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Finding the returns for business in community health

Here’s a project aimed at making the business case for community health.

This involves a call for proposals (CFP), led by a partnership of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AcademyHealth. The CFP, open through June 14,  seeks to answer questions related to making the business case for improving  the health of communities where companies  employ people or otherwise do business.

The aim is to fund research that builds not only the evidence base for how private-sector investment can help build a culture of community health, but also what returns businesses receive from this investment so that employers, out of enlightened self-interest, will participate more in improving such important factors in  regional  health as education, the environment and transportation.

 


New money for population-health strategies

 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced $38.5 million in new grants for state-level health information exchange, population health and health IT workforce development.

$29.6 million  will go over the next two years to agencies or state-designated entities in 12 states to promote interoperability of health information and services: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Utah.

Another $2.2 million will go to healthcare research organization AcademyHealth to help develop population-health strategies under the new Community Health Peer Learning Program, with  15 communities nationwide to participate.

“These communities will work to address their population health challenge through improved data aggregation, data portability and data analysis,” Thomas A. Mason, M.D., chief medical officer of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information, wrote on the Health IT Buzz blog.

 

 


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