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Authorize the Health Department to serve as the primary contact with the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) for County of Monterey to act as a beta test county for CHCF's Health Data for Local Policymaking initiative, beta testing to begin following approval of Board of Supervisors for up to twelve (12) months.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Health Department to serve as the primary contact with the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) for County of Monterey to act as a beta test county for CHCF's Health Data for Local Policymaking initiative, beta testing to begin following approval of Board of Supervisors for up to twelve (12) months.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Through its Free the Data initiative, California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) seeks to unlock the potential of government health data by catalyzing development of tools to better access, analyze, and communicate information. Audiences include journalists, entrepreneurs and developers, consumers, and state and local policymakers.
One of the Initiative Projects is "Health Data for Local Policymaking." County supervisors and staff face challenges finding relevant data among numerous available sources and summarizing findings in succinct, visual ways to inform policy and budget decisions. CHCF established a roundtable of county policymakers, health department directors, and representatives from state agencies to provide guidance on how to make data more accessible to them. The result is a prototype tool that provides local policymakers with access to sophisticated displays of health data relevant to them and a system for integrating these data into summary briefs on key topics.
The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) has invited Monterey County to be one of six beta-testing counties to participate in the first year of CHCF's work to help county policy makers better leverage health data to inform county/local decision-makin...
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