CDC official urges standards and interoperability to speed medical-legal death data for public health Margaret Warner of the National Center for Health Statistics told an FTCoE webinar that better data standards, APIs and interoperable systems (HL7/FHIR) can make medical-examiner and coroner data timelier and more useful for public health, safety and resource planning. She highlighted provisional overdose counts and described federal data systems that rely on MDI data.

Modernizing medical-examiner data systems could revolutionize public health responses, revealing vital insights into overdose trends and improving resource allocation.

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