EHR RM-ES

EHR Records Management & Evidentiary Support (RM-ES) Project

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Project Overview

Welcome to HL7's EHR Records Management & Evidentiary Support wiki page.

The charge of the RM-ES project team is to provide expertise to the EHR work group, other standards groups and the healthcare industry on records management, compliance, and data/record integrity for, EHR systems and related to EHR governance to support the use of medical records for clinical care and decision-making, business, legal and disclosure purposes. The project team will meet this charge by completing the following:

1. Develop, ballot and refine the EHR-S RM-ES Functional Profile.
   • First RM-ES Profile developed against EHR-S FM Release 1
2. Inform the EHR-S Functional Model and related standards on records management and evidentiary support functions and conformance criteria.
3. Monitor and/or collaborate with other standards groups (HL7, ISO, HITSP) as appropriate to provide expertise or to work on joint projects that develop, promote or refine RM-ES requirements for EHRs.
   • HL7 other groups such as the Interoperability Model, Structured Documents, Security
   • International standards organization such as ISO through EHR-S FM
   • Non-HL7 Standards Groups such as HITSP, Canada Health Infoway, etc.
4. Advocate for RM-ES issues in the healthcare industry as appropriate.

Refer to the RM-ES Project Team Charter for more information.

The 2010 RM-ES Workplan includes detailed information on the activities and work deliverables currently under development by the RM-ES team.

Task Group Leaders

Michelle Dougherty

AHIMA

Phone: 312.233.1914

email: michelle.dougherty@ahima.org)

Harry Rhodes

AHIMA

Phone: 312.233.1119

Email: harry.rhodes@ahima.org

Work Group Team Members

Meeting Information

The RM-ES project team meets via conference call on a regular basis. The group may schedule a face to face meeting based on need. The RM-ES workgroup will report to the HL7 EHR Workgroup through their regular meetings or at the HL7 meetings.

• Standing Meeting Date/Time: Mondays at 12 Noon EST /11 AM CST/ 10 AM MST/ 9 AM PST
• Full Team: Every other Monday for 90 minutes
• Project teams: Alternate Mondays
• Call Logistics
  • Phone Number: 770-657-9270
  • Participant Passcode: 510269#

Project Documents

1. Crosswalk Project
   • Deliverable: A crosswalk between key criteria between the Lifecycle Model, CDA R2 Header, and RM-ES Profile to determine related metadata concepts and terms and work toward a single list of metadata concepts and definitions where possible.
   • Working Document: RMES CrossWalk Report
2. Evaluation of NPRM Meaningful Use and IFR Standards and Certification
   • Update on Meaningful Use NPRM & Standards/Certification IFR related to the Record management & Evidentiary Support profile
   • Working Documents

RM-ES Administrative Documents

1. RM-ES Charter Document
2. RM-ES Workplan Document

RM-ES Completed/Archived Projects

This section contains Projects and associated documents that have been completed and/or archived.

1. ProjectName

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