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Expanding Our Response: The NH Governor’s Commission on Alcohol and other Drugs Action Plan
This three-year (January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2021) strategic plan is based on recommendations made by the Governor’s Commission and Task Force members and other key stakeholders. In developing this plan each Task Force reviewed relevant alcohol a
Read more…Washington State Interagency Opioid Working Plan
Washington State is currently experiencing an opioid overdose epidemic. During 2000–2008, the rate of opioid-related overdose deaths increased dramatically due to a rapid rise in overdose deaths involving prescription opioids. Since 2008, overdose de
Read more…State Responses to the Opioid Crisis
This paper focuses on the most common state policy responses to the opioid crisis, dividing them into six broad categories. Within each category we highlight the rationale behind the group of policies within it, discuss the details and support for in
Read more…Strategies to Combat the Opioid Epidemic: What We Know and Where to Go From Here
A literature review suggested by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy evaluates interventions and potential Pay for Success opportunities to treat opiate use disorders and related harms
Key Results: Based on the quantity and quality
Read more…Why we need bolder action to combat the opioid epidemic
Although the opioid crisis in the US is gaining increased attention, the steps taken to date to combat it are insufficient. Our research suggests that much broader—and bolder—action is required...
Read more…CLOUD: Curated Library about Opioid Use for Decision-makers
In partnership with the National Governors’ Association and Milbank Memorial Fund, the Center for Evidence-based Policy at Oregon Health & Science University (The Center) created CLOUD: Curated Library about Opioid Use for Decision-makers. With grant
Read more…CLOUD: The Curated Library about Opioid Use for Decision-makers
About: In partnership with the National Governors’ Association and Milbank Memorial Fund, the Center for Evidence-based Policy at Oregon Health & Science University (The Center) created CLOUD: Curated Library about Opioid Use for Decision-makers. Wit
Read more…CLOUD: Curated Library about Opioid Use for Decision-makers
An amazing new(ish) library of resources! CLOUD: Your source for curated, actionable, evidence-based resources on opioids and the opioid crisis in the United States.
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CLOUD is made possible by a grant from the Consumer and Prescriber Edu
How States Use Data to Inform Decisions: A national review of the use of administrative data to improve state decision-making
Every day, state governments make decisions that affect the lives of their citizens. Legislators and governors determine which policies to enact and what public problems to address. State agencies establish how programs should be run and where budget
Read more…In the NIC of Time: Six Domains of Primary Focus for the National Interoperability Collaborative
The six domains are: human and social services; public health; public education; public safety; emergency medical services; and health information technology, which differs from the others in that it cuts across domains and is critical to their opera
Read more…ONC Fast 101
The FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), convened by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), brings together a highly representative group of motivated healthcare industry stakeholders and health information technology experts.
The grou
Read more…Pilot of a Data Quality Framework to Support Patient Matching
High-quality patient demographic data are fundamental to accurate patient identification and matching. Similarly, accurate patient identification and matching is pivotal to interoperability, patient safety, and research, such as patient-centered outc
Read more…Patient Matching, Aggregation, and Linking (PMAL) Project
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) engaged the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to study and advance patient matching, aggre
Read more…ONC PMAL Project: Creeping Forward on Patient Matching
Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the final report from its Patient Matching, Aggregation, and Linking (PMAL) Project, as well as an additional report describing a pilot project to test
Read more…The Unique Records Portfolio: A guide to resolving duplicate records in health information systems
Increasing demand to provide integrated data requires public health programs and healthcare provider organizations to adopt a strategic approach to uniquely identifying individuals whose data are held in disparate data sources or information systems.
A Framework for Cross-Organizational Patient Identity Management
The healthcare industry is making significant progress on technical interoperability, but we continue to fall short of the promise of true health information exchange. Until we can consistently send and receive accurate and useful patient data nation
Read more…Patient Identification and Matching
The United States healthcare system is marching diligently toward a more connected system of care through the use of electronic health record systems (EHRs) and electronic exchange of patient information between organizations and with patients and ca
Read more…Developing and Testing a Data Management Model and Maturity Scale Tailored to Improving Patient Matching Accuracy
As we move toward an interoperable health system featuring widespread use of electronic medical records and electronic exchange of healthcare information among organizations, patients, and caregivers, it becomes increasingly important yet complex to
Read more…Guidelines for Pilot Testing of Data Management Maturity Model for Individual Data Matching
This document is intended to serve as the Guidelines for pilot testing of a Data Management Maturity Model (DMM) to be implemented in a healthcare setting to improve linking and matching patient healthcare records for individual data matching. These
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