Leveraging Community Information Exchanges (CIEs) for Equitable and Inclusive Data
A Vision for the Future
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Report Publish Date: October 2021
This report describes how community information exchanges, or CIEs, can help communities address social needs in equitable and antiracist ways.
Primary Takeaways
“A CIE is a community-led ecosystem comprised of multidisciplinary network partners who use a shared language, resource database, and integrated technology platforms to deliver enhanced community care planning,” the authors write. “A CIE enables communities to shift from a reactive approach to addressing social needs, to an approach that is more proactive, holistic and person-centered.”
The authors recommend CIEs take the following fundamental approaches:
- Be led and stewarded by the community.
- Focus on impact at multiple levels: Individual, family, organization, and community.
- Center individuals’ and families’ goals for themselves.
The authors say CIEs also need to have core components including a set of network partners, shared language, information sharing, data integration, and a plan for caring for the community.
Overview and Objectives
This report is part of “Leveraging Community Information Exchanges for Equitable and Inclusive Data,” a project supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It complements a toolkit that explains how to develop a CIE.
Hypothesis or Approach
The authors describe why CIEs are important, what they are and aren’t, and the tenets, fundamental approaches, and core components of the CIE model for addressing social needs.
How This Influences Change
“Communities who are in the visioning or early planning stages of building a CIE should consider using the CIE Framework as a tool to align partner expectations and root the engagement and inclusion of community members who can have a real influence on the impact of the system on the people and populations it is intended to serve,” the authors write.
Research: Go Deeper
The key concepts, framework, and vision presented here define the Community Information Exchange (CIE®) model as a community-driven solution that thrives under a clear and ongoing commitment to health equity and antiracism. Inherent in the CIE model is the principle of and pledge to an entire ecosystem that is community-owned and community-led.
As a supplement to the CIE Toolkit, this resource introduces a framing for the ideal state a CIE seeks to achieve. While the CIE Toolkit aims to provide the “how” for developing a CIE, this document intends to provide the “why.” As such, this work is meant to enhance the understanding of the vision, value, and potential impact of a CIE, so that communities can articulate the unique attributes and principles of a community-led model. Throughout this document, our goal is to highlight the importance of genuine community ownership to existing systems of care. Organizations, communities, and institutions are encouraged to use this resource to help initiate and inform conversations around social and health issues with an equity and anti-racism lens.
This resource is intended for communities looking to build or enhance their existing social and health care coordination efforts through the vision of a CIE. CIE is an ecosystem, which needs to be supported and addressed across sectors and throughout the entire system of care, including healthcare, government, social services, education, public health, for-profits and other institutions. Our hope is that audiences across sectors can use this resource to clarify [sic] find value and understanding in their role within a CIE.
211/CIE San Diego, October 2021
CIE: Tenets, Fundamental Approaches, Core Components, p. 10
Research Team
This study and report was conducted and created by the following people.
- Grounds K
- Johnson B
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