The #RuralHealthTransformationProgram (#RHTP) has #PopulationHealth, #AccesstoCare, ecosystem coordination, and technical innovation as strategic goals. And, Gravity data standards are built with these goals and the practice of rural care in mind. If you are looking for data standards to address barriers to access, identify #UpstreamDrivers of #ChronicDisease, and support outcome-driven health and #SocialCare integration as part of your state implementation, our standards are here. Our Fall 2026 new domain work will also build off of our prior healthcare access domains (health care coverage and medical cost burden) to address access to #PrimaryCare a critical domain in the realm of #RHTP. All are always welcome to our Implementation Affinity Groups, where we discuss key topics related to implementing and enhancing our standards. And, in line with our TA efforts in NY, in partnership with our Implementation Member Lead, Civitas Networks for Health®, we have limited remaining openings for Gravity and state technical assistance partnerships. The mission… the Gravity team supports states in implementing Gravity standards, toward outcomes-driven, vendor-agnostic, diverse stakeholder-inclusive standards-aligned state programs. And, we learn with you how to enhance our standards to better meet the needs of rural communities and state priorities. Please reach out to us via Confluence and/or attend our open public calls if you want to learn more about any of the above! Teamwork makes the dream work. ✨ https://lnkd.in/err-SrFM
Gravity Project
Hospitals and Health Care
Consensus-driven standards on social determinants of health.
About us
Launched in May 2019 by the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Gravity Project is a national public collaborative effort that is developing structured data standards to help reduce current barriers for documenting and exchanging social risk and protective factors within the health care enterprise and with other sectors. The Gravity Project convenes stakeholders from across the globe through an open and transparent collaborative process where they develop and test standards to facilitate social determinants of health (SDOH) data capture and exchange across a variety of systems and settings of care and social services. Despite increased interest around identifying and addressing social determinants in the context of US health care settings, existing medical coding vocabularies are poorly equipped to capture related clinical activities. Core concepts related to clinical social determinants activities (e.g. screening, diagnoses, and interventions), as well as codes and value sets to adequately reflect those concepts, must be identified, defined and agreed upon by the health and social services communities in order to effectively document these activities. Standards are needed to promote the collection and use of SDOH data, to enable sharing of SDOH data across organizations, and to facilitate payment for social risk data collection and intervention activities. The Gravity Project addresses the needs for both semantic and structural level interoperability of SDOH electronic data.
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- Hospitals and Health Care
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- 11-50 employees
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- Washington D.C.
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Updates
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Our next Terminology Community Collaborative Meeting is Thursday, April 2nd from 4-5:30pm ET We will continue discussing evidence-based terminology requirements on domains of Child Maltreatment, Mistreatment of Non-Elder Vulnerable Adults, and Legal Needs. Our final concept meeting will focus on approved standardized assessment instruments, preliminary diagnostic and goal concepts with working definitions, and general ethics as we prepare to enter end-to-end review next meeting. We will also discuss cross-domain updates regarding social needs assessment terminology, the new “Patient Experiences of Social Care Measure.”, and paths to developing a concept for social care speciality. 📅 April 2, 2026 🕓 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET Join the Zoom meeting here: https://lnkd.in/eZ5x8FRN #FHIR #Interoperability #SDoH #GravityProject
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Join this Wednesday’s April 1st Gravity Technical Public Call as we continue ballot reconciliation efforts, with focused review and resolution of the following Jira tickets: FHIR-51138 FHIR-53383 FHIR-51139 FHIR-51140 FHIR-52368 FHIR-51526 FHIR-54060 📅 April 1 🕐 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET Join the Zoom meeting here: https://lnkd.in/gGMtQKmH #GravityProject #FHIR #Interoperability #SDOH #DataStandards
