Moving Upstream to Improve Health and Well-Being

NIC New England Fall Symposium 2018: Moving Upstream to Improve Health and Well-Being

When : November 26, 2018 to November 28, 2018

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About the Symposium:

“A Symposium in the NIC of Time: Moving Upstream to Improve Health and Well-Being” convened a select group of senior officials, thought leaders, luminaries and subject-matter experts from New England and other parts of the country where NIC is currently working. Participants also included NIC’s federal and Region 1 collaborators from the Administration for Children and Families and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The event was organized by NIC and the New England States Consortium Systems Organization, with the support of the Kresge Foundation, IBM, the Connecticut Department of Social Services, the New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors and the Milbank Memorial Fund.

The symposium “faculty” included prominent leaders in the field, including Connecticut DSS Commissioner Rod Bremby, California HHS Secretary Michael Wilkening and former Virginia Health and Human Resources Secretary Bill Hazel, MD; federal ACF officials leading the agency’s new Interoperability Action Plan; and highly regarded academics from MIT, Yale and UC San Francisco. Additional participants include thought-leaders such as Jessica Kahn, Senior Expert from McKinsey & Co; John Ohanian, CEO of San Diego County’s renowned 211 community-information exchange; Rhea Boyd, MD, Director of Equity and Justice for Children’s Trust – all of whom helped to make the event a particularly rewarding experience.

Our broad strategic thinking at the symposium was grounded in real-life case study examples that demonstrated the critical importance of better integration, data-sharing and interoperability – with a particular focus on collaborations within and across NIC’s six primary domains: human services, public health, public education, public safety, emergency medical services and health information technology.

Information at the symposium was shared through diverse presentation formats and interactive activities that engaged participants in meaningful discussion, ideation and planning. The use cases included new early childhood programs that are integrating early intervention from health and human services; prevention models in child welfare that reduce opioid use disorder and addiction; and upstream strategies that integrate two-generation models and the social determinants of health and well-being by leveraging existing and new technology. All of the diverse presentations had a singular goal: improving the lives and experiences of the people we serve.

