September 2014 WGM Chicago: Sept 14 to Sept 19
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Chicago WGM - September 2014 Patient Care WG Meeting Approved agenda:
Contents
- 1 Phoenix WGM - May 2014. Patient Care WG Meeting Meeting Minutes
- 2 Patient Care WGM, Monday, September 15, 2014
- 3 Patient Care WGM, Tuesday, September 16, 2014
- 4 Patient Care WGM, Wednesday, September 17, 2014
- 5 Patient Care WGM, Thursday, September 18, 2014
- 6 Patient Care WGM, Friday, September 19, 2014
Phoenix WGM - May 2014. Patient Care WG Meeting Meeting Minutes
Patient Care WGM, Monday, September 15, 2014
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Monday Q1 - Plenary Session
No PCWG meeting
Monday Q2 - Plenary Session
No PCWG meeting
Patient Care Monday Q-Lunch - Allergy/Intolerance Terminology Meeting
Present:
Elaine Ayres (Chair)
Donna Quirk (Scribe)
Russ Leftwich
Stephen Chu
Margaret Dittloff
Jay Lyle
Jim Case
Rob Hausam
Rob McCurie
Evelyn Gellago
Jane Miller (IHTSDO)
Julia Skapik
Others ...
Minutes:
- Allergy and Intolerance Food Substances – Elaine Ayers reviewed the Allergy & intolerance RMIM model.
- Update on SNOMED-CT Submissions -Elaine reviewed mapping work for allergies. Chose to use SNO-MED CT for terminology.
Issue – where do you put these terms? Multiple places? New terms are in US extension. How to get to International extension? Jim Case will reviews extensions and moves to international.
- Discuss use of UNII vs. other systems
- - Issues discussed.
- We don’t know how to enter a UNII code. Don’t know how to participate. Rob McClure – UNII codes created in context of substance creation – request code when substance created. FDA responsibility now with USP. May be different rules. Need to get clarity about this. UNII codes obtained for drug ingredients. Very unclear area. Food label is proprietary – nutrition facts, ingredients etc belong to the company so don’t have access. Labels aren’t electronic for reuse. “Others” ingredients on label – don’t know what it is. Hard to link to bar code and nutrition facts. Leaning toward SNOMED due to international extension and hierarchy. Russ Leftwich raised a practical consideration – most food reactions occur outside of home
- Diet Orders – Margaret Dittloff gave an update. Supplement part of model is problematic. Recently put into SNOMED classes of supplement products. Now we need the specific product names for practitioners. Next step – how do we get info from the manufacturer to get to product and ingredient levels.
- - Issues - Negation – DSTU comments for negation Putting negation in model – not in terminology. Is there negation in FHIR? Need to ask
- RxFOOD and Structured Product Labels – Elaine and Margaret reviewed new project to answer questions about supplement, enteral product and baby formula product formulations and ingredients using SPL. Can get info into First data bank etc. but need an active ingredient to get to RxNorm. Can we use existing processes? Need UNII codes for SPL – so again – need to know the inner operation of UNII.
- - Need to know the role of GS1. Need to get GS1 to table.
- Preferences - The Preferences model is an outgrowth of allergy work. Question raised about canned, cooked, raw. Jim Case shared the terms are a class with no children. In preference model represented as an observation and supply. Per Elaine – needs more work
- C-CDA – Elaine reviewed C-CDA R2 nutrition templates. A nutrition status observation must have an assessment. The nutrition status observation serves as the “nutrition diagnosis”.
- Status of SNOMED-CT and LOINC Terms - Significant terminology work completed and on-going in LOINC and SNOMED. Will put in value set authority when ready.
- FHIR resources for nutrition - Want to do assessments – will be working on this during this week
- Elaine asked: Do we continue to have nutrition meeting? Yes!! Discussed how to advance agenda items and what is the priority? How do we advance ingredient level detail info – what is the path forward? Mark Roche can help with GS1. How do manufacturers get involved? It was recommended to position terms then go to GS1.
- Slide deck presented at meeting:
Patient Monday Q3
Present:
Stephen Chu (chair)
Michael Tan (scribe)
Emma Jones
Enrique Meneses
Annie Alexander
Christina Knotts
Russ Leftwich
Minutes:
• Approval of Phoenix WGM:
- o Any questions and no further discussion
- o Russ move to approve the minutes, Michael second
- o Vote: 6 in favor, 0 abstain, 0 disapprove.
• Meeting Agenda for Chicago is reviewed:
- o Actions still required for the FHIR lunch meeting.
- o Wednesday Q1:
- - The Child Health has started a project about a high level summary for children.
- - The second project is EPSDT screening. The states are responsible for carrying out.(Medicaid).
- Emma has information about IHE and hearing screening and will send it to the PCWG list.
• Stephen needs input for the PCWG information for joint meetings.
- For example the Health concern ballot statistics. action MTan
• In the FHIR meeting we need to consider whether clinical asssessment is a new resource.
- o To be discuss at joint meeting with OO - Wednesday Q3
• Also need to determine whether Procedure order needs to be a new FHIR resource.
- Issue - need to determine what "education" resource is:
- - It seems logic to consider education is a procedures of instruction type
- - but education is more than just instruction
- - there are 4 components in education (assessment/evaluation, materials/contents, order/plan, delivery/instruction).
- - Informed consent is a specific type of instruction
• Thursday Q2 joint with SD. Topics for discussions include:
- o Allergy/Intolerance and adverse reaction harmonization
- o Care Plan harmonization
- o Discussion on two templates (Allergy Status and Problem Status observatios) by SDWG
- - Stephen is unclear why SD has deprecated these templates.
- - The replacement: using Act.Status value + effectiveTime are considered inadequate to express the rich clinical semantics for clinical status of conditions
• Friday Q1 Michael will attend the templates session and report back .
• The other co-chairs will be occupied with the clinical connectathon.
• Anne asked what the templates contains.
- o Stephen and Michael explained that: these are architectural specifications how to set up templates, version control and maintenance.
- o The template group does not define any specific template for example a care plan.
- o Clinical or administrative templates are developed and published by HL7 domain groups such as PCWG, SDWG
- o Realms specific organisations such as the ONC may also produce and publish templates
- o Templates are then published in template repositories designed conforming to the Template ITS published by Template WG
• The agenda is reviewed and approved at the meeting.
- o Russ move to approve the minutes, Michael second
- o Vote: 6 in favor, 0 abstain, 0 disapprove.
Patient Care Monday Q4
Present :
Stephen Chu – Chair
Laura Heermann Langford – Chair
Elaine Ayres – Scribe
Michael Tan
Margaret Dittloff
Lenel James
Christina Knotts
Annie Alexander
Russ Leftwich
Enrique Menses
Emma Jones
Crystal Stollings
Minutes:
• Reviewed the current status of the Care Plan Projects.
- o Second informative ballot in May 2014
- o Post Phoenix ballot reconciliation completed in mid August
- o NOTE: next phase - need to evaluate status of the old Care Paln RMIM – is this a stagnant DSTU? Or align with current Care Plan DAM.
• Determine next project phase for Care Plan project.
- o Questions:
- - With a C-CDA Care Plan – what is the relationship of a V3 RMIM to other work.
- - Would RMIM be to provide backwards compatability?
- - Do we do further RMIM work or use C-CDA/FHIR models?
- An RMIM can be used for messaging exchanges in V3.
- CDA care plan document is not designed to support work flow requirement.
• The logical model in the DAM is informative enough for FHIR.
- o But to do analysis and harmonization with the Care Plan FHIR resource
- o FHIR care plan resource can be mapped to V2, V3 and openEHR.
• What are the harmonization activities with C-CDA R2?
- o Note that the Care Plan DAM was done in parallel with the C-CDA care plan templates funded by ONC.
- o Question: Do you do the harmonization with C-CDA care plan templates first or work on the RMIM.
• SDWG working on payor issues – work will occur this fall.
- o A small list of other changes to the Care Plan can be accommodated (will have support). Note – this is C-CDA R2.
• Decision – harmonize the Care Plan with the C-CDA but will need a SDWG resource.
- o Discuss with SDWG on Thursday Q2 and request a liaison individual for this harmonization work.
- o ACTION – need a resource from SDWG for the C-CDA harmonization work. PSS for RMIM will follow.
• CCS – DSTU ballot. Ballot reconciliation complete.
- o SOA group will drive the technical specification and RFP to complete the work for OMG.
- o Patient Care needs to know how to support this work.
- o Will need a quarter with SOA on the next F2F agenda.
• RMIM ballot?? Do we need a PSS now?
- o If ballot not in January would not need to do now.
- o Would recommend that we work on story boards now while we are together.
- o If ballot in May perhaps have a PSS done now will help move forward.
- o Aim for September ballot cycle 2015.
• Conference call schedule:
- o Alternating Wednesdays with Care Plan and Allergies and Intolerances.
- o Allergy calls will begin on October 1, 2014
- o Care Plan calls will begin on October 8, 2014
• Review of story boards from Care Plan DAM for the Payor Use Case to meet SDWG request.
- o Three overarching issues to resolve –
- 1. Address validity and accuracy of clinical contents
- 2. Should not focus on execution of the care plan at the expense of care plan contents
- 3. The exchange is aspirational vs. based in reality
- o Discussions:
- - Health plans cannot access the HIE data? Noted typical vs. actual.
- - Exchange of documents by DIRECT, but at the moment this is too ambitious.
- - Providers today do not package up a care plan document and send elsewhere.
- - Right now more like a discharge plan/orders.
- - What care plan would be sent – nursing? Other?? To make this happen, this will need to be part of the payment system requirements.
- - Rather than a set of orders – the story board includes more historical information.
- - Home Health agencies do create care plans – transfer summary and care plan (Form 485 – the Plan of Care for treatment). But a care plan is not final until you have seen the patient to confirm. This is the basis of the care plan template in C-CDA R2. The essential data elements for the care plan are the same.
