Health IT Advisory Committee Legal and Policy Issues: Current Status and Future Needs

05/13/2021

Nicholas D. Soulakis, PhD Chief Public Health Informatics Adviser About Me

Nicholas D Soulakis

• PhD in Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health • Currently contractor to the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), serving as Chief Public Health Informatics Adviser since September 2020.

• Served as an Epidemiologist at the Illinois Department of Public Health. from the earliest days of COVID response, primarily developing and growing the Contact Tracing Program.

• On leave from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, where I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Divisions of Health and Biomedical Informatics and Epidemiology.

2 3 PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER No. 2020-4: Medical Data Sharing Requirements

Issued and Effective: April 6, 2020 • Logical evolution of field hospital electronic health record infrastructure This order requires hospitals within the City • Governance Committee comprised of of Chicago to provide CDPH with access to Chief Medical Officers across the city electronic health records, while taking steps • Specified data elements for patients to protect patient confidentiality, to help previously tested for COVID-19 consistent CDPH in its effort to stop the disease. The with Office of the National Coordinator information includes patient impact and for Health Information Technology hospital capacity elements, as well as patient recommendations (“CCDS 2015 Edition”) information specified by demographic. Read • Includes CDC’s National Healthcare the full order No. 2020-4. Safety Network patient impact and hospital capacity elements

Complete Executive Order: https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/sites/covid/health-orders/2021/2020-4_4_reissued_01.2021.pdf 4 Chicago Hospitals by CDPH Data Hub connection status

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