Healthcare Innovation April 15, 2021
Advisory group approves task force recommendation to propose adding nine data elements, including social determinant data, gender identity/sexual orientation
During an April 15 meeting, an advisory committee to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT approved sending ONC a task force’s recommendations to add nine data elements to the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) version 2, including social determinant of health data.
In January 20201, ONC released a draft of version 2 of USCDI, which defines a standardized set of health data classes and data elements for health information exchange. Version 2 introduces incremental and modest changes, including nine new data elements and two new data classes.
The USCDI establishes a baseline set of data...
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