Submitted by rmcclure on
Please align with OMB regulations
OMB has published updated regulations to combine Race and Ethnicity into one question. In doing so they elevate the existing Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) concept as a "top level" reporting category, but they also remove the distinction between "race" and "ethnicity" while allowing for the collection of prior top-level categories from both. I strongly encourage ONC to align with this intent and combine race and ethnicity into one data element. Note that existing models and data are easily aligned with this proposed improvement.
Submitted by ufbfung on
Please align with the new OMB regulations
Please align with the new OMB regulations that were just released: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/03/29/2024-06469/revisions-to-ombs-statistical-policy-directive-no-15-standards-for-maintaining-collecting-and. There is a conflict between guidance from USCDI, and notably, US CORE, and it'd be great to have alignment between the new, very welcomed, OMB regulations and the various artifacts (e.g. USCDI and US CORE) that are shaping our FHIR implementations.