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Gravity Sponsor Matching Campaign to Launch the Digital Inequity/Access & Digital Literacy Domain
The Gravity Project presents an opportunity to launch the first national digital access and digital literacy domain standards development in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, and others! Kaiser Permanente has shared a letter of support here endorsing the work and encouraging Gravity stakeholders and potential funders to join us in initiating the domain in 2023. Contact jillian.annunziata@emiadvisors.net to solicit matching funds.
Gravity Pilots Affinity Group Meeting, Feb 23rdMar 30, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Gravity Pilots Affinity Group! This group, sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), AARP, and IHE USA, is a peer-to-peer learning forum for real-world testing of Gravity terminology and technical standards. We designed these meetings for participants to share successes and challenges, seek partnerships, and ask questions. We look forward to meeting with many of you next week at our fifth Gravity Pilots Affinity Group Meeting on Thursday, February 23 March 30 at 2:30 pm ET. We welcome questions about Gravity’s Social Determinants of Health Clinical Care Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource Implementation Guide (SDOH CC FHIR IG) to support office hours during the call. URL:http://hl7.org/fhir/us/sdoh-clinicalcare/STU2/ Learn more about participating in our Pilots Affinity Group here. It’s an opportunity you won’t want to miss!
Civitas Networks for Health Capacity Building Initiative to Advance Health Equity through the Implementation of SDOH Data Exchange using Gravity Standards, Applications due Feb 23rd.
Civitas Networks for Health, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and in partnership with Gravity Project, is excited to announce an opportunity for three teams with early-stage pilot projects to receive specialized training and technical assistance. Selected teams and their pilot projects will leverage the existing Gravity Pilots Affinity Group structure and receive numerous other opportunities for engagement. Applications are due Feb 23rd. Learn more by finding the RFP application here, recent information session meeting materials here, and RFP FAQ document here.
Gravity HL7 FHIR IG STU2 Publication
The Gravity Project Team is pleased to announce the formal STU2 publication of the HL7 FHIR SDOH Clinical Care Implementation Guide (IG) which can be found here.
Gravity SME Outreach Letter
Help us recruit subject matter experts (SMEs) for our upcoming domains! The Gravity Project will address the domains of digital access and digital literacy, neighborhood safety, and food access, and we are looking for a wide range of community engagement. Please send notice within your communities of a need for SMEs, we have written a letter to assist here.
Gravity Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) Screening Assessment Value Sets
In response to requests from implementers, Gravity Project is happy to announce the publishing of value sets including Gravity Project selected screening panels. The first release includes all Social Determinants of Health panel value sets (in line with USCDI) and screening panel value sets for our first domains of food insecurity, housing instability, homelessness, inadequate housing, and transportation insecurity. Over the next months the terminology team will build the remaining sets for our other domains. Each of these sets align with recommendations on our confluence and in our SDOH IG supplemental guide.
Domain Code Dashboard
The Gravity Project has created a dashboard which shows the status of domain specific codes across our four activities (Screeners, Diagnosis, Goals, and Interventions). Each domain has a spreadsheet that lists the codes available to date. The spreadsheets will be updated after major release dates. View the dashboard here.
NIDDK RFA-DK-22-038: Pilot Interventions to Integrate Social Care and Medical Care to Improve Health Equity (R01—Clinical Trial Required), Letter of intent due Sep 19th.
This NIDDK Funding Opportunity Announcement will support pilot and feasibility trials to test interventions that involve screening for and addressing adverse SDOH, also called social risks, during a health care visit. The overarching goal of this FOA is to develop pragmatic approaches that can be used in healthcare settings to reduce health disparities in diseases within the mission of NIDDK and achieve health equity, especially among individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups, rural populations, sexual and gender minority groups, and other socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved communities. A letter of intent is due Sep 19. Learn more here.
Gravity's Comments to CMS's Proposal in 2023 Hospital IPPS Proposed Rule (CMS-1771-P)
The Gravity Project submitted comments to the CMS proposed rule on the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and associated changes for 2023, File No. CMS-1771-P, published May 10, 2022, and specifically on CMS’s welcome proposal to require two new screening measures in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program to measure social drivers of health and integrate social drivers of health factors into Medicare quality reporting and payment. Viewcomment letter here.Gravity Response to CMS CY 2023 Medicare Advantage and Part D Proposed Rule (CMS-4192-P)
The Gravity Project submitted a public response to the CMS proposed rule that includes provisions for Social Determinants of Health and Special Needs Plan Health Risk Assessments. Viewsubmission hereGravity's Response to the Request for Information (RFI) on Strengthening Community Health Through Technology
Please see Gravity response here to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) request for information on how digital health technologies are used, or could be used in the future, to transform community health, individual wellness, and health equity.
Gravity HL7 FHIR IG STU2 Publication
The Gravity Project Team is pleased to announce the formal STU2 publication of the HL7 FHIR SDOH Clinical Care Implementation Guide (IG) which can be found here.
Gravity SME Outreach Letter
Help us recruit subject matter experts (SMEs) for our upcoming domains! The Gravity Project will address the domains of digital access and digital literacy, neighborhood safety, and food access, and we are looking for a wide range of community engagement. Please send notice within your communities of a need for SMEs, we have written a letter to assist here.
Gravity Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) Screening Assessment Value Sets
In response to requests from implementers, Gravity Project is happy to announce the publishing of value sets including Gravity Project selected screening panels. The first release includes all Social Determinants of Health panel value sets (in line with USCDI) and screening panel value sets for our first domains of food insecurity, housing instability, homelessness, inadequate housing, and transportation insecurity. Over the next months the terminology team will build the remaining sets for our other domains. Each of these sets align with recommendations on our confluence and in our SDOH IG supplemental guide.
Domain Code Dashboard
The Gravity Project has created a dashboard which shows the status of domain specific codes across our four activities (Screeners, Diagnosis, Goals, and Interventions). Each domain has a spreadsheet that lists the codes available to date. The spreadsheets will be updated after major release dates. View the dashboard here.
NIDDK RFA-DK-22-038: Pilot Interventions to Integrate Social Care and Medical Care to Improve Health Equity (R01—Clinical Trial Required), Letter of intent due Sep 19th.
This NIDDK Funding Opportunity Announcement will support pilot and feasibility trials to test interventions that involve screening for and addressing adverse SDOH, also called social risks, during a health care visit. The overarching goal of this FOA is to develop pragmatic approaches that can be used in healthcare settings to reduce health disparities in diseases within the mission of NIDDK and achieve health equity, especially among individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups, rural populations, sexual and gender minority groups, and other socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved communities. A letter of intent is due Sep 19. Learn more here.
