BUILDing Multi-Sector
Collaborations to Advance
Community Health
• Peter Eckart, Co-Director, Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH); Director for
Health Information and Technology, Illinois Public Health Institute
• Alison Rein, Director, Community Health Peer Learning Program (CHP); Senior
Director, Evidence Generation and Translation, AcademyHealth
• Gretchen Benson, Manager, Healthcare Systems Integration, Minneapolis Heart
Institute Foundation
• Rebecca Lindberg, Director, Population Health, Minneapolis Heart Institute
Foundation
• Stephanie Fenniri, Senior Community Partnerships Manager, Parkland Center for
Clinical Innovation
All In: Data for Community Health
1. Support a data movement that
empowers communities to address
social determinants of health
2. Build an evidence base for the field of
multi-sector data use to improve health
3. Stimulate and support peer learning
and collaboration
DASH and CHP are All In!
Community Health Peer Learning Program (CHP)
 NPO: AcademyHealth, Washington DC; with National
Partnership for Women & Families and NORC as partners
 Funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
 15 communities: 10 Participant and 5 Subject Matter Expert
Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH)
 NPO: Illinois Public Health Institute in partnership with the
Michigan Public Health Institute
 Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
 10 communities
DASH and CHP Theory of Change
Shared data and
information
Multi-sector
Collaboration
Outcome:
Capacity Building to Drive
Community Health
Improvement
The Metcalfe Network Effect
All In is a Learning Collaboration
Total Network of 25 Projects
 10 projects – DASH Cohort
 15 projects – CHP Cohort
Geographic Scale
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Metropolitan Area
Neighborhood
Tribal Area
State
Multiple Neighborhoods
Multi-County Region
City or Town
County
CHP DASH
Sectors Represented
0 5 10 15 20 25
Tribal
Community Development
Transportation
Economic Development
Private
Environment
Criminal Justice
Government
Academia
Education
Housing
Nonprofit/Community-based Organizations
Public Health
Behavioral Health & Social Services
Health Care
CHP DASH
Data Types / Sources
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Community Health Needs Assessment
Service Utilization
Other
Social Service
Survey Data
Public Health
Geographic, Temporal Data
Health Information Exchange
Insurance Claims
Private Records
Public Records
Electronic Health Records
CHP DASH
Collaboration: A National Perspective
 Organizational missions both drive and inhibit collaboration
 Collaboration slows down the work, at least initially
 In-person encounters are critical to relationship building
 Meaningful peer-to-peer collaboration must be staffed
 Opportunities for learning exist at ALL levels:
• NPO-to-NPO
• Grantee-to-grantee
 Distributed leadership requires clear delineation and documentation of
roles, responsibilities and accountability
 Honesty, respect, and compassion are key ingredients
 It helps (a lot) to like your collaborators
Indicators of Progress
Enabling
Factors
• Community
collaboration
• Resources
• Data &
technology
infrastructure
System
Features
• Structure and
process
• Governance
• Workflow
• Training
• Technical
factors
• User-
orientation
• Timeliness
• Interoperability
Successful
Use Cases
• Number and
variety of use
cases
• Participating
sectors
• Usefulness
• Acceptability
• Sustainability
@MHIF_Heart
@HeartofNewUlm
HONU is a 10-year demonstration
project designed to apply and widely
disseminate established, evidence-
informed health improvement
practices, based on the community’s
own level of risk and customized to
their preferences.
Project Objectives
Long-term: Reduce the number of heart attacks over 10 years among residents age 40-79
years
Moderate-term: Improve the proportion of residents with controlled modifiable heart
disease risk factors over 5 years.
1. Elevated blood lipids (i.e., total/LDL/HDL cholesterol, triglycerides)
2. High blood pressure
3. Uncontrolled glucose (i.e., type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes)
4. Obesity
5. Tobacco use
6. Physical inactivity
7. Low fruit/vegetable consumption
8. Uncontrolled stress
9. Medication (i.e., antithrombotics, antidyslipidemia, antihypertension)
underutilization/non-adherence
Challenge #1
Most health related behaviors
are not systematically tracked
in the electronic health record
Collecting & Utilizing Data
Data Integration
Plan
Synthesize &
share with target
audiences
Community Needs
Resident surveys
Focus groups
Parent surveys
Classroom tallies
Environmental
assessments
Built environment
Nutrition environment
Policy assessment
Electronic health
records
90% of residents have
data in the record
(80% of target
population)
Screening data
Behavioral
Health-related data
Desired Impact
Create interventions to improve population health
New Ulm, MN - 2009 Community Diagnosis
41%
Obese
35%
Overweight
38%
Metabolic
syndrome
17%
Consumed 5 fruits
and vegetables a day
Heart of New Ulm Project Approach
Healthcare
CommunityWorksite
Effective Interventions
Smoking policies, complete streets
Program partnerships, farmer’s markets/ CSAs,
community-wide health challenges, social marketing campaigns
NUMC interventions, 100 largest employer worksite wellness programs,
restaurants, grocery store, convenience store interventions, Safe
Routes to School
Health education components to worksite, clinical and community
programs
HBC phone coaching, NUMC provider initiatives, lipid clinic
NUMC’s Role
Leveraging data to engage key
stakeholders & create community
ownership
Challenge #2
Communications Strategy
Spread Educational Lifestyle Messages Everywhere
Insert visual data
example?
