How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

This article summarizes their responses. Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. I wonder whether the path to complete integration requires adopting a single, worldwide, FHIR-based standard (which is time-consuming and probably requires jettisoning old database systems) or programming these systems to translate data from one format to another. I heard details about problems with COVID-19 lab reporting at a state level from Dr. Paulo Pinho, vice president & medical director of innovation at Availity Clinical Solutions (formerly Diameter Health). He reported poor standardization of data coming out ot at test centers, despite the standards for interoperability delineated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical (HITECH) Act of 2009. Many testing sites still use their own local codes or even no codes at all, instead of conforming to the standards created by such organizations as Health Level Seven (HL7), the accredited global standards development organization for health data, and the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI). The result was up to 150 different ways to represent the COVID19 PCR test and 40 different ways to represent a negative test result. Furthermore, key demographic information was missing 40% of the time. Pinho said that labs and providers often fail to ask questions because of lack of time in busy workload...
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