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ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Title: 'Exchanging EHDI Data through Electronic Health Records' Track: 5-Follow-up, Tracking, and Data Management Audience: Primary Audience: State Health Department Secondary Audience: Hospital/Birthing Center< Tertiary Audeince: Audiologist Keyword(s): data, interoperability, electronic health records Learning Objectives: Describe how an electronic health record created for a newborn at a birthing facility may exchange data with EHDI information systems in the future. Abstract: As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Obama effectively offered a challenge to this country to have an electronic health record (EHR) available for each person in the United States by the year 2014. Provisions of the Act create unprecedented investments in the development of a nationwide electronic health information system allowing health professionals to provide better care leading to better health outcomes. In the near future an EHR created for a newborn at a birthing facility may exchange data with an EHDI tracking system allowing for the provision of individual care plans for each infant, a reduction in loss to follow-up, and the opportunity to track information for quality improvement. Newborn hearing screening is one of the first interactions between clinical care and public health in the life course of a newborn that involves information exchanges between these two sectors. The sharing of EHDI information is often currently compromised because clinical information systems and hearing screening information systems cannot electronically share hearing screening data as well as follow-up data due to varying data formats, non-standardized devices used to conduct hearing tests, and customized software applications across clinical, public health, and education agencies. This presentation will summarize the current process being used to identify and harmonize recognized standards needed to electronically exchange newborn screening information. These activities are being conducted by both the Department of Health and Human Services and the international Health Information Technology community to facilitate standardization of health information exchanges between clinical care and public health. The exchange of EHDI data through an EHR may advance public health’s ability to assure that all newborns receive recommended services by reducing manual data entry errors, enhancing access to demographic information, improving case tracking through information exchange, and enhancing population-based surveillance for care coordination and epidemiological purposes. Presentation(s): Not Available Handouts: Not Available
SPEAKER INFORMATION
PRESENTER(S): John Eichwald - CDC      Credentials: MA       John Eichwald is the Chief of the Child Development and Disability Branch at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In this position he has oversight of EHDI, the Child Development Studies, and the Rare Disorders and Health Outcomes Teams. His related experience includes collaboration with the multiple organizations focused on national Health Information Technology efforts to foster adoption of a national set of standards, specifications and implementation guidance directed at interoperability of public health information systems. Terese Finitzo - OZ systems         AUTHOR(S): John Eichwald - CDC      Credentials: MA       BIO: John Eichwald is the Chief of the Child Development and Disability Branch at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In this position he has oversight of EHDI, the Child Development Studies, and the Rare Disorders and Health Outcomes Teams. His related experience includes collaboration with the multiple organizations focused on national Health Information Technology efforts to foster adoption of a national set of standards, specifications and implementation guidance directed at interoperability of public health information systems. Terese Finitzo - OZ systems       BIO: