Annual Performance Plan - 2014, Revised Final Performance Plan - 2013 Page 16
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89Strategic Objective 1.2
Improve Our Disability Policies, Procedures,
and Tools
Ø Enhance and Expand Our Electronic Tools to Support Policy Compliant
Determinations at All Levels of Decision-Making
Ø Replace the Outdated Dictionary of Occupational Titles with a New
Occupational Information System to Aid in the Medical and Vocational Analysis
of Disability Claims
Ø Develop and Implement a Common Disability Case Processing System for All
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Ø Review Best Practices Learned from Our Prototype Test and Apply Them
TRATEGIES
Nationwide for a More Consistent Disability Process
Ø Eliminate the Use of Paper Authorization to Request Medical Evidence
Ø Regularly Update the Listing of Impairments, Which Describes Impairments
Severe Enough to Prevent an Individual from Working, to Reflect Current
Medical Knowledge
Ø Develop and Test Proposals that Simplify Our Disability and Work Incentive
Programs
We continue to find ways to improve our disability process. We regularly update our disability policies,
procedures, and tools to keep up with the continuous advances in medicine and technology. Over the
years, testing for and treatment of impairments has changed. We are committed to modernizing our
disability decision-making processes to provide better service to the public. We are making
fundamental changes in the way we request and receive medical information to determine disability.
We continue to update the medical and vocational information we use to make disability
determinations by revising our Listing of Impairments (Listings) and developing the Occupational
Information System (OIS). In addition, we are developing automated systems to improve efficiency,
such as the Disability Case Processing System (DCPS), which will unify separate DDS systems into one
common system for the entire Nation. We will continue to use health Information Technology (health
IT) in our disability process to help us obtain medical evidence almost instantaneously. We will also
improve our employment support programs for people with disabilities who want to work.
Our efforts to improve our disability policies, procedures, and tools to provide better service to the
public include:
Updating Our Listings: One of the most effective tools used to make disability decisions is the Listings.
The Listings allow us to find a claimant disabled when his or her impairment meets specified medical
criteria, without the need to consider age, education, or work experience. The Listings improve the
consistency and accuracy of our decisions throughout all levels of the disability process.
Working with the Institute of Medicine, we have established a committee of medical experts to advise
us on medical advancements that are relevant to our Listings. This committee will help ensure that our
Listings are relevant, medically supportable, and technologically and scientifically current.
In calendar year 2012, we published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for language and
speech disorders and a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for special senses (vision) in the Federal Register.
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