Gravity Project
Mission
The Gravity Project is striving to create a world where health and social care organizations readily share the information needed using standard terminology and technology to effectively meet the social needs of individuals, improve health outcomes and advance health equity in communities.
The Gravity Project is a diverse collaborative of experts committed to solving the information exchange needs that advance health equity and improve population health. The mission of the Gravity Project is the development and advancement of open data standards using HL7® FHIR® and associated terminologies that form the basis of modern social care interoperability.
The Gravity Project has grown into a leading multidisciplinary community that has successfully introduced a nationally recognized set of open data standards-based terminologies to support care across social risk domains and a complete closed loop referral Implementation Guide. Gravity will continue to advance its mission by leveraging its core standards to address national healthcare interoperability priorities related to social care delivery and quality reporting.
The Project deliverables are:
- Develop use cases that will serve to guide development of recommendations about documenting and using SDOH data in health-related data systems.
- Identify common data elements and associated value sets to support the use cases.
- Develop recommendations on how best to capture and group these data elements for interoperable electronic exchange and aggregation.
- Collaborate with coding and terminology organizations to address coding gaps identified and apply for new codes;
- Develop, test, and ballot HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide(s) based on the defined use cases and coded data sets; and
- Develop Reference Implementation(s) to support real-world pilots and implementations.
The Gravity Project officially kicked off on May 2, 2019. It is led by a Steering Committee and Operating Committee of multi-stakeholder members. Gravity's Community Participants include 2500+ stakeholders across the health care, health IT, community-based, federal and state agency, and consumer advocacy sectors that have signed up to participate in Gravity Project. If you would like to learn more about these membership types and join the Gravity Project, click here.
Why the Name "Gravity"?
Why has this project been named Gravity?
The project's name reflects the driving influence of social context on health and the strong and growing movement around social and medical care integration. Documenting and sharing SDoH-related assessment, diagnosis, and treatment information using modern coding and exchange standards has the potential to improve whole person care and health outcomes.
If you would like to be part of this important work, please learn more about becoming a member here or simply join the Gravity Project Community here to stay informed about our work.
To Learn More
- Gravity Project Website: https://thegravityproject.net
- Gravity Project Confluence: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/GRAV/The+Gravity+Project
- Upcoming Meeting Schedule: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/GRAV/Upcoming+Meeting+Information
- Resources for Implementation: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/GRAV/Resources+For+Implementation
- Gravity SDOH FHIR Connectathons: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/GRAV/Gravity+Connectathons
- Gravity Project Team: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/GRAV/Project+Team
Join the Gravity Project
The success of the Gravity Project depends on the contribution of sponsors and participants who are eager to make rapid progress on the standardization of social determinants of health data.
If interested in sponsoring Gravity Project, please contact us at gravityproject@hl7.org
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