The Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN), with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and in partnership with EMI Advisors, LLC, have joined forces to create an initiative that captures social risk and protective factor data in health settings formally known as the Gravity Project.  The project convenes thought leaders to identify and harmonize social risk data for interoperable electronic health information exchange.

Its objectives are to develop use cases related to social determinants; identify common data elements and their associated value sets to support the uses cases; and develop recommendations for capturing and grouping data elements for interoperable electronic exchange and aggregation across three social domains including food security, housing stability and quality, and transportation access. The following informative webinar provides listeners with a general overview of the Gravity Project.

Participants are asked to join the project at any time either as a Committed Member or Other Interested Party as part of the HL7 Consensus Process.