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Session	Description	Resources
Welcome, Orientation and NIC Overview Speakers: Daniel Stein, President, Stewards of Change Institute; Co-PI, National Interoperability Collaborative Roderick L. Bremby, Commissioner, Connecticut Dept. of Social Services Jeffrey Meyers, Commissioner, New Hampshire Dept. of Health and Human Services; Chairperson, NESCSO Elaine Zimmerman, Regional Manager, Administration for Children and Families, Region 1	The speakers will provide a welcome to the symposium and outline goals, activities, and key concepts. The symposium is designed to showcase innovative projects and practices relating to interoperability, integration and information-sharing efforts from across New England, as well as from other states in which NIC is already working. It will also provide you with the opportunity to hear from and interact with colleagues from around the country and learn about leading-edge activities, concepts and best practices.	NIC NE - Day One - Welcome, Orientation and Interactive Session - Mural
Getting to the Headwater: Using Interoperability and the Social Determinants to Positively Impact Public Health Crises Presenters: Paul Wormeli, Member, SOCI Board of Directors; Executive Director Emeritus, IJIS Institute Facilitators of Interactive Activity and Fishbowl Debrief: Daniel Stein, SOCI President, NIC Co-Principal Investigator	This session utilizes the opioid epidemic to illustrate how any public health crisis could be better-addressed through improved interoperability, information-sharing and systems integration across multiple domains. In particular, the panelists will focus on some of the strategies outlined in the soon-to-be-published NIC Opioid Prevention Playbook as the basis for a discussion of the role of interoperability and the social determinants of health and well-being in “getting upstream” of the problem.	A NIC Playbook - Preventing Opioid Use Disorder (Snapshot)
Ignite Presentations: Lessons from MA: Advanced Inter-Agency Data Sharing Presenter: Ray Campbell, Executive Director, Center for Health Information Analysis	In an effort to find answers about the state’s opioid crisis, Massachusetts passed a law directing several state agencies to engage in an unprecedented degree of data-sharing. As a result, the Bay State linked 22 separate agency databases in order to understand the social determinants driving the opioid crisis. The state is now able to see the relationship between overdoses and a wide variety of social risk factors, such as prior incarcerations, medical history, and prior access to substance use disorder services. The techniques that enabled the secure exchange of this data are now being applied in new and interesting ways to address a host of public health challenges.	Lessons from MA: Advanced Inter-Agency Data Sharing - Slides NIC NE - Day One - Lessons from MA: Advanced Inter-Agency Data Sharing - Mural
Ignite Presentations: Modernizing the Legal Determinants of Health Erika Rickard, JD, Senior Officer, Civil Justice Innovation Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts	The legal system is a critical component of the social determinants of health, but its impact is not well-documented or understood. This presentation focuses on a new initiative by the Pew Charitable Trusts to modernize the system, including with a pilot project integrating 2-1-1 databases, legal aid and court self-help to better match resources to needs.	NIC NE - Day One - Modernizing the Legal Determinants of Health - Slides NIC NE - Day One - Modernizing the Legal Determinants - Mural
Can the Solution be Right if the Data is Biased? Presenters: Margo Edmunds, PhD; Vice President, Evidence Generation and Translation, AcademyHealth; NIC Co-PI Rhea Boyd, MD; Chief Medical Officer, San Diego 211; Director, Equity and Justice, The Children’s Trust	Implicit bias and institutional discrimination are important factors that help to shape research, policy and practice. This session examines the role of these “invisible social determinants;” why they should become integral elements of reform efforts; and specific steps for making progress. The presenters will also address this central question: How do data-integration platforms and strategies functionally do no harm? This question acknowledges that tools that create pathways to accelerate data-sharing and system interoperability inherently have the capacity to “profile poverty,” codify racism and engineer disadvantage.	NIC NE - Day One - Can the Solution be Right if the Data is Biased? - Slides NIC NE - Day One - Can the Solution be Right if the Data is Biased? - Mural
The View from the Top I: Advancing and Sustaining Progress from the State Perspective Moderator: Jessica Kahn, Senior Expert, McKinsey & Co. Discussants: Roderick L. Bremby, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Social Services Michael Wilkening, Secretary, California Health and Human Services Agency William Hazel, MD, Secretary (former), Virginia Department of Human Resources; Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, George Mason University	What innovations, processes and changes are needed to integrate the social determinants of health and wellness upstream into the Health and Human Services ecosystem? In this session, HHS leaders from NIC’s three inaugural partner states engage in a dialogue centering on specific ways they have sought to answer that question, the successes they’ve had, the challenges they’ve faced, and the times they’ve wished they hadn’t come to the office. A primary focus on the conversation will be the strategies and programs they have used to instigate change and what they’ve learned about replicating, scaling and sustaining it.	NIC NE - Day Two - The View from the Top I - Mural
Bridgeport Prospers, Baby Bundle: Moving Upstream from Birth to Three Presenters: Roderick L. Bremby, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Social Services Janice M. Gruendel, PhD, Senior Fellow, Institute for Child Success; Research Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Fellow, Zigler Center, Yale University Allison Logan, Executive Director, Bridgeport Prospers, United Way of Coastal Fairfield County David Wilkinson, Commissioner, Connecticut Office of Early Childhood	The presenters provide an overview of this ambitious, multidomain initiative that is bringing together early education, hospitals, schools, public safety and other relevant Department of Social Services programs to improve the lives of infants, children and families through early detection and intervention. Discussion about this innovative initiative, on which NIC is working with the key players on the ground, will focus on key insights and how “Baby Bundle” can be shaped and implemented not only to benefit the struggling community it is intended to serve, but also so that it can become a pilot for replication across Connecticut and, perhaps, far beyond.	NIC NE - Day Two - Bridgeport Prospers, Baby Bundle: Moving Upstream from Birth to Three - Slides NIC NE - Day Two - Bridgeport Prospers, Baby Bundle: Moving Upstream from Birth to Three - Mural
