Webinar
"Strategies for Data Modernization of the Nation's Vital Statistics Ecosystem" presented by Prachi Mehta, Health Scientist and Cindy Bush, Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum has 9 planned sessions throughout 2023. Proposed topics include IT & IT PMO in Healthcare, Healthcare SME/Domain Forums such as Clinical, Laboratory, Research, Tomorrow's Healthcare & Government practices/law, Thought Leadership in Healthcare, and Innovation in Healthcare Technology.
Presentation Details 
In the era of public health pandemics and rising mortality rates from COVID and other emerging infectious diseases non-infectious conditions (e.g., drug overdose deaths, suicides), the importance of timely mortality data for public health decision-making becomes even more critical. While timeliness of birth and death data has improved considerably in recent years, delays in reporting remain due to a number of factors.
The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) is the oldest and most successful example of inter-governmental data sharing in public health and the shared relationships, standards, and procedures form the mechanism by which NCHS (CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics) collects and disseminates the nation's official vital statistics. The NVSS Data Modernization Initiative addressed these barriers by promoting strategies that strengthen the implementation and use of interoperable systems and processes across the vital records ecosystem.
This month’s speakers will describe the foundational building blocks that have facilitated the ongoing success of the NVSS Modernization Initiative across the 57 state vital records offices, NCHS, and its national partners. Ongoing community engagement through the NVSS Community of Practice (CoP) and the availability of robust funding through the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) have been important drivers in the vital records data modernization space. The presentation will highlight strategies and project management approaches that have contributed to this success while sharing upcoming plans to strengthen the vital records ecosystem with EHRs, surveillance systems, and medical examiner/coroner case management systems.
