Jodi Powell
Technical Support
support@meditrax.com
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Greetings,
The Health Informatics Section of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) is offering a FREE webinar entitled Incorporating Occupational Data into Infectious Disease Case Reports and Employee Health Records on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 from 1:00-2:30 pm EDT.
The webinar will address NIOSH's recently updated Occupational Data for Health (ODH) and will clarify opportunities for medical practices and electronic health records (EHRs) vendors to capture better occupational data in EHRs. Reliable I&O data is likely to benefit both clinical practice and reporting of infectious diseases that have an important occupational component.
You may register for the webinar by following this link: connect.acoem.org/s/lt-event?id=a1U3m00000L1rLZEAZ
You may be aware that Dr Joe was the original chair of the ACOEM Medical Informatics Section (before it was disbanded and then re-created by the College), and that for the past 9 years MediTrax, at his direction, has incorporated the NIOSH Industry and Occupation Computerized Coding System (NiOCCS) into our software. This enables users to document the Industry Code (SIC) and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for any Employer with a few mouse clicks. Over the years, Dr Joe has encouraged (and even offered to assist) other software vendors in adding this element to their data tables.
These codes were most recently updated by NIOSH
in November 2019. If your current software provider does not
allow you to capture this information, we recommend that you
encourage them to add this functionality -- and perhaps let them
know that they're also welcome to participate in the webinar.
MediTrax also enables users to document the Occupation Code for each worker with a few mouse clicks (these codes were most recently updated by NIOSH in December 2019). Again, we recommend that you ask your current software provider whether this functionality is (or will be) available.
We will be attending the August 5 webinar to
learn how we can better incorporate this information into
reports which facilitate a better understanding of the
relationship between industries, occupations, and the health of
workers and their families. We encourage you to pass this
information on to any individuals at your facility who may
be interested in better statistical analysis and reporting
of this type of data.
Jodi Powell