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4. Some New Directions
Pages 61-68

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From page 61...
... Comments from workshop participants suggest that dealing with the current system's shortcomings will require more major redirection than minor incremental changes in the system's organization and function. Indeed, the workshop discussions point to a search for innovative ways to gather health data and to transform it into useful health information, not just shoring up existing components of the system.
From page 62...
... There are at least two possible initiatives that could address important gaps in the nation's health statistics system. One is the creation of a separate, broadly focused, and semi-independent health information planning board with the responsibility and authority to provide overall focus, direction, and coordination to the national health data system.
From page 63...
... determine who decides the content and standards for health indicators for national health and health systems performance comparisons; 9. promote access to all existing health data by public and private researchers and policy makers; and 10.
From page 64...
... An example of this sort of comprehensive information system is the one currently under development in the United Kingdom (National Health Service, 19981. An underlying purpose of an ambitious longitudinal sample-derived portrait of the American public would be to expand the budding synergy among existing health surveys into a broad and significantly more important source of health information.
From page 65...
... For example, as mentioned above, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) outlined a strategy for their health system that includes lifelong electronic health records for every person in the country and round-the-clock on-line access to patient records and information about best clinical practices for all NHS clinicians (National Health Service, 19981.
From page 66...
... Furthermore, statewide data collection infrastructures are evolving, and as standardized sources of non-inpatient data become more readily available, the ability to link and aggregate these data into multi-state and national statistics increases, thus suggesting future reevaluation of the current national survey systems. Although not explicitly included on the formal agenda of the workshop for discussion, there are valid historical and political reasons why the current system evolved as a set of independent "silos" spanning a large number of federal agencies.
From page 67...
... National Health Service Executive, United Kingdom. Available: July 12, 2001]


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