Resource Center

Your Virtual Library

Our Resource Center is a virtual library where you can go for a broad range of information relating to interoperability, information-sharing, and the six domains in which NIC primarily works: human and social services, public health, public education, public safety, emergency medical services and health information technology. We have vetted and aggregated numerous studies, guidance documents and other materials, which can be sorted in a variety of ways for easy access and use, and will add resources continually over time. The Resource Center is available to all professionals interested in the subject matter, irrespective of whether they are NIC participants.

To make the Center as robust and beneficial as possible, we welcome recommendations of relevant content that users encounter elsewhere, that they have produced themselves, or that they are already utilizing. Please provide your suggestions and comments via email to NIC@stewardsofchange.org.

11-15-2021 Featured Project

National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems

This paper explains the Commission, the foundational white papers, defines terms, describes the Commission approach, and outlines the guiding principles of a modern, equity-oriented public health data system and what that system does. This includes a brief summary of past and present data modernization initiatives.

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11-15-2021 Featured Project

Charting a Course for an Equity-Centered Data System: Recommendations from the National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the gaps in our public health and health data infrastructure and illuminated the many ways in which they perpetuate vast health inequities. To work toward a modernized health data system, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation established a first-of-its-kind National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems to reimagine how data are collected, shared, and used, and identify the investments needed to improve health equity. Commissioners examined both the systems and the data needed to ensure public health information works for all, including: who the data we collect elevates, who is being centered in our data, who is being excluded, and why.  

The Commission’s recommendations for the nation call on government at all levels, business, community-based organizations, philanthropy, and others to take specific action to reimagine and modernize the public health data system.

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10-17-2018 Publication

Procuring Interoperability: Achieving High-Quality, Connected, and Person-Centered Care

“Economic incentives have driven the evolution of a health system that is frag-
mented, inefficient, and ineffective in matching identified needs with available
resources. The result is health care expenditures that are highest in the world
coupled with system-wide performance that ranks far below most other countries with similar economic profiles.” The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, implemented a project that focuses on potential health and health care improvement by addressing pervasive fragmentation in the United States’ health care system. Through the engagement of expert stakeholders, they explored different procurement approaches that health care systems can take to activate organizational demand for system-wide interoperability, specifically digital interoperability. The goal, on the behalf of all people and their health, is comprehensive data interoperability through the use of digital tools that interface seamlessly and deliver data in a trusted network.

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10-04-2018

The Transitions Clinic Network (TCN)

TCN is a national network of medical homes that provides comprehensive patient-centered primary care for the re-entry of prisoners with chronic diseases. Each clinic involved in the program has atleast one community health worker on staff with a history of incarceration. The goal of each Transition Clinic Orogram is to assist this vulnerable population with re-entry into their lives and communities.

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