Identifying Common and Unique Barriers to the Exchange of Hospital Inpatient and Emergency Department Data

In September 2000, the Pew Environmental Health Commission issued a report entitled America’s Environmental Health Gap:
Why the Country Needs a Nationwide Health Tracking Network.

In this report, the Commission documented that the existing environmental health systems were inadequate

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and fragmented and recommended a “Nationwide Health Tracking Network for disease and exposures.” In response to the report, Congress appropriated funds in the fiscal year 2002’s budget for the CDC to establish National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program and Tracking Network and has appropriated funds each year thereafter to continue this effort.

Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) is the integrated surveillance of health, exposure, and hazard information and data from a variety of national, state, and local sources.

The Tracking Network is unique in that it provides the United States with accurate and timely standardized data and supports ongoing efforts within the public health and environmental sectors to improve data collection, accessibility, and dissemination as well as analytic and response capacity.

Data that were previously collected for different purposes and stored in separate systems are now available in a nationally standardized format allowing programs to begin bridging the gap between health and the environment.

Having accurate and timely tracking data enables public health authorities to determine temporal and spatial trends in disease and potential environmental exposures, identify populations most affected, and develop and assess the environmental public health policies and interventions aimed at reducing or eliminating diseases associated with environmental factors.

The availability of these types of data in a standardized network provides researchers, public health authorities, healthcare practitioners, and the public a better understanding about the possible associations between the environment and adverse health effects, and assists them with decision making.

The approach of this NOFO is to help address the above mentioned data issues by collaborating with the EH18-1801 recipient to assist in the development of standards and principles to effectively administer and integrate public health statistics.

This NOFO builds on the efforts from CDC-RFA-EH15-1501 to facilitate data sharing between states, improve data timeliness, and assist with the development of standards and principles to effectively administer and integrate public health data into the Tracking Network.

An example lesson learned from the previous NOFO was the development of a model Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between a jurisdiction's vital records/health statistics unit and the respective Tracking Program recipient; this effort helped establish a critical partnership.

The synergies created and activities conducted under the MOU enhanced coordination of services and information exchange and facilitated the utilization of resources through improved data sharing.
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Environmental Public Health and Emergency Response

Department of Health and Human Services


Agency: Department of Health and Human Services

Office: Centers for Disease Control - NCEH

Estimated Funding: $625,000


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2018-08-02


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