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Orlando, WGM - January 2016 Patient Care WG Meeting Approved agenda:
Contents
- 1 Orlando WGM - January 2016. Patient Care WG Meeting Meeting Minutes
- 2 Patient Care WGM, Monday, January 11, 2016
- 3 Patient Care WGM, Tuesday, January 12, 2016
- 4 Patient Care WGM, Wednesday, January 13, 2016
- 5 Patient Care WGM, Thursday, January 14, 2016
- 6 Patient Care WGM, Friday, January 15, 2016
Orlando WGM - January 2016. Patient Care WG Meeting Meeting Minutes
- Sunday, January 10 - International Council Meeting
- - No PCWG meeting
Patient Care WGM, Monday, January 11, 2016
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Patient Care Monday Q1
Attendees Jay Lyle, Russ Leftwich, Elaine Ayres, Emma Jones, Michelle Miller, David Pyke, Larry McKnight, Michael Tan
Chair Jay Lyle
Scribe Michelle Miller
Minutes
Agenda check
Approval of prior minutes (Atlanta)
David/Emma: 0 -2 abstain – 4 approved
Week's agenda Approval for Elaine to be a co-chair designee for the week. Michelle/Emma: 0-0-7
Anesthesia wants to meet.
Stephen suggested to Anesthesia already, but they may only be here Mon/Tues. Suggested times:
- Monday Q3 (same time as workflow)
- Tues Q5
SDC wants to discuss Health Concern (and PC wants to discuss goals with ONC) SDC can’t attend existing session. Jay will reach out to SDC with options:
- Wed Q2 (Emma, Elaine could attend)
- Wed Q3 (Genomics declined, so FHIR topics such as Questionnaire/QuestionnaireResponse, Clinical Impression)
- Thurs Q1 check with OO to see if PC needs to attend
Elections Please vote!
Workgroup Health Good job! Keep an eye on
- Decision making processes
- SWOT
- Charter
- Harmonization - Rob H. was designee
- 3 year plan – list of projects that are in the register (some are active, proposed, linger); review and see if any can be closed out;
3 yr planning Jay will own cleaning up this week. Send Dave Hamill an email.
- Detailed Clinical Models Release 1 (320) - not an open project, just needs to be recirculated
- Care Provision: Assessment Scales Topic (664)– never got published, ask William about that
- HL7 Care Coordination Service (CCS) (924) – ready for publication; Laura will clean up and submit it for publishing; publish for HL7 members only for 90 days before publish to the public
- Care Plan Initiative (932) – DAM not published; take all story boards, except one, and move them to the appendix; Laura owns that action item
- V3 Allergy and Intolerance Clinical Models (1004) – published and available for comments; project is done; close project
- Care Plan Clinical Models (1085) – check with Laura to see if it can be closed
- PCWG Develop FHIR resources and profiles for the second DSTU release.
New projects None
FHIR Update from Sunday’s Q4 meeting
- Maturity Review - what to ballot when (2.1 in May 3 in Sept?) – need work groups to look at resources and find out which resources are projected to have which maturity levels by next release; FHIR health –DSTU comments – check that the changes were made; any outstanding issues?
- Need clarification in FHIR maturity model to know if there is production use (instead of production systems) and/or what constitutes a connectathon
- Naming – FHIR could be dropping DSTU label because it isn’t part of ANSI’s process; FHIR is thinking about calling it informally a “working” standard, but Patient Care’s concern is credibility about losing the “draft standard” label. The maturity levels are per resource, not for the entire standard.
