A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) office — the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology — is one of several CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced in 2022 in response to lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic…
“As we stand up the new office, one of our divisions will be dedicated to data policy and standards work. Working across public health, across CDC, but most importantly with our health care and with our federal partners to really accelerate the work will be the incorporation of standards and interoperability particularly across our core data systems,” said the office’s Acting Director Jennifer Layden on a panel at the HIMSS conference in Chicago Tuesday…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with CDC, is one of the prominent partners leveraging the standard to transform data modernization around digital quality measures (dQMs), or data that can come from multiple sources such as patient medical devices, versus electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), or data solely from the electronic medical record.
“One of the challenges in quality measures has been a lack of alignment,” said Michelle Schreiber, director of CMS’ Quality Measurement and Value-based Incentives Group. Schreiber described how a lack of consensus on what constitutes the best measure for blood pressure, for example, has “created all kinds of chaos.” … Read the full article here.
