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From page 207... ... Appendix G IOM Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement: Recommendations The IOM formed the Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement to examine approaches to the standardization of data on race, ethnicity, and language. In the 2009 report of the subcommittee, Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement, the IOM recommends collection of more granular ethnicity and language need according to national standards in addition to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Read the entire page →
From page 208... ... 208 NATIONAL HEALTHCARE QUALITY AND DISPARITIES REPORTS scheme should be used to roll up the granular ethnicity categories to the applicable broad OMB race and Hispanic ethnicity categories to the extent feasible. Recommendation 3-3: To determine the utility for health and health care purposes, HHS should pursue studies on different ways of framing the questions and related response categories for collecting race and ethnicity data at the level of the OMB categories, focusing on completeness and accuracy of response among all groups. Read the entire page →
From page 209... ... APPENDIX G 209 Recommendation 6-1b: HHS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) should adopt standards for including in electronic health records the variables of race, Hispanic ethnicity, granular ethnicity, and language need identified in this report. Read the entire page →

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... Appendix G IOM Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement: Recommendations The IOM formed the Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement to examine approaches to the standardization of data on race, ethnicity, and language. In the 2009 report of the subcommittee, Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement, the IOM recommends collection of more granular ethnicity and language need according to national standards in addition to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

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... 208 NATIONAL HEALTHCARE QUALITY AND DISPARITIES REPORTS scheme should be used to roll up the granular ethnicity categories to the applicable broad OMB race and Hispanic ethnicity categories to the extent feasible. Recommendation 3-3: To determine the utility for health and health care purposes, HHS should pursue studies on different ways of framing the questions and related response categories for collecting race and ethnicity data at the level of the OMB categories, focusing on completeness and accuracy of response among all groups.

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... APPENDIX G 209 Recommendation 6-1b: HHS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) should adopt standards for including in electronic health records the variables of race, Hispanic ethnicity, granular ethnicity, and language need identified in this report.

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