Abstract
Background: Digital Health and Data Enabling Integrated Care SIG members have been working together on the priority area of interoperability for the last 3 years through meeting at ICIC and NACIC conferences and building partnerships. In these meetings members of the SIG have joined the co-leads to share and advance knowledge regarding translational challenges of interoperability (ICIC23), how to ensure interoperable efforts remain person-centred (ICIC24), and developing a process to iteratively adopt standardized minimum data sets to enable information sharing across systems (NACIC24). These efforts are being brought together into a white paper from the SIG to provide an international perspective on how health and care system efforts towards interoperability may help to ensure, rather than upend, efforts towards delivering more person-centred and integrated health and social care services. This session will seek to wrap-up our 3 year-long discussion on interoperability, sharing with delegates the learnings from past workshops, offering an opportunity to provide feedback on content and to suggest how the white paper’s recommendations can dovetail with relevant national or regional initiatives. Participants will also discuss what is next for the SIG to continue to build the vision for the future of a digitally-enabled integrated care systems.
Audience: All existing and newly interested members of the SIG are welcome. Our growing membership consists of patients and family caregivers, researchers, frontline providers, managers, system leaders and decision-makers, policy makers, informaticians, and industry partners. We will also include a virtual component to this meeting so that our larger international members can participate whether attending the conference or not.
Approach: The session will begin with a short introduction from SIG leads (C. Steele Gray, L. Lewis, I. Meyer) who will provide a summary of the work from the previous conference workshops on interoperability. Three sections of content will be covered by each of the leads (translational needs, ensuring person-centredness, and data standardization through minimum data sets), which will include points at which delegates can provide feedback and point to national / regional initiatives addressing each section. The leads will use tools like MentiMeter to collect rapid feedback from delegates in and out of the room. This first section of the meeting will take 40 minutes allowing for introduction time and about 12 minutes per section.
The final 20 minutes will focus on the future asking delegates to work in small groups in the room and online to discuss the “Future of Digital Health and Data Enabling Integrated Care.”
Outcomes: The White Paper being generated by the team will be refined based on feedback from delegates at this conference and posted to the IFIC website and other network websites as an open-source resource and living document. SIG members who share their names and contact information will be credited in the white paper as contributors to the work. The white paper will include the “Future of Digital Health and Data Enabling Integrated Care” discussion as a call to action for international partners around “what’s next.”