ONC is working alongside Health Level Seven International (HL7®) and with a wide range of partners from health care, government (federal and states), community-based organizations, developers, providers, and industry stakeholders to launch a national Gravity Project Pilots Affinity Group. This new group will pilot the SDOH Clinical Care FHIR Implementation Guide (SDOH CC IG) as a way to further the development and adoption of social determinants of health (SDOH) standards. Additionally, ONC is supporting the publication of the latest version of the SDOH CC IG currently in ballot and providing funding for sites to pilot the SDOH CC IG.
Our combined efforts are expected to demonstrate how best to advance our nation’s technical infrastructure to enable SDOH interoperability as supported by ONC’s United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Version 2. The USCDI standard consists of a core set of data classes and elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange and includes data elements captured in clinical and health settings to help identify and to address conditions that put a person’s health and well-being at risk. The ability to use and build from established standards in real-time and as part of screening practices that help identify specific needs related to food, housing, and transportation insecurity is an important step in enabling more coordinated care and timely assistance or interventions needed to improve health outcomes… Read the full article here.
