HHS Initiative on the Mother-Infant Dyad with Substance Exposure: Information Technology-centered Strategy to Improve Long-term Care

The Department of Health and Human Services intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with the Boston Children's Hospital Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator.

Description:

Introduction

This is HHS/OASH initiative on improving long-term care for the mother-infant dyad with substance exposure. Among key components of long-term of care, there is a lack of fundamental scalable mechanisms to longitudinally monitor developmental needs of infants and affected mothers and families. This creates challenges in identifying and addressing clinical and supportive care gaps and connecting to necessary programs and services.

Background

As a first of its kind use case of the SMART on FHIR platform, we propose development of an IT roadmap for a longitudinal clinical monitoring prototype – designed to streamline long-term clinical care and follow-up for the mother-infant dyad with substance exposure. As a new, not previously existing platform, in 2010 the HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT funded the creation and building of the complete infrastructure for SMART on FHIR; this infrastructure is specifically designed and specialized for interoperability. Thus, we propose to leverage this existing infrastructure to develop a roadmap with a focus on improvement of care for the mother-infant dyad. This roadmap (toolkit) would be the first step in understanding the type of architecture, framework, and individual IT components necessary to help clinicians integrally track clinical and supportive needs data focusing on maternal needs and pediatric milestones and development beginning with the newborn clinical visit and longitudinally moving forward through preschool, school-aged and end of adolescence.

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