| Submitted By: Melissa Ayres / SSA | |
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| Data Element Information | |
| Use Case Description(s) | |
| Use Case Description | SSA-VA federal benefits determination |
| Estimated number of stakeholders capturing, accessing using or exchanging | approximately 11,000,000 individuals currently receive disability benefits from SSA with the number of applicants being higher |
| Supporting Attachments |
USCDI V3+ Prioritized-SSA-VA_FINAL 9302022.xlsx |
| Use Case Description | entered in error |
| Estimated number of stakeholders capturing, accessing using or exchanging | entered in error |
| Healthcare Aims |
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| Maturity of Use and Technical Specifications for Data Element | |
| Applicable Standard(s) | Please see suggestions from attached Excel document |
| Additional Specifications | N/A |
| Current Use | Extensively used in production environments |
| Number of organizations/individuals with which this data element has been electronically exchanged | 5 or more. This data element has been tested at scale between multiple different production environments to support the majority of anticipated stakeholders. |
| Supporting Artifacts |
SSA and VA currently obtain these elements via record exchange over the eHealth Exchange and other partners |
| Potential Challenges | |
| Restrictions on Standardization (e.g. proprietary code) | None |
| Restrictions on Use (e.g. licensing, user fees) | None |
| Privacy and Security Concerns | None |
| Estimate of Overall Burden | We do not believe this to be a significant burden because we are already receiving this information in our one to one exchanges. |
| ONC Evaluation Details Each submitted Data Element has been evaluated based on the following 4 criteria. The overall Level classification is a composite of the maturity based on these individual criteria. This information can be used to identify areas that require additional work to raise the overall classification level and consideration for inclusion in future versions of USCDI |
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| Maturity – Standards/Technical Specifications | Level 1/2 - Must be represented by a vocabulary standard or an element of a published technical specification |
| Maturity - Current Use | Level 2 - Used at scale in more than 2 different production environments |
| Maturity - Current Exchange | Level 2 - Demonstrates exchange between 4 or more organizations with different EHR/HIT systems |
| Breadth of Applicability - # Stakeholders Impacted | Comment Level - Used by few stakeholders, or for narrowly defined conditions or events |
| Evaluation Comment | This submission is considered a “subset” of another data element already included in USCDI or that has been previously submitted. This other data element is Procedure Note https://www.healthit.gov/isa/taxonomy/term/631/uscdi-v3. This data element is designated a Comment level. |
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