The content below was developed by the NACHC Clinical Affairs team in partnership with other NACHC teams and external partners engaged in current projects involving data.
Governance Guiding Principles
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Roles and Responsibilities
NACHC conducts data related informatics work in partnership with data partners and project partners.
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NACHC's informatics team provides technical assistance and analysis services to data partners. Technical assistance includes coaching data partners to improve the quality of their data collection and use. Analysis services include performing analysis on one or multiple datasets to assess a prescribed outcome or outcomes (e.g., the percent of women who received contraception counseling), calculate a predefined quality measure (e.g., the percent of screening-eligible patients who were screened). When combining datasets from multiple data partners, analysis can include mapping and normalizing disparate data structures and formats into one common data model and linking patients (see Linkage section).
Identification of Data from Partners
NACHC receives only de-identified data at this time; de-identified data is determined based on the HIPAA Safe Harbor definition where all 18 individual level PII and PHI identifiers are removed. While encounter dates and five-digit ZIP codes maybe included in datasets that are shared with NACH, encounter dates are either data-shifted or partially-share and five digit ZIP codes are shared for only highly populated geographic areas. This policy may be revised in the future should an appropriate use case arise.
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