Learning Library

Our Learning Library is intended as a virtual resource center where professionals can go for a broad range of information relating to interoperability, information-sharing and the six domains in which NIC primarily works: human services, education, public health, public safety, health information technology and emergency services. We have vetted and aggregated numerous studies, guidance documents and other materials, which can be sorted in a variety of ways for easy access and use – and we will add resources continually over time. The Learning Library is available to all professionals interested in the subject matter.

To make the Learning Library as robust and beneficial as possible, we welcome recommendations of relevant content that users encounter elsewhere, that they have produced themselves or that they are already utilizing. Please fill out and submit the form below to provide your suggestions and comments, or send an email to info@stewardsofchange.org.

07-27-2018 Report

From Siloes to Solutions: Getting to Interoperability in Health and Human Services

A new AcademyHealth report, developed as part of the National Interoperability Collaborative, highlights technical documents and toolkits that promote interoperability and provide guidance about how to share and integrate information from different sources. The report also includes insights from interoperability experts from health, education, public health, and human services systems. From Siloes to Solutions: Getting to Interoperability in Health and Human Services, defines stakeholders and systems that comprise the interoperability ecosystem, analyzes gaps in available guidance and informs efforts to address them.

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07-12-2018 Report

Health, Polysubstance Use, and Criminal Justice Involvement Among Adults With Varying Levels of Opioid Use

In this cross-sectional analysis, individuals who reported any level of opioid use were more likely than individuals who reported no opioid use to have physical and mental health conditions and co-occurring substance use. Involvement in the criminal justice system increased with intensity of opioid use, and any level of opioid use was significantly associated with involvement in the criminal justice system in the past year.

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06-25-2018 Report

Promoting Better Health Beyond Health Care: State-level multi-sector actions for addressing the social, economic, and environmental factors that impact health 

National analysis of cross-sectors partnerships on the state level. Innovative, integrated action is critical to improve population health. Community health status is, “embedded in larger living and working conditions, investments made by non-health sectors offer the potential to improve health and reduce disparities”.

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06-25-2018 Report

Human Services Organizations Critical to Community Health, Study Finds

Increased collaboration can create synergy across the human services and health care sectors. Through a multi-year project, the Healthy Outcomes Initiative (HOI), focuses on the Social Determinents of Health to explore how community-based human services organizations in partnership with other sectors can advance large-scale community health improvements.

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06-04-2018 Toolkit

Legal Guide to Administrative Data Sharing for Economic and Workforce Development

CREC’s State Data Sharing Initiative (SDS) recently released a new guide that responds to frequently asked questions about sharing administrative data to advance economic and workforce development. The document, which provides sample MOU language tailored to different data sharing situations, primarily focuses on the challenges related to accessing tax and labor data.

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