- David will own drafting Patient Care’s statement/response back to FHIR
- Error list in FHIR build – confirm with Lloyd that he is fixing any errors on Patient Care’s error report
Adjourn 1/11/2016 at 10:33am Eastern
Patient Care Monday Q2
No PCWG meeting
Patient Care Monday Q3
No Patient Care hosted meeting; Patient Care attending FHIR Infrastructure - Workflow meeting
Patient Care Monday Q4
No Patient Care hosted meeting; Patient Care attending FHIR Infrastructure - Workflow meeting
Patient Care Monday Q5: Placeholder for extra meeting if necessary
Present:
Minutes:
Patient Care WGM, Tuesday, January 12, 2016
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Patient Care Tuesday Q1
Present:
Minutes: Michael Tan
- Stan Huff presenting CIMI viewpoints: CIMI has now become a HL7 workgroup.
- Searching collaboration between CIMI and other WG's that have DCM's.
- CIMI produces Clinical Information Models. The thought behind the models is, that systems do not need to know the structure of information from other systems. It uses the information models from webservices to map and share data.
- The CIMI produces clinical requirements.
- CIMI's goals are to create a shared repository of detailed clinical information models.
- The repository is free of license.
- Models contain formalism:
- Achtetype definition language (ADL)
- Archetype modeling language (AML).
- Models have a binding with a value set.
- The model can be rich and full, while the implementation only uses a small part of the CIMI model.
- How should the repository look like?
- It does not exist yet.
- It should contain a name, status, version, isosemantic familiy, ownership, approval.
- What is the relationship between CIMI and the PCWG.
- Jay draws the landscape of CIMI, DAM's, DCM.
- What should we do to accomodate the CIMI group? Susan suggests to pick up allergies and intolerances as an example to see how this would work out. Skin intolerances/skin assessment? A project would be started with CIMI as driver and PCWG as collaborating WG to investigate how this would work out. Is the PSS a study or a demo. The study would include a demo. The demo would include an implementer.
- PCWG would first like to review the PSS. This does create some pressure, because the deadline for PSS is January 22nd.
- William places a motion to have undertake a pilot to use skin assesment for the collaboration between CIMI and patient care. Steve Hufnagels material is available.
- Steve Hufnagels PSS will be distributed among PCWG to review this week, before giving approval to co-sponsor the PSS.
- CIMI will send a invitation for a joint meeting with PCWG for Montreal on Tuesday Q1.
- action item PC. The PCWG will review the PSS, before the deadline for new PSS and provide feedback to CIMI.
Patient Care Tuesday Q2
Chair: Michael Tan
Scribe: Michelle Miller
Attendees:
Last Name | First Name | Organization |
Cole | George | Allscripts |
Dasgupta | Amlan | Epic |
Dolin | Gay | Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) |
Fine | Steven | Cerner Corporation |
Goossen | William | Results 4 Care bv / HL7 Netherlands |
Grieve | Grahame | Health Intersections Pty Ltd |
Jones | Emma | Allscripts |
Knee | Simon | HSCIC |
Lyle | Jay | Ockham Information Services LLC |
Majeed | Raphael | |
Mandel | Joshua | Boston Children's Hospital |
Marquard | Brett | River Rock Associates |
McKnight | Lawrence | Cerner Corporation |
Miller | Michelle | Cerner Corporation |
Moore | Sean | Epic |
Nelson | Lisa | |
Pyke | David | Ready Computing |
Shapiro | Ron | Qvera |
Skapik | Julia | Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT |
Torres | Andrew | Cerner Corporation |
Wang | Yunwei | Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) |
Wright | Colin | McKesson Corporation |
Jorgenson | Don | Inpriva |
Terry | May | Flatiron |
Minutes:
Health Concern vs Problem
Patient Care's view
- A concern is a higher level abstraction than the problem (ex. concern of obesity) that connect problems into a concern
- A concern connects events and tracks progress over time (what started with and what it has become) - Example: back pain grows worse into hernia
- DAM is sufficiently abstract such that it supports knowing who expressed concern; DAM can handle either objective or subjective
- Patient Care DAM is saying concern is greater than problem; problem can be a subset of concern
- Concerns are both Problems and Additional Health Concerns - and each is represented in its own CDA section
Structured Doc's view based on ONC's proposal (attachment in Patient Care listserv [1] )
- Active problems are in the problem concern section
- The "Additional Health Concerns" section is used for additional concerns, such as concerns from the patient or other care team members
- Clinician owns the problem list whereas concerns are open to others, such as chaplain
- Note: Unhealthy family relationships and drug/alcohol abuse could be concerns, but may not be endorsed by patient
- Clinicians don't need to reconcile additional health concerns, but there is no legal requirement for the clinician to reconcile problems on the problem list - yet they should reconcile a concern of sick parent after parent is deceased
- Goal is to allow the patient and other care team members to express concerns (e.g. financial instability, homeless) to flow into the longitudinal care plan
- The MU requirement is to allow health concerns to be entered into the record
- Intent is that additional health concerns are viewable, clinician considers them, clinician follows them, but clinician doesn't necessary endorse (or agree with) the concern; The clinician should ask patient about concerns, but not the clinician's job to agree or disagree with patient.
