Which health professions will the uniform health workforce data reporting system include?
That’s a very interesting question. With our limited resources, we’ll start with major professional groups and see how we manage that. But we haven’t ruled out any groups. Who will be reporting data to the uniform health workforce data reporting system? That’s where this notion of a collaborative model comes in: we want to work with a variety of groups, each of whom has access to parts of an overall data set. For example, associations of schools have good access to data on individuals in training. Licensing boards have access to information on who is actively engaged in practice. No single organization is going to have access to all of the needed information. We see an important role for HRSA in helping these organizations find ways to work together and produce a high quality set of data on their stakeholders. We believe that HRSA is in a good position to serve as a “trusted broker” in assuring that all with legitimate needs to use the data, can access it. You mentioned earlier that yo
