Working with partners
Building capability in order — not starting with AI
Most engagements with county and public health partners start with getting data in one place and governed — not with AI. The sequence below is how capability areas typically get built over time: foundation first, visible reporting and equity analysis next, and AI-assisted workflows once there is infrastructure worth automating.
Foundation Visible value Capstone
Capability build sequence
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Foundation
Unified data layer
Refresh and link data across the systems you already use — EHR extracts, HMIS, Medicaid, vital records, program databases — so staff are not reconciling spreadsheets before every analysis. This is the base everything else sits on.
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Foundation
Data governance
Document who can access what, how data is classified, and what can leave the organization — data use agreements, suppression rules, and audit trails that make multi-partner work defensible to leadership and legal review.
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Visible value
Living dashboards
Replace static, point-in-time reports with dashboards and maps that update as new data arrives — something program staff and leadership can check without filing a ticket to analytics.
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Visible value
Equity & estimation
Analysis that reaches populations standard surveillance misses — small-area equity mapping, literature-informed burden estimates, CHNA-ready packages — so resource decisions are not driven only by what is easy to count.
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Capstone
AI-assisted workflows
Automations and assisted workflows built on governed, linked data — grant drafting support, anomaly flagging, natural-language query over approved datasets — not a chatbot bolted onto messy sources. This comes last because it depends on the foundation above.
Not the same as our project process
This page describes what gets built over time for a partner organization. Our internal delivery process — assess, design, implement, publish — is how we run individual projects within any stage. You can see that process on the homepage.
Technical reference: FHIR in the EHR lifecycle
Where FHIR and USCDI apply at each stage of the national clinical data path — from point-of-care capture through exchange networks to public health, payer, and research use.
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