Collaborative Screening is a way to make health screenings more meaningful.
Collaborative Screening takes your screening process beyond routine data exchange to create the supportive, respectful conversations that are essential to person-centered care. Person-centered communication enhances interactions with individual patients and families, and promotes equity by creating safe and trustworthy screening interactions for everyone.
The Collaborative Screening framework integrates:
Concepts and skills from well-established methods for providing person-centered health care
Recommendations from the peer-reviewed literature on screening for social needs and other sensitive topics in health care settings
Advice and ideas shared by patients and professionals through focus groups and interviews.
Important sources of guidance for Collaborative Screening include:
Motivational interviewing
Trauma-informed care
Cultural Humility
Empathic inquiry
Why Collaborative Screening?
From EMR workflow redesign to population data reporting to Community Information Exchange, there are many technical dimensions to creating an effective screening, referral and population health strategy.
But whether you’re directly responsible for patient experience or offer technical assistance as a Primary Care Association, Hospital Association, or Quality Improvement Organization, at some point you’ve likely heard the same concern from the workforce you support:
“We don't feel comfortable or prepared to ask people all of these sensitive questions.”
Along with all of the technical changes we make to our health care systems, we also need to invest in our relational capacity to facilitate meaningful and trauma-informed interactions with patients and families.
If your mission is to improve health in your community, you probably want to do more than just check the boxes and meet the requirements.
You want to create safe, supportive conversations that leave patients feeling heard, empowered and engaged.
Collaborative Screening is an evidence-informed and person-centered approach that bridges the gap between executing population health imperatives and skillfully supporting the patients and families you serve.
Collaborative Screening elevates the perspective, expertise and autonomy of the individuals and families being served.
With the goal of creating relational safety, partnership and better information exchange, Collaborative Screening provides design principles and behavioral guidance to establish a more human-focused information-gathering and referral approach.
Collaborative Screening is screening-tool agnostic and relevant to demographic, social needs, and health behavior screenings. Regardless of what we are asking about, the principles of person-centered inquiry remain the same.
Interested in Collaborative Screening
training for your organization?