- The Problem concern is more objective whereas the Additional Health Concern section is more subjective
- The Additional Health Concerns section is not intended to duplicate the concerns in the problem concern section
Vote
- Motion is for Patient Care agrees that the ONC proposal (attachment in Patient Care listserv [2]) is not in conflict with the DAM
- Jay/Larry: 0-abstain; 0-negative; 22-approval
- Motion to recommend that SDC modify the ONC proposal: When the document contains both a Problem Concern and a Health Concern section, then the section title will be the "Additional Health Concerns" and keep the same LOINC code.
- Jay/Brett: 1-abstain; 1-negative; 20-approved
Patient Care Tuesday Q3
Present: Laura Heermann Langford - Chair, Elaine Ayres - Scribe Attendees: Patty Craig, Ewout Kramer, Eivind Kristiansen, Oyvind Aassve, Donna Quirk, Amlan Dasgyli, Daivd Dunering-Stuekl, Justin Schiirle, Casten Quinlan, Senlthil Nacimuthen, Joe Kunisch, Bruce Bray, Larry McKnight, Martin Rosner, Peter Hendler, March Hadley, Mark Kramer, Bryn Rhodes, Julia Skapik, M'Lynda Owens, Muhammad Asim, Andrew McIntyre, Kensaku Kawamoto, Yan Heras, Tony Schweth, Latasha Archer, Daniel Lanphelt, Ann Phillips, Juliet Rubini, Charis Markle, Non Hall, Nancy Orvis, Graham Grieve, David Sattara, Matt Burton, Michael Tan, Lenel James, Richard Esmond, Claude Nanjo. (41)
Minutes:
AGENDA -
- Care Plan and Order Set Resource (CDS)
- Updates to C-CDA and updates to CQI products - allergy content
- QRDA and exchange of provider information necessary for quality reporting
Care Plan and Order Set Resource
The Care Plan takes a multidisciplinary point of view. An order set would contribute to the overall plan for the patient. In the care plan model - the care plan is in the middles with goals, risks, problems and the health care team are associated with the care plan. With an activity will see orders. an order can be a single order or an order set. So, from a care plan view, not repetitive to have a resource for order set. An order set is a natural component of a care plan. Orders may need to be elevated within the model to be more visible.
Are there descriptions or definitional items that assist with building order sets? Can discuss the various levels of a care plan. Can have goals related to all issues or one issue. Can have an entire care plan around one condition, or topic. Plans can be nested. The FHIR Care Plan was created without necessarily aligning within the Care Plan DAM. Now harmonizing the two. Will the FHIR Care Plan go through changes in the next release? This is unknown, but could be likely. For the proposed order set resource -- from a care plan perspective would point to the order set resource.
Care plan vs. care process model? Could use the care plan model as a care process model. However, current model addresses data only, not authority or process. Is this a point in time or over time plan? It is designed to be both a static plan snap shot as well as a longitudinal plan. Designed to be fluid between care team members. Is it definitional -- e.g. for a patient with Diabetes do this specific plan of care -- can use it in this way. It can also be customized to each individual patient. For a protocol (form) plan of care, may not have preferences or barriers. The model is designed to be flexible and adaptable to various care models. For exchanging or sharing plans, how might this work. The standard does not mandate consistency but encourages it.
