CHWs to deliver diabetes education and management in remote communities. Remote CHWs
develop community partnerships and connect patients to local
resources to meet tangible goals [27].
CHW
Telemedicine
City Health
Works
Harlem, NY
Local CHW program using mobile health applications to provide “bridging infrastructure”to connect patients to local resources [28].
CHW
Mobile health application
My Diabetes
Wellness Portal
Ontario, Canada
Web-based diabetes patient self-management portal using a
web forum to support social networking; resources can be
shared between patient participants [33].
Social Network
Patient portal
eHealthyStrides
Atlanta, GA
Web-based diabetes patient self-management portal using an
integrated social networking service; resources can be shared
between patient participants [34].
Social Network
Mobile-based diabetes patient self-management application
TXT2BFiT
Sydney, Australia using a community web forum to support social networking;
Social Network
Web forum
Social networking
service
resources can be shared between patient participants [35].
My Diabetes
Connect
Birmingham, AL
Web-based program using a searchable database of local community resources; program is specifically created for diabetes
prevention and control [8].
Patient portal
Mobile health application
Web forum
Integrated
(GIS →search
engine →patient)
Web-based program
Search engine
GIS
Southeastern
Diabetes Initiative (SEDI)
Cabarrus, NC
Web-based program using a searchable database of local community resources; search engine can locate data based on geographic information; program is specifically created for diabetes prevention and control [36-37].
Integrated
(GIS →search
engine →patient)
Web-based program
Search engine
GIS
Health Leads
Baltimore, MD
Bay Area, CA
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
New York, NY
Fully integrated program using trained volunteers to interview
Integrated
Client managepatients and access a client management database to search for (GIS →client da- ment database
community resources; all resources are organized geographical- tabase →volunteer GIS
ly and tailored to a patient’s specific social needs [28, 38-39].
→patient)
HelpSteps
Boston, MA
Full integrated program using a web-based or tablet-based sur- Integrated
vey to identify patient needs, and connect patients to the appro- (GIS →tablet or
priate local resources; all resources are organized geographical- web-based survey
ly and tailored to a patient’s specific social needs [28, 40-41].
→patient)
Web-based program
Tablet-based program
GIS
CommunityRx
Chicago, IL
Fully integrated program using a web-based or EHR-based
program to identify patient diagnoses and connect patients to
the appropriate local resources; all resources are organized geographically from a MAPSCorps database and tailored to a
patient’s health-related needs [42].
Integrated
Web-based pro-
(GIS →EHRgram
generated Rx
Integrated
→patient; optional
program
health info. speGIS
cialist)
EHR