Comparison of HONU Changes to NHANES
NHANES
2009-10
NHANES
2011-12
NHANES
Change
HONU
2008-09
HONU
2012-13
HONU
Change
BP at goal
(<140/90 mmHg)
83.1% 82.5% -0.6 79.3% 86.0% +6.7
BP medication 35.2% 36.8% +1.6 38.3% 47.6% +9.3
LDL at goal
(< 130 mg/dL)
64.3% 63.7% -0.6 68.0% 72.0% +4.0
Cholesterol at goal
(<200 mg/dL)
47.5% 46.9% -0.6 58.3% 65.1% +6.8
Not Obese
(BMI <30)
62.5% 62.3% -0.2 55.9% 55.2% -0.7
NHANES data selected for participants age 40-79, white non-Hispanic to provide a comparison group similar
to New Ulm resident demographics, sample weights applied for analysis
Behavior Changes Among Screening Participants age
40-79
Measure 2009
(n = 3123)
2011
(n = 1976)
2014/15
(n = 1008)
Smoking 7.9 7.4 5.5
Physical Activity
(at least 150
minutes / week)
63.9 96.0 96.2
Fruit and
Vegetables (5 or
more servings per
day)
16.3 26.6 30.2
Screening analysis is age and gender adjusted to account for
differential age and gender distributions in each screening time
period.
Current challenge
‣How do we continue to track
behaviors over time to continue
to inform progress and decisions
going forward?
How do we continue to
track behaviors over
time?
Current Challenge
Contact information
Rebecca Lindberg, MPH, RD
Director, Population Health
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation
P: 612.863.4087
rlindberg@mhif.org Twitter: @relindberg
Gretchen Benson, RD, CDE
Manager, Healthcare Systems Integration
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation P: 612.863.4222
gbenson@mhif.org Twitter: @gbenson300
Food for Health: Coordinating Care Across Sectors
to Improve Health Among Vulnerable Populations
PCCIPIECES.ORG
DIABETES HYPERTENSION
COMMUNITY HEALTH ISSUES
Pieces
Plexus™
Building
healthier
communities.
CHALLENGES
For DASH, Workflows Inform Technology
A framework for challenges
Technical &
Operational
Relationship
Management
Communication
& Governance
Trust & Control
Making the
Value Case
Interoperability
Data Quality &
Usefulness
Familiarity with
Data
Resources
Our Role: To listen, identify, characterize,
and then (try) to help resolve
 As two coordinating nodes on the All In network, DASH and
CHP are continuously:
 Monitoring and reflecting back what we hear as being major challenges
and areas of mutual concern
 Cultivating opportunities for peer-learning and collaboration
 This is often an organic process, but sometimes we explicitly
ask
 With a collective cohort of 25/43, we have started to solicit
feedback regarding key challenges and (early) lessons learned
Learning from 43 projects: technical
challenges
 Partners are ready, but vendors are not; vendor solutions are
often clunky with poor user interface
 Patient/client matching is hard and under resourced
 Building technical interfaces for multiple EHR systems is time
and resource intensive, and not scalable
 Few standards exist for capture, sharing and integration of
social determinants data elements
Learning from 43 projects: governance
challenges
 Policies on data sharing differ by sector, and within government
 Establishing trust relationships within healthcare is (very) hard;
tougher still with increased number and nature of partners
 HIPAA provides useful frame for data use within healthcare
absent consent, but this does not (necessarily) extend to other
sectors / other use cases.
Learning from 43 projects:
communicating value
 Story telling; use case based narrative
 Tailor scenarios to specific audiences
 Each service offering and use case has a different value
proposition; consider what value the data sharer receives
 Vertical alignment of missions can demonstrate potential to
accomplish everyone's goals together
 Show people the PRODUCT. Show them a beautifully
designed data display that enables them to answer critical
questions, and they will understand the value
Learning from 43 projects: advice
 Build on existing trusting relationships
 Technology is the least of your concerns - you'll acquire that
through a great relationship
 This is new to a lot of people; you're not preaching to the
converted, so don't underestimate the number of times you
have to say the same thing - five different ways!
