{"id":18161,"date":"2021-07-01T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthit-gov.go-vip.net\/buzz-blog\/?p=18161"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:01:38","slug":"public-health-data-systems-hearing-ensuring-a-data-driven-response-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/insights-updates\/public-health-data-systems-hearing-ensuring-a-data-driven-response-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Data Systems Hearing: Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of&nbsp; HHS\u2019s&nbsp;response to&nbsp;President Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/21\/executive-order-ensuring-a-data-driven-response-to-covid-19-and-future-high-consequence-public-health-threats\/\">Executive Order on Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats<\/a>, ONC\u2019s Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC)&nbsp;recently held an expert panel hearing to&nbsp;understand&nbsp;the performance of&nbsp;public health data systems during the COVID-19 pandemic&nbsp; response and other gap areas in current infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HITAC members heard from a variety of experts to further inform the work of the Public Health Data Systems Task Force. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance Dan Jernigan provided remarks and noted that in addition to gathering information for short-term needs related to pandemic relief efforts, the CDC is preparing a long-lasting, sustainable approach to improve public health data systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forthcoming recommendations from the <a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/subcommittee\/public-health-data-systems-task-force-2021\">Public Health Data Systems Task Force<\/a>&nbsp;will identify and prioritize policy and technical gaps to be addressed in order to help ensure a more effective response to future public health threats. These recommendations are expected to be issued later this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-taking-a-holistic-approach-to-public-health-data-systems\">Taking a Holistic Approach to Public Health Data Systems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives (and former CDC director), opened the \u2018big picture\u2019 discussion about where things went wrong with the pandemic response. He addressed the pre-existing weaknesses throughout the public health ecosystem and gaps in the sharing of important data between federal, state, and local public health departments. He stated that the essence of an effective response is to learn, adjust, and adapt as we go along. Since, \u201cwe are less used to the kind of urgency that communicable disease control requires of us in public health,\u201d Dr. Frieden said that everyone on every level needs to work in concert to move the country forward to be better positioned to address future needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-public-health-systems-performance-during-covid-19-big-picture-perspectives\"><strong>Public Health Systems Performance During COVID-19: Big Picture Perspectives<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>To close the technical gaps in information flow, we need to build systems that are well integrated and able to ramp up to seamlessly meet the needs of a public health emergency threat. \u201cOur data systems have not been consistently connected or integrated across public health and health care,\u201d Dr. Mark McClellan of Duke Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy told the HITAC, bringing a big picture perspective to the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panelists also spoke to the impact of policies in addressing needs both nationwide and across county borders in the future. &nbsp;For example, healthcare data systems are very different from public health data systems, and vary by state and county. \u201cIssues we face around data systems are political science problems, not computer science problems,\u201d noted Dr. Michael Fraser, CEO of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Dr. Linda Rae Murray, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois School of Public Health concurred, emphasizing that both policy and organizational roadblocks play a role in contributing to health inequities. She said, \u201cPublic health is really everything\u2026all of these economic systems, political systems, faith-based systems, where we have lots of data, we need to integrate that into public health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-technical-and-infrastructure-issues-current-status-and-future-needs\"><strong>Technical and Infrastructure Issues: Current Status and Future Needs<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Paving the way to a future where our health data systems are sharing information and adapting in real-time to emerging threats will require partnerships across all sectors. President Biden\u2019s Executive Order affirms the importance of collecting, analyzing, and sharing COVID-19 data with state, local, tribal, and territorial authorities. According to Dr. Karen DeSalvo, former national coordinator for health IT and current chief health officer for Google Health, addressing deficiencies in this process requires that we create a 21<sup>st<\/sup> century public health infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. DeSalvo shared that strategic partnerships are important and have proven to be quite effective during this pandemic, as has working globally with academic and public health enterprise partners to build tools that improve disease surveillance worldwide. She emphasized that open standards should be the focus in an ideal future state, not proprietary ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-creating-the-public-health-ecosystem-of-the-future\"><strong>Creating the Public Health Ecosystem of the Future<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Application programming interfaces (APIs), artificial intelligence, and cloud computing systems will help chart the course for where we go from here. The 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Cures Act and the information sharing provisions in ONC\u2019s Cures Act Final Rule have enabled the first steps to making data available across the healthcare system. Health IT developers, policy makers, providers, and patients will be able to securely access their information with the broader adoption of standardized APIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panelists all spoke to the necessity of quickly accessing data and the importance of being nimble enough to do so, especially in a crisis response setting. Dr. Joneigh Khaldun raised concerns about the widespread use of spreadsheets to gather information at the height of the pandemic. In Michigan, for example, data processing capabilities were \u201coutdated\u201d and had to be rebuilt while managing the response. 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