Our project will evaluate, integrate, and combine every major healthcare database in the Charlotte area. This will enable healthcare providers to share PHI with each other thus making them more efficient in their services. Our goal is to make Charlotte one of the healthiest cities in the United States.

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Data Governance Model
The Goal of the Community DRIVE project is to design and implement a single Data Governance Model that will promote partner engagement, data sharing and data security within the community, and to provide quality analysis to strengthen population health insights and improve community health.   

Phase I : Partner Engagement and Alignment
Phase I involves meeting with community partners and healthcare providers to assess the community's position on data infrastructure while also promoting our data sharing platform. We have begun evaluation of the community partners' current data structure which will include assessments of current collection, management, and security protocols for each organization's data. We are also producing a detailed report and diagram of data flow between partners to evaluate effectiveness and impact of data sharing. From this, we can create a Data Dictionary of terms associated with data collected by each partner. Lastly, we will implement a gold standard of data collection and format that all partners can use to simplify and align information followed by the creation of a Data Security Plan (DSP) that will identify and support secure exchange/sharing of data between community partners. As Phase I completes, we will provide community partners with a detailed data quality and security report of their current data profile along with providing recommendations to strengthen quality analysis.     
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Phase II : Data Governance
Once APHI has access to each organizations data, we will de-identify it (by eliminating identifying information like name, social security number, email and other identifiers) and use Tresata software to integrate and combine the data into a master database. This new database will be easy to access and use both by all contributing organizations and healthcare providers.

​Phase III : Implementation
The new governance model will include capturing, integrating, and aggregating electronic health data needed to evaluate outcomes at a neighborhood level (~5,000 individuals).  Once implemented, the aggregated data will be validated against the individual surveys and case manager reports to ensure that the community-wide data correctly captures the information at a neighborhood level and can effectively be used in future evaluation of small-scale interventions. Final deliverables with be a 12- month implementation timeline. This will include: (1) plans for procuring additional funding; (2) creation of a data asset using Tresata software / technology; (3) meetings of the oversight data governance committee; and (4) development of all personnel/staff positions for implementation (eg data stewards and data engineers).

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