In this report, the American Institutes for Research (AIR), with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, developed five guiding principles to inform measurement that effectively aligns systems’ actions with the needs and priorities of the communities those systems serve, particularly communities that historically have been harmed the most by inequities. These principles, and accompanying...
This brief from the National Center for Medical Legal Partnership describes how the electronic health record (EHR) represents a largely untapped resource to take action on health inequities experienced by patients. The brief focuses on structured data collection and sharing for medical legal partnership programs, but can also be applied to other complex care needs....
This paper from the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) at University of California, San Francisco and Manatt Health addresses legal concerns related to sharing data between healthcare systems, community-based organizations, and others. It sheds light on the circumstances in which healthcare organizations can exchange personal information outside the healthcare sector in compliance with...