TY - JOUR
T1 - Transmission Dynamics
T2 - Data Sharing in the COVID-19 Era
AU - Foraker, Randi E.
AU - Lai, Albert M.
AU - Kannampallil, Thomas G.
AU - Woeltje, Keith F.
AU - Trolard, Anne M.
AU - Payne, Philip R.O.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Problem: The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic underscores the need for building and sustaining public health data infrastructure to support a rapid local, regional, national, and international response. Despite a historical context of public health crises, data sharing agreements and transactional standards do not uniformly exist between institutions which hamper a foundational infrastructure to meet data sharing and integration needs for the advancement of public health. Approach: There is a growing need to apply population health knowledge with technological solutions to data transfer, integration, and reasoning, to improve health in a broader learning health system ecosystem. To achieve this, data must be combined from healthcare provider organizations, public health departments, and other settings. Public health entities are in a unique position to consume these data, however, most do not yet have the infrastructure required to integrate data sources and apply computable knowledge to combat this pandemic. Outcomes: Herein, we describe lessons learned and a framework to address these needs, which focus on: (1) identifying and filling technology “gaps”; (2) pursuing collaborative design of data sharing requirements and transmission mechanisms; (3) facilitating cross-domain discussions involving legal and research compliance; and (4) establishing or participating in multi-institutional convening or coordinating activities. Next steps: While by no means a comprehensive evaluation of such issues, we envision that many of our experiences are universal. We hope those elucidated can serve as the catalyst for a robust community-wide dialogue on what steps can and should be taken to ensure that our regional and national healthcare systems can truly learn, in a rapid manner, so as to respond to this and future emergent public health crises.
AB - Problem: The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic underscores the need for building and sustaining public health data infrastructure to support a rapid local, regional, national, and international response. Despite a historical context of public health crises, data sharing agreements and transactional standards do not uniformly exist between institutions which hamper a foundational infrastructure to meet data sharing and integration needs for the advancement of public health. Approach: There is a growing need to apply population health knowledge with technological solutions to data transfer, integration, and reasoning, to improve health in a broader learning health system ecosystem. To achieve this, data must be combined from healthcare provider organizations, public health departments, and other settings. Public health entities are in a unique position to consume these data, however, most do not yet have the infrastructure required to integrate data sources and apply computable knowledge to combat this pandemic. Outcomes: Herein, we describe lessons learned and a framework to address these needs, which focus on: (1) identifying and filling technology “gaps”; (2) pursuing collaborative design of data sharing requirements and transmission mechanisms; (3) facilitating cross-domain discussions involving legal and research compliance; and (4) establishing or participating in multi-institutional convening or coordinating activities. Next steps: While by no means a comprehensive evaluation of such issues, we envision that many of our experiences are universal. We hope those elucidated can serve as the catalyst for a robust community-wide dialogue on what steps can and should be taken to ensure that our regional and national healthcare systems can truly learn, in a rapid manner, so as to respond to this and future emergent public health crises.
KW - collaboration
KW - Data sharing
KW - healthcare delivery
KW - population health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087145143&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/lrh2.10235
DO - 10.1002/lrh2.10235
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 32838037
AN - SCOPUS:85087145143
JO - Learning Health Systems
JF - Learning Health Systems
SN - 2379-6146
ER -