Social Health Data Strategies for Federally Qualified Health Centers in Maine & Beyond

This presentation reviews a recent convening effort led by the Maine Primary Care Association and HealthInfoNet (designated operator of Maine’s statewide Health Information Exchange) that involved collaboration with a subset of Maine’s federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) to identify current and future social health data collection, exchange, and operationalization strategies. The result of the effort identified several key findings that informed a series of technical and operational recommendations for enhancing existing social health data use cases and practices. Presenters will touch on emerging social health data trends and partners, such as The Gravity Project, the USCDI standard, and the PRAPARE risk assessment tool among others that informed their work. Possibilities for future utility of social health data, spanning clinical and community determinants, will be discussed as it relates to Maine's FQHC priorities, with the hope that attendees can leverage the convening effort’s outcomes to inform future improvements in their own communities.

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