Gravity Project

Are you heading to Washington, DC, for the 2024 Annual Meeting this week?  So are we!  Gravity is participating in two panels: one that highlights human services interoperability and another that showcases states who are implementing real world application of FHIR standards. Advancing Human Services Interoperability: Connecting Data for Whole-Person Care is scheduled for 3:45- 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Presenters Dr. Sarah DeSilvey, Gravity Project; Alana Kalinowski, MSW, San Diego 211 Community Information Exchange (CIE) & San Diego Health Connect (HIE); Thomas Novak, ASTP and John Rancourt, ASTP; are featured in this session, which will highlight the ASTP’s new role leading human service interoperability as announced in the HHS Data Strategy. Learn about previous and ongoing initiatives to improve standards and reduce the administrative burden of social service enrollment and hear updates on the current state of human service interoperability. Presenters will outline approaches to advancing this work with focus on real world improvements. This work, coordinated with other HHS agencies, will support efforts to enable whole-person care delivery by connecting human services data. Person-Centered Care Planning and Social Care Referrals: FHIR Real World Implementation, Policy, and Technical Resources, is scheduled for 2:15 - 3:15 p.m.on Thursday, Dec. 5. Join us and hear presenters Brenda Akinnagbe, ASTP; Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, MPH, CPH, PMP, New York eHealth Collaborative; Meley Gebresellassie, ASTP;  Jim Shalaby, PharmD, FAMIA,  Elimu Informatics; and Toi Wilde - RN, BSN, MBA, CPHQ, LSSGB, Missouri Department of Mental Health; showcase states who are implementing real world application of FHIR standards. (e.g., SDOH Clinical Care for Multiple Domains Implementation Guide (IG), Electronic Long-Term Services and Supports IG). Presenters will share available resources to support patient-centered planning, improving outcomes, quality reporting, and advancing health equity. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gHdBYHWV. We look forward to seeing you there! #ASTP2024 #SDOH #Interoperability

We welcome all Gravity community members to today's final public call of the Fall 2024 Gravity Terminology Curation Cycle. 4pm est. Today marks the consensus vote for two distinct Gravity initiatives- First, new domain terminology to support #incarceration concepts aligned with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) #ReentryWaivers and #LanguageAccess concepts to support #CulturallyandLinguisticallyAppropriateStandards (CLAS) and Joint Commission International policies for language access, #interpretation, and #translation services. Part of this work included developing critical and missing standards to support #SignedLanguages Both of the above domains significantly leveraged Gravity's Data Principles and care to "Prevent, reduce, and remediate harm" Deep thanks to the ethical and brilliant experts who grounded this work over the last many months. Second, we will complete the first phase of our #Coding4Food initiative and vote on the three concepts crafted in expert consensus toward #HealthcareCommonProcedureCodingSystem (HCPCS) submission- #ProducePrescription, #MedicallyTailoredMeals, and #MedicallyTailoredGroceries- all critical concepts to support the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) #FoodisMedicine initiative. Deep thanks to our friends at Fullwell for your leadership and the many subject matter experts across the food provision ecosystem. Terminology will see you all back on February 6th, 2025, when they reconvene the public call for new domains of person-level discrimination and #ChronicStress (including #Weathering and #ACES,) Coding4Food phase two, and ongoing enhancements to Gravity terminologies. Access to any Gravity meeting can be found on the Gravity confluence https://lnkd.in/dFsdGF8a or on the HL7 Conference Call Calendar. The Gravity Terminology Team Sarah DeSilvey Himali Saitwal, MS, Sara Behal MS Monique van Berkum

Join us for Gravity Project's Affinity Implementation Group webinar, An EHR Roundtable: The Latest on USCDI Data Standards and Health Equity, from 2:30 - 4 p.m. ET on Thursday, November 21, 2024, 2:30-4 p.m. ET. The session features a robust panel discussion with EHR vendor representatives from Epic and Oracle Health. Topics to be covered include the status of USCDI data standards, specifically the latest LOINC encoded instruments and SNOMED CT interventions to support national policy, quality measures, and regulation. Register here to join the discussion: https://lnkd.in/e7t5jBjv

We wanted to share an opportunity for you to join a free webinar, hosted by Health Level Seven International, next week on Nov. 19. See below to learn more about the webinar, SDOH & Health Equity: Where Standards & Technology Meet Community... https://lnkd.in/e5sS5hzX

Health Level Seven International just shared a blog about our recent report and listening session that will be held tomorrow on payments data and exchange standards to support health-related social needs. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/eBwEEUKc

