Where did the CDC NHSN COVID-19 Measure Definition References Go?

Last week, after the Federal Government shifted the responsibility from NHSN at the CDC to elsewhere in HHS for Hospital Situational Awareness reporting, the source materials for the measures we were using were taken down from the CDC NHSN web site.  This represents one of the challenges of the digital age, the ability to erase information. Unlike physical documents or books, web pages can just be disappeared.

Fortunately, even while documents can be lost and books go out of print, we generally maintain archives of those sorts of source materials.  And the Internet has an archive as well.  So, when the SANER Project lost those reference links, we decided we'd grab them from the Internet's archive.

The SANER project may not be the only one still wanting to work with that data (for example, their's Lantana's SMART on FHIR based reporting app that is still under development).

These files will be added to the SANER IG as soon as I publish the next version, but until then, you can download the most recent versions from Google Drive.  And if you want to follow the history, you can look for these same files in the Internet Archive to see all the versions that have been stored.