A collaborative public-private initiative launched in May 2019 with the goal to develop consensus-driven data standards to support the collection, use, and exchange of data to address the social determinants of health (SDOH).
- Social care data standards establish a shared understanding of critical concepts across the ecosystem in the name of health equity.
- Social care data standards allow for data visibility, a critical aspect of data justice.
- Social care data standards create common agreements and methods for exchanging information within communities to allow for analysis and upstream, structural interventions.
| From the US HHS Strategic Approach to Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity - Social risk data standards as a means to enable health and human service sector coordination, including assessing and addressing social needs with commonly understood terminology. | From the ONC Social Determinants of Health Information Exchange Toolkit: Foundational Elements for Communities - Social risk data standards as a fundamental element of social care information exchange. |
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Alderwick and Gottlieb (2019) Meanings and Misunderstandings: A Social Determinants of Health Lexicon for Health Care Systems, Center for the Study of Social Policy (2018) About Strengthening Families™ and the Protective Factors Framework, Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (2021) SDOH and Equity Report to the Secretary. | |
Gravity Project Refreshes Strategic Goals and Transitions PMO – March 31, 2023
See here for an announcement and update from the Gravity Project, including refreshed Strategic Goals, transition of the Program Management Office from EMI Advisors to Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), Technology Workstream Opportunity to Get Engaged with open public calls and upcoming Connectathons, and a reminder on the Gravity Project Pilots Affinity Group meeting series occurring the last Thursday each month.
Gravity Pilots Affinity Group Meeting Mar 30, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the opportunity to get involved with 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. Thank you for joining us at our fifth Gravity Pilots Affinity Group Meeting on Thursday, March 30 at 2:30 pm ET. We welcomed questions about Gravity’s Social Determinants of Health Clinical Care Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource Implementation Guide (SDOH CC FHIR IG) during the call, recording and slides found here. Learn more about participating in our Pilots Affinity Group here.
Gravity HL7 FHIR IG STU2 Publication November 21, 2022
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.
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.
Project Timeline
2023 Roadmap coming soon
Join the Gravity Project!
The success of the Gravity Project depends on the contribution of volunteers who are eager to make rapid progress on the standardization of social determinants of health data. We need experts to contribute to and validate definitions for SDH related data elements and value sets. Participants are asked to join the project at any time either as a Committed Member or Other Interested Party as part of the HL7 Consensus Process. To join the project, sign up here.
- To check your project membership status, click here. If you wish to change your membership from Other Interested Party to Committed Member, please send an email request to Gravityproject@hl7.org.
- NOTE: Both member types can submit comments on project documentation. However, only Committed Members may vote on final documentation. If you would like to have voting rights, please change your membership status or join the project as a Committed Member.