- - Question on Why does SDWG want a CM/DM specific storyboard?
- - what is required is identification of what extra data are required from the care/disease management perspective in addition to existing storyboards on acute care, chronic condition care, home care, etc
- - Discussions: systems that are creating care plans. In an in-patient system – pulling the data into a CCD. How does this get to the payor, or other facility? Fax or via a portal or a client/proprietary application. Now the economic incentives to be in the middle of the transactions helps decrease costs.
- - In current care plan DAM – there are payor scenarios. Need to take a look at the actual content as well as one-way vs. two way exchange.
- - Where is the patient’s care plan? The PC WG DAM was about the consolidation of these various care plans.
- o Next steps – Lenel James will recraft the use case based on comments e.g. clinical best practices and focus on data required for inclusion. Then return to Patient Care for review.
- Slide deck presented at meeting:
Patient Care Monday Q5: Placeholder for extra meeting if necessary
- No PCWG meeting
- Patient Care co-chairs to Co-Chairs and DESD meetings
Patient Care WGM, Tuesday, September 16, 2014
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Patient Care Tuesday Q1
Joint with FHIR regarding Structured Data Capture (SDC) group from ONC
Present:
Stephen Chu – Chair
Elaine Ayres – Scribe
Roel Barelds
Michael Tan
Dave Carolson
Oyrinda Aassre
Gordon Raup
Crystal Staallings
Keely Straus
Bill Mojurski
Scott Deerwester
Jason Mathews
Gaby Jewell
Annie Alexander
David Hay
Farrah Darbouze
Evelyn Gallego
Vijay Shah
Hector Cintron
Atenue Sen
Emma Jones
Graham Grieve
Ed Larson
Lee Unanst
Mark Roche
Enrique Menses
Russ Leftwich
Larry McKnight
Kevin Coonan
Minutes:
- Ballot reconciliation regarding patient care related comments.
- - Received over 200 comments. Lloyd has developed dispositions for the comments.
- Dispositions:
- 1. Why send patient data when ultimately want the full form. Pre-population of the form vs. auto population of the form. But why do you send patient details to a form repository? There were some use cases where pre-population of data are allowed – public health use cases for example. Disposition accepted.
- 2. Profile defines data elements – allowing extensions may limit the interoperability. If you are compliant to the profile would remain interoperabile. This ballots the resource and the profile. Disposition accepted.
- 3. Missing mappings – accepted as persuasive.
- 4. Mapping class component missing in resources – why not use the reference specification. Using an external resource – need to know who the publisher is. (not resolved)
- 5. Element extension has additional constraints – vs. other elements. Element extensions define additional extensions that can be reference in other profiles. These are extensions for meta-data elements. Recommend rename the extensions – vs. element extensions to something less generic. Persuasive with mod.
- 6. Make attribute required questionnaire.required, questionnaire repeat changed to 1…1 -- Persuasive
- 7. Questionnaire with answers not referencing the subject? Feel that not all forms will need a subject – e.g. anonymous surveys, groups, devices. Who is the subject? If dealing with questionnaires from other sources – how is this handled? Profile is 0..1, resource is 1..1. The profile can add the restraint vs. the resource. Will need additional discussion off-line.
- - Ballot reconciliation for Stephen’s comments will be voted on by OO.
- Patient Care – questionnaire and questionnaire answers – there may be more edits to these resources. The work will be done through S & I calls. After this ballot cycle will go through the DSTU FHIR ballot.
- Care Plan – runs across PC, FHIR, SDWG and S & I. What is S & I plan for the Care Plan templates. PC will be embarking on C-CDA harmonization and a potential revamp of the Care Plan RMIM. S & I – will transition to HL7. S & I will not host any calls. September 29th – will close out project.
- For policy work – working with provider organizations. A new work group through the Accountable Care WG – will evaluate and inform ONC with respect with care planning. CMS plays a significant role with payment. A NPRM – paying providers use of care planning. Industry feedback on use of care planning based on MU2 re C-CDA R1.1. Many associations pushing back on this requirement. ONC did an environmental scan regarding exchange of care plans (standard and non-standard).
- CQI – and PCWG about quality measures related to care plan content. What role does ONC play in terms of quality measures? A lot of work with CMS and their common data element library. Focused on patient assessment.. Looking at new care coordination quality measures. “Measure gaps project” – one project is care coordination.
- CMS – CDE library – MDS/OASIS/CARE TOOL -- data element harmonization. Patient assessment tools – hoping they can use the SDC data elements to standardize. From a community perspective – under Medicaid – ONC will have long term care services and support. This project will look at community assessments. In assessments – tools like pressure ulcer or cognitive tools and there is clinical judgment related to examination.
- CMS wants to harmonize and create governance around assessments and tools. The data element includes the permissible set of values. Home assessments – ability to walk X feet – can ask in a hospital, vs. in home. For home health – these are the values that are permissible. Constraints – the name itself, the value itself. Using ISO 111179 describes these. Definitions are drawn from LOINC, SNOMED and RxNORM.
