Final 2022 Annual Report (2) - Flipbook - Page 9
2022 Programmatic Highlights
Cross Sector Data Sharing for
Social Care Program
(formerly Social Determinates
of Health SDOH)
In response to the critical and complex interactions
between medical, behavioral, social and economic
factors in maintaining and improving health, and the
recognition by our stakeholders that people move
between organizations as they receive care, MiHIN
began planning to support enhanced collection of
social care (SDoH) data and improved cross-sector
data exchange in 2016.
MiHIN's work is focused on data movement and not
about social need resolution; the SDOH Program was
aptly retitled Cross Sector Data Sharing and
refocused on developing an overall approach to
cross-sector data exchange that supports several
directed use cases to reduce health disparities:
health and social care (clinical-community linkages),
educational support (child school-based services),
correctional system and re-entry, integrated
behavioral health care services, as well as statewide
support programs for major social problem domains
(notably housing, food, and transportation).
As we mature the Interoperable Referrals Use Case,
our work is to develop a legal and technical
infrastructure necessary to exchange data related to
social need referrals according to national data and
technical standards.
In an unprecedented commitment to achieve an open
and connected ecosystem of care for communities,
eight social care platform vendors signed an
Interoperable Referrals Pledge and in doing so, have
taken responsibility to act, together, in the public
interest to enable a more interoperable social care
environment through mutual collaboration.
Building off the momentum created by the pledge the
vendors formed a Community of Practice (CoP)
hosted by MiHIN, dedicated to the statewide sharing
of data that documents social need identification,
referrals, interventions, and outcomes amongst care
teams that span health and social care.
Current Cross Sector
Data Work
In January, the team hosted a series of statewide
SDoH workshops to better understand the current
state of SDoH data capture and exchange within
and across sectors and to prepare to address the
full complexity of the work necessary to equitably
manage cross sector data sharing.
The Social Needs Screening (SDOH use case) has
standardized the intake and outflow of social
needs screening data for health care generated
data for 3 years, with updates yearly to be
consistent with national standards and best
practices.
200%
Increased data flow in
SDOH Use Case in 2022
A limited working group of boots-on-the-ground
healthcare providers was convened to make
recommendations on our SDOH and Interoperable
Referrals Use Cases and associated services.
The working group met several times to:
• Help to refine minimum data needs that would
allow an interoperable referral to occur
• React to a draft of information that a clinician
would find valuable to know about social care
(social care snapshot)
• Provide feedback about social care reporting
needs from a healthcare provider perspective
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