Occasion to tell enterprise and companions about alternatives to contribute to public well being knowledge modernization
ATLANTA, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The COVID-19 pandemic and different well being threats have proven that entry to actionable, well timed, correct and equitably consultant well being knowledge is essential in stopping and defending folks from illness and well being threats. Nevertheless, governmental public well being has historically lacked the assets to plug into fashionable, safe instruments to maneuver data quicker. Now, there’s a nationwide effort to create extra built-in and well timed public well being knowledge programs that may higher shield our nation and world from threats. On February 27 and 28, 2023, the CDC Basis will convene a joint occasion with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) and the Nationwide Coordinator for Well being Data Expertise (ONC) with the target to speed up public well being knowledge modernization via public non-public partnerships.
Addressing well being challenges requires bringing collectively cross-sector teams, and the CDC Basis’s CDC-ONC Trade Days occasion will inform non-government organizations about CDC’s and ONC’s plans for modernizing public well being knowledge and data programs. The occasion additionally will present each digital and in-person attendees with alternatives to debate their providers with CDC and ONC employees.
“We’d like collaboration from companies, well being care, academia, group organizations, and all sectors to construct an environment friendly, built-in and complete method to bettering our nation’s public well being knowledge,” mentioned Judy Monroe, MD, president and CEO of the CDC Basis. “These partnerships open new pathways for know-how, folks and insurance policies to collect and analyze knowledge. The ensuing intelligence will enhance well being and guarantee thriving and affluent communities.”
The aim of this occasion is to:
- Hear from CDC and ONC leaders concerning the imaginative and prescient for public well being knowledge modernization and the worth of multi-sector partnerships;
- Inform trade about CDC’s and ONC’s strategic route in use of knowledge and data programs, and concerning the highest precedence areas during which they’re looking for assist;
- Present boards for presidency and trade to debate providers and priorities (together with networking alternatives, displays and presentation, and classes with Q&As);
- Enhance alternatives for CDC and ONC to work with and study from trade; and
- Present alternatives to listen to from trade companions on their suitable capabilities, instruments and providers.
“COVID-19 emphasised the necessity to have dependable, actionable knowledge in close to actual time to make sure the supply of speedy and equitable well being care throughout a pandemic,” mentioned CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH. “I’m dedicated, as a part of the company’s shifting ahead initiative, to modernizing CDC’s knowledge programs and am trying ahead to listening to from our public- and private-sector companions. We should always all have the identical objective; making certain that public well being knowledge programs are sufficiently designed to swiftly gather actionable knowledge that informs suggestions to guard all People from well being threats.”
CDC, because the nation’s main public well being safety group, assures that public well being decision-makers have the knowledge wanted for speedy and knowledgeable selections to handle well being challenges. Because the nation’s coordinator for bettering well being IT and knowledge trade, ONC wants trade enter to develop the simplest insurance policies for that enchancment. The CDC Basis is working with these businesses to advance partnerships throughout numerous sectors to offer the well timed, correct data that may save lives.
“Coordinating throughout authorities and personal sector to advance using Well being IT has been a key a part of ONC’s mission since inception,” mentioned Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, nationwide coordinator for well being data know-how on the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers. “We’re dedicated to working with CDC, public well being businesses in any respect ranges, and trade at massive to assist the Administration’s targets of modernizing the nation’s public well being knowledge infrastructure. We, most significantly, need to be sure that the know-how adopted via this effort is scalable, interoperable, and aligned with the know-how utilized in our healthcare system immediately, and sooner or later.”
Extra details about the CDC Basis’s Trade Days occasion, together with registration for the livestream, is offered on the occasion’s net web page.
Along with the Trade Days occasion, the CDC Basis is planning to construct on its knowledge modernization focus by establishing a Public Well being Safety Knowledge Programs Group, which would be the first group convened beneath the CDC Basis’s soon-to-launch President’s Council. The council will leverage the facility of multi-sector collaborations in service to partnerships for public function, providing insights from throughout sectors and fields to tell catalytic work to guard the well being and prosperity of populations across the globe.
Among the many roles of the Public Well being Safety Knowledge Programs Group will probably be offering insights to CDC Basis management and companions on rising points, wants and issues for public well being knowledge modernization; serving as councilor to the CDC Basis management staff on issues associated to bettering public well being intelligence; and guiding improvement of high-trust partnership fashions that transcend sector boundaries and speed up adoption of scalable knowledge programs that serve the general public’s well being.
“We’re enthusiastic about constructing on the progress of the Trade Days occasion, together with establishing the Public Well being Safety Knowledge Programs Group as a part of our President’s Council,” Monroe mentioned. “Trying forward, we’ll proceed to share details about alternatives for presidency and trade companions to work collectively to enhance our nation’s public well being knowledge programs and the way we gather, share and act upon knowledge.”
The CDC Basis’s web site consists of extra data on the Basis’s knowledge modernization work in addition to assets.
In regards to the CDC Basis
The CDC Basis helps the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) save and enhance lives by unleashing the facility of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, companies, organizations and people to guard the well being, security and safety of America and the world. The CDC Basis is the go-to nonprofit licensed by Congress to mobilize philanthropic companions and private-sector assets to assist CDC’s essential well being safety mission. Since 1995, the CDC Basis has raised over $1.9 billion and launched greater than 1,300 applications impacting quite a lot of well being threats from persistent illness circumstances together with heart problems and most cancers, to infectious illnesses like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, together with COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Basis managed lots of of CDC-led applications in the US and in additional than 90 nations final yr. Be taught extra at www.cdcfoundation.org.
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