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2019 Community Information Exchange Summit
Over 600 professionals representing a broad array of health-related disciplines attended last month’s national Community Information Exchange Summit, the theme of which was “Driving Cross-Sector Collaboration and Data Sharing to Create Healthier Communities.” Their verdict, based on comments at the event and evaluations afterward: It was a highly successful event, with engaging presenters, informative sessions, and a unique “Interoperability Gallery” featuring almost three dozen vivid (and fun) murals that stimulated ideas, enlivened conversation and furthered learning. The summit was organized by CIE, 2-1-1 San Diego, Stewards of Change Institute and San Diego Health Connect.
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Interoperability Gallery
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For more than a decade, Stewards of Change has used “vision mapping” – contemporaneously drawn graphic illustrations – to chronicle key themes, ideas and lessons from our symposia, trainings and other educational events. For the first time, we were able to bring almost three dozen of these visually arresting murals together for an Interoperability Gallery at the 2nd Annual CIE summit. By all accounts, the unique result was a showcase that induced hundreds of visitors to take photos, buzz about both the content and its presentation, and take information from the murals home to enhance their own work. At the request of other conference organizers who toured the gallery, our next step is to “take the show on the road” to enrich subsequent events.
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Summit Sessions
The subjects discussed during plenary and workshop sessions at the 2nd Annual CIE Summit were designed to be as diverse, engaging and informative as the 600+ professionals who attended them. They ranged from “Bridging Health and Human Services” to “An Overview and Update on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology” to “Why Health Equity Matters” – and many, many more. Stewards of Change Institute’s role included infusing interactive activities into some event workshop, such as “Moving Upstream: The Vital Role of Interoperability to Enhance Prevention and Improve Outcomes” and “Sooner is Better: An Early-Intervention Approach to Addressing Children’s Health and Well-Being.”
Event Materials
Resources:
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| Welcome and Breakfast Plenary - Inspiring Change Together: Bridging Health and Social Services
Bechara Choucair MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Officer, Kaiser Permanente |
Dr. Bechara Choucair will share knowledge and experience working with health care systems on diverse social determinants of health issues, including homelessness. Dr. Choucair oversees Kaiser Permanente's national community health efforts and philanthropic activities aimed at improving the health of the members and communities it serves. |
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| Moving Upstream: The Vital Role of Interoperability to Enhance Prevention and Improve Outcomes
Introductory Remarks: Karen Smith, MD, MPH, Director & State Public Health Officer, California Department of Public Health |
This session will use a brief case study on the opioid epidemic to closely examine how any public health crisis can be better-addressed through interoperability, information-sharing and systems integration across multiple domains. The discussion will include elements from NIC’s new Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook, which outlines specific actions and replicable strategies that communities can use to design prevention-oriented, evidence-informed projects. Participants will come away with actionable strategies and a deeper understanding of what is needed to make sustainable change. |
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| Interoperability Mural Gallery Tour
Presenters: Daniel Stein, President, Stewards of Change Institute |
“If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a mural can tell an entire story.” This is the first of several curated sessions – at least one each day – that will immerse participants in an innovative display of vivid (and fun) informational murals. Here, you will take a journey through a decade of learning at SOC Institute’s national and regional symposia, all leading to the key concepts of today’s CIE summit. In the gallery you’ll be able to: Learn from brief “SNAP” presentations and discussions. Participate in a data hunt – with prizes for the winners! Identify specific elements of interoperability throughout murals. The person who finds/connects the most wins a Starbucks gift card. Co-design the next two-year “road map & vision mural” on Friday. |
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| Ignite Session: Real-Time Opioid Data from Wastewater: A Key to Improving Public Health
Cindy Hu, Mathematica |
With an ever-changing landscape of community health needs due to substance abuse, infectious disease, environmental contamination and other threats, communities nationwide need to shift from reactive approaches to utilizing real-time public health and safety surveillance tools. Testing municipal wastewater is an innovative way to provide rapid, cost-effective, unbiased and highly useful information. In this session, the opioid crisis is used as an example to demonstrate the potential of this well-validated approach to improving community health and safety through real-time data collection. Mathematica – as part of its ongoing work exploring community data-sharing across social sectors – views the rich data available from wastewater testing as an essential tool for public safety and public health officials. |
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| Ignite Session: Finding the Missing Piece – The New Data Frontier
Marsali Hancock, CEO and President, EP3 Foundation |
We know that addressing the social determinants improves income, health and well-being – while reducing suicide, addiction and interactions with the criminal justice system. So what’s the missing piece for getting the right information, to the right people, at the right time to provide the right support? What are the policies, technologies and data models to drive cross-sector collaboration and data-sharing across the silos of public safety, health, human services and education? This ignite session will explore the new policies and protocols able to automate governance, liquidity and protection – and, by doing so, shape a new data frontier. |
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| Lunch Plenary: An Overview and Update on the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Activities and Priorities
Mark Vafiades, Senior Advisor, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT |
Mark Vafiades, Senior Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), leads ONC’s outreach to health information exchanges (HIEs) and community health organizations. Mr. Vafiades will provide an update on ONC activities, including comments on the recently released Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information, and discuss other key ONC priorities. |
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| Lunch Plenary: This is What Success Looks Like: Insights and Inspiration from Three California Counties
Moderator: Mary-Sara Jones, Industry Leader, Health and Human Services, IBM Global Business Services |
