Why participate?

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Visibility into Health Patterns

Data data capture from healthcare workers helps policymakers, public health officials, healthcare administrators, and other stakeholders understand the experiences, exposure, and constraints facing health workers responding to the COVID-19 epidemic. Our practitioner-informed survey includes mood tracking and indicators of burnout.

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Knowledge for the Future

These data will help areas preparing for a COVID-19 surge, and the broader health community, to better understand and prepare for this and future crises of similar magnitudes that will once again place enormous demands on our health systems and workers.

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Insight for the Broader Community

Collecting data at the Metropolitan Statistical Area (“MSA”) level means that policymakers, public health officials, healthcare administrators, and other stakeholders can anonymously learn from their peers, to see how they are performing on key dimensions, and inform rapidly changing policies.

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Inform Staffing

Data capture from healthcare workers helps policymakers, public health officials, healthcare administrators, and other stakeholders understand the experiences, exposure, and constraints facing health workers responding to the COVID-19 epidemic.

Meet the team.

FOUNDER + PROJECT DIRECTOR

  • Maria Demopoulos, Founder, Athé Advisors

LEAD PRODUCT MANAGER

  • Farooq Janjua, Product Manager, Avail

LEGAL

  • Josef Weimholt, Health and Wellness Counsel, Apple

EVALUATION

  • Rebekah Levin, Director of Evaluation and Learning, Robert R. McCormick Foundation

  • David Ansari, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

COMMUNICATIONS

  • SIX4 Creative

  • Phil Zepeda, Director of Communications, Robert. R. McCormick Foundation

  • Andrea Bailiff-Gush, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Morningstar

  • Maggie Eickhoff

ADMINISTRATIVE

  • Yanira Cirino, Administrative Officer, Robert R. McCormick Foundation

DATA VISUALIZATION

 

PHYSICIANS

  • Vinod Havalad, MD, Advocate Hospital

  • Jeremy R. Katz, MD, Christ Hospital

  • Andrew Pastor, MD, Everett Clinic

UX/UI

  • Rebecca Ussai Henderson, Associate UX Director, IA Collaborative

  • Vic Liu, IA Collaborative

  • Grace Harms, IA Collaborative

NURSING

  • Aesha Patel, FNP, Heartland Alliance

EPIDEMIOLOGY

  • Stephanie Perniciaro, Yale University

  • Elysse Bautista, University College London

  • Mercedes Aguerrebere, MD MMSc, National Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health Advisors, Partners in Health—Mexico

  • Mauricio Alvarez Monjaras, MSc, DCliniPsy, Kenniscentrum Phrenos

TECHNOLOGY

  • Software Engineering by 8th light

  • Ben Levin, Data Engineer, KowledgeHound

  • Ryan Rosenberg, Data Analyst and Scientist

  • Alexis Perlmutter, Former Civis Analytics, Amazon

Interested in partnering with us?

If you are a healthcare worker, take the survey! And spread the word.

If you are a healthcare administrator, policymaker, or other stakeholder, register to participate!

We will respond to all requests within 12hours.

Project Sponsors.

 

HIPAA Compliance.

We believe we a valuable solution must be simple to access and widely available, and have structured our too to ensure data privacy without undue administrative burdens. Short answer:
YOU DO NOT NEED A BAA TO ACCESS SURVEY RESULTS.

That’s because we require no systems integration, and The Alliance does not receive any PHI (or any other individually identifiable information) from hospitals, health systems, or other covered entities. Rather, individuals health workers elect to participate. Administrators can only access aggregated and anonymized data. They cannot identify individual respondents.

Learn more in our introductory video here.

Question: Is the Health Worker Wellbeing Alliance (the "Alliance") HIPAA compliant? Does my organization need to sign a Business Associate Agreement ("BAA") before accessing survey results?

Answer: The Alliance is not a business associate under HIPAA, and no BAA is necessary. HIPAA applies only to "covered entities," such as health care providers and health plans, and their "business associates," as that term is defined in the HIPAA statute and regulations. In particular, a business associate is a person or entity that: (1) (A) performs, on behalf of a covered entity, a function or activity regulated by HIPAA (e.g., claims processing or administration, data analysis, processing or administration, utilization review, quality assurance, patient safety activities, billing, benefit management, practice management, and repricing); and (B) creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information ("PHI") in connection with the covered function or activity; or (2) provides certain services to a covered entity (e.g., legal, consulting, data aggregation, management, administrative, accreditation, or financial services) "where the provision of the service involves the disclosure of [PHI] from such covered entity . . . to the person [or entity]." See 45 C.F.R. § 160.103. 

The Alliance does not receive PHI (or any other individually identifiable information) from hospitals, health systems, or other covered entities, and does not perform any functions or activities on their behalf. Rather, hospitals and health systems (along with public health officials and other stakeholders who are not covered entities) help the Alliance spread the word about the [Health Worker Wellbeing] tool to physicians, nurses, and staff. They may also receive summary data from the Alliance's survey(s), aggregated at either the Metropolitan Statistical Area level (available through a public website with interactive dashboards and analysis), or at the institutional level, providing a snapshot of the physical and psychological feedback among survey respondents within that institution. Neither potential interface between the hospitals/health systems and the Alliance creates a business associate relationship under HIPAA.