EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
3/03/2021 | 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Development of HL7 Diagnostic Audiology EHDI Data Standards | Topical Breakout
Development of HL7 Diagnostic Audiology EHDI Data Standards
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs seek timely and accurate reporting of diagnostic audiology results. Paper, fax and data entry reporting options require additional effort by audiologists and can result in delay or omission of reporting. Electronic reporting directly from audiology electronic health records (EHRs) would be more efficient, provided all EHDI programs and EHRs use the same standard to exchange data. To encourage the standardized electronic exchange of audiology data, an implementation guide is being drafted as part of the Public Health Work Group at Health Level Seven (HL7) International. HL7 is a non-profit standards organization that develops data standards for the electronic exchange of health information. This presentation will describe the process and current status of a national effort to develop HL7 standards for the exchange of diagnostic EHDI audiology data which is leveraging the previously developed HL7 standard for newborn hearing screening results. The discussion will include a description of national workgroup efforts to define a set of common data elements and associated codes that EHDI programs collect from audiologists across the country. The presentation will share the steps to submit a proposed HL7 message standard for consideration for balloting, the process used to vet proposed standards and then test them prior to final publication.
- Participants will be able to describe the advantage to electronic data exchange of diagnostic audiology EHDI data.
- Participants will be able to describe the process used to identify common EHDI audiology data elements and codes used by EHDI programs.
- Participants will be able to describe the process to develop a national HL7 data standard for electronic EHDI diagnostic data exchange.
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Presenters/Authors
Ellen Amore
(), RI Dept. of Health, ellen.amore@health.ri.gov;
Ellen Amore is currently Deputy Director of the Center for Health Data and Analysis and Manager of KIDSNET, Rhode Island’s integrated child health information system that contains preventive health care information for Rhode Island children. She is PI on the CDC EHDI Cooperative Agreement. Other programs at the Rhode Island Department of Health that she has managed include Newborn Hearing Screening, Newborn Bloodspot Screening, Newborn Developmental Risk Assessment and home visiting. Her education includes a BA in Human Biology, with a concentration in child development, from Stanford University, and an MS in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Lura Daussat
(), Public Health Informatics Institute , ldaussat@taskforce.org;
Lura Daussat serves as the director of the practice support business unit; before moving into this role, she was a senior informatics analyst for PHII. While at PHII she has worked on projects related to child and adolescent mental health and audiology reporting. Previously, Lura spent 12 years at OZ Systems, where she partnered with state public health programs that included newborn hearing screening. In addition, Lura authored two implementation guides for HL7 on exchanging data from devices to public health for newborn hearing screening and critical congenital heart disease.
Lura received her Master of Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine after completing three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana. Her undergraduate degree is a BS in biology from the University of North Texas.
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Heather Morrow-Almeida
(), Oregon Health Authority, heather.r.morrow-almeida@oha.oregon.gov;
Heather Morrow-Almeida works in the Maternal and Child Health Section of the Center for Prevention and Health Promotion of the Oregon Health Authority as a Systems and Policy Analyst. Her portfolio includes a variety of programs and projects related to child health - including child injury prevention and serving as EHDI Coordinator. Prior to joining the Division of Public Health in Oregon, she completed the Public Health Prevention Service Fellowship with the CDC, during which she was assigned to Cowlitz County Health Department (CCHD) in Washington State for two years and spent a year in Atlanta working for the Division of TB Elimination and the Built Environment Team in the National Center for Environmental Health. Heather completed her Master in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the Maternal and Child Health Department.
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Meuy Swafford
(), Oregon EHDI, meuy.f.swafford@state.or.us;
Meuy Swafford works in the Maternal and Child Health Section of the Center for Prevention and Health Promotion at the Oregon Health Authority as the EHDI Data Quality Coordinator. She has worked with the EHDI Program for 8 years in that capacity, and has been with the Oregon Health Authority for 14 years. Prior to working with EHDI, she worked with the WIC Program and Nurse Home Visiting Program assisting in system development and support. Meuy completed her Bachelor of Arts at Ashford University with a concentration in Business Information Systems,and completed the Informatics Training In Place Program (I-TIPP) Fellowship program through Project SHINE.
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