Data Exchange Framework Community Sandbox

Built for the community, the DxF Community Sandbox is a dynamic learning environment that supports organizations participating in California’s Data Exchange Framework to securely and rapidly test, collaborate, and scale new workflows to fully realize the value and promise of the DxF.

What is the DxF Community Sandbox?

It is a real-world testing environment for California DxF Participants to identify, test, and validate data exchange implementation strategies as they plan, design, and adjust their current workflows to meet state requirements.

How does it support implementation?

The DxF Community Sandbox allows health providers, community-based organizations, health plans, public health agencies, and social service organizations to pursue cutting-edge data sharing approaches with meaningful cross-sector collaboration.

DxF Community Sandbox Objectives

Accelerate DxF Adoption: The Sandbox provides a virtual onramp to the DxF. Organizations with differing data platforms can readily participate in a test environment that mirrors a production-level system.
Identify gaps in technology and policy: The Sandbox develops a shared understanding and agenda among policymakers, regulators, and those implementing the DxF of major obstacles that require technology or policy intervention to streamline and improve statewide data sharing.
Create a neutral playing field: The Sandbox allows for a neutral, transparent, and objective environment that simulates real-world data-sharing scenarios.
Produce shared public data sharing assets: The Sandbox allows for capturing detailed implementation guidelines, legal and regulatory guidance, and shared patient-facing documents such as a shared consent form and other education materials. Moreover, the resulting test data and Sandbox Personas can be used and re-used by all participants.
Allow for expansion of DxF services: The Sandbox provides a statewide asset that allows the extension of its services to test additional statewide efforts and provides the building blocks for future public-private innovation.

Data Exchange Solutions Driven by A Use Case Library

The DxF Community Sandbox hosts a “Use Case Library” co-developed by organizations with on-the-ground experience, backed by best-in-class practices, and aligned with nationally-recognized data standards. These priority use cases provide organizations with well-reasoned and defined rules for priority data exchange interactions between people and systems to enable efficient and effective implementation of these workflows.

Visualize the DxF Participant Directory

The DxF Community Sandbox ingests the Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) signatories into the DxF Community Sandbox for users to visualize other organization in their geographic region and their methods to exchange data.

Make sure to fill out the Participant Directory after your organization has signed the DSA. The Participant Directory enables DxF Participants to indicate their choices for intermediaries or data exchange technologies they have selected to exchange information. All DSA signatories must make selections in the Participant Directory as obligated by the Participant Directory P&P.