CNMI Update Subroto Banerji Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation Office
CNMI Update Subroto Banerji Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation Office of the Chief Executive Officer Wil Rospel Health and Vital Statistics Office
Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation ● CNMI Vital Statistics Act 2006 ○ CNMI Department of Public Health ● PL 16 -51 signed in January 2009 ○ Effective October 2011 with BOT, CEO ■ Corporation operates independently from central government ■ CNMI government has oversight function through legislative processes, committee hearings ● CHCC ○ ○ ○ The ONLY hospital in the CNMI Outpatient clinics Population Health Services Tinian Health Center - only medical center on Tinian Rota Health Center - only medical center on Rota
Birth/Death registration completeness
Outputs ● Annual report to BOT, CNMI Government ● Monthly updates ● Data requests ○ ○ ○ Temporary residents Birth Tourism Surrogacy
Information Systems Modernization Initiatives ● Electronic Health Record ○ ○ US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)- Centers for Medicaid, Medicare Services regulations Address silos within the corporation ● ELR/LIS ○ Off island reference laboratory ● CVRS ● Improve data reporting and sharing ○ ○ CHCC community, public use USG partners and Pacific region partners
CVRS Priorities ● CHCC (EVRS) + CNMI government ○ ○ Enable CNMI to electronically transmit birth and death data to HHS/CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Improve reporting timeliness and quality of vital events information Increase security and fraud prevention Enable CNMI to participate in the exchange of information through Electronic Verification of Vital Events with CNMI Government and US Government Agencies (HHS, Department of State) ● Integration with EHR, data warehouse ● Disaster preparedness
Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation
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