March 4, 2015 Education Telecon

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Attendees

• Ken Chen - (Chair)

Quorum:

Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Tutorials

• SAIF Webinar
  • will be recorded at the WGM
  • Feb 5, 2014: Ron's day job interfered with his available time to record. He is looking to reschedule but no word yet.
  • May 21, 2014: Ron still has not had the time to engage the SAIF Webinar
  • June 4: No updates since last conference call, Melva will continue to follow up
  • October 1, 2014: No update
  • February 18, 2015: No update
• Patrick: We don't want to lose the knowledge for SAIF since it an important part of the standard

Action: Melva follow up with Lorraine again about SAIF Webinar - email sent November 10 - Will be reviewed on ARB next week

Tutorial Planning

• Core tutorials on HL7 Standards, and have specialized tutorials alternated between WGM
• Start with the January WGM tutorials
• Rene Spronk has some draft stats on Education events that will be discussed in Chicago
• Continue discussion of stats that would be useful
  • Education Offering Dashboard
    • This was an action item allocated to me during the WGM in Chicago. The usefulness of the various metrics probably merits additional discussion. Once there is agreement on a 'starter set of metrics' we'll have to create a mechanism to actually get hold of them.
  • Rene has created the statistics wiki page.
  • Number that Rene has on the wiki is not consistent to the actual numbers
• Focus on HL7 HQ stats first and quality measures.
• Location included in the statistic as may impact attendance/participation
• February 18, 2015: No update

Action: Education WG Members to review Wiki page for next teleconference
Action: Education WG Members are asked to send suggestions for other stats or types of stat to capture

Discussion of Certification Exams and Ed Summits

• v2 Workshop Project
  • Ken and Diego have been working on the update to the PSS
  • Diego will follow what Virginia has been doing at Columbia
  • Diego will have a proposal on the next teleconference
  • Damien still interested in working with project
  • Virginia indicated interest also

Action:Ken to provide an update on the PSS for the next teleconference

Updates to the Certification exams

• Sharon has analyzed the certifications and will need to possibly revise the questions.
  • Sharon would like to create a taskforce to review the questions on the exams.
    • Qualifications needed to be on the taskforce:
      • The group will be comprised of volunteers from the tutorial speaker pool to review the certification exam
      • Must have attended/audit the actual tutorial
      • Must be approved by the Education Committee
  • Sharon is working on an outline for a plan and guidelines for updates to existing and also for developing FHIR into a Certification Exam
  • Will bring back more information after meeting with Melva, Sharon and Mary Ann in August
  • Discussion of planning item back writing session during January 2015 WGM
    • Difficult to pull in the resourses (SME) to find time to collaborate and focus on questions during WGM.
• Sharon Provided updates on v2 and cda exams
  • Sharon has all she needs for V2
  • For CDA waiting for a response
  • By the end of February to mid march Sharon will have the updated exam
  • Rene – IHE has new exam on the international level
  • Virginia suggested that we should know what IHE is doing
  • Melva asked Sharon if she had a contact with IHE- She did not
  • Rene had information on IHE and will send information
• Sharon has drafted the process and will continue to work on the planning of a group to review the material.

Action: Sharon will send new draft to the listserv.

Strategy for HL7 V2 Exam Updates

• Ted Klein presented on strategy for updating Control Specialist exam to V2.8
• will look at the statistics on the performance of the questions on the 2.7 exam and look at the non-performing questions and fix these ones
• Questions from Ted:
  • update to V2.8, v2.8.1 or v2.8.2 -
    • 2.8.1 has been balloted as normative
    • will update to V2.8 - will avoid changes specific to 2.8.1 or 2.8.2 - Education WG agrees with this approach
    • need to determine if in the future we want to want to certify to major releases or minor releases.
  • Approach for updating the test
    • 6 questions identified that could be added to the test (means 6 questions would be removed)
    • 2 things to change/update
    • 2 items to verify in existing questions
    • update questions with incorrect answer rates > 66% and < 5%
    • it was suggested that Ted is much more familiar with the exam and the standard and that if he believes these need to be changed, then do so
    • it was suggested that the changes be vetted with Hans, Tony and Patrick
    • suggested that the exam be reviewed with Sharon
  • Total number of changes will be between 25-30 questions
  • draft of changes to be done by the end of December 2014
  • asked Ted to provide status in the New Year
• Sharon has reviewed the changes with the committee before final version for the questions
• Sharon will do a beta test on the questions.
• PSS will need to update the course

Action:Patrick will create a PSS for the updates to the V2 exams

MLM Certification

• Suggestion from Virginia for a certification test for "Medical Logic Modules"====
  • Its very stable, self-contained, and people are hired as MLM developers. Several large EHR vendors use MLM as the way of programming custom CDS into their systems. We use it at NYP. A certification in this might look good on a resume
  • Discussion: need more details and consider how it fits with Arden Syntax WG
• Virginia will reach out to Arden Syntax

Action:Ginny will reach out to the Arden Syntax WG Chair to collaborate with this certification test.
Action:Ginny will try to invite them to the call.

Next meeting

• Next meeting - March 18, 2015