EHR Intelligence May 21, 2021
ONC released race and ethnicity data collection requirements for EHR certification that are set to improve data quality and advance health equity.
ONC announced its health IT demographic EHR certification requirements to standardize race and ethnicity data collection in the pursuit of health equity.
ONC outlined that the agency’s “demographics” certification criterion requires health IT to record race and ethnicity at the same level of detail as the CDC’s Race & Ethnicity code technology. This system encompasses over 900 concepts for race and ethnicity, giving patients precise options for self-identifying their demographic information.
“Race and ethnicity data are important for many uses, such as informing effective treatment and patient care, improving healthcare outcomes, research, and, identifying and eliminating health disparities...
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