Please join Aligning for Health (AFH), Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and a bipartisan panel of Congressional staff on December 15th for a virtual briefing that will highlight opportunities in the 117th Congress to support effective and innovative

Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) – everything from housing and transportation to poverty and food insecurity – can impact up to 80 percent of health outcomes. Yet all too often, the response to SDoH remains disjointed, with partial solutions silo

With significant investments placed into emerging platforms and solutions, technology can often be mistaken as a “silver bullet” for connecting community members with the essential resources they need to be healthy. And while technology solutions can

Sharing secured patient health data has become increasingly important. People want fast access to their records and they want to know it’s protected.

The CMS and ONC finalized the rules aimed to eliminate barriers in data interoperability and put pat

For the first time since data has been tracked, the U.S adult obesity rate passed 40 percent – 42.4 percent of U.S. adults have obesity. In 2019, 12 U.S. states (AL, AR, IN, KS, KY, LA, MI, MS, OK, SC, TN and WV) had adult obesity rates at or above 3

 Professionals in the Aging Network, human services and the research industry will better understand their role in community public health when they learn how the Detroit research study, “Dying Before Their Time,” is triggering systemic change, espec

Social determinants of health are defined by the World Health Organization as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age." For rural populations, many of these elements are less favorable than within urban areas. Building on

The National Academy of Medicine established the Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic in 2018 as a public-private partnership to foster greater coordination and collective action across the health system and beyond in addressin

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On Friday, Nov. 6, over 125 participants joined our webinar to learn about the progress we’re making on Project Unify, NIC’s proof-of-concept implementation

American cities face stubbornly large racial disparities in infant mortality, preterm and low birthweight births along with unacceptable rates of maternal mortality. The Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service (MAMA) program is

Presented virtually by PHA, your national trade association dedicated to Population Health Management, the 2020 Innovation Summit & Capitol Caucus will gather key leadership from across the health care industry and leading health policy analysts for

Using and adhering to interoperability standards enables health information exchange to be simple and effective. LOINC coding, correct implementation of HL7 transactions and proper support of FHIR®-based apps present opportunities for seamless transi

According to Racial Equity Tools, racial equity is the condition where one’s racial identity no longer influences how one fares in society. This includes the creation of racially just policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages, and the eli

While most payers are well into their journey of meeting the requirements of the CMS Interoperability rule, there are still important questions about implementation that are being asked. Given the compliance timeline of early to mid-2021, time is of

Please join BrightHive for a Slack AMA to discuss all things data governance and privacy. Data Governance Lead Autumn Felty and Policy Fellow Brian Lim will be on hand to answer all your questions and share their thoughts on why governance is so impo

Cross-sector data sharing and integration enable the transformation of individual-level information into actionable intelligence that can be used to understand community needs, improve services, and build stronger communities. While most data sharing

The California Alliance and the Catalyst Center are going virtual! New Fall Institutes with the theme Forward Together: Resilience through Connection will bring together Alliance member organizations, educators, mental health professionals and caregi

As individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) transition out of correctional facilities and back into society, they are at greatest risk for experiencing an overdose. In response, some states are implementing incarceration-based OUD treatment program

In the next edition of the Intentionally Integrating Equity into SDOH Interventions webinar series, three health equity champions will discuss advancing equity and anti-racism through research and evaluation. Healthcare has a long history of perpetua

Increasingly, it is critical to understand the clear associations between social determinants and poor health status among children, adults and seniors. Factors such as food insecurity, lack of safe and affordable housing, quality education, transpor