Civitas Networks for Health is a national collaborative comprised of member organizations working to use health information exchange, health data, and multi-stakeholder, cross-sector approaches to improve health.
In follow up to Civitas Networks for Health and Maryland Health Care Commission’s Health Data Utility Issue Brief, the goal is for the Framework to assist collaborators and entities within states in assessing their current readiness level, identifying next steps, and actioning or furthering implementation of Health Data Utilities.
This four-part research project was conducted by Civitas Networks For Health CEO Lisa Bari, alongside two industry thought leaders, in an effort to understand how states engage with their regional HIEs.
During the event, Gravity Project provided an overview of their work and accomplishments across the terminology, technical and pilot workstreams. Civitas introduced our collaboration with the Gravity Project on an Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported initiative to further the dissemination of their standards with a focus on public health and health equity.
"Over the last 20 years, and increasingly in the last decade, a vast health data infrastructure has been built to meet the needs of key stakeholders and most importantly patients and communities. The network of state and regional health information exchanges (HIEs), community information exchanges, all-payer claims databases, regional health improvement collaboratives and emerging health data utilities house immense capabilities and serve as 'the last mile of interoperability.'"
Today the Civitas network represents more than 160 member organizations and business partners moving and using data to improve health outcomes across the U.S.
By: Lisa Bari and Jolie Ritzo, Photo Credit: Malik Chambers The Civitas 2023 Annual Conference, held in National Harbor, Maryland, […]
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