54. Promoting Health Equity with Better Race and Ethnicity Data Standards with Kasey McCreery from Phreesia

Host Sandy Vance welcomes Kasey McCreery, the Director of Clinical Documentation at Phreesia, to talk about race and ethnicity data and how unintentional bias placed into our questions at the bedside can impact data that is important for provider decision making.  Interoperability is one of the key components of efficient and high-quality patient care. Kasey is a nurse and NP who is on a mission to help healthcare organizations collect accurate data without bias by standardizing the process used to collect it. If you have any questions about Phreesia and/or want to help improve race and ethnicity data collection, you can email Kasey. In this episode, they talk about: Why interoperability is important to Kasey and nurses everywhere How systems and processes which use the same questions and definitions can be the path to non-biased care for patients everywhere How Phreesia helps healthcare organizations collect better patient data Why Phreesia’s studies place importance on approachable UI, appropriate translations, and standards for all patients.    A Little About Kasey: Kasey McCreery, NP-C, MSHI, is the Director of Clinical Documentation at Phreesia. She is a nurse practitioner and has a master's in nursing with a specialty in healthcare informatics. Kasey worked as a nurse for nine years at a health system in Indianapolis, where her experiences caring for patients helped her develop a passion to improve healthcare IT for all users. She was a founding member and leader of the Nursing Informatics Council and has experience leading innovative informatics teams to place patients at the center of health IT. Kasey expanded her informatics knowledge at Clinical Architecture for five years and enjoys working with standard terminology to solve complex problems.