The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement and the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative announced this week that they’re partnering to launch a new collaborative project called Civitas Networks for Health.

The initiative, set to launch formally on October 1, will build a platform to help local nonprofit health organizations and regional health information exchanges “support action at the local, state, and national levels to achieve policy goals for health care quality, cost, and equity through data-driven, collaborative, and transformative strategies,” according to SHIEC and NRHI.