June 5th, 2020 NIC webinar was a bulls-eye for professionals whose bailiwick includes such technical aspects of interoperability and information-sharing as ontology, person-matching and privacy/security (among others). And, we’re happy to say yet again, that means we’re making substantive progress on our proof-of-concept initiative, Project Unify. If you’re a geek like us and want to catch up on the fun, check out the recording of the session.
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Rita Torkzadeh and Pradeep S.B. Podila, provided an update on the work of Unify’s Person-Matching Workgroup; that includes identification of clients/patients who may be matches; improving statistical confidence in matches; identity data linkage of high-confidence matches; and resolution of matching identity data inconsistencies.
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I want to thank the 230-plus participants in the discussion, which was a largely-technical update and brainstorming session titled “Project Unify (Part 1): Advancing Progress on Building Cross-Domain Interoperability across Health and Human Services.” Please join us for Part II, which will begin at noon Eastern this coming Friday, May 29.
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The intent of both SOCI’s new paper and of the InCK initiative’s intent is basically the same, and it’s an important one: to provide practical guidance, tools and models that can be leveraged, replicated and improved over time to address the enormous and growing need for coordinated care across our nation.
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