In their transition to a more person-centered service delivery model, many organizations are exploring cross-agency data sharing and the use of multi-disciplinary teams to provide a more holistic understanding of the individual’s and family’s needs. Connecting teams and data across programs raises concerns among many regarding privacy regulations and the role of the agency in protecting client data. It can be difficult to navigate the limitations introduced by state and federal policy and to clearly decipher the difference between what cannot be done and what has not been done. To help understand the business challenges and paths forward, a panel of agency executives will share their experiences. Their success may provide a roadmap for others seeking a more coordinated approach for managing complex clients. |
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| Sooner is Better: An Early-Intervention Approach to Addressing Children’s Health and Well-being
Moderator: Ivy Pool, Senior Consultant, Stewards of Change Institute |
Families trapped in an intergenerational cycle of poverty, racial inequity, and/or a lack of social and economic mobility often have inadequate access to the care or support they need during pregnancy or their children’s first years of life. This session focuses on evidence-based home visiting approaches that are effective at delivering better outcomes, particularly within at-risk communities. In particular, the panel will engage attendees in discussion of programs that are “going upstream” to help mothers and babies at the earliest stages of development (ages 0-3) in order to optimize their impact – and their prospects for success. The conversation, and an interactive exercise, will also focus on how home visiting fits within a continuum of early care programs and services, and how sharing data among providers can enhance service delivery and improve outcomes. |
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| Breakfast Plenary - The Ripple Effect: The Multi-Level Impact of Systems Change
John Ohanian, President CEO, 211 San Diego @ Community Information Exchange |
This plenary session will explore the impact, adoption and utilization of CIE through a micro, mezzo, and macro lens. CIE Network Partners will share from a micro-level experience of how CIE impacts their clients. From a mezzo perspective, how CIE has been adopted to ignite organizational change, lastly, insights on how CIE is a part of macro, systems change work that advances collaborative work, streamlines access, and provides textured data that equips the community to move towards a more equitable society. |
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| Yes We Can and We Are: Using Research to Advance Policy and Practice
Moderator: Pierre Gerlier Forest, University of Calgary |
Everyone wants research-informed policies and practices, but a host of diverse challenges slow progress or impede the transfer of knowledge. At the same time, real advances are being made to surmount those challenges, but they aren’t being incorporated quickly enough by organizations that stand to benefit from them. The presenters in this session will offer examples of and insights into how they have nurtured promising practices, better-utilized modern tools and technology, and achieved tangible and replicable results as a result. And, with attendees, they will explore what steps can be taken to accelerate and scale progress. |
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| Lunch Plenary: Why Health Equity Matters
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This interactive panel will discuss how adopting a racial equity lens can inform local efforts to enhance care coordination across human services, social services, and health for individuals and populations. Panelists: |
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| Racial Equity + Social/Economic Mobility = Intergenerational Well-Being
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Racism and poverty are two significant factors that clearly impact not only the well-being of millions of people today, but also subsequent generations of their children and families. Participants in this session will engage in directed, incisive discussion and visioning about how to advance racial equity and social and economic mobility through a health and social service lens. The discussion will focus on attendees’ own professional experiences and expertise – and will culminate in suggesting achievable steps for making progress in their own work. |
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| Tackling the Opioid Epidemic: Two Infrastructural Approaches from the Field Addressing Population Health Crises
Moderator: Anthony (Tony) Capizzi, Montgomery County, OH Juvenile Court |
Presenters from Indiana 211 will provide an overview of the partnerships and infrastructure that has been developed to tackle Indiana's opioid epidemic, as well as data to support the impact of multisector care coordination. Presenters from the Regenstrief Institute at Indiana University will present the common data model and governance model for the Indiana Network for Population Health (INPH), an information infrastructure that will provide a data platform and governance mechanism to facilitate gathering, managing, sharing and using population health data across a wide set of stakeholders for both practice and research in Indiana. Methods for integrating heterogeneous datasets that can support community-wide initiatives, such as the opioid crisis, will also be discussed. |
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| Summit Insights, Inspirations, and the Journey Forward: The Future of Interoperability
Daniel Stein, President, Stewards of Change Institute |
The future of interoperability and information-sharing – in individual communities and nationally – will be shaped by diverse, cross-sector organizations and individuals, from researchers and policy-makers to innovators and practitioners. In other words, people like you. Please attend this truly unique session to provide real-time input for artist-extraordinaire Anthony Weeks as he draws a mural that will encapsulate learning from the CIE Summit; capture ideas from Interoperability Gallery participants; and, most importantly, create a vision for the future based on the experience, knowledge and prognostications of the people who will live it. Once again, this means you! |
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| Breakfast Plenary: Shifting the Health Care Paradox
Lauren Taylor, MDiv, MPH Doctoral Candidate, Health Policy and Management, Harvard Business School |
Keynote speaker Lauren Taylor will present and explore key themes from her co-authored works, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less; and Health Affairs article, Social Determinants As Public Goods: A New Approach To Financing Key Investments in Healthy Communities. She will also discuss more collaborative and comprehensive approaches to cultivating community partnerships. |
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| Closing Plenary - IMPACT: Transforming the Movement
Moderator: John Ohanian President CEO, 211 San Diego @ Community Information Exchange |
The proliferation of CIEs is part of a nationwide movement to promote technology-enabled local and regional health care and social service collaborations with the aim of delivering person-centered care and enhancing population health. This moderated discussion will touch on the role of the multi-sector data exchange in understanding and addressing the impact of social determinants on population health, and championing efforts to standardize care with an eye toward achieving equity and social justice. |
Welcome and Breakfast Plenary - Inspiring Change Together: Bridging Health and Social Services - Mural
Welcome and Breakfast Plenary - Inspiring Change Together: Bridging Health and Social Services - Mural - Slides
Lunch Plenary - This is What Success Looks Like: Information Sharing Model for Health and Human Services Agencies - Article
