Transcript Toward Standardization of Health Data

Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
http://phdatastandards.info/
PHDSC’s Mission (abridged)
PHDSC is committed
to bring a common voice
from the
public health community
to the national efforts of
standardization of
health and
healthcare information
Enhanced
Enhanced
Health
Health
Health
and
and
Health
Care
and
HealthCare
Care
Health
Improved
Improved
Improved
Health
Health
Information
Health Information
Information
Health
Health Data
DataStandards
Standards
Major Conference Themes
The State of the Partnership is Strong….
and is Getting Stronger
All partners, members and stakeholders
(federal, state, professional associations and
organizations, academic institutions and
private sector) stated their ongoing support to
the Consortium
Major Conference Themes
The mission of the Consortium needs to
continue to focus on core activities
around:
– Education, Education, Education
– Advocating (representation)
– Convening (forum)
– Leveraging (anticipating, finding and
filling, identifying, resolving)
Major Conference Themes
Think Nationally….
Engage the Locals…
“We are from local Public Health,
and we are here to help”
Major Conference Themes
Engaging Building Blocks:
The LHIIs (Local Health Information
Infrastructures)
Public Health Informaticians
….our next best friends
Major Conference Themes
Electronic Health Record:
Finding the “Killer Application”
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Continuing to Support Ongoing Activities:
Expanding Membership
• Educational Strategies – Web Resource Center
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• Enhancing data content
• Funding for maintenance, webmaster
• Involvement in SDOs and DCCs
• NUBC, NUCC, X12, HL7, others
• Addressing interoperability between standards
• Addressing lack of public health oriented codes in HL7
• Health Care Services Data Reporting Guide
• Maintenance of guide
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Continuing to Support Ongoing Activities (cont.):
• External Cause of Injury
• PHDSC - EHR Functional Model Review Work
• Privacy, Confidentiality and Data Sharing
• Developing tools for local public health
• NHII  LHII
• Engagement of LHIIs and Local Public Health
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Areas of Interest:
• Bringing Local Public Health
• Bridging Public Health and Clinical Care
• Public Health Informatics Training
• New collaborations with private sector
• International perspectives on public health
standards
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Areas of Interest (cont.):
• Public Health laboratory
• Immunization Registry Data Standards / Privacy Issues
• Standardizing Environmental Laboratories
• Be the home for Public Health Data Modeling
• Working with federal initiatives (PHIN, CHI, others)
• Security Standards
• Patient Safety
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Bringing Local Public Health to the Consortium:
“Where rubber meets the road” : Addressing State & Local
Health Departments perspectives in implementing public
health data standards for Local Health Information
Infrastructure (LHII)
• Increase membership of State and Local Health
Departments and other agencies in the Consortium
• Facilitate growing leadership of representatives from the
State and Local levels in the Consortium
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Bringing Local Public Health to the Consortium:
• Address the perspectives of State and Local agencies in
the Consortium’s activities, e.g., EHR implementation
demonstration in public health, educational activities
• Collaborate with NACCHO, ASTHO, CSTE and others
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Bridging Public Health and Clinical Care:
• Increase membership of professional organizations
representing clinical care in the Consortium
• Represent public health in clinical care standard
development activities via participation in SDOs, DCCs
(e.g., HL7, X12, SNOMED) and relevant national
healthcare standardization activities, e.g., CHI, EHR etc.
• Collaborate with eHealth Initiative, AHIMA, AMA,
AHA, American Telehealth Association, and others
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Address needs of public health informatics training
• Increase membership of Academic Institutions in the
Consortium
• Help identify essential functions and competencies for
public health informatics
• Support for executive-level public health
informaticians at each state
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Address needs of public health informatics training
• Facilitate growing leadership of representatives from
the Academic Institutions in the Consortium
• Participate in the development of core competency for
public health informatics
• Develop collaboration with Association of Schools of
Public Health (ASPH) and American Public Health
Association (APHA)
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
Developing New Collaborations with Private Sector
• Foster Public-Private Partnerships
• Expand involvement of private sector in the Consortium
• Developing tools for local public health departments
• Work on developing ROI case(s) around public health
data standards
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
International perspectives in standard
development for public health
• Participate in the international activities related to
healthcare standard development activities
• Collaborate with eHealth Initiative and others
Public Health Data Standards Consortium
2004 – 2005 Directions
2005 PHDSC Annual Meeting
• Seek partnership with member-organizations in
developing meeting agenda
• Increase participation of State and Local agencies
representatives
• Consider offering tutorials on health data
standards, public health informatics, etc.
• Invite vendors to have an exhibition of IT
products for public health