Learning from Innovation and Success in San Diego Presenters: John Ohanian, President and CEO, 2-1-1 San Diego William York, Vice President, 2-1-1 San Diego	In this session, 2-1-1 San Diego’s leaders will discuss their Community Information Exchange (CIE), an ecosystem of multidisciplinary network partners that is shifting how health and social service providers deliver person-centered care and contribute to individual longitudinal records through shared language and outcomes. They will describe the CIE’s evolution in collaboration with San Diego’s Health Information Exchange and the local county ConnectWell to improve health equity and outcomes across systems of care.	NIC NE - Day Two - Learning from Innovation and Success in San Diego - Slides NIC NE - Day Two - Learning from Innovation and Success in San Diego - Mural
Using Design Thinking to Develop Community Ecosystems for Vulnerable Mothers and their Babies Moderator: Ivy Pool, Senior Consultant, Stewards of Change Institute Presenters: Kenneth Kaplan, MSW/M’Arch/HP; Senior Health System Advisor, Initiative for Health Systems Innovation, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Becket Dickerson, Associate Partner, GBS US Public Service, Customer Engagement & Design Practice Area Lead, IBM Global Business Services	This session provides an overview of the theory and application of Design Thinking, a framework that helps guide teams from problems to solutions. Through a relentless focus on user outcomes, multidisciplinary teaming, and “restless reinvention,” Design Thinking produces innovative solutions to thorny problems/challenges. In this session, symposium participants will have the opportunity to apply Design Thinking to an early childhood case study. Together, we will seek to design a holistic, community-based continuum of care to address inequities and radically improve outcomes for mothers and their babies in under-resourced communities.	NIC NE - Day Two - Using Design Thinking to Develop Community Ecosystems for Vulnerable Mothers and their Babies - Slides NIC NE - Day Two - Using Design Thinking to Develop Community Ecosystems for Vulnerable Mothers and their Babies - Mural
Ignite Presentations: Constructing a Safer Future So All of NH’s Children Can . . . Live Free and Thrive Presenters: Chris Tappan, Associate Commissioner Human Services and Behavioral Health Joe Ribsam, Director, Division for Children, Youth and Families	Realizing a safer future for children requires transforming the child-serving and family support systems in every community. With an unyielding sense of urgency, efforts in New Hampshire are underway to work across the ecosystem, collectively move upstream, and energize the resources and supports parents need to raise their children at the best and most-challenging times in their lives.	NIC NE - Day Two - Ignite Presentations - Mural
Catalyzing Upstream Change: The Rhode Island Health Equity Zones and the ASTHO President’s Challenge Presenter: Ada Amobi, MD, MPH; Physician Lead, Health Equity Institute, Rhode Island Department of Health	The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) President’s Challenge was developed to spur increased focus on community-led, place-based initiatives to address the social determinants of health nationwide. This session will introduce the key concepts and activities of the President’s Challenge, and will discuss the Rhode Island Health Equity Zones as an example of an initiative that offers unique opportunities for data integration.	NIC NE - Day Two - Catalyzing Upstream Change - Slides NIC NE - Day Two - Ignite Presentations - Mural
The View from the Top II: Advancing and Sustaining Interoperability Progress from the Federal Perspective Moderator: Daniel Stein, SOCI President; NIC Co-PI Presenters: Christi Bordeaux Dant, State Systems Coordinator for Health and Human Services, ACF, Nina Brown-Ashford, Group Deputy, Prevention and Population Health Group, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, CMS Betsy F. Rosenfeld, JD, Regional Health Administrator, Region 1, US DHHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health	While attention at the federal level has focused largely on divisive issues, efforts in at least one area seem likely to bring symposium attendees together: promoting interoperability and information-sharing to make progress relating to health and human services. Presenters will discuss some of those efforts, including the new ACF Interoperability Initiative from the Administration for Children and Families. They will also offer their perspectives on the same question state leaders addressed earlier in the symposium: What innovations and changes are needed to integrate the social determinants of health and well-being upstream into the HHS ecosystem?
Scaling NIC: Charting a Course in New England and Fitting into a National Roadmap	This session will provide an overview of NIC’s progress since it was launched in June 2017, combined with Q&A and all-attendee dialogue/input. Attendees will learn about NIC’s work in California, Connecticut and beyond, as well as our Collaboration and Communication Hub and InterOptimability Training and Certification Curriculum (ITCC) program. Attendees will also hear about – and help to shape – NIC’s plans for the future, particularly in New England.
Leveraging Our Data to Advance Health Equity: The Urgency to Build Public Will Presenter: Tiffany Manuel, PhD; Vice President, Knowledge, Impact and Strategy, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.	Data is helping us prove it’s possible to invest in population health in ways that are cost-effective, improve outcomes and engage communities as co-producers of their own health. But it can be tough to make a compelling case for meaningful systems change and, worse, attempts to increase support can backfire. This presentation will explain how to use data to build public support for scaling health programs, policies and investments that fundamentally transform our health ecosystems for the better.	Making the Case for Systems Change - Building Public Will to Achieve Health Equity - Presentation Notes

