ONC defines EHR race certification to pursue health equity

Becker's Healthcare May 24, 2021
Hannah Mitchell

The ONC recognizes the opportunities that data-driven technology has in healthcare, but that racism and structural biases are easily encoded into datasets. To mitigate the potential risks, the ONC outlined five changes to how race and demographic data is recorded.

Race and ethnicity data capturing is important to eliminate health disparities and inform patient care. It also plays an important role in informing federal policies, such as advancing efforts to improve racial equity and provide additional support to underserved communities, according to a May bulletin.

Five changes:

1. In accordance with the CDC race and ethnicity code system, a certified health IT module must be capable of recording all of a patient’s ethnic codes,...

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