Looking at the order set build in FHIR - the meta data is harmonized with HQMF reference. The library data elements applies logic based on condition (not the FHIR resource). The orderable items are references to other resources like a med order with any number of items. Are these prospective or retropective -- probably neither. This is a point in time. In the RIM have mood codes, in FHIR have deinitional resources as well as prospective vs. retrospective states. CDS is the "owner" of the order set resource.
A care plan may have a dependency on the order set -- to keep up the lifecycle of the care plan. Can you use order sets without a care plan? Can an order set be a proxy for a care plan? Actual care benefits from the context of the care plan, rather than a list of orders. This enhances the coordination of care. The order set is actually similar to a care plan template. Future -- include CDS/CQI for Thursday FHIR calls. Same schedule for PC/CDS/CQI/FHIR for Tuesday Q3.
CQI and Allergy Topics The issue is the consonance between C-CDA version and derivative QRDA products. Note that the development cycles are not the same. CQI asks that if PC/SDWG makes a change that will impact the QRDA, changes should be submitted to CQI as well.
CQI White Paper to look at use cases for QRDA Data from provider to provider related to quality measures. Are there any standards for continuity of care data outside of QRDA? Orders a mammogram but returned data may not be sufficient for quality reporting measures. The Care Coordination Service may address this issue (Patient Care and SOA).
Patient Care Tuesday Q4
Chair: Elaine Ayres
Scribe: Michelle Miller
Attendees:
Last Name |
First Name | Organization |
Aassve | Oyvind | HL7 Norway |
Ayres | Elaine | NIH/Clinical Center |
Brown | Jeff | American Society of Clinical Oncology |
Burgess | David | Laboratory Corporation of America |
Campbell | Keith | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Couderc | Carmela | Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) |
Doerr | Lisa | McKesson Corporation |
Gonzaga | Zabrina | Lantana Consulting Group |
Grain | Heather | eHealth Education |
Hausam | Robert | Hausam Consulting LLC |
Hoggle | Lindsey | Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics |
Jones | Mark | Orchard Software |
Kreisler | Austin | Leidos, Inc. |
Kristiansen | Eivind | National ICT |
Lyle | Jay | Ockham Information Services LLC |
McClure | Robert | MD Partners, Inc. |
McKenzie | Lloyd | Gevity (HL7 Canada) |
McKnight | Lawrence | Cerner Corporation |
Merrick | Ulrike | Vernetzt, LLC |
Miller | Michelle | Cerner Corporation |
Nanjo | Claude | Cognitive Medical Systems |
Nelson | Lisa | |
Owens | M'Lynda | Cognosante, LLC |
Parker | Craig | Intermountain Healthcare |
Patterson | Dennis | Cerner Corporation |
Quirk | Donna | Lexington Medical Center |
Rhodes | Bryn | Database Consulting Group |
Schueth | Tony | Point-of-Care Partners, LLC |
Shabo | Amnon | Philips Healthcare |
Solbrig | Harold | Mayo Clinic |
Tan | Michael | NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands |
Taylor | Sheryl | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Wang | Yunwei | Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) |
Warner | Jeremy | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Nguyen | Viet | Systems Made Simple |
Haug | Peter | Intermountain Healthcare |
Boumann | Steven | McKesson Corporation |
Gerlach | Chuck | McKesson Corporation |
Richesson | Rachel | Duke |
Minutes
Problem statement
The ways current interoperability standards handle negation or propose to do so,
- are inconsistent & may not support transformations
- may not support representation requirements (e.g., patient does not have ebola)
- may not support computation requirements (e.g., description logics constraints)
Motion to approve problem statement passes: Viet/Jay: 3-abstain; 0-negative; 39-positive
Goal statement
Draft: Provide concrete requirements from clinical experts to interoperability solution designers to enable these designers to ensure that their solutions meet requirements, including.