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2021

NAA Update: Progress and Promise

When : April 02, 2021 to April 02, 2021

Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET

We invite you to join us from 12-1:30 p.m. (Eastern) on Friday, April 2, for a discussion of the exciting work being conducted by the National Action Agenda implementation team since the NAA symposium two months ago. We’ll be providing details about the webinar in the days to come; for now, here’s a brief preview of what we’ve been up to:

Following up on a couple of the NAA’s final action recommendations, we’re working with the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) site in New Jersey in several ways, including the development of Project Unify and a Consent to Share Utility. We’re designing both Unify and C2SU as open-source, highly replicable solutions/blueprints to significantly advance data-sharing across multiple programs, systems and domains.
To prepare individuals and organizations to advance interoperability and data-sharing (another NAA recommendation), we’re rolling out SOCI’s InterOptimability Training Curriculum and Certification (ITCC) program. We’re partnering with the CA Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers to enroll the first cohort of learners (limited to 20), with many more sessions to come. Learn more and sign up.
We’re getting NAA’s learning and objectives out into the world in a variety of ways, including by presenting at national events. Those include the National Human Services Data Consortium Spring 2021 Virtual Conference on April 12 and the Healthcare Connect IT Summit on May 17-21, with more to come. Please let us know if you’d like us to present at an event that you’re planning.
We’re continuing to work with a talented, experienced (and generous) team of volunteer technologists and developers who are the engine driving Project Unify, C2SU and more. At next week’s webinar, you’ll hear from the team members and learn about their unique capabilities. They include Matt Bishop, CEO of Open City Labs; Eric Jahn, CTO of HSLynk; and Dave Walsh, CEO of MITA-TAC Consulting.

We offer our deep gratitude to all of the people collaborating with us to turn the NAA’s vision of health equity into a reality. Most of all, we thank the 200+ of you who helped us shape the NAA’s work last year, and we invite you to stick with us as we avidly pursue its implementation. Finally, we look forward to hearing from everyone who participates in our April 2 webinar, and we hope that includes you!

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2020

In the NIC of Time: A Webinar on the National Interoperability Collaborative’s `Project Unify’

When : November 06, 2020 to November 06, 2020

Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET

125+ Registered

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On Friday, Nov. 6, over 125 participants joined our webinar to learn about the progress we’re making on Project Unify, NIC’s proof-of-concept implementation initiative. Members of our Let’s Get Technical group led a conversation and provide an update on Unify, including its integral role in our latest initiative, the National Action Agenda to Advance Upstream Social Determinants and Health Equity.

The webinar presentation, featuring leaders of NIC’s Let’s Get Technical Team Brian Handspicker and Eric Jahn, charted Project Unify’s progress and roadmapped the next several months. Additionally, the LGT team demonstrated some exciting new developments in connecting multiple systems.

Mary Kratz, EVP of the Interoperability Institute, wrote the blog we shared before this webinar. Please review this important and insightful contribution to the Project Unify work.

Also, a video recording of the webinar and the slide deck have been shared via the buttons above.

