List of CSTE/APHL Meetings

APHL/CSTE Coordination Meetings

CSTE/APHL Data Modernization Monthly Checkpoint

CSTE/APHL Leadership Monthly Meeting

CSTE Workgroups & Committees

These workgroups and/or committees might benefit from having an APHL liaison join to listen in or provide updates.

CSTE ELR National Call

CSTE Electronic Laboratory Electronic Laboratory and Disease Reporting Subcommittee (ELDRS)

CSTE Data Standards Workgroup (DSWG)

CSTE Partners Network (Chronic Disease)

CSTE Surveillance Informatics Subcommittee

CSTE NBS Community of Practice (launching soon)

APHL Workgroups & Committees

These workgroups and/or committees might benefit from having an CSTE liaison join to listen in or provide updates.

APHL Rhapsody User Group

APHL Open ELR Call

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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