The following is a list of interesting articles about Health IT, FHIR, Death on FHIR, and their applications to Mortality Data.
- White House Report on Strengthening the Medicolegal Death Investigation System: Improving Data Systems (Note recommendation on interoperability between existing data systems, also note Appendix A which lists 40+ Federal agencies that rely on mortality data to support their missions): https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/NSTC/strengthening_the_medicolegal_death_investigation_system_final.pdf
- ASTHO Report on Improving Drug Specificity and Completeness on Death Certificates (Note recommendation on interoperability): http://www.astho.org/Rx/Improving-Drug-Spec-and-Comp-on-Death-Certs-for-Overdose-Deaths-Meeting-Report/
- Observational Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI, pronounced “Odyssey”): ..- Landing Page: https://www.ohdsi.org/ ..- Dr. Duke Explains how it works with an example: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2twteX6PuQ] ..- More Youtube Videos about OHDSI and how they do their work to help researchers answer questions by querying data and running analyses across multiple sites: https://www.youtube.com/user/OHDSIJoinTheJourney/videos?disable_polymer=1
- The American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) maintains an Opioid Resource Center: https://www.ascld.org/]opioid-resources/ Scroll down to find a link to a full listing of newly identified Novel Psychoactive Substances found in seized drugs (which you may see written on death certificates in your jurisdiction).
- Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement: A Common Sense Approach to Achieving Health Information Interoperability (Note emphasis on Open and Accessible APIs. The open comment period for this draft document closed February 20th): https://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/interoperability/trusted-exchange-framework-common-agreement-common-sense-approach-achieving-health-information-interoperability/