About the Presenters:

Daniel Stein, President of the Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI), and Co-Principal Investigator for the National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC)

Daniel Stein is President of the Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI), a unique not-for-profit think tank and advocacy/implementation organization. He is also Co-Principal Investigator for the National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC), a new “Community of Networks” initiative led by SOCI and AcademyHealth. For over a decade, Stein has been a thought-leader, educator, consultant and advocate in promoting and implementing interoperability and information-sharing by working nationally in the private and public sectors – at the local, state and federal levels – to instigate systemic change. Through the Stewards of Change Consultancy, which is the implementation arm of SOCI, Stein also has provided his expertise and experience nationally to create the strategies, operational regimes, tools, trainings and materials needed to achieve tangible results and fulfill the Institute’s mission.

Eric Jahn, CTO, HSLynk

Eric has been working to enable human services web interoperability since 2002, participating in the development of numerous human services web data standards. Moreover, open source implementation of these standards continues to be a primary focus of his work, to create sustainable, transparent, and maintainable resources for communities to better serve the public. hslynk.com is his latest effort: an open source human services Platform as a Service, for powering a marketplace of real-time human services apps. Eric received a Masters in Public Administration from The Mark Hatfield School of Government in Portland, Oregon, and a BA from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Brian D. Handspicker, CTO, Open City Labs, Inc.

Brian is a subject matter expert on mapping and modeling of information between clinical healthcare standards and non-clinical information domains such as human services, education and justice. He specializes in secure and private exchange of sensitive and personally identifying information (PII). Brian is actively involved in current interoperability standards efforts, including the National Action Agenda, National Interoperability Collaborative Project Unify, Project Gravity (SDOH) Technical Advisors Committee, CAQH Core V, W3C Human Services, and NIEM Technical Architecture Committee (NTAC). Brian is Chief Technology Officer for Open City Labs (OCL). OCL delivers interoperable community exchange for human services and health service information.

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2019

A Webinar in the NIC of Time: Administrative Data as a Strategic Asset

When : June 25, 2019 to June 25, 2019

160+ Registered

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Lead Presenter: Amber Ivey, Manager, Civil Legal System Modernization, The Pew Charitable Trusts

The Data as a Strategic Asset project at The Pew Charitable Trusts was created to understand how state governments are using administrative data and how they might use it more effectively to determine which policies to enact and what public problems to address. As state leaders seek to harness data in innovative ways, the project sought to learn what common themes, noteworthy successes, and notable challenges the 50 states and Washington, DC have experienced across a broad cross section of issue areas.

5 key actions states can take to promote data-driven decision-making:

Pew interviewed over 350 state leaders across the U.S. and reviewed relevant laws, documents, and policies in all the states to produce a report detailing five key actions states can take to promote data-driven decision-making:

Plan ahead by setting up guiding goals and structures.
Build the state government’s capacity to effectively use data.
Ensure that quality data can be accessed and used by stakeholders.
Analyze data to create meaningful information.
Sustain support for continued data efforts.

In this first comprehensive overview of how state governments utilize data, the authors identified states that had implemented a combination, or even all five, of these actions in different policy areas. However, no state has applied them to a broad range of government agencies or achieved widespread improvements in policy development, service delivery, resource management, and current program evaluation.

What you will learn during the webinar:

A fresh understanding of the challenges facing state governments today.
Insights on how state governments can capitalize on the five key actions to promote data-driven decision-making.
Join the NIC Hub and post comments/questions you have for the report’s authors.

Check out the blog post: Innovative Information-Sharing: Administrative Data as a Strategic Asset

Guest Speakers

Amber Ivey Manager, Civil Legal System Modernization, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Amber Ivey is a manager of the civil legal system modernization team at Pew Charitable Trusts. In that role, she helps make the nation’s civil legal system more accessible and affordable by working with courts and stakeholders to modernize systems with the most promising technologies and tools. Previously, she worked on a team that explored ways that states use data, focusing specifically on how data analyses are being used to help make policy and budget decisions to improve programs and services to citizens. Prior to Pew, Amber worked for Maryland StateStat, a performance measurement and management office created by the governor. She also analyzed agency data to improve state government performance at the Governor’s Office of Performance Improvement under a second governor. Amber was previously a logistics manager for a Fortune 50 company, where she used data to drive efficiency, productivity and profits. She switched to the public sector to use her skills in service of government efficiency. She is currently studying for the bar exam and is excited to serve at the intersection of data, technology, public policy, and law.

