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- Describe prelim metrics and data challenges
Registry Infrastructure
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Bullet Points:
- Preliminary metrics and data collected by NACHC's partners in COVID-19 to support a Health Center Data Registry supporting public health efforts to quell the effects of the pandemic through evidence and data-driven decision making.
- NACHC's HCCN and PCA partners in the COVID-19 project have extracted and shared preliminary population-level data, and have identified various gaps and barriers hindering a comprehensive extraction of nuanced data elements relating to the pandemic.
- Personas and use cases have been created by partners, examining CHC patient needs, behaviors, experiences and goals in light of COVID.
- Each partner have begun mapping and quality improvement efforts related to both COVID-19 testing data and social determinants of health. These processes support the concept of reusability and automation of data extraction and analytics for a more proactive, rather than reactive approach to emerging health threats.
- Data dictionary has been updated to accommodate these data gaps, harmonize similar clinical concepts across the partners, and adding vaccination and telehealth data elements.
- Continuous improvement and iteration in anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines and an immunization registry representing the community health center population.
- Data challenges include the inconsistent / variable use of COVID-19 diagnosis codes due to differences in coding regulation, guidance, workflows and practice guidelines.
- As the project moves closer in extracting patient-level data, NACHC will continue to work 1:1 with their partners to examine clinical outcomes and COVID-19 vaccination rates in the next data extraction phase.
January:
Data validation and standardization
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