Event Date: July 25, 2018
Time: 8:30-10:00 am
Location: Mid-America Regional Council [Lewis & Clark Room], 600 Broadway Blvd #200, Kansas City, MO 64105, USA
Admission: Free
Time: 8:30-10:00 am
Location: Mid-America Regional Council [Lewis & Clark Room], 600 Broadway Blvd #200, Kansas City, MO 64105, USA
Admission: Free
Our next meeting on July 25, 2018 will take a look at social determinants of health from the perspective of schools, mobility and social services. Interest in social determinants is accelerated by the availability of new data sets with common data points, and the promise of using these data to improve outcomes. In health care, much of the data-driven use of social determinants focuses on overlaying health care data with geographically-based socioeconomic or environmental data. Our July Health Innovation Team Meeting will start not from a health data perspective, but we will look at how educators and social service organizations are using data-driven methods to provide more holistic service delivery.
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Dr. John Vandewalle, CEO of Lumen Touch, is an impassioned advocate in this arena, seeing the educational environment as the integration space for much of what makes up social determinants. He will bring us up to date on advances his company has been able to make with unified student records (especially health), as well the learning and perspectives they have gained through frequent interactions with school systems.
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For additional context, we will hear from Brent Schondelmeyer, Deputy Director – Community Engagement, for Kansas City’s Local Investment Commission (LINC). LINC similarly sees schools as both a place and a set of partnerships where the educational system and community-based organizations can bring integrated focus on academics and family support, health and social services, and youth and community development leading to improved student learning, stronger families and healthier communities. Brent has a particular interest in the role of housing among the social determinants and the impact that the crisis of eviction is having in our formal learning environments.
Every month, we bring together a group of health care stakeholders to learn and share about technology and innovation projects happening in the region–and occasionally related topics from outside the Greater Kansas City area. Our stakeholders include hospitals and the health care system, city and state government officials, health IT firms and other corporate partners, startups working in health and wellness, and other civic organizations. The meetings are open, though not widely broadcast. KC Digital Drive works closely with KU Med and Steve Fennel to program and plan the meetings. They generally happen on the last Wednesday of the month, 8:30-10:00 am at Mid-America Regional Council (MARC).
We send out an email agenda and calendar invite to this stakeholder list, which we loosely call the Health Innovation Team. If you wish to be added to the email list, please send a note to adeacon@kcdigitaldrive.org.