Webinar 4 Prep-work
Webinar 4
Delivery Date: May 14, 2019 14:00EDT
Descriptive Webinar Title: Data Standards and Interoperability
Overview: Data standards are agreed-upon methods for connecting systems together. Standards may pertain to security, data transport, data format or structure, or the meanings of codes or terms, and are frequently determined by Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). Public health standards such as Health Level 7 (HL7), Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED), exist to facilitate and standardize the exchange of information between systems. Many systems still operate in silos, preventing learning across organizations and not optimizing the use of existing resources.
This session will cover the importance of data standards and interoperability to public health.
Use Cases: Electronic Lab Reporting (ELR), Syndromic surveillance, electronic case reporting (eCR)
Learning Objectives: At the end of this webinar the participants will be able to:
1. Examine why vocabulary & exchange standards are important to public health projects
2. Examine how different standards are utilized to conduct reporting and mapping for public health surveillance
Participant Pre-work, with time estimates and requirements:
Required Time to complete an estimated 25 minutes.
Pre-work:
Read about the Digital Bridge, Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) approach here https://digitalbridge.us/infoex/implementation/.
Digital Bridge’s technical approach aims to change the status-quo of point-to-point data connections between health care organizations and their public health partners by offering a central decision support service to facilitate case reporting.
Action: Evaluate the Electronic Case Reporting Digital Architecture attached and identify where the following are used, or may have been used to develop the Digital Bridge tools:
| Item | Best Match (1-5)
| Machine Learning |
| eMPI |
| HL7 |
| LOINC |
| SNOMED |
Please have 1 person from your team, BEFORE 12:00 (noon) EDT on 5/10/2019, send your team’s selections for the display names directly to me on BaseCamp using the Ping feature, illustrated in the attached
I will assemble the selections into a table to be reviewed at the end of Webinar 4. The purpose of this exercise is to explore the application of data and transport standards.