 Include an influential non-government neutral visionary
 Get community buy-in and agreement on key evaluation
measures
 Relationships are the key to being able to move (integration)
forward
Discussion Questions
Moderators’ prerogative to begin …
Four tiers to build the All In network
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BUILDing Multi-Sector Collaborations to Advance Community Health

  • 1.
    BUILDing Multi-Sector Collaborations toAdvance Community Health • Peter Eckart, Co-Director, Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH); Director for Health Information and Technology, Illinois Public Health Institute • Alison Rein, Director, Community Health Peer Learning Program (CHP); Senior Director, Evidence Generation and Translation, AcademyHealth • Gretchen Benson, Manager, Healthcare Systems Integration, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation • Rebecca Lindberg, Director, Population Health, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation • Stephanie Fenniri, Senior Community Partnerships Manager, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation
  • 2.
    All In: Datafor Community Health 1. Support a data movement that empowers communities to address social determinants of health 2. Build an evidence base for the field of multi-sector data use to improve health 3. Stimulate and support peer learning and collaboration
  • 3.
    DASH and CHPare All In! Community Health Peer Learning Program (CHP)  NPO: AcademyHealth, Washington DC; with National Partnership for Women & Families and NORC as partners  Funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT  15 communities: 10 Participant and 5 Subject Matter Expert Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH)  NPO: Illinois Public Health Institute in partnership with the Michigan Public Health Institute  Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  10 communities
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    DASH and CHPTheory of Change Shared data and information Multi-sector Collaboration Outcome: Capacity Building to Drive Community Health Improvement
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    All In isa Learning Collaboration
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    Total Network of25 Projects  10 projects – DASH Cohort  15 projects – CHP Cohort
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    Geographic Scale 0 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Tribal Area State Multiple Neighborhoods Multi-County Region City or Town County CHP DASH
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    Sectors Represented 0 510 15 20 25 Tribal Community Development Transportation Economic Development Private Environment Criminal Justice Government Academia Education Housing Nonprofit/Community-based Organizations Public Health Behavioral Health & Social Services Health Care CHP DASH
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    Data Types /Sources 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Community Health Needs Assessment Service Utilization Other Social Service Survey Data Public Health Geographic, Temporal Data Health Information Exchange Insurance Claims Private Records Public Records Electronic Health Records CHP DASH
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    Collaboration: A NationalPerspective  Organizational missions both drive and inhibit collaboration  Collaboration slows down the work, at least initially  In-person encounters are critical to relationship building  Meaningful peer-to-peer collaboration must be staffed  Opportunities for learning exist at ALL levels: • NPO-to-NPO • Grantee-to-grantee  Distributed leadership requires clear delineation and documentation of roles, responsibilities and accountability  Honesty, respect, and compassion are key ingredients  It helps (a lot) to like your collaborators
  • 12.
    Indicators of Progress Enabling Factors •Community collaboration • Resources • Data & technology infrastructure System Features • Structure and process • Governance • Workflow • Training • Technical factors • User- orientation • Timeliness • Interoperability Successful Use Cases • Number and variety of use cases • Participating sectors • Usefulness • Acceptability • Sustainability
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    HONU is a10-year demonstration project designed to apply and widely disseminate established, evidence- informed health improvement practices, based on the community’s own level of risk and customized to their preferences.
  • 16.
    Project Objectives Long-term: Reducethe number of heart attacks over 10 years among residents age 40-79 years Moderate-term: Improve the proportion of residents with controlled modifiable heart disease risk factors over 5 years. 1. Elevated blood lipids (i.e., total/LDL/HDL cholesterol, triglycerides) 2. High blood pressure 3. Uncontrolled glucose (i.e., type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes) 4. Obesity 5. Tobacco use 6. Physical inactivity 7. Low fruit/vegetable consumption 8. Uncontrolled stress 9. Medication (i.e., antithrombotics, antidyslipidemia, antihypertension) underutilization/non-adherence
  • 17.
    Challenge #1 Most healthrelated behaviors are not systematically tracked in the electronic health record
  • 18.
    Collecting & UtilizingData Data Integration Plan Synthesize & share with target audiences Community Needs Resident surveys Focus groups Parent surveys Classroom tallies Environmental assessments Built environment Nutrition environment Policy assessment Electronic health records 90% of residents have data in the record (80% of target population) Screening data Behavioral Health-related data Desired Impact Create interventions to improve population health
  • 19.
    New Ulm, MN- 2009 Community Diagnosis 41% Obese 35% Overweight 38% Metabolic syndrome 17% Consumed 5 fruits and vegetables a day
  • 20.
    Heart of NewUlm Project Approach Healthcare CommunityWorksite
  • 21.
