Which of the following is a step in the FOCUS Dataset process?

• A. Build a specification detailing and metrics
• B. Create marketing materials for FOCUS
• C. Work with the community to convert existing billing formats
• D. Deploy FOCUS in production with one vendor

Answer: (C)

Harmonizing billing data across providers through community collaboration is a central step in the FOCUS Dataset process. This approach ensures diverse payment formats are translated into a unified representation, enabling consistent aggregation, accurate comparisons, and reliable analysis downstream. Involving the community helps develop shared conventions and practical mappings for converting existing formats, which is essential for creating a usable, standardized dataset. The other activities—defining a specification with metrics, marketing efforts, or deployment with a single vendor—are planning, outreach, or deployment tasks that don’t by themselves establish the standardized data that the dataset requires.