- Question context vs. stand-alone. Embedding meaning in the form makes use difficult.
- A data group can be used to provide context constraint as per ISO 11179. Need to explore the relationship between common data elements. But this must be maintained. For example – vital signs – need a domain owner for groupings. In the implementation guide – there is now support for relationships between data elements.
- Post coordination of questions and their answers are needed for interpretation and re-use. Mark Roche will meet with ISO re relationships between common data elements. There may be some useful information in the CIMI models. Stripping the form context eliminates data context.
- The functional care plan requirements through ONC – will that spec need to be updated? The ONC Care Transformation office – have a care plan acceleration project. This would be the avenue for this request.
- Domain owners for content – who will these be? Every content will be put into registries or registries. These will be put into NLM – pulling data elements in from various other registries. The domain owner – will they participate in the registration authority. Or can ask another registry to maintain your data element(s). How will these CDE’s be harmonized and have a common definition? The CDE repository will be like VSAC for value sets. The curation and harmonization of these CDE’s has yet to be determined.
Patient Care Tuesday Q2
Present:
Michael Tan (Chair)
Elaine Ayres (Scribe)
Enrique Menses
Jay Lyle
Annie Alexander
Katherine Duteau
Emma Jones
Minutes:
- Health Concern DAM ballot reconciliation
- - details:
- - See Health Concern DAM amalgamated ballot spreadsheet
Tuesday Q-Lunch - Pre-Clinical Connectathon Meeting
Present:
Stephen Chu (chair, scribe)
Elaine Ayres
Russ Leftwich
Lloyd McKenzie
David Hay
Viet Nugyuen
Minutes:
- Objective of session:
- - finalised clinical scripts for Friday clinical connectathorn
- - Preview of connectathon user interface
- Clinical scripts: acute care, chronic condition, allergy/intolerance and adverse reactions
- - No changes required; David Hay indicated that the scripts are quite complex
- - PCWG clinical team expressed that the clinical scripts were based on real patient scenarios
- User interface:
- - Not expected to be production/industry strength quality
- - expected to be adequate in supporting data entry and retrieval based on clinical scripts
- - more works required for data retrieval function
- Evaluation criteria:
- - Elaine will prepare an evaluation form for use on the day
Patient Care Tuesday Q3
Joint meeting with CQI
PCWG Hosting
Present:
Stephen Chu (Chair, Scribe)
Russ Leftwich
Stan Rankins
Patty Craig
Floyd Eisenberg
Enrique Meneses
Lawarence McKnight
Annie Alexander
Jason Mathews
Anne Smith
Vaspaan Patel
Eric Larson
Thomson Kuhn
Kauuarpreet Sethic
Martin Rosner
Tessa Vanstijn
Chris Millet
Mark Kramer
Rosemary Kennedy
Julia Skapik
Minutes:
- Floyd presented a slide on care plan outlining requirements for a patient care plan (see slide deck). Discussions progressed as the slides were presented.
- Stephen commented that immediate gaps analysis indicated that the PCWG Care Plan logical model contained all structural components that meet the requirements outlined in the slide deck.
- Floyd indicated that there was need to express in patient care plan the entity role (e.g. patient family, carer, provider, etc), not necessarily person name - of those responsible for delivery of care activities/interventions; and also to express the capability scope (not the person or role) responsible for care plan activities.
- The PCWG care plan logical model already includes roles (based on HL7 roles) classes for assigning care plan activities responsibilities, but will need to consider the inclusion of scope of capabilities.
- Significant discussions were also on longitudinal patient centric care plan versus individual provider care plans. It was agreed that the patient centric care plan would be the overarching care plan and care coordination tool.
- There was also discussions on the need to separate care plan processes from care plan contents.
- - care plan processes are addressed by the Care Coordination Services functional model and profiles
- - Care plan contents are contained in the Care Plan DAM model
- CQI was requested to consider what detail data elements, e.g. goal date, intervention date, etc that would be required for care quality checks.
- Both PCWG and CQI agreed to keep joint meeting - Tuesday Q3 - at the January 2015 WGM with PCWG hosting.
- Slide deck presented at meeting:
Patient Care Tuesday Q4
PCWG hosting FHIR
Present:
Stephen Chu (chair)
Michael Tan (scribe)
Lloyd McKenzie
Jay Lyle
Jason Matthew
Donna Quint
Wendy Blumenthal
Denise Warzel
David Pike
Enrique Meneses
Annie Alexander
Margeret Ditloff
Russ Leftwich
Elaine Ayres
Emma Jones
Minutes:
- FHIR resources timeline:
- - Current timeline for next DSTU proposal should be end of next month.
- - FMG will review and report back before end of Octobre.
- - 4th December draft content for new profiles or resources.
- - 30th March 2015 deadline for gold content (meeting all quality criteria)
- Care Plan resource discussion:
- • Certain FHIR resources are not being used, such as Care Plan, because they are too complex. What could we do to make it more useful? An interoperable Care Plan is also rather new, while observations and such are rather common.
