Use Cases

See Trellis in Action

Four real-world workflows showing how Trellis connects systems, ranks resources, and improves outcomes in real time.

Workflow 01

Healthcare systems · Hospitals

Housing Referral at Hospital Discharge

Epic → Trellis → Ranked Housing Matches

Scenario

A patient being discharged needs stable housing. The care coordinator is inside Epic.

What happens

Trellis receives a CDS Hook at discharge planning. It returns a ranked, eligibility-filtered list of housing programs in the patient's ZIP code — currently accepting referrals, matching insurance, with successful loop closures in the past 90 days. The coordinator selects and refers without leaving Epic.

Outcome

The care team avoids manual searching, reduces discharge delays, and selects programs with a higher likelihood of acceptance — improving patient stability post-discharge.

How Trellis operates in a workflow

1. System triggers request 2. Trellis evaluates eligibility + performance 3. Ranked results returned 4. Referral tracked signal captured outcome signal improves future rankings

Workflow 02

Community Care Hubs · Managed care plans

CalAIM ECM Care Planning

Case Mgmt → Trellis → ECM Service Matching

Scenario

A CHW builds a care plan for a new ECM member with housing instability, food insecurity, and a pending Community Supports authorization.

What happens

The case management system calls Trellis. Trellis surfaces CS-eligible services with authorization status visible, ranked by acceptance rate and proximity. Referrals are tracked through the FHIR Task lifecycle for DHCS reporting.

Outcome

The CHW builds a compliant care plan faster, reduces denied referrals, and ensures services align with both eligibility and performance.


Workflow 03

CCH administrators · Directory managers

211 Directory Integrity Review

HSDS Feed → Trellis → Validated Directory

Scenario

A quarterly 211 data feed arrives with 2,400 updated records.

What happens

The HSDS pipeline stages changes as a diff report. The admin reviews adds, updates, and deletes before anything touches the live directory. Freshness scoring flags stale listings for manual review. Import commits only after approval.

Outcome

Directory accuracy improves, stale records are reduced, and downstream referrals are more likely to succeed.


Workflow 04

Regional networks · Counties

Multi-Network Resource Discovery

Multiple Networks → Trellis → Unified Ranking

Scenario

A regional network spans three counties, each running a different referral platform.

What happens

A single Trellis instance aggregates signal from all three networks. Rankings reflect performance across the entire region — not one vendor's closed platform. High-performing CBOs surface regardless of which system sent the referral.

Outcome

High-performing providers surface across network boundaries, reducing fragmentation and improving referral success rates region-wide.


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