The SHDCoE is an opportunity for Orion Health to help all HIEs across the country navigate the transition to Health Data Utilities. Health Data Utilities will bring together the HIE clinical data and data from public health organizations, public and private payers and other state agencies including behavioural health and social care data. Bringing together health and social determinants of health (SDoH) data will enable health systems to take their performance to the next level – delivering better, more efficient care to those who need it.  

To support Health Data Utilities, Unified Health Data Models will be critical to generating value from this abundance of available data. These models create order in the data, preparing it for use in analysis, machine learning, sharing with downstream applications or at the clinical point of care. Health Data Utilities aggregate valuable combinations of health and health-adjacent data, but Unified Health Data Models make it actionable.