Susan R. Smith Director, Office of Research and Evaluation, Connecticut Department of Children and Families

Susan R. Smith is the Director of the Office of Research and Evaluation for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. Previously, she was Chief of Quality and Planning in the Office of the DCF Commissioner, where she oversaw the Office of Multiculturalism and Immigration Practice; the Office of Performance Management; the Office for Evaluation; the Risk Management Unit; the Special Qualitative Reviews Office; the Ombudsman’s Office; and the Office For Administrative Case Reviews. Susan, who has worked for the state’s DCF since 1995, formerly managed the Department’s Systems of Care initiative for children with complex behavioral health needs, directed the Department’s procurement operations, and oversaw Connecticut’s private therapeutic foster care system. She attended Williams College and the Duke University School of Law.

Anthony Fung Chief Executive Officer, GovInsight, LLC

Anthony Fung is a proven executive with over 17 years of experience in information technology management, strategic planning, and operations management. He most recently served as Deputy Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. In that capacity, he was a senior advisor on technology matters including, data analytics, cyber security, innovation and entrepreneurship, and technology operations. Prior to joining the Governor’s Cabinet, Anthony was the CEO of a professional consulting firm, which serviced federally focused clients such as the DoD, HHS, DHS, and GSA. He also served as a SCORE counselor, providing advice to small businesses on best practices, business operations, and strategy for start-ups. He has been recognized as one of Washington’s top business leaders, recipient of Washington Business Journal’s Award, SmartCEO Top 100 CEOs, and named as a Top 40 Under-40 Business Leader.

Daniel Stein President, SOC Institute & Principal Investigator, NIC

Daniel Stein is President of the Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI), a unique not-for-profit think tank and advocacy/implementation organization. He is also Co-Principal Investigator for the National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC), a new “Community of Networks” initiative led by SOCI and AcademyHealth. SOCI is built on the foundational belief that responsible, systemic information-sharing is the key to achieving enduring advancements in the health and wellness of children, adults and communities. SOCI’s mission is to improve lives by initiating, inspiring and implementing transformational change in Health and Human Services at all levels of government, industry and the nonprofit sector. For over a decade, Stein has been a thought-leader, educator and advocate in promoting and implementing “interoperability” by working nationally in the private and public sectors – at the local, state and federal levels – to instigate systemic change. Through the Stewards of Change Consultancy, which is the implementation arm of SOCI, Stein also has provided his expertise and experience nationally to create the strategies, operational regimes, tools, trainings and materials needed to achieve tangible results and fulfill the Institute’s mission.

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Getting Upstream of the Opioid Crisis: The Critical Role of Prevention

When : March 08, 2019 to March 08, 2019

1:00 – 2:30 PM ET

Via Webinar and Conference Call Access (Registrants-Only)

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Our next Deeper Dive webinar will focus on the critical importance of “getting upstream” to more-effectively combat the most-devastating public health crisis in modern U.S. history. The presentations by our three expert panelists – along with other special guests – will include discussion of the just-published NIC Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook, which examines replicable strategies being tested across the country to accomplish that goal. Learn more about the Playbook in our latest blog and on the NIC Collaboration Hub.

Registration for the webinar is now open, so reserve your spot today. We’ve designed our Deeper Dive presentations to go beyond the traditional webinar format in order to expand the opportunity for ongoing learning and to facilitate networking with others interested in the topic. Learn more about this exciting webinar format in “About the NIC Deeper Dive” webinar series below.

