CDC | OPHDST | Overview: The Public Health Data Strategy – CDC
Updated April 11, 2024
The PHDS is CDC’s mission-focused, goal-driven, two-year plan providing accountability for data, technology, policy and administrative actions necessary to meet public health data goals. Its measurable milestones address challenges in data exchange between healthcare organizations and public health authorities and between state, tribal, local, territorial and federal public health authorities.
The Public Health Data Strategy (PHDS) provides a way for public health partners, healthcare organizations and the public to understand what is being done, and the progress being made:
The plan consists of milestones for 2024 and 2025 for each of the four public health data goals.
These ambitious milestones:
The PHDS supports CDC in building long-term accountability for critical core data sources including case, laboratory, emergency department visits, vital statistics, immunization, healthcare capacity and wastewater data.
Enhancement of these data sources and technologies advances public health core capabilities at all levels of government, strengthening public health digital infrastructure and situational awareness in support of the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan and improving risk awareness and threat detection in alignment with Goal 1 of the National Biodefense Strategy.
These are the data and technology goals of the PHDS to advance four core public health missions which will equitably improve health outcomes:
Goals
Goals
2023 PHDS milestones focused on…
2023 PHDS milestones focused on…
Additional focus areas for 2024 PHDS include…
Additional focus areas for 2024 PHDS include…
1: Strengthen the core of public health data
1: Strengthen the core of public health data
Strengthening exchange and improving availability of case, laboratory, emergency department visits and vital statistics data.
Strengthening exchange and improving availability of case, laboratory, emergency department visits and vital statistics data.
Strengthening exchange of additional core data sources such as wastewater, hospitalization and hospital bed capacity.
Strengthening exchange of additional core data sources such as wastewater, hospitalization and hospital bed capacity.
2: Accelerate access to analytic and automated solutions to support public health investigations and advance health equity
2: Accelerate access to analytic and automated solutions to support public health investigations and advance health equity
Accelerating access to technologies that reduce data reporting and preparation burden such as for healthcare providers in rural communities.
Accelerating access to technologies that reduce data reporting and preparation burden such as for healthcare providers in rural communities.
Accelerating access to technologies that support disease surveillance, such as for state, tribal, local and territorial (STLT) public health departments. Additionally including actionable health equity-focused efforts such as increasing reporting on additional social determinants of health-related data elements, could support data sovereignty for tribal nations and Tribal Epidemiology Centers.
Accelerating access to technologies that support disease surveillance, such as for state, tribal, local and territorial (STLT) public health departments. Additionally including actionable health equity-focused efforts such as increasing reporting on additional social determinants of health-related data elements, could support data sovereignty for tribal nations and Tribal Epidemiology Centers.
3: Visualize and share insights to inform public health action
3: Visualize and share insights to inform public health action
Making visualizations and insights available to the general public, CDC programs and STLT public health departments such as those created for the 2023-2024 respiratory threat season.
Making visualizations and insights available to the general public, CDC programs and STLT public health departments such as those created for the 2023-2024 respiratory threat season.
Developing and increasing use of more granular data, such as county-level, and integrated visualizations across case, mortality and emergency department data.
Developing and increasing use of more granular data, such as county-level, and integrated visualizations across case, mortality and emergency department data.
4: Advance more open and interoperable public health data
4: Advance more open and interoperable public health data
Advancing more seamless data exchange between health care and public health such as between laboratories and state public health agencies.
Advancing more seamless data exchange between health care and public health such as between laboratories and state public health agencies.
Developing and supporting the implementation of common standards for healthcare and public health data through partnerships with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and other agencies.
Developing and supporting the implementation of common standards for healthcare and public health data through partnerships with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and other agencies.
The 2024 Public Health Data Strategy supplements other CDC Data Modernization Initiative efforts to address workforce development topics. To learn more about efforts to enhance the training, skills and performance of public health workers, please reference the Public Health Workforce Development site and the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program site.
Funding and technical assistance:
Communications and engagement:
Capability building:
The PHDS is not a document that is put into a binder and left on the shelf. Progress in meeting the milestones is monitored throughout the year and the milestones are updated annually to:
The first PHDS was released in 2023. See the progress made in meeting the 2023 milestones.
PHDS Milestones for 2024 and 2025
PHDS Progress in 2023
Public Health Ecosystem, Data Goals, Sources and Modernization
Read the OPHDST Public Health Data Strategy 2023 Year-End Lookback Report: From Insights to Impact [419 KB, 3 Pages] to learn more about 2023 PHDS milestones and our path to data modernization.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency subject to applicable federal laws. As such, with respect to data provided to or shared with CDC, CDC will protect the privacy and confidentiality of the data consistent, where applicable, with federal laws, including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Content is descriptive only and is not meant to constitute legal, clinical or policy advice.
This article was autogenerated from a news feed from CDO TIMES selected high quality news and research sources. There was no editorial review conducted beyond that by CDO TIMES staff. Need help with any of the topics in our articles? Schedule your free CDO TIMES Tech Navigator call today to stay ahead of the curve and gain insider advantages to propel your business!
