The Synensys® System Safety team recently attended The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP)/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Two key sessions focused on the importance of data quality and included references to a recent report developed by Synensys and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), based on research supported by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Contract, “Improving the Reliability, Interoperability, Agility, and Quality of Laboratory Data Exchanges using System Safety Engineering and High Reliability Organization Methods.” Click here for the full report.
- Enhancing Laboratory Interoperability: Insights and a Path Forward
- Panel members: Abigail Viall, Sc.D., M.A., Data Policy and Standards Division, OPHDST, CDC Senior Advisor for Federal Alignment and Strategy; Ali Abbasi, MD, Senior Policy Advisor, US Food and Drug Administration; Steve Posnack, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, Principal Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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- The U.S. Congress requested the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) develop a report on laboratory data standards and propose possible solutions to further advance and improve interoperability. This panel covered insights from ASTP’s report, including the current state of laboratory standards adoption, driving factors of standards adoption, and a vision for the future.
- Quality In, Quality Out: Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Data Quality
- Panel members: Keith Campbell, Program Director, US Food and Drug Administration Systemic Harmonization and Interoperability Enhancement for Laboratory Data (SHIELD) program, Didi Davis, VP, Informatics, Conformance and Interoperability, The Sequoia Project, Niall Brennan, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Charlie Harp, Founder and CEO of Clinical Architecture, Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD, primary care physician and oncologist on the faculty at Stanford Medicine, Ryan Howells, nationally recognized digital health policy and interoperability expert based out of the Leavitt Partners Washington, D.C.
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- Standards for sharing data as well as governance and accountability for data quality are needed. The panel shared an overview of the current state of data quality in healthcare, and discussed promising approaches, challenges, and opportunities for government and industry efforts to improve data quality.
”“These sessions and many others at this year’s ASTP conference highlighted the importance of improving the quality of health data along with tangible solutions for redesigning our current data systems and policies to address the challenges that prevent high-quality data encoding at the source and trustworthy sharing of exchanged data.”
Synensys CEO Dr. Stephen Powell.