- • An suggestion is to make proposals in Care Plan more accesible. A Care Plan would then constitute of proposals and actual care plan. This would be a kind of status of the Care Plan.
- • Care Plan is the core with 3 things hanging from this resource. Goal, participant and activity.
- • Readers do not understand the meaning of data elements activity and simple. But simple is an adjective and not a noun. If the name needs to be adjusted a change request should be submitted. ( link at the bottom of page).
- • Suggestion to change Activity.detail to be Activity.reference, the class simple to become detail and simple.detail to become detail.note. Elaine moved, Russ second the proposal.
- • Vote: 0 proposed , 3 abstain, 13 in favor. Motion accepted.
- • An activity is not so complex as an procedure order.
- • There is also a requirement for time in the Goal class.
- • There is a requirement for tagging goals from NCI. A change request should be submitted by NCI.
- • PCWG would like the resource to be part of the next clinical connectathon.
- Referral Resource:
- • Question is whether there is a requirement for order response.
- • There might be a requirement for the equivalent of Care Provision event.
- • We will wait first for the experience in the field
- Procedure Order:
- • There is still work to be done for procedure orders.
- • There are order resources which look rather similar like prescription order, diet order etc. Lloyd expects that in the end there will be a handfull of order types.
- • Elaine would like the bigger picture or strategic plan for the structure of FHIR. There are now so many types of orders. Lloyd thinks that the various types of orders is a problem for O&O and not patient care.
- • The PCWG should look into issues like assesments in comparison with observations.
- • Education is now under procedure. This is not natural for vendors. An example is giving patient education. Suggestion that putting education as a seperate resource would broaden the various kinds of education under the umbrella of this resource.
- • With education it is important not only to know that the education has been given, but also that the education has been understood. This could mean that we could consider to make education a seperate resource. This will discussed further in a seperate quarter.
Patient Care WGM, Wednesday, September 17, 2014
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Patient Care Wednesday Q1
PCWG hosting Child Health
Present:
Michael Padua – Co-Chair – Child Health
Russ Leftwich – Co-Chair – Patient Care
Elaine Ayres – Scribe
Enrique Meneses
Stephen Chu
Emma Jones
Donna Quirk
Denise Warzel
Russell Ott
Nancy Orvis
Pele Yu
Minutes:
- Essential elements required for special healthcare needs children for transitions of care.
- - Design a clinical reference for children that requires complex medical care when entering new environments.
- - Based on examples –
- o Emergency Information Form for Children with Special Needs (AAP?ACEP)
- o Portable Health Record for Children, Youth or Adutls with Genetic Condiiton (Hawaii)
- - CMS Form 485 – Home Health Certification Plan of Care (informed the Care Plan in C-CDA)
- - C-CDA R2
- o Addresses devices, contingency plan and directive and preferences.
- o Which concepts are already in C-CDA R2 and what needs to be added?
- - Bi-weekly meetings – Mondays 3-4 PM – begin on September 22.
- - Data elements gap analysis:
- o Cognitive and functional status assessments.
- o Is there a way to structure a baseline – and variations.
- o Review of current forms and form elements.
- - Discussed use of current C-CDA templates – e.g. CCD, Care Plan
- - Discussed potential tools that might be used for those without EHR environments.
- - How do you model – preferences, e.g. procedures to be avoided
- 1. Model as a contraindication?
- 2. Model as a negation
- 3. HITSP – value set for not-given
- 4. Procedural contraindications
- o Nutrition – enterals, supplements
- - An order might the best way to display the information.
- - Food – not so prescriptive.
- o Nutrition – enterals, supplements
- o Continuous feedings are often an issue.
- - Representing medication schedules in CDA – PRN medications.
- - Orders – one for bolus, one order for continuous.
- o Continuous feedings are often an issue.
- o Diagnosis – with time
- - Looking to meld the various forms into one master form.
- o Diagnosis – with time
- - Functional limitations and activities permitted are check boxes. Are there other elements needed and what other data elements are needed?
- o In CDA – there are functional status value sets linked to SNOMED codes.
- - Do we need a preferences section – to capture a variety of patient wishes. Do we need a flag for special needs?
- - The CDA implementation – no specific style sheets so that highlighting preferences will be available.
- What is the relationship of C-CDA and FHIR resources – can create a profile for how to use these resources.
- - The profile is like an implementation guide. The questionnaire resource helps with organizing the questions.
- How to represent medical devices – there is a device section in CDA.
- - These data elements may have preferences and/or contraindications. Note that C-CDA R2 has UID element.
- How might you represent an alert?
- - How do represent when to intubate? Can you have administrative alerts and clinical alerts.
- - Note current section on allergies, adverse reactions and alerts –
- - How do you represent critical concepts vs. nice to know.
- - Is there way to categorize clinical alerts – could you filter by strength of preference?
- - Can we use existing structured lists for critical concepts?
- - In models – can’t use severe or mild – because these are observations of something that has happened.
- - These warning boxes are the worst that could happen….
