Community Health Hub for Innovations in Data Equity (CHIDE)

Public health interoperability means ensuring that different health systems and organizations can easily share important information with each other. When doctors, hospitals, public health agencies, and community health centers can connect and exchange data smoothly, it leads to better decisions, faster responses, and improved care for everyone.

Community health centers play a vital role in this process by providing primary care and serving as trusted points of contact for underserved populations. By being part of an interconnected health system, community health centers can share crucial data about local health trends, patient needs, and outcomes. This helps improve care coordination, enhances public health responses, and ensures that the most vulnerable communities receive timely support.

The Community Health Hub for Innovations in Data Equity (CHIDE) initiative aims to promote public health data interoperability and support community health centers as they modernize their data systems.

CONTACT

Christine Ko, Associate Director of Research and CHIDE Project Director
Rosy Chang Weir, Director of Research and CHIDE Strategic Advisor

Adam P. Carbullido, Director of Policy and Advocacy
Beverly Quintana, Director of Strategy and Impact
Brianna Pascua, Manager, Executive and Administrative Affairs
Jeffrey Caballero, Executive Director
Jen Lee, Deputy Director

NATIONAL PROJECT PARTNERS
AllianceChicago
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

FUNDING PARTNER
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

GOAL
The ultimate goal of CHIDE is to help health centers increase their capacity to more effectively work on data modernization and exchange initiatives with public health partners and stakeholders, including addressing SDOH and reducing health disparities and enhancing health outcomes in our underserved communities, to support health equity on a national scale. CHIDE has two components:

  1. CHIDE-Building Capacity for Innovations in Data Equity: Will build capacity for data modernization to align with federal standards and ensure data systems are interoperable to support data exchange that will ultimately improve patient care and health equity.
  2. CHIDE-Building Capacity for Chronic & Infectious Diseases (CID) Reporting: Will implement data modernization aligned with federal standards that support improved data exchange related specifically to chronic and infectious diseases (e.g., diabetes, HepB, childhood immunizations) to improve equity for all.

RESOURCES

CHIDE Info Sheet – Coming Soon!

Press Release: AAPCHO Announces Launch of National Initiative to Support Data Modernization (November 26, 2024)

Graphic: Project Organization Chart, Governance, and Milestones Year 1 Overview