Partnership for Connecting Communities

The Partnership's Approach

The Partnership for Connecting Communities Program employs a multi-pronged strategy in each of the "health care improvement areas" it takes on:

1. Create a "learning community" of national, state and local leaders interested in exploring the use of electronic health information to support the health care improvement area.
2. Conduct research and identify and highlight "best practices" for using electronic health information for the health care improvement area
3. Conduct research and gather information on the methods, costs and benefits of using electronic health information for the health care improvement area
4. Test and evaluate both the feasibility and value of using electronic health information for the health care improvement area, working closely with both existing initiatives and a series of pilots or "learning laboratories" funded by the Partnership
5. Collaboratively develop a set of tools and guides that can be widely shared and used to accelerate the use of electronic health information to support the health care improvement area, including economic and business models, legal and data sharing agreements, organizational models, and communications guides.
6. Engage national and local organizations across both the public and private sectors and across every sector of health care to take collective actions that will accelerate the use of electronic health information to support the health care improvement area.
7. Develop policy recommendations to clear barriers to and accelerate adoption of the strategies that emerge from the Partnership.
8. Widely disseminate results using a wide range of mechanisms, including the web, targeted briefings, the national and local media through public relations activities, and publications.