- Action items:
- 1. Bi-weekly calls
- 2. Enrique will give a modeling for dummies presentation and CDA and the stylesheet that represents it.
- 3. Will speak with Structured Docs re outstanding issues
- 4. Dietitians will present R2 nutrition templates
- 5. Retain Wednesday Q1 time slot for next WG meeting.
Patient Care Wednesday Q2
PCWG co-chairs updating EHRWG
Present:
Stephen Chu
Elaine Ayres
Laura Heermann Langford
Russ Leftwich
Jay Lyle
(full attendance - see EHRWG meeting minutes)
Minutes:
- See EHRWG meeting minutes
- PCWG update topics:
- - Care Plan DAM
- - Care Coordination Services functional model/profile
- - Health Concern DAM
- - PCWG in FHIR
- PCWG update slide deck:
- - PCWG updates to EHRWG - Chicago WGM Wednesday Q2
- - PCWG updates: Allergy/Intolerance - Chicago WGM Wednesday Q2
Patient Care Wednesday Q3
New FHIR clinical resources discussion (Clinical Assessment, Procedure Request)
Hosted FHIR and OO representatives
Present:
• Elaine Ayres (co-chair)
• Stephen Chu (co-chair)
• Michael Tan (scribe)
• Nasser Ahmed
• Laura Heermann Langford
• Evely Gallego
• Kevin Coonan
• Jay Lyle
• Emma Jones
• Rob Hausam
• Lynn Perrine
• Farrah Darbourne
• Denise Warzel
• Donna Quirk
• Eric Haas
• Crystal Stollings
• Kelly Strausbaugh
• Jim McClay
• Enrigque Meneses
• Margeret Ditloff
• Lloyd McKenzie
• Rik Smithies
• Russ Leftwich
• Rob McCurrie
Minutes:
- Clinical Assessment:
- • Clinical assessment is more than only an observation and the assessment tool. It is more and it leads to a prognostic statement.
- • Where do you store the data for the assessment? Some input is intended for billing.
- • Russ indicated that "goals" should be included. Rob does not completely agree.
- • The name risk assessment can rather be replaced with outcome assessment.
- • Kevin thinks that condition is a type of observation and that this part of hierarchy. Condition is part of the family, but there is no hierarchy.
- • If systems cannot disambiguated then we should not have two separate resources.
- • Enrique suggests to set up a mindmap to create clarity in the definitions.
- • Elaine suggest to stick to existing resources as much as possible.
- • Patient Care suggests to write a profile that includes observation, condition and risk assessment.
- • Decision: to profile existing resources (Observation, Condition, Risk Assessment) to create Clinical Assessment.
- - PCWG to own resource with inputs from OO
- Procedure Order:
- • Do we need a separate FHIR resource to order a procedure or can use general order?
- • Stephen thinks that a general order should be able to refer to a procedure.
- • Kevin asks how do you explain why you want the order. This is not in the order itself, but the order is not alone. It could be in the hierarchical higher level.
- • Decision: a new Procedure Resource to be created. OO to own the resource with inputs from PCWG
- Meeting slide deck:
Patient Care Wednesday Q4
Present:
Elaine Ayres (co-chair, scribe)
Stephen Chu (co-chair, scribe)
Jay Lyle
Brian Scheller
Lisa Nelson
Roel Barelds
Rob Hausam
Diana Behling
Christina Knotts
Donna Quirk
Emma Jones
Katherine Deteau
Jean Deteau
David Parker
Annie Alexander
Amy Wang
Rick Germer
Russ Leftwich
Rob McClure
Kevin Coonan
Russell Oft
Minutes:
- See meeting discussions in slide deck and change requirement document.
- Meeting slide deck:
- Change request discussion document:
- - to be uploaded
Patient Care WGM, Thursday, September 18, 2014
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Patient Care Thursday Q1
- PCWG co-chair (Stephen Chu) reporting to OO
- PCWG meeting: Electronic Services re Data Elements Registry Project - Invite CIC, Emergency, S&I , NLM
Present:
• Elaine Ayres, chair
• Jay Lyle, scribe
• Russ Leftwich
• Evelyn Gallego
• Dianne Reeves
• Mark Roche
• Naseer Ahmed
• Michael van der Zel
• Greg Staudenmaier
• Crystal Stollings
• Kelly Strausbaugh
• Kevin Coonan
• Denise Warzel
• Michael Tan
• Wendy Blumenthal
• Daniel Vreeman
• Thomson Kuhn
• Hector Cintron
• Annie Alexander
• Enrique Meneses
• Stephen Chu
• Emma Jones
• Vijay Shah
• Farrah Darbouze
Minutes:
- Agenda:
- - Common Data Element Repositories, with SDC project team
- In Phoenix, we noticed different programs using different approaches to creating data element repositories (specifically, CADSR & SDC). HL7 may have a role in providing a repository, possibly via electronic services.
- SDC began in Jan 2013 with a goal of defining data element syntax (not the elements themselves). These elements are not designed for primary care, but for secondary uses (safety, research, etc.), though some of them may leverage elements that exist in EHRs already. This effort will help to bridge the gap between clinical medicine & research.
