Officials Call For Standardized, Interoperable Public Health Data

By Maya Goldman / March 29, 2021 at 8:05 PM
State and federal officials said the United States needs to work on standardizing and integrating public health data to improve health equity and the general public health infrastructure during the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s annual meeting Monday (March 29). Data is essential to understanding and taking action on structural inequities that affect public health, said Marcella Nunez-Smith, chair of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. “Sometimes people say oh my goodness, you know,...


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