CDC Health Data Innovation Summit

eHealth Exchange is pleased to be selected to present at this year’s CDC Health Data Innovation Summit in Atlanta, GA.

Presentation Title: TEFCA, National Networks, HIEs and FHIR for Public Health

Date/Time: TBD

Presenter:  Bill Howard, Board Chairman at eHealth Exchange

Detailed Description of the Product or Service: eHealth Exchange is a national network that is a candidate QHIN under TEFCA. Today, eHealth Exchange supports public health, most notably by supporting data flows for eCase Reporting.

Looking forward, the eHealth Exchange vision supports the CDC Public Health Data Strategy by leveraging FHIR and its current HIE, Provider and Federal partner participants (e.g. VA/DoD) to address several use cases including (but not limited to):
1. querying for supplemental demographics (to improve record linking),
2. querying for supplemental clinical data (to enable case follow-up),
3. enabling Provider and Patient access to data (to enable bi-directional exchange),
4. more advanced solutions, including PPRL (Privacy Preserving Record Linking).

These Public Health use cases build on ~15 years of high-volume (~2 billion transactions per month) production experience under the DURSA “Trust” framework. Another specific example that we would like to present is the work with the FDA BEST program (which has been piloted under the DURSA using FHIR in production with ~12 large health systems including the VA to support follow-up on adverse drug events).