Gravity Project

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

Join us June 27 at 2:30-4 p.m. ET for "Taking a Deeper Dive: Gravity’s Technical Underpinnings of Documenting Intervention Outcomes."? The June Gravity Implementation Affinity Group meeting features the second part of its two-part series on outcomes documentation, tracking and reporting, from learning about standardized terminology to tracking outcomes in HL7 FHIR data exchange.? June’s Gravity Implementation Affinity Group session provides a deeper dive, providing a technical perspective to the use of standardized terminology to assist in documenting the outcomes of interventions.??The session begins with technical requirements needed to document outcomes and Gravity alignment with national quality measure programs.?Then implementers will discuss challenges and benefits of implementing intervention outcome documentation functionality.? Presenters: Monique van Berkum, Director, Global Terminology Content Development, American Medical Association James Shalaby, Pharm.D., Chief Informatics Consultant, CEO, Elimu Informatics Corey Smith, Gravity Project Technical Director and Vice President, Informatics and Digital Products, American Medical Association Register to join us: https://lnkd.in/ecsQrZ-8

Join us for May 30, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. ET first-hand implementer stories at our upcoming Gravity Implementation Affinity Group meeting: ? A Standard Approach:?How Gravity Assists in Documenting the Outcomes of Interventions? ? This Spring, Gravity is bringing you a two-part series on outcomes documentation, tracking and reporting, meeting you wherever you are in the standards-based approach journey, from just learning about standardized terminology to tracking outcomes in HL7 FHIR data exchange.??? ? May’s Gravity Implementation Affinity Group session provides a high level, non-technical perspective to the use of standardized terminology to assist in documenting the outcomes of interventions. The session begins with level setting on the definition of outcomes, why documenting outcomes matters, and Gravity alignment with national quality measure programs. With this foundation, a lively panel discussion of implementers will focus on real pain points and success stories of documenting outcomes of interventions. The presentation will conclude with how Gravity terminology has been designed with outcomes in mind.?? ? Presenters include: Sarah DeSilvey, Gravity Project Terminology Director and Implementation Workstream Lead?? Esther Farkas, Chief Operating Officer, Unite Us Nicole Friedman, National Program Lead, Social Health Operations, Kaiser Permanente Jaffer Traish, Chief Operating Officer, Findhelp ? 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 the May meeting and all future calls: https://lnkd.in/ecsQrZ-8

Thanks to the 300+ attendees who joined us to learn about our collaborative work with?Civitas Networks for Health?and?HealthBegins to ensure that data standards reflect the real workings of social care. ?The webinar shared the findings of our work, based on convening an initial group of national and state-level representatives from social care (across food, housing, and navigation/care coordination) to inform its conceptual model and guide its standard creation. To learn more, download the?Social Care Co-Design Final Report at?https://bit.ly/442QQbM and view the webinar recording: https://lnkd.in/erwvxqRi #SDOH #healthequity

Join us on April 25, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET for the Gravity Project Implementation Affinity Group meeting, which features more real-world implementations and a key to their success: the Observation Screening Response profile. Bringing Observation Screening Response into Focus for Gravity Implementers Building upon the implementation approach and presentation by New York State Qualified Entities in February, this month’s Gravity Implementation Affinity Group session focuses on more real-world implementations and a key to their success: the Observation Screening Response profile. The benefits of using this profile include explicit categorization of question/answer pairs by SDOH domains, flagging of positive findings and using a common language (Gravity standardized terminology) to share and communicate these findings. This session will highlight Observation Screening Response, including guidance on using key elements (e.g., Observation.category and Observation.interpretation) and using Observation Screening Response to create Observation Groupings. Additionally, some uses for StructureMap will be discussed. Real-world experiences from a New York implementer will also be shared. The session will conclude with interactive engagement and dialogue with attendees. Presenters include: Jim Shalaby, PharmD, Chief Informatics Consultant, Gravity Project, and Co-founder & CEO, Elimu Informatics Corey Smith, Technical Director, Gravity Project, and Vice President, Informatics and Digital Products, American Medical Association Monique van Berkum, Terminology SME & Technical SME, Gravity Project, and Director, Global Terminology Content Development at American Medical Association Register now: https://bit.ly/3xxkE3W #healthequity #dataexchange #SDOH #HL7 #FHIR

Gravity's work will be featured on a national stage as program manager Vanessa Candelora participates in the “Standards for SDOH Data Elements: Successful SDOH Approaches and Challenges to Promote Health Equity” panel at tomorrow's NCVHS meeting at 1:45 p.m. (EDT). To attend this public meeting (either in-person in Washington, DC, or by Zoom), register here: https://lnkd.in/eZnSHYax #SDOH #DataStandards #HealthEquity #HL7 #FHIR #NCVHS