Join us! Plan to participate in our Nov. 13 listening session, 1 – 2 p.m. ET, to share your insights and learn about our discovery efforts around addressing healthcare funding reimbursements for community-based organizations.  As momentum has grown among states and payers for the reallocation of healthcare funds to address health-related social needs (HRSNs), Gravity Project decided to undertake a discovery effort to understand and define the existing landscape for community-based organization (CBO) reimbursement and identify the components of the CBO reimbursement process and where national standards play a role.  The results of our discovery effort are now available online in our report, Payments Data & Exchange Standards: Gravity Project Discovery Findings, and will be discussed at a listening session during Gravity Project’s Tech public call.  Listening session leaders include Emily Anders, MPH, Sarah DeSilvey, Alana Kalinowski, MSW, Corey Smith and Corey Spears. You are invited to attend and participate in the Listening Session, which features a discussion of the effort and goals of the discovery process and an overview of the report, covering its background, goals, process, findings and opportunities, including initially focusing on standardizing the reimbursement framework for HRSN services under Medicaid, with subsequent extension to other funding streams.   Discussion of applicable Gravity terminology and technology work will provide context and a springboard for participant discussion.    During the discussion, Gravity Team is looking to hear about your experiences and awareness of these challenges and solutions, and if there are any areas you want to learn more about to improve your processes and care delivery.    The discussion will enable the Gravity team to listen for and identify further requirements, potential educational offerings and opportunities for standards advancements.   To learn how to join the Listening Session, visit the Gravity Technical Workstream Meetings (FHIR IG, RI, Connectathon) page at https://lnkd.in/e6w6x9A2 #SDOH #HRSN #CBO

Are you enjoying the Civitas Networks for Health Annual Conference? So are we. For the final day of #Civitas24, join us as Gravity Technical Director Corey Smith participates in the FHIR Deep Dive panel —Da Vinci, FAST, Gravity, Helios Date: October 17, 2024 Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Location: Mackinac East/West Explore Health Level Seven International's (HL7's) #FHIR Accelerator projects and learn about their goals, objectives, and how to get involved. HL7’s Dan Vreeman, Chief Standards Development Officer, and Viet Nguyen, M.D., Chief Standards Implementation Officer, kick off the discussion. And special thanks to Molly Marra, 1115 Implementation Lead, New York eHealth Collaborative, Lynne Olney, Chief Transformation Officer. Healthy Alliance and Jillian Greenbaum, Assistant Vice President, Population Health and Regional Health Improvement, HEALTHeLINK for sharing their real-world implementation insights on their effort to standardize social needs screening data in New York using Gravity data standards during today's session, as well as those who stopped by during our office hours with Gravity Project Technical Director, Corey Smith, and Technical SME, Jim Shalaby. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/epqQMKHT Not able to join us? You can catch us later this month at the AHIMA Annual Conference in Salt Lake City! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/dt6BaSS

During this morning's Health Level Seven International WGM+ plenary, POCP's Vanessa Candelora, Program Manager of the Gravity Project, gave a brief Accelerator update. If you aren't familiar with the work the Gravity Project does on standardizing social determinates of health and achieving health equity, it's a pretty amazing community. Check it out: https://hubs.li/Q02Rcv0z0 . #HealthIT #GravityProject #HL7WGM #Innovation

Are you looking to interact with Gravity presenters in person? If you are attending the 2024 LOINC Conference this week in Washington, DC (or virtual) or Health Level Seven International’s 38th Annual Plenary, WGM+ and HL7 FHIR Connectathon next week in Atlanta, you are in luck. Gravity’s Sarah DeSilvey, director of clinical informatics, is participating in a panel discussion at 9:50 a.m. ET on Friday, Sept. 20, at the 2024 LOINC Conference titled, “SDOs: What are we doing, how can we better enable development and implementation?” Learn more details here: https://lnkd.in/eCnyXw65 Plan to visit several Gravity Project team members, including Vanessa Candelora, program manager, during HL7’s 38th Annual Plenary, WGM+ and HL7 FHIR Connectathon. To learn when and where Gravity topics will be discussed, check out our listing: https://lnkd.in/eJRQgeJV We look forward to seeing you there!

Don't miss our next Implementation Affinity Group meeting this Thursday, July 25, at 2:30 p.m. ET, which focuses on sharing current resources available to implementers both Gravity-authored and others, including highlighting the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool© (AHC HRSN Screening Tool) Documentation resource American Medical Association, AHIMA, and Gravity produced to support consistency of data collection and documentation for social risks and needs. Member Ask: If you have open-source resources that are pertinent to this work and should be shared, please let us know! To be clear - this cannot be for a proprietary solution or sales opportunity. The intent is to curate and collect resources that can be shared for the collective good and recognize gaps to be addressed by the community in open-source methods. Please plan to join us and invite your colleagues who may be interested in this work. Use this Implementation Affinity Group Zoom registration link to register for this Implementation Affinity Group meeting and all future calls: https://lnkd.in/ecsQrZ-8