    Effective Interventions Smoking policies,complete streets Program partnerships, farmer’s markets/ CSAs, community-wide health challenges, social marketing campaigns NUMC interventions, 100 largest employer worksite wellness programs, restaurants, grocery store, convenience store interventions, Safe Routes to School Health education components to worksite, clinical and community programs HBC phone coaching, NUMC provider initiatives, lipid clinic
  • 22.
    NUMC’s Role Leveraging datato engage key stakeholders & create community ownership Challenge #2
  • 23.
    Communications Strategy Spread EducationalLifestyle Messages Everywhere
  • 24.
  • 25.
    Comparison of HONUChanges to NHANES NHANES 2009-10 NHANES 2011-12 NHANES Change HONU 2008-09 HONU 2012-13 HONU Change BP at goal (<140/90 mmHg) 83.1% 82.5% -0.6 79.3% 86.0% +6.7 BP medication 35.2% 36.8% +1.6 38.3% 47.6% +9.3 LDL at goal (< 130 mg/dL) 64.3% 63.7% -0.6 68.0% 72.0% +4.0 Cholesterol at goal (<200 mg/dL) 47.5% 46.9% -0.6 58.3% 65.1% +6.8 Not Obese (BMI <30) 62.5% 62.3% -0.2 55.9% 55.2% -0.7 NHANES data selected for participants age 40-79, white non-Hispanic to provide a comparison group similar to New Ulm resident demographics, sample weights applied for analysis
  • 27.
    Behavior Changes AmongScreening Participants age 40-79 Measure 2009 (n = 3123) 2011 (n = 1976) 2014/15 (n = 1008) Smoking 7.9 7.4 5.5 Physical Activity (at least 150 minutes / week) 63.9 96.0 96.2 Fruit and Vegetables (5 or more servings per day) 16.3 26.6 30.2 Screening analysis is age and gender adjusted to account for differential age and gender distributions in each screening time period.
  • 30.
    Current challenge ‣How dowe continue to track behaviors over time to continue to inform progress and decisions going forward? How do we continue to track behaviors over time? Current Challenge
  • 31.
    Contact information Rebecca Lindberg,MPH, RD Director, Population Health Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation P: 612.863.4087 [email protected] Twitter: @relindberg Gretchen Benson, RD, CDE Manager, Healthcare Systems Integration Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation P: 612.863.4222 [email protected] Twitter: @gbenson300
  • 33.
    Food for Health:Coordinating Care Across Sectors to Improve Health Among Vulnerable Populations
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    A framework forchallenges Technical & Operational Relationship Management Communication & Governance Trust & Control Making the Value Case Interoperability Data Quality & Usefulness Familiarity with Data Resources
  • 44.
    Our Role: Tolisten, identify, characterize, and then (try) to help resolve  As two coordinating nodes on the All In network, DASH and CHP are continuously:  Monitoring and reflecting back what we hear as being major challenges and areas of mutual concern  Cultivating opportunities for peer-learning and collaboration  This is often an organic process, but sometimes we explicitly ask  With a collective cohort of 25/43, we have started to solicit feedback regarding key challenges and (early) lessons learned
  • 45.
    Learning from 43projects: technical challenges  Partners are ready, but vendors are not; vendor solutions are often clunky with poor user interface  Patient/client matching is hard and under resourced  Building technical interfaces for multiple EHR systems is time and resource intensive, and not scalable  Few standards exist for capture, sharing and integration of social determinants data elements
  • 46.
    Learning from 43projects: governance challenges  Policies on data sharing differ by sector, and within government  Establishing trust relationships within healthcare is (very) hard; tougher still with increased number and nature of partners  HIPAA provides useful frame for data use within healthcare absent consent, but this does not (necessarily) extend to other sectors / other use cases.
  • 47.
    Learning from 43projects: communicating value  Story telling; use case based narrative  Tailor scenarios to specific audiences  Each service offering and use case has a different value proposition; consider what value the data sharer receives  Vertical alignment of missions can demonstrate potential to accomplish everyone's goals together  Show people the PRODUCT. Show them a beautifully designed data display that enables them to answer critical questions, and they will understand the value
  • 48.
    Learning from 43projects: advice  Build on existing trusting relationships  Technology is the least of your concerns - you'll acquire that through a great relationship  This is new to a lot of people; you're not preaching to the converted, so don't underestimate the number of times you have to say the same thing - five different ways!  Include an influential non-government neutral visionary  Get community buy-in and agreement on key evaluation measures  Relationships are the key to being able to move (integration) forward
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    Four tiers tobuild the All In network
  • 51.
    Go All In! Sign up for news at dashconnect.org  Follow us at @DASH_connect and @AcademyHealth #CHPhealthIT