“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network1 (NHSN) surveillance system and Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS)/Yale Center for Medical Informatics today announced that they are collaborating on a project to demonstrate implementation readiness for end-to-end automation of hospital pandemic reporting from the Yale-New Haven Health to NHSN.”
“The NHSN-YNHHS/Yale project will evaluate a standards-based approach for automating demographic and clinical data collection and reporting. These data are needed for analysis and action during the pandemic, and the analytic needs include measuring healthcare outcomes for patient groups defined by demographic or clinical characteristics.”
“The project will launch with a proof of concept in April and move to a full production-level pilot relying on open, national data standards, specifically, HL7’s FHIR®API and the ONC’s USCore Data for Interoperability (USCDI). The Yale Center for Medical Informatics focuses on the creative use of computers in clinical medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, and other areas of biomedical research in partnership with Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Medicine and the Department of Computer Science.”
“NHSN was established in 2005 and today over 37,000 U.S.healthcare facilities send data to NHSN to support their efforts to track and reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). It is the nation’s most comprehensive and established system to capture, analyze, and report back the intelligence facilities rely on to drive improvement and contain costs. NHSN data supports over $350 million in saving by CMS each year. This project signals NHSN’s commitment to minimizing the burden on submitting facilities without compromise to data quality.”
“‘The goal is to provide a generalizable solution to data automation that reduces data collection and reporting burden on hospitals while providing timely and accurate data for analysis and response,’ said Daniel A. Pollock, M.D., Surveillance Branch Chief, CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion…” Read the full press release here.
Source: CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network and Yale New Haven Health/Yale Center for Medical Informatics to Collaborate on Automated Hospital Reporting — April 27, 2021. Lantana Consulting Group.
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