Presenters:

Karen Smith, MD, MPH, Director, California Department of Public Health
Mary Ann Cooney, MPH, MSN, Chief, Center for Population Health Strategies, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Paul Wormeli, President, Wormeli Consulting; member, Stewards of Change Institute Board of Directors; primary author, NIC Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook

Moderator: Daniel Stein, President, Stewards of Change Institute; Co-PI, NIC

About the NIC Deeper Dive Webinar Series: We’ve designed these presentations to go beyond the traditional webinar format in order to expand the opportunity for ongoing learning and facilitate networking with others interested in the topic of the event. There are two unique aspects to our “Deeper Dive” webinar-plus series, using the new Collaboration and Communication Hub.

Before each webinar, we’ll publish a blog that includes key discussion points relating to the subject being examined. Readers will be invited to go to the NIC Hub to ask questions, offer insights and engage in discussions that extend the learning from the blog and inform the webinar’s content.
Q&A will begin on the webinar platform after presentations, but the learning won’t end there. Rather, attendees can continue interacting with our expert presenters – and to engage in an ongoing conversation with other attendees/colleagues – by jumping to the NIC Hub.

Our webinar-plus series takes a different approach because it aims for a different outcome. It is designed to be an integral part of an ongoing, action-oriented agenda to advance interoperability and data-sharing. The objective of all of NIC’s work is to provide the information, tools and other resources needed to improve systems and increase collaboration among the multiple domains that impact health and well-being. Learn more about the primary domains in which NIC works. If you have any questions or comments, write to nic@stewardsofchange.org.

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Guest Speakers

Karen Smith, MD, MPH Director, California Department of Public Health

In 2015, former Gov. Brown appointed Dr. Smith as director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). Prior to her appointment, Dr. Smith had been medical staff for infectious disease at Queen of the Valley Medical Center since 2012, served as public health officer and deputy director at the Napa County Health and Human Services Agency since 2004, and worked as a faculty consultant at the Francis J. Curry International Tuberculosis Center since 1997.

Mary Ann Cooney, MPH, MSN Chief, Center for Population Health Strategies, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Mary Ann Cooney is a health policy expert and nurse with years of successful health and public policy development and implementation with an emphasis on improving population health in states and communites. During her career, Mary Ann has led initiatives in the areas of state governmental strategic planning, operations startups, health care transformation and organizational restructuring, organizational enhancement and development, financial management, Public Health graduate programs, and community advocacy.

Paul Wormeli Innovation Strategist, Wormeli Consulting; Executive Director Emeritus, IJIS Institute; and, Member, Board of Directors, Stewards of Change Institute

Paul Wormeli is a member of the Board of Directors of Stewards of Change Institute and is the primary author of “The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook,” a recent publication by the National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC). : He is an author and lecturer who consults for government and industry on the application of information technology to public service. He also is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University. Paul has managed system implementation for dozens of agencies worldwide, as well as national programs to further innovation and information-sharing.

Daniel Stein President, Stewards of Change Institute; Co-PI, NIC

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2018

NIC New England Fall Symposium 2018: Moving Upstream to Improve Health and Well-Being

When : November 26, 2018 to November 28, 2018

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NIC's Deeper Dive Webinar Series: Knowledge from the North – What Canada Can Teach US about the Social Determinants

When : October 12, 2018 to October 12, 2018

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About the Webinar:

A comprehensive new report examines a broad range of evidence and issues relating to health care in Canada, with insights and recommendations on reforms designed to bring that country’s health-related systems into the 21^st Century. In this webinar, two of the report’s authors explained its findings, the importance of the social determinants of health and well-being to its prospects for success, and how its content is relevant to the U.S. as it considers next steps for the ACA, and perhaps life without it. Our third presenter applied the learnings from Canada to the current US health and hospital environment, with insights regarding the implications for improving efficacy and efficiency.

