The 2016 APDU Annual Conference is less than two weeks away, and the interest has been overwhelming. Attendees of the conference will be able to hear from leaders of statistical agencies on future plans for their valued data products, learn about innovative data visualization techniques, network with other researchers, administrators, and experts, and more.
The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has published the draft 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory, which details the standards and specifications that can improve the way electronic health record EHR systems share data. Health information technology developers and service providers are not required to adopt these standards, however ONC publishes the advisory to encourage companies to improve the effective and secure flow of data throughout the healthcare system.
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Justin Abold-LaBreche, acting director of the Office of Compliance Analytics at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Abold-Labreche discussed how the IRS uses analytics to enforce tax compliance, as well as the value of third party reporting for closing the tax gap in the United States.
Questions about who the U.S. Principal Party in Interest (USPPI) is often come up when reporting exports. The USPPI is the person or legal entity in the United States that receives the primary benefit, monetary or otherwise, from an export transaction.
The 2014 Small Area Health Insurance Estimates have been updated to include estimates for insured and uninsured individuals ages 21 to 64. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program requested the new age group to better target at-risk populations per the latest screening guidelines.
The U.S. Department of Transportation?s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has introduced its most innovative product ? a smartphone app for the Pocket Guide to Transportation 2016. The Pocket Guide is a popular, quick reference guide to significant transportation statistics. The new app allows users to take all the informative graphics and tables from the guide with them without having to carry a copy of the Pocket Guide. All of the features of the annual Pocket Guide will be available from both the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad and the Google Play store for Android devices.
The New York Times has created a series of data visualizations illustrating the rise and fall of national medal counts at every summer Olympic games, dating back to 1896. The visualizations compare national medal counts overall, as well as for individual sport categories, such as cycling, swimming, and gymnastics, and many include a brief analysis of the national makeup of medalists. The visualizations also reflect major political events that have influenced national medal counts, such as the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and the presence of the ?Unified Team? comprised of athletes from former Soviet Union countries during the 1992 Olympics.
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Calls for Comment
APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Intent To Renew the Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Users Advisory Committee (September 30, 2016)
Census Bureau
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) (September 30, 2016)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
2017 American Housing Survey (October 31, 2016)
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics (September 30, 2016)
September 1, 2016
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