The PHDS is CDC’s mission-focused, goal-driven, two-year plan providing accountability for data, technology, policy and administrative actions necessary to meet public health data goals. Its measurable milestones address challenges in data exchange between healthcare organizations and public health authorities and between state, tribal, local, territorial and federal public health authorities.
The Public Health Data Strategy (PHDS) provides a way for public health partners, healthcare organizations and the public to understand what is being done, and the progress being made:
The plan consists of milestones for 2024 and 2025 for each of the four public health data goals.
These ambitious milestones:
The PHDS supports CDC in building long-term accountability for critical core data sources including case, laboratory, emergency department visits, vital statistics, immunization, healthcare capacity and wastewater data.
Enhancement of these data sources and technologies advances public health core capabilities at all levels of government, strengthening public health digital infrastructure and situational awareness in support of the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan and improving risk awareness and threat detection in alignment with Goal 1 of the National Biodefense Strategy.
These are the data and technology goals of the PHDS to advance four core public health missions which will equitably improve health outcomes:
Goals
Goals
2023 PHDS milestones focused on…
2023 PHDS milestones focused on…
Additional focus areas for 2024 PHDS include…
Additional focus areas for 2024 PHDS include…
1: Strengthen the core of public health data
1: Strengthen the core of public health data
Strengthening exchange and improving availability of case, laboratory, emergency department visits and vital statistics data.
Strengthening exchange and improving availability of case, laboratory, emergency department visits and vital statistics data.
Strengthening exchange of additional core data sources such as wastewater, hospitalization and hospital bed capacity.
Strengthening exchange of additional core data sources such as wastewater, hospitalization and hospital bed capacity.
2: Accelerate access to analytic and automated solutions to support public health investigations and advance health equity
2: Accelerate access to analytic and automated solutions to support public health investigations and advance health equity
Accelerating access to technologies that reduce data reporting and preparation burden such as for healthcare providers in rural communities.
Accelerating access to technologies that reduce data reporting and preparation burden such as for healthcare providers in rural communities.
Accelerating access to technologies that support disease surveillance, such as for state, tribal, local and territorial (STLT) public health departments. Additionally including actionable health equity-focused efforts such as increasing reporting on additional social determinants of health-related data elements, could support data sovereignty for tribal nations and Tribal Epidemiology Centers.
Accelerating access to technologies that support disease surveillance, such as for state, tribal, local and territorial (STLT) public health departments. Additionally including actionable health equity-focused efforts such as increasing reporting on additional social determinants of health-related data elements, could support data sovereignty for tribal nations and Tribal Epidemiology Centers.
3: Visualize and share insights to inform public health action
3: Visualize and share insights to inform public health action
Making visualizations and insights available to the general public, CDC programs and STLT public health departments such as those created for the 2023-2024 respiratory threat season.
Making visualizations and insights available to the general public, CDC programs and STLT public health departments such as those created for the 2023-2024 respiratory threat season.
Developing and increasing use of more granular data, such as county-level, and integrated visualizations across case, mortality and emergency department data.
Developing and increasing use of more granular data, such as county-level, and integrated visualizations across case, mortality and emergency department data.
4: Advance more open and interoperable public health data
4: Advance more open and interoperable public health data
Advancing more seamless data exchange between health care and public health such as between laboratories and state public health agencies.
Advancing more seamless data exchange between health care and public health such as between laboratories and state public health agencies.
Developing and supporting the implementation of common standards for healthcare and public health data through partnerships with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and other agencies.
Developing and supporting the implementation of common standards for healthcare and public health data through partnerships with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and other agencies.
The 2024 Public Health Data Strategy supplements other CDC Data Modernization Initiative efforts to address workforce development topics. To learn more about efforts to enhance the training, skills and performance of public health workers, please reference the Public Health Workforce Development site and the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program site.
Funding and technical assistance:
Communications and engagement:
Capability building:
The PHDS is not a document that is put into a binder and left on the shelf. Progress in meeting the milestones is monitored throughout the year and the milestones are updated annually to:
The first PHDS was released in 2023. See the progress made in meeting the 2023 milestones.
PHDS Milestones for 2024 and 2025
PHDS Progress in 2023
Public Health Ecosystem, Data Goals, Sources and Modernization
Read the OPHDST Public Health Data Strategy 2023 Year-End Lookback Report: From Insights to Impact [419 KB, 3 Pages] to learn more about 2023 PHDS milestones and our path to data modernization.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency subject to applicable federal laws. As such, with respect to data provided to or shared with CDC, CDC will protect the privacy and confidentiality of the data consistent, where applicable, with federal laws, including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Content is descriptive only and is not meant to constitute legal, clinical or policy advice.
This article was autogenerated from a news feed from CDO TIMES selected high quality news and research sources. There was no editorial review conducted beyond that by CDO TIMES staff. Need help with any of the topics in our articles? Schedule your free CDO TIMES Tech Navigator call today to stay ahead of the curve and gain insider advantages to propel your business!