- The project began by surveying existing standards, and chose to base the SDC metamodel on the ISO 11179 data element metadata standard. This standard is already used by many existing repositories and should facilitate harmonization. This alignment is not a replication of all elements identified in 11179, but a selection of an appropriate subset.
- - The project has two phases. In the first phase, an SDC specification was developed under the rubric of IHE. The second phase is to develop a similar specification under HL7, specifically based on the FHIR resource. That specification is under a draft for comment ballot; the team anticipates another comment ballot in January followed by DSTU in May 2015. It includes both a data element resource (which can be compositional, when those relationships are integral to the semantics of the element) and a questionnaire resource (that supports the arrangement of elements in explicit context that might be used in other contexts).
- ONC is agnostic as to what actual repository or repositories are used to store the elements so defined.
- The project has coordinated with ONC’s FHIM.
- - [? Harmonized with cadsr. Ask Dianne?]
- The project surveyed several repositories, including USHIK, PHIN VADS, CADSR, HL7, and assessed which parts of 11179 are used. About 80 properties were identified, and most reuse the ISO names.
- Models will specify semantic identifiers for classes, properties, and “elements,” composed of class + property.
- - These semantic identifiers will be unique to the element, though authoring and search tools need to support the ability to find an element using synonymous or related concepts.
- Next steps include subsetting the code systems currently identified for model semantics to simplify the element authoring process, and prioritizing the attribute list to support more effective browsing.
- How element registries will communicate or coordinate centralized or federated is to be determined.
- - SDC has no position on repository governance. FHIR may offer a collection of elements, but implementers should use what they need.
- MU will establish a “common data set” that US EHRs will have to be able to produce (including gender etc.), and these elements will be documented using the SDC specification. (This is not an SDC effort.)
- PC would like to use these SDC elements for DAMs. NCI has supported requests to load elements to CASDR, and continues to do so. Opportunities continue to evolve (NLM, CaDSR, AHRQ, possibly HL7).
- Tooling to load repositories would be good.
- While SDC is a US realm project, it is anticipated that the form (if not the content of the elements) should be similar across realms.
- It is desirable to publish in as many forms as possible to support the widest community of adopters.
- Next WGM:
- - PC will not host this specific topic next WGM. We recommend SDC stay in touch with EHR and BRIDG.
- PCWG reports to OO at Joint OO-CDS-PCWG meeting (OO hosting)
- - Stephen reported on the following PCWG project status:
- o Allergy/Intolerance and adverse reaction
- o Care Plan DAM 2nd informative ballot
- o Health Concern DAM 1st informative ballot
- - Stephen also reported on the following new FHIR resources/profile to be initiated:
- o Clinical Assessment - will be a new profile of the following FHIR resources (owned by PCWG):
- - Observation
- - Condition
- - Risk assessment (name change proposal in process to better reflect prognostic assessment
- o Clinical Assessment - will be a new profile of the following FHIR resources (owned by PCWG):
- o Procedure Request - a new resource (or reuse of other existing resources) - owned by OO
- o Patient Education - to be discussed at post-Chicago conference calls
Patient Care Thursday Q2
Joint with Structured Document and Template: PCWG hosting
Present:
Stephen Chu – Chair
Elaine Ayres - Scribe
Diana Behling
Brian Scheller
Tim McNeil
Brad Arndt
Jay Lyle
Martin Harthorn
David Hay
Lisa nelson
Isabelle Gibaud
Michael Tan
Martin Rosner
Mark Shafarman
Christina Knotts
George Cole
Rick Geimer
Brian Reinhold
Peter Gilbert
Eric Rose
Laura Heermann Langford
Brett Marquard
Gaby Jewell
Atanu Sen
Matthew Rahn
Kevin Coonan
Steve Fine
Enrique Meneses
Annie Alexander
Ed Larson
John Feikema
Kai Heitmann
Emma Jones
Amy Wang
Minutes:
- PC Harmonization Requirements:
- 1. Allergy and Intolerance – working with Lisa Nelson on harmonization.
- a. Template definitions vs. V3 model
- b. Five high level items related to reaction observation
- i. Severity template used in two places – replaced with criticality.
- c. Using Trifolia to fold decisions into new templates to bring back to SDWG with new entries.
- d. Additional entry relationships – when designing templates how do you line up with existing models.
- e. Terminology still requires some work – adding to dynamic value sets as potential errata.
- f. Other changes – e.g. these documents will no longer be valid – will have to evaluate if re-ballot will be necessary esp. re certification.
- Example replacing severity with criticality. Deprecating something that is a SHOULD constraint will be problematic.
- g. Will probably re-ballot over the next year – could add major changes to this process.
- h. Re SDWG agenda – assertion pattern, criticality value set.
- i. Re downstream changes – dependencies re QRDA – speak with CQI.
- 2. Care Plan Harmonization
- a. Finished second informative document – completing ballot. Publish in November.
