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Supporting patients to receive adequate social services such as food, housing, transportation, commonly known as Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), requires coordination between health and social services providers, and patients. Through a national consensus building collaboration the HL7 Gravity Project has defined standard data terminologies to support the coordinated delivery of SDOH services using electronic systems. Funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) through its Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP), the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin partnered with healthcare providers and the Central Texas Food Bank to implement a standards-based, interoperable, workflow-integrated, and scalable decision support system that optimizes the referral for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applications and efficiently closes the loop of those referrals. This panel will describe the results of this first pilot of Gravity Project’s HL7 SDOH Implementation Guide.