Source: Healthcare Innovation
The Gravity Project, an HL7 FHIR accelerator, is developing standards for the collection of data related to food security, housing stability, and transportation access. A Gravity Project Pilots Affinity Group is being launched to support the work of putting the Social Determinants of Health Clinical Care FHIR Implementation Guide into practice. Organizations working on pilots include Oregon-based OCHIN, AllianceChicago, and The University of Texas at Austin. Use case activities include validating coded terminology sets, exchanging the data capture using Gravity terminology value sets and established content and transport standards, and implementing Gravity SDOH Clinical Care FHIR standards. The affinity group is envisioned as a peer-to-peer learning forum for entities participating in the real-world testing of Gravity terminology and technical standards. Each participating pilot serves as a feasibility study or experimental trial launched on a relatively small scale to help an organization learn how a large-scale project might work in practice.