Grow the linkage with sustainability in mind
Efforts must be sustained over a significant period in order to achieve measurable results. The Million Hearts® Collaboration CCL Toolkit resources provide examples of strategies for increasing or maintaining resources; using performance monitoring to guide implementation; and developing a sustainability plan.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Linkages Between Clinical Practices and Community Organizations for Prevention - Recommendations on enhancing research efforts, sharing promising models, and promoting policy change to improve preventive service delivery through clinical and community linkages.
- AMA Business Association Agreement (PDF) - This contract provides an example of a business association agreement for practices to share their data with other partners.
- Data Governance and Data Sharing Agreements for Community-Wide Health Information Exchange (WEBSITE) - Lessons learned based on the experiences of six federally funded communities participating in the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program and offers guidance for navigating data governance issues and developing data sharing agreements to facilitate community-wide health information exchange.
- Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country (PDF) - Community Clinical Linkages Resource for community and clinical linkages aimed at improving population health in a tribal setting.
- Million Hearts® Student and Community Training Modules from The Ohio State University (WEBSITE) - Two educational modules designed to assist health care professionals with cardiovascular health screenings and education communities on cardiovascular health and Million Hearts® screenings.
