20250110 CSTE / APHL Monthly Checkpoint

Introductions

• Vanessa and Mel, APHL Policy Champions

Workgroups, User Groups, Conferences, Oh My!

• CSTE

o   Data Standards Workgroup

o   ELDRS Electronic Laboratory and Disease Reporting

o   Partner’s Network (Chronic Disease)

o   Surveillance Informatics Subcommittee

o   ELR National Call

o   NBS CoP

• APHL

o   Informatics Committee

o   Data Modernization Subcommittee

o   LIMS User Groups

o   Rhapsody User Group

• Conferences

o   HIMSS Public Health Forum

§  Who’s going?

§  Tamara Hennessy-Burt

o   APHL, CSTE

o   NACCHO 360 (APHL cannot attend)

o   AMIA Symposium (November)

2025 Activities and Priorities

• Data Modernization Activities

  • Too much and not enough

  • Careful to not be redundant

  • Data Modernization Workgroup

    • 2x/monthly, 1x with CDC

    • 1x w/ CDC:

      • Small group intentionally

      • SMEs who can help advise and inform your plans

      • (Lab representation?)

      • Heather S. is CDC contact

    • 2x month

      • Strategy

      • Peer-to-peer exchange on technologies

      • Jurisdictional leaders and their conversations and strategy

      • 20-30p from different jurisdictions, no laboratorians

      • Data Modernization Summit in 2023 and 2024

      • We’d love to see report when done

      • Core Data Functions Report: What are the core essential functions that PHA needs to be able to accomplish?

        • Labs are referred to tangentially

• NBS CoP

  • Is launching!

  • Would be helpful to hear more about NBS TA that APHL delivers

• There’s a DMI TA call - CDC, APHL, other partners

  • To vet TA requests and what the workstream should be

  • Brooke and Vanessa

• ELC Meetings

• TEFCA

• eCR

• FHIR

The CoAgs

• CSTE – what year are you in?

• APHL – due March!!

o   What technical assistance, informatics support do PHAs need?

Policy & Standards

• HTI-2 (and its spawn)

• JPHIT

• Mel and Becky need to connect on Policy stuff

Implementation Centers

• Megan is hiring new CSTE staffer, supported by ASTHO PHIG funding; involve that person in TA conversations

• APHL has been involved in meetings, too; still trying to figure out what TA will look like

APHL/CSTE Meetings - what are the meetings?

ELDRS

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