Past project · Medically Tailored Groceries / Produce Prescriptions
Analysis of Fresh Connect Participant Characteristics and Cardholder Utilization
Fresh Connect, a “Food as Medicine” product of About Fresh, Inc., consists of a pre-paid, programmable debit card, a cloud-based cardholder success platform, and an analytic engine designed to illuminate the healthcare value of improved food access and nutriti…
Medically Tailored Groceries / Produce PrescriptionsCancerCardiometabolic DiseaseIntervention Study / Evaluation
About this work
Fresh Connect, a “Food as Medicine” product of About Fresh, Inc., consists of a pre-paid, programmable debit card, a cloud-based cardholder success platform, and an analytic engine designed to illuminate the healthcare value of improved food access and nutritional security. Healthcare and CBOs use the Fresh Connect program to increase the power of cardholders to purchase the nutrient dense foods they want and need to be healthy or better manage diet related disease. Nationally, About Fresh is positioning Fresh Connect as a tool to contain $100 Billion of avoidable healthcare costs attributed to food and nutritional insecurity.
As of 2023, Fresh Connect has served over 5,500 people experiencing food insecurity and diet-related chronic conditions. About Fresh partnered with Dr. Ronit Ridberg and Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition to deepen its understanding of benefits utilization and shopping activity by Massachusetts Flexible Services patients participating in Fresh Connect, and to improve its ability to assess program performance in the future.
Project Aims Aim One To determine overall program reach, including an overview of program/product rollout and participant reach between Fresh Connect launch in June 2020, through participants enrolled by December 2022. Aim Two To conduct detailed assessments of cardholder activity by participation category (e.g. newly enrolled, active, inactive & idle), sociodemographics, and other characteristics.
Aim Three To provide re…
Why this matters
Produce prescriptions are projected to prevent about 126,000 cardiovascular events over ten years among U.S. adults with diabetes and food insecurity. Work like this tests how to deliver them where people already are, so the evidence can reach scale.
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