By Daniel Stein and Dave Ross The $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill that’s headed for President Biden’s desk this week makes it very clear – wonderfully – that children will be a primary concern during his Administration. In particular, the legislations provisions will make a meaningful difference in the lives of kids in low- and […]
Category: Health
DASH Launches 3rd Round of Funding to Accelerate Local, Multisector Data Sharing Efforts
By Miriam Castro Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) is launching the third round of its Mentor Program to support cohorts selected to learn with and from DASH mentors and community peers in order to accelerate their local, multisector data-sharing efforts. Our Mentor Program supports seven experienced organizations (listed below) by offering targeted technical assistance […]
SOCI Issue Brief – Interoperability Insights: Demonstrating the Need and the Benefits of Connecting Health and Human Services
By Brian Handspicker The Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI) has just released an important new Issue Brief, to which I contributed research and writing, titled “Interoperability Insights: Demonstrating the Need and the Benefits of Connecting Health and Human Services.” This paper examines the technical aspects of interoperability required to support integrated care and case management […]
Improving Health and Human Services: It’s About Making Connections
By Daniel Stein, President, Stewards of Change Institute | Co-P.I., National Interoperability Collaborative The 11th Annual Connected Health Conference | October 16-18 | Boston, MA When I first saw the title of this week’s Connected Health Conference, “Designing for Healthy Habits and Better Outcomes,” I was delighted. After all, Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI) has […]
Creating a Roadmap to Navigate the Maze of HHS Services
By Mary-Sara Jones, IBM Navigating government programs is difficult. I had been trying to support my father as he aged and his needs increased. He lived in another state, so I spent an incredible amount of time online and on the phone trying to understand what services were available and what was required for him […]
It’s Time to Add Prevention to the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic; New Playbook Focuses on 11 Replicable Strategies to `Go Upstream’
By Daniel Stein and Paul Wormeli There are countless ways to demonstrate the horror of our nation’s opioid crisis, from raw numbers (over 47,600 opioid-related deaths in 2017) to records set (fatal overdoses now exceed vehicular deaths) to OMG descriptions of the drugs’ toxicity. A couple of recent examples: During a routine traffic stop last […]
It’s Time to Bring All the Players to the Table to Better-Address the Opioid Crisis
Bill Hazel is Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives and Policy at George Mason University in Virginia. He is the state’s former Secretary of Health and Human Resources, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Stewards of Change Institute For as many decades as I’ve been a conscious adult – which is quite a […]
Data-Informed Investments + Cross-Sector Systems = Greater Savings and Better Health
As most Americans look forward to the bounty of Thanksgiving next week, too many children and families in our country face a problem they must deal with all year round: hunger. And while the pain associated with hunger in this country pulls at our heart and soul, it is also hitting us in the wallet. […]
Learning from 9/11: A New Approach to Fighting the Opioid Crisis
One of the major problems exposed by the tragedy on 9/11 was the inability of government agencies to reach across their silos to share critical information and to coordinate their efforts. To address that potential risk to U.S. national security, Congress voted to establish the Information Sharing Environment, the responsibility of which is to promote […]