Reports, Papers, and Presentations Useful to Tracking States Acquiring and Using Hospital Discharge Data
NAHDO is compiling reports, papers, and presentations that we believe can assist Tracking states when acquiring and using hospital discharge data.
Administrative Data and Disease Surveillance: An Integration Toolkit
This paper focuses primarily on the human or cultural factors that must be addressed for the integration of clinical and administrative data to occur.
NAHDO White Paper: The Business Case for Collecting Address Information in Hospital
Discharge Databases
This white paper develops a business case to convince state health data organizations that additional address information would add value to their existing data elements and benefit the EPHT Program as well as their data stakeholders.
Confidentiality and Data Access Issues among Federal Agencies
This brochure describes some examples of data protections used by federal agencies - legal sanctions, removal of personal identifiers from data sets, the application of statistical procedures to published information, certificates of confidentiality, institutional and disclosure review boards, and restricted data access.
CDC-CSTE Intergovernmental Data Release Guidelines Working Group (DRGWG) Report: CDC-ATSDR Data Release Guidelines and Procedures for Re-release of State-Provided Data
This report contains guidelines for implementing the CDC/ATSDR Policy on Releasing and Sharing Data, pertaining to the re-release of State-provided data.
Slides from December 10, 2009 NAHDO webinar on Hospital Data Acquisition: