“The National Institute of Health is developing a new tool to help make data on maternal health readily accessible, part of a supplement technology to the broader electronic health record adoption.”
“Federal researchers are designing MaternalHealthLink to be able to share, retrieve and store health data for expectant mothers. The project is a collaboration between the NIH, the Department of Health and Human Services’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
“Nahida Chakhtoura, a medical officer with the Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch at the NIH, said that the goal of the MaternalHealthLink is to develop the tool as part of foundational infrastructure so that data can be shared across public health agencies…”
“MaternalHealthLink is set to function as an addendum to the federal electronic health records software’s mission to improve health data access. The project is slated to be designed in accordance with the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources guidelines, which are a set of standards for software developers regarding health care data tools.”
“’Here, what we’re trying to do is just get improved data for pregnancy, and pregnancy conditions and infants,’ she said…” Read the full press release here.
Source: NIH Developing Data Access Tool for Maternal Health – By Alexandra Kelley, March 14, 2022. Nextgov.