Presenters:

PG Forest, Ph.D., Professor and Director, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Daniel Dutton, Ph.D., School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Norma Padron, MD, Senior Director, Applied Research and Data Analytics, Health Research & Educational Trust, American Hospital Association (AHA)

Responder: Margo Edmunds, Ph.D., Vice President, Evidence Generation and Translation, AcademyHealth; Co-PI, NIC

Moderator: Daniel Stein, President, Stewards of Change Institute; Co-PI, NIC

The webinar was followed by Q&A and discussion on the NIC Collaboration and Communication Hub. For those who wish to access webinar audio and other resources – and participate in related discussions on our NIC Collaboration Hub – please take the following steps:

Register to participate on the NIC Collaboration and Communication Hub.
Once your Hub membership is approved, hit the “Join us!” button in the Social Determinants of Health Group.
After the webinar, continue using the Group to connect with peers and keep the discussion going about the Social Determinants.
On social media, spread the word about your participation in the webinar, using the hashtag #SDwebinar18.

About the NIC Deeper Dive Webinar Series:

We’ve designed these presentations to go beyond the traditional webinar format in order to expand the opportunity for ongoing learning and facilitate networking with others interested in the topic of the event. There are two unique aspects to our “Deeper Dive” webinar-plus series, using the new Collaboration and Communication Hub.

Before each webinar, we’ll publish a blog that includes key discussion points relating to the subject being examined. Readers will be invited to go to the NIC Hubto ask questions, offer insights and engage in discussions that extend the learning from the blog and inform the webinar’s content.
Q&A will begin on the webinar platform after presentations, but the learning won’t end there. Rather, attendees can continue interacting with our expert presenters – and to engage in an ongoing conversation with other attendees/colleagues – by jumping to the NIC Hub.

If you have any questions or comments, write to nic@stewardsofchange.org.

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A Symposium in The NIC of Time: Advancing Information-Sharing in California and Beyond

When : March 26, 2018 to March 27, 2018

The National Interoperability Collaborative’s first major event – A Symposium in the NIC of Time: Advancing Information-Sharing in California and Beyond – took place at the West Sacramento Civic Center on March 26-27, 2018. The invitation-only symposium was underwritten by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and was sponsored by NIC’s leadership team, Stewards of Change Institute and AcademyHealth, in partnership with the California Health and Human Services Agency and the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust (SVRDT).

**Resources have been posted – check the Session Matrix below for slides, murals and video!**

The 140 attendees heard about pioneering interoperability efforts across California, where NIC is building its initial statewide collaborative network, and in our other partner states (Connecticut and Virginia). Among the highlights of the event was an ambitious multi-county, multi-domain information-sharing project currently being conducted by SVRDT, as well as innovative initiatives in San Diego, San Francisco and other project sites.

Symposium participants were also connected to key programmatic and thought leaders from across the country – and learned about leading-edge activities, concepts, tools, and best practices – from across the six domains in which NIC primarily works to improve health and well-being by enhancing/advancing efficiency, interoperability goals, and most importantly, outcomes. Those six domains are: human and social services, public health, public education, public safety, emergency medical services, and health information technology.

Please click the images below to access the symposium agenda and the full-scale versions of the 24-foot graphic murals captured at the event. In the Session Matrix below, you’ll find videos of the main sessions, excerpted graphic murals, PowerPoint presentations, documents distributed to attendees, output from interactive activities at the event, and other relevant materials.

One of NIC’s distinguishing characteristics is its focus on cross-sector collaboration and learning across the six domains. Lessons learned in one area too often aren’t shared with any others, so organizations are forced to reinvent repeatedly or, worse, to make the same mistakes. Solving 21st century problems requires a multidisciplinary approach to incorporate all the factors that impact health, safety, and well-being. While valuable learning and networking around these issues occurred at the symposium, NIC also plans to synthesize the event’s output and publish a e-magazine soon, which we will disseminate broadly across the U.S.

We are very grateful to the organizations that have enabled NIC to make so much progress, so quickly: Kresge Foundation for providing the generous grant with which we are developing NIC; the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for underwriting our California symposium; our other sponsors – IBM, Microsoft, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation – for their additional support; and the California Health and Human Services Agency for partnering with NIC and SVRDT in sponsoring the event. Most importantly, we thank everyone working with us to build NIC’s California “chapter” – and nationally.

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