Given the public health impact of these disorders,
a new topic area, Blood Disorders and Blood Safety, was
created for Healthy People 2020 (HP2020), introducing 19
new objectives for reducing the burden of bleeding
disorders, hemoglobinopathies (SCD and thalassemia),
and VTE as well as improving and ensuring blood safety.6
However, the lack of adequate surveillance systems to
monitor these conditions and their health indicators is a
significant barrier to successfully informing and assessing
prevention efforts as well as measuring progress toward
these objectives.