The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation assembled an advisory committee to identify ways individuals are harnessing data to improve their health. After hosting events in five cities and online, the committee developed a report outlining findings and recommendations on how communities and healthcare providers can harness data and make it usable.
The committee drew three key themes for data usability from their events, and offered recommendations within those themes. The themes and recommendations are outlined below.
Theme 1: Establish the data exchange value proposition so people understand why certain data should be used and/or shared. To do so, providers can launch public awareness campaigns and help establish a national health information dialogue.
Theme 2: Build trust and confidence regarding data protection. The committee suggests modernizing policies that govern health data, strengthening data security and governance and providing preparation for key stakeholders.
Theme 3: Build data infrastructures within the community, so the community members have both a vested interested and a practical know-how of sharing data. To do so, providers can advocate for open state or local government data initiatives, access and use data from social media to demonstrate the value of data, launch a pilot data analytics program or create partnerships in the community revolving around health data, to name a few suggestions.
Read the full report here.
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