Call for Abstracts - "Health Data Driving Policy"
NAHDO's Program Planning Committee is no longer accepting abstract submissions for our 38th Annual Conference. We will begin accepting abstracts for the 39th Annual Conference at the end of March 2024.
Here are some ideas for session topics that are of particular interest to the planning committee:
| Focus Area | Suggested Topics of Interest |
|---|---|
| (1) National and State Policy Trends and Priorities |
Opioids - Data and Policy Behavioral Health - 42 CFR Part 2 Telehealth COVID-19 and Long COVID: - Impact on Data Trends and Analysis - Medicaid enrollment - Transitory vs. Permanent impacts on Analysis - Understanding the Impact on Populations - Lessons Learned and New Processes Created |
| (2) Improving Health Care Value Through Analytics |
Analytics for Success Using data to catalyze change Understanding the data and avoiding traps and errors Engaging stakeholders Working toward identifying value Impacting the business community - employer-focused analytics Patient-reported outcome measures Post-incarceration health care Leveraging the richness of hospital data |
| (3) Addressing Data Gaps and Identifying New Sources of Data |
Using Data from the U.S. Census Bureau Assessing Needs of Policy Makers Looking to External Standards |
| (4) Data Sharing and Linkage Methods |
Efforts to Ease the Sharing of Data (Technical Questions): - Infrastructure & FHIR - Coordinating HIE and APCD data efforts - Federal Rules - ONC & CMS interoperability rules - Price transparency rules - Digital quality measures - Connecting Data Sharing to Improved Health Outcomes Data Linkage: - Standardization - Integrated data systems |
| (5) Understanding Data Governance and Patient Privacy Policies |
Ensuring data security External data use - approval and monitoring Technical issues - 42 CFR Part 2, Vendor interactions |
| (6) Health Equity Data, Analytics and Policy |
SDOH/HRSN SOGI Race, Ethnicity, Language (REALD) |
| (7) Operational Issues at Health Data Programs |
Launching of new data programs and projects Moving to the cloud Questions related to funding |
| (8) Wild Card | Great ideas that don't fit neatly into one of these categories |
Priority Deadline: June 2, 2023 June 23, 2023