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Gravity Project’s first 2026 Implementation Affinity Group is Thursday, March 26th, 2-3 pm EST It focuses on state-wide implementation of Gravity standards with a special focus on enhancements needed to support the goals of #RuralHealthTransformation It will center on state HIEs, State Departments of Health, Medicaid leadership, and Medicaid Payers, in what is sure to be a lively and productive conversation. Please put the meeting on your calendar and join us! https://lnkd.in/e2GMtPWQ #GravityProject #SDOH #Interoperability #DataStandards #HealthIT #RuralHealthTransformation
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Want to follow along as the Gravity Project progresses through ballot reconciliation? Track our progress and stay up to date on Jira ticket review and resolution as we work through feedback on the Gravity SDOH Clinical Care FHIR Implementation Guide. Transparency in this process helps the community see how comments are evaluated, discussed, and incorporated into the standard. Follow the latest updates and reconciliation activity: https://bit.ly/3Pti6Nh #GravityProject #SDOH #Interoperability #BallotReconciliation
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HIMSS 2026 was a milestone for Gravity Project, with our invested members leading the way in demonstrating how Gravity standards are being implemented to address state and national drivers. We counted at least five presentations on Gravity throughout the week! Topics ranged from state implementations leveraging terminology to closed-loop social care referrals via the FHIR IG to how Gravity standards can support the goals of Rural Health Transformation, to name a few! We are grateful for our members every day. And especially grateful that they are out there carrying the torch of real-world implementation. Thank you to everyone who made the event a great success. #HIMSS26 #GravityProject #SDOH #Interoperability #FHIR #HealthIT
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As we gear up for next week’s first Implementation Affinity Group discussion on state-wide implementation and #RuralHealthTransformation, we’re reflecting on our session last month at the 2026 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit. Thank you to everyone who joined “Caring for Communities: How States are Leveraging SDOH Data Interoperability Standards” and connected with us at the Conversation Den. The discussion reinforced the growing momentum—and need—for scalable, interoperable approaches to SDOH data across state programs. We’re excited to carry these insights forward as we continue the conversation and dive deeper into real-world implementation approaches with this group. If you’re interested in being part of the conversation, we’d love to stay connected. #2026StateHIT #HealthIT #Interoperability
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Gravity Project’s first 2026 Implementation Affinity Group is next week, March 26th, 2-3 pm EST! Our meetings are again led by our member, Civitas Networks for Health® The first meeting focuses on a Gravity priority, state-wide implementation of Gravity standards with a special focus on enhancements needed to support the goals of #RuralHealthTransformation. It will gather state HIEs, State Departments of Health, Medicaid leadership, Medicaid Payers, and everyone interested in what is sure to be a lively and productive conversation. We are working hard to gather implementation feedback systematically with our member leaders. We have a survey to gather implementation perspectives from the above stakeholders for analysis. If you represent state HIEs, State Departments of Health, Medicaid leadership, Medicaid Payers, and want to complete a survey, we welcome this! Link to survey > https://lnkd.in/eGSfjYr2 And please put the meeting on your calendar and join us next week! https://lnkd.in/eTtKJUpM #GravityProject #SDOH #Interoperability #DataStandards #HealthIT #RuralHealthTransformation
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& TOMORROW, join the Gravity Technical workstream on our bi-weekly public call as we continue ballot reconciliation efforts, with focused review and resolution of the following Jira tickets: FHIR-53807 FHIR-54600 FHIR-54610 FHIR-54609 FHIR-54603 FHIR-53805 FHIR-53803 FHIR-54606 FHIR-54907 📅 March 18, 2026 🕐 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET Join the Zoom meeting here: https://lnkd.in/gGMtQKmH #FHIR #Interoperability #SDOH #GravityProject #BallotReconciliation
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The Gravity Terminology Call on Thursday will continue discussing evidence-based terminology requirements on domains of Child Maltreatment, Mistreatment of Non-Elder Vulnerable Adults, and Legal Needs. The meeting focus is on approved standardized assessment instruments, preliminary diagnostic and goal concepts with working definitions, and general ethics. We will also present cross-domain updates regarding social needs assessment terminology and the new Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) “Patient Experiences of Social Care Measure.” https://lnkd.in/gaQ62RyR Please join us! 📅 March 19, 2026 🕓 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET Join the Zoom meeting here: https://lnkd.in/eZ5x8FRN #FHIR #Interoperability #SDoH #GravityProject
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