HealthLeaders Media April 7, 2021
During the ONC annual meeting, state health officers call for boosting public health data infrastructure investment.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Incomplete data impacts healthcare’s costs and mortality, according to officials.
– Funding from CARES Act will drive CDC Data Modernization initiative.
– More initiatives, such as North Carolina race and ethnicity requirement, result in providers collecting and providing previously incomplete data.
A practicing emergency medical physician, who is also the chief medical officer of Alaska, led calls for data modernization in U.S. public health at the recent annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
“When someone shows up in my ER with four different wristbands on, and that’s how I figure out that they’ve...
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