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Lead
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Human Services, Health Information Technology, Emergency Services
What are your domains of EXPERTISE?
Human Services
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Cooperative development and facilitation
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Greg Bloom is the founder of Open Referral, which is promoting open access to resource directory data (i.e. information about the health, human, and social services available to people in need). Previously, Greg managed communications for Bread for the City, the District of Columbia’s pre-eminent anti-poverty service provider. He is a certified cooperative developer and a dedicated community organizer, with more than a decade of experience in GOTV, class-action labor lawsuits, municipal budget battles, death penalty abolition campaigns, community wireless networks, and even a backyard-chicken legalization movement. He has served as a fellow with Provisions Library and Civic Hall Labs, and a resident of the Elsewhere Museum. He has also published writing in In These Times, Civic Quarterly, Personal Democracy Forum, and Code for America’s Beyond Transparency.
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"I welcome and encourage your do-no-harm focus - this should be the work of everyone in the POC (and beyond). This is closely embedded with racial equity work which is also all of our responsiblities. That being said, someone has to hold up the…"
Hi there – I can't make the call today so I'm sharing this summary of months of dialogue and discovery. Assuming that "Do no harm" should be a first principle to guide this work, there are important ethical consideration that are NOT fully addressed…
"Hi there – so, I listened in on the technical workgroup call last week, and had a chance to raise some of these issues. I wonder what others thought about the resulting discussion.
Specifically, in response to Paul Wormeli’s description of the…"
Specifically, in response to Paul Wormeli’s description of the…"
"I just came across these resources via the Responsible Data Forum:
https://www.tech-transformed.com/product-development/
A 'consequence scanning' kit: https://doteveryone.org.uk/project/consequence-scanning/This is designed for 'product management'…"
https://www.tech-transformed.com/product-development/
A 'consequence scanning' kit: https://doteveryone.org.uk/project/consequence-scanning/This is designed for 'product management'…"
"I'd be happy to help think about how this conversation can evolve."
" This publication from the Haas Institute is not directly connected to the dangers that can come out of data sharing. It is about "racially exclusionary policies and practices" of disenfranchisement and displacement in the Bay Area. Yet, it is…"
"thanks greg! i just responded on that thread. sorry for the redundancy!"
"I think what you're suggesting (in terms of health information being easier to access for low-income people, and interoperability leading to better care coordination) is certainly plausible, and that's why I'm doing this work! However,…"
"Navah Stein just posted this resource about anti-racism, which gets at a primary motivation for my concern here: https://hub.nic-us.org/forum/how-to-be-an-anti-racist-ibram-x-kendi"
"In what way do you think that interoperability, in and of itself, move us toward equity?I actually suspect the opposite: that interoperability might actually (unintentionally) amplify racist patterns and exacerbate racist outcomes. See Virginia…"
"Hi Daniel - thanks for the opportunity to talk about this on last week's call. I won't be able to make this week's, so i wanted to follow up on it here.
I suspect that some of the issues here may, in large part, fall outside of the realm of…"
I suspect that some of the issues here may, in large part, fall outside of the realm of…"
"OK, yeah, I think i can make Friday's call this week. thx!"
"Greg - i think this is an important topic that I'd like us to get into. It might be something that we can raise on this coming Friday's call (9/20) and then schedule a more in depth call. Let me know if you think you can attend Friday and be…"
"(Re-reading this now, i can already anticipate that this is a challenge, because it seems like the conversation would quickly veer out of the scope of, say, field-mapping. But if it's not something we can fully address here... then, where?)"
"Thanks for your response.
To be clear, my question isn't intended to go so far as to suggest "maybe we shouldn't do interoperability at all." Rather, I think that proponents of interoperability should take the potential harms as seriously as the…"
To be clear, my question isn't intended to go so far as to suggest "maybe we shouldn't do interoperability at all." Rather, I think that proponents of interoperability should take the potential harms as seriously as the…"
"Greg - thanks for raising this topic. It has been percolating the last several months, and more recently too. I think it is a critical issue and one that we should talk about - there certainly are concerns, and pros/cons of interoperaiblity and…"
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Hello Greg,
Welcome to NIC’s Collaboration Hub! Thank you for joining the Social Determinants of Health group. I look forward to your participation and encourage you to post on the group (start discussions, respond to discussions and questions, post content: papers, blogs, videos etc.) Feel free to post your expectations as a member of NIC. What are you working on that is relevant to this particular group? What interests you the most?
Sincerely,
Navah Stein Social Determinants of Health Group Moderator, Associate Consultant SOCI