For healthcare leaders
Food is medicine, proven and ready to run.
You need to know two things before you commit budget: does it work, and can your system actually deliver it. Here is the cited evidence, the programs already running it, and the fastest path to a pilot.
The evidence
Three numbers a health-system finance team can act on.
Each figure below comes from a peer-reviewed study or a published microsimulation model, not a projection of our own.
in first-year U.S. health-care savings if medically tailored meals reached all 10.4 million eligible adults
Deng et al., Health Affairs, 2025fewer hospitalizations for adults receiving medically tailored meals, and 20% fewer emergency-department visits
Hager et al., Nature Medicine, 2026cardiovascular events preventable over ten years if produce prescriptions reached adults with diabetes and food insecurity
Wang et al., J. Am. Heart Assoc., 2023Programs that work
Running programs your peers can point to.
FIMI programs already operating inside pharmacy chains, oncology clinics, and Medicaid pilots, in partnership with the health systems and payers running them.
Implementation resources
Tools built to get a program running, not just studied.
Food is Medicine Toolkit
A practical, evidence-based resource that helps clinicians and health systems put food is medicine into practice.
Open the toolkitNutrition Security Screener
A brief, validated screener that lets clinical teams identify nutrition insecurity and connect patients to care.
See the screenerInnovations & tools
Food Compass and the rest of FIMI’s public tools, built for the people who put the science into practice.
Browse innovationsPath to engage
Two ways to start, both a click from here.
Bring FIMI in to pilot a program at your organization, or partner with our researchers to design and evaluate one.