- b. Will review the existing care plan RMIM to align with the new logical model
- c. Will also do a gap analysis with the Care Plan DAM and the C-CDA care plan section. Will need harmonization and need a SDWG liaison for this activity.
- Scope was for the LTC coordination. Did not consider workflow. Must be attentive to not break the use cases used.
- Do not anticipate that the C-CDA will fully represent the V3 model – but do want to make sure that key data elements are available for exchange.
- Will keep in mind backwards compatibility.
- The payor community has raised a number of issues. Care management and disease management have come up with the payor group.
- d. Thursday calls – second hour (11-12 eastern). – SDWG will appoint a liaison.
- 3. Health Concern
- a. Currently balloted DAM – in ballot reconciliation.
- b. Will have a second ballot round
- c. Health concern – with multiple entry types
- i. 32 different possible entry types.
- d. Will need to evaluate this in terms of the care plan.
- Deprecated Templates - PCWG presenting clinical requirements to justify "reactivation" request
- a. allergy status and problem status
- b. Request to undeprecate these templates.
- c. In C-CDA 1.1 –
- i. Allergy-Intolerance Observation used by Allergy Problem Act
- 1. Contains Entries: depracted allergy status observation.
- 2. In Table 126 allergy status observation – point to a history table – active, inactive, resolved (SNOMED codes)
- 3. There is lack of clarity between inactive and resolve.
- ii. Problem status
- 1. Status code – completed
- 2. Effective time – high/low
- 3. Using “statusCode + effective time” to communicate “status” is inadequate
- 4. The status may be active, inactive (semantically different from resolved) , resolved, refuted
- 5. There are many other clinical status conditions: remission states including in remission, partial remissions, full/complete remission, …. And relapse states e.g. relapse, relapse after partial remission, relapse after full remission.
- 6. Request inclusion of problem status template and allergy status observation template
- a. In R2 completed, active, aborted and suspended (these are machine status terms)
- 7. Deprecated to inconsistencies in templates to begin with.
- 8. Act status is the status of the observation, not the clinical status.
- iii. Status of the overall concern
- 1. Status of the concern in the database, vs. the clinical status.
- 2. Re R2 – post ballot – these comments were made. Question disposition.
- 3. At the concern level – on the active tracking list or not. Toggling of the status code governs inclusion on the list. Vs. the clinician level observations. What is the status of these problem observations from a clinical viewpoint.
- 4. Words from the state model have a very different clinical meeting.
- iv. Next step – look through ballot comments to see what the comments were. C-CDA R2 will be published in the next month. Bring up as a release R2 DSTU comment (vs. errata). Lisa will work
- i. Allergy-Intolerance Observation used by Allergy Problem Act
- Structured Documents – no agenda items
- Templates
- 1. Balloting now complete as of January 2014. Comments (300) resolved (12 negative ballots resolved) and will be published as a DSTU.
- 2. Progress on FHIR related projects – using FHIR profiles to express concepts that cannot be included in the Templates DSTU.
- 3. Looking for one single sources of constraint language.
- 4. PSS submitted -- populate HINGX with templates metadata. Would like seamless inclusion templates into HINGX. HL7 Electronic Tooling (ETs) will be working on this project from a technical perspective.
- 5. Meeting Friday Q1 to discuss current project
- 6. US Realm Task Force – Data Access Framework for FHIR objects. Have asked for Templates to join this project. Transfer CDA templates into FHIR objects and back.
- 7. Can express C-CDA R1.1 can be expressed in Templates DSTU. What is plan for C-CDA R2 to begin this work? What would be next step? Is this part of the templates DSTU?
- Next WGM:
- - All groups agreed that R2 should go through the same process.
Patient Care Thursday Q3
- PCWG co-chair (Stephen Chu) to Clinical Statement meeting
- PCWG meeting: Health Concern ballot reconciliation
Present:
Minutes:
- Clinical Statement meeting notes:
- - Clinical Statement (CS) business:
- o CS decision making process (DMP) change proposal discussions. Proposed changes are passed with modifications.
- o CS in maintenance, no further business until new contents required
- o details of DMP changes - see DMP document and CS meeting minutes
- - OO discussions: HL7 v.2x change requests: discussed and approved
- o see OO meeting notes for details
Patient Care Thursday Q4
Present:
Minutes:
Patient Care WGM, Friday, September 19, 2014
- Back to Patient Care
- Back to 2014 PCWG WGM Agenda and Minutes
Patient Care Friday Q0: PCWG Co-Chairs meeting
Present:
Minutes:
Patient Care Friday Q1
(1) FHIR clinical connectathorn
- - Invitees to participate
(2) Template WG meeting
- - PCWG representative(s) to attend
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Minutes:
Patient Care Friday Q2
FHIR clinical connectathorn
- - Invitees to participate
Present:
Minutes:
Patient Care Friday Q3
FHIR clinical connectathorn
- - Invitees to participate
Present:
Minutes:
Patient Care Friday Q4
FHIR clinical connectathorn
- - Invitees to participate
Present:
Minutes: