Putting the 1-1 in
Publ1c 1nfrastructure
Sept 2018
Shelby Switzer
@switzerly
About me
Head of Integrations at Healthify
Background: Civic tech, open data, IOT
I <3 pumpkins
Landscape:
- 211s
- Community non-profits
- Vendors like Healthify
- BYO by health systems
We're all doing redundant work.
This is local data.
This is public data.
Healthcare providers
Insurance providers
People in need
The World We Want
Healthcare providers
Insurance providers
People in need
The World We Don't Want
Healthcare providers
Insurance providers
People in need
The World We Definitely Don't Want
?
Healthcare providers
Insurance providers
People in need
The World We Should All be Afraid of
How do we build community infrastructure that the community owns?
How do we build community infrastructure on the scale of decades?
- Human Services Data Spec:
- https://openreferral.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hsds/
- Open API Spec:
- https://github.com/openreferral/api-specification/
Interoperability:
- Open source tooling
- Vendor buy-in
Affordability:
- Service Level Agreements and governance models
- Business and sustainability models
- Vendor collaboration
- Changing the culture of 211s
People (the hard part):
How are we doing it?
- Local pilots with innovative orgs and 211s
- Close collaboration with Open Referral
- Open standards and interoperability first
- Passionate people
We can have a community health infrastructure that is public, open, and interoperable.
We can have a community health services infrastructure that is public, open, and interoperable.
We can have a community health transportation infrastructure that is public, open, and interoperable.
We can have a community health municipal infrastructure that is public, open, and interoperable.
We can have a community health government infrastructure that is public, open, and interoperable.
We can must have community health/services/transportation/municipal/government infrastructure that is public, open, and interoperable.
Thanks!
Sept 2018
Shelby Switzer
@switzerly