Dear NAHDO Members & Friends,
I hope you are having a good start to a great summer. Before you go on vacation, be sure to register for NAHDO’s 30th Anniversary Meeting in Washington DC, October 28-30! Register Here. We have a great agenda planned and we invite you to celebrate with us as we look back to our roots and forward to our future. These are indeed exciting times for the health care data community and NAHDO and we invite you to help us shape a vision of improved data and innovative uses of the data we know and love so much!
New Developments at NAHDO
 I am honored to have been appointed by Dr. Burwell to a four-year term on The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS). NCVHS is the statutory public advisory body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on health information policy. Established in 1949, NCVHS provides advice and assistance on key health data issues related to community and population health, standards, privacy and confidentiality, quality, and data access and use. It reports regularly to Congress on HIPAA implementation, and serves as a forum for interaction between HHS and interested private sector groups. Members have distinction in such fields as public health, education, informatics, law, economics, and medicine.
We are delighted to announce staff updates to our NAHDO team. Emily Sullivan, MPH has returned to NAHDO as Deputy Director and Callie Thackeray, last year’s summer intern, has returned as Research Associate, full-time. The NAHDO team continues to work in close collaboration with the University of New Hampshire’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice team---and together we make up the All-Payer Claims Database Council.
 We also congratulate our new graduates: Carly Alleman just graduated from the University of Utah with dual Masters degrees in Social Work and Public Health. Callie Thackeray just graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in public health emphasis in epidemiology.
Best wishes,
Denise Love, Executive Director
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APCD Council Publishes Guidance for Model APCD Legislation
With support from the Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center, the APCD Council is pleased to announce the development and publication of model guidance for states to develop APCD legislation.
Read the brief.
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Save the date!
NAHDO is excited to announce its 30th Anniversary Meeting, including the 9th Annual APCD Workshop, to be held October 28-30, 2015 in Washington D.C.
 Click HERE to view an updated draft agenda.
To sponsor or exhibit at NAHDO's meeting, view the prospectus HERE. Please contact Robin Pratt to learn more at rpratt@nahdo.org / 801 532.2299.
For additional conference details, and to register, visit NAHDO's conference page at www.nahdo.org/annual_conference.
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FREE National Conference on Health Statistics
 August 24–26, 2015
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center North Bethesda, Maryland
This year’s conference will be an opportunity to share ideas with many of the nation’s leading figures in public health, as well as hundreds of other members of the health statistics research community.
Click HERE for more information.
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ICD-10 Transition Conversion Tool
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Conversion tool for the ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM Transition. The adoption of ICD-10-CM/PCS is effective October 1, 2015 for medical claims. Public health programs that obtain data from multiple data sources may receive data in overlapping time periods without clear indication of which coding scheme (ICD-9 or ICD-10) was used. Some data reporting entities (e.g., property and casualty insurers, disability, workers compensation, employee health clinics) are not covered by HIPAA and may not switch to ICD-10-CM on 10/1/2015 and some data reporting entities may choose to implement ICD-10-CM before 10/1/2015, given no prohibition against doing so.
To help programs and data users identify which coding scheme is used, the University of California at Davis (UCD) developed, for CDC use, a SAS program that now is available to the public. The toolkit was developed by UCD under funding from the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (CSELS) within the Office of Public Health Scientific Services (OPHSS) at the CDC.
Information about this tool can be found on NAHDO’s website:
https://www.nahdo.org/ICD9-10Tools
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