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Overview

This page supports projects within the following ONC Grant funded opportunities:

• Enhancing C-CDA and FHIR Implementation (2015 - 2017)
• Maturing C-CDA and FHIR Implementation (2018 - )

The following pages have been created to reflect the C-CDA related project and the FHIR related projects

• C-CDA: Enhancing Implementation (ONC Grant Project)
• FHIR: Enhancing Implementation (ONC Grant Project)

The following are brief descriptions of each project created under the Maturing C-CDA and FHIR Implementation (2018 - ) ONC grant.
(The full title of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is: Closing the Gap between Standards Development and Implementation-Maturing the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Standard)

2.1 UTG Process: Working Prototype Develop a working UTG prototype that further develops the current Proof of Concept (PoC) demonstration including the FHIR toolkit and Terminology Server, and use of JIRA/Confluence workflow

2.2 FHIR Ballot Process & Tooling Leveraging Confluence and JIRA, design and implement a new ballot management and reconciliation process and tooling.

3.1 FHIR Connectathon Administrator

Fulfill the roles and responsibilities of the FHIR Connectathon Administrator and produce the following deliverables: a. FHIR Connectathon Communication Plan b. Pre-Connectathon Survey for Participants c. Post-Connectathon Satisfaction Survey d. Orientation Package for all Track Leads e. Event Report within one week of the FHIR Connectathon event

3.2 FHIR Ballot Facilitator(s) Fulfill the roles and responsibilities of the HL7 Ballot Facilitator by facilitating the reconciliation of high priority product ballots, including clarification of content before Work Group discussions, proposing block votes, documenting discussions, decisions and actions related to ballot reconciliation and management of change proposals.

3.3 FHIR Ballot Coordinator Fulfill the roles and responsibilities of the HL7 Ballot Coordinator by administering and managing the FHIR Ballot Facilitators.

4 FHIR Bulk Data Access & Push Projects

Add new capabilities to the FHIR specification to increase support for API-based access and push of data for large number of patients in support of provider-based exchange, analytics and other value-based services; upgrade existing FHIR reference server implementations to more effectively support “Bulk Access and Push” applications

5.1 C-CDA Implementation-A-Thons Engage industry players (vendors, healthcare providers, payers and health information exchanges) via a two (2) day face-to-face C-CDA Implementation-A-Thon event and a one (1) day virtual C-CDA Implementation-A-Thon event. IATs are based on HL7’s Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture Release 2.1 (C-CDA R2.1), which updated the Consolidated CDA DSTU 2.0 specification to support compatibility with C-CDA 1.1.

FHIR Ballot Processing Support Provide quality review and pre-processing of ballot comment spreadsheets for the April 2018 FHIR R4 ballot to facilitate loading into gForge so comments can be expeditiously reconciled and resolved by the committees