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Data Integration Best Practices for Health Centers & Homeless Services Publication

Health Center Focus Group Recommendations on Data Integration

Year Developed: 2020

Resource Type: Publication.

Primary Audience: C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, CIO, COOs, CMOs, etc.)
Secondary Audience: Clinicians

Language(s): English

Developed by: Corporation for Supportive Housing (See other resources developed by this organization).

Resource Summary: Health centers use data and technology to improve health outcomes of patients, speed administrative processes, and collect patients’ health and housing histories. This report advances strategies for large and small health centers to match data with homeless service systems to identify and coordinate care for high utilizers of crisis care systems.

Resource Details: This report summarizes recommendations from health center focus groups on data sharing efforts between health and housing providers that contribute to improving patients’ health outcomes by addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH).

Resource Topic: Health Information Technology (HIT)/Data, Promising/Best Practices, Special and Vulnerable Populations,

Resource Subtopic: Research and Data, Privacy and Security, Community, Health, and Housing Partnerships, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Administrative Policies, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Operational Feasibility, Implementation Feasibility.

Keywords: Integrated Care, Privacy/Protected Health Information (e.g., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)), Housing, Data Collection, Management, and Analytics.