- information requirements & examples ("assert absence of symptom"; "no rash")
- impl/communication requirements (how do I represent "no rash")
- transform requirements (?)
- [other, e.g. DL negation concern]
Discussion
Do we agree that we need a consistent approach to negation except where requirements prevent it?
FHIR design is driven by implementation requirements.
Assume consistency until told about exceptions, but is consistency is prioritized higher than other things that are good to have, such as quality
Default position is that you can assert semantics
Example Use Cases
Clinicians on FHIR - via the process of testing FHIR resources, Clinicians on FHIR will identify issues that warrant additional analysis; create use cases to test negation
Atlanta (Oct 2015) Clinicians on FHIR discussed the inability to communicate negated family member history
Note: Negation can be handled via terminology or the information model.
Clinical certainty (no known vs not known) -- categories of negation
Consider regulatory requirements (no known problems)
There are some older project scope statements (PSS), but need to see if they are still appropriate to determine if a new PSS is needed or not. Suggested that we create a new PSS.
Motion: Create PSS to define negation requirements Keith proposed amendment to include several approaches and evaluation of approaches to solve the issue Note: CQI should be involved since they recently discussed and may have some resolutions Vote: Jay/Rob 0-abstain; 0-negative; 37 positives
Contributors going forward will include SD, OO, FHIR, CQI, CIMI, Vocab
Keep the same WGM session in May 2016, with the addition of CQI
Patient Care WGM, Wednesday, January 13, 2016
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Patient Care Wednesday Q1
Present:
Chair: Laura Heeermann Langford, Scribe: Laura Heermann Langford, Presentor: Mike Padula, Attendees: Russ Leftwich, Gaye Dolin, Larry McKnight, David Pyke, Masoud Hosseini, Sylvia Thun, Dominik Bremman
Minutes:
- Review of Child Health's work re: Essential information for Child with Special Needs.
- Discussion of how this document is useful beyond pediatric patients. But could be used with others with special needs, chronically ill, repetitive visits etc.
- It is becoming apparent how important the style sheet is to the overall use of the document. Style sheet is not currently part of the scope. Explored options of participating in the style sheet competition - or perhaps hold a separate competition just for this project.
- Comment re: the use of coded data and textual data. There may be a need to have more textual data.
- Discussion on how much and methods to use to provide more guidance on the style sheet. If we could get more information out it is believed providers could and would encourage their vendors to implement it.
- Method of delivery (elelctronic/paper) is also an important part of the overall workflow and design. It is reality that the use of electronic tools is targeted, but for some instances (camp) a paper document may also be needed.
- The relationship between this document and the Care Plan is tight. This document may be the shortened "tweeted" version of the care plan. Would like to explore how the content for each is entered and reused to accommodate the needs of both.
- Next steps
- clean up the storyboards to include a representation of the output (the data elements used and what would be included in those data elements) include things like "the parents provide access to xxxx".
- make one storyboard about the paper document - (reality of the need)
- explore companion guides.... is this a companion guide?
Patient Care Wednesday Q2
Present: Elaine Ayres, Susan Matney, Martin Hurrell, John Walsh, Lori Singer, Larry McKnight
Minutes: This session was a brief update from the Anesthesia WG. The Anesthesia WG is continuing to work on the Anesthesia DAM and hope to ballot within the next six months. The DAM includes use cases, UML models and SNOMED CT coding. At this time, the co-chairs of the Anesthesia WG have encountered funding difficulties for co-chairs. The group will continue to work on their projects but the co-chairs have spoken with HL7 HQ about alternative administrative options for the group. Medical Devices has expressed an interest in supporting ongoing Anesthesia work. A final resolution is still pending, but Anesthesia will keep PC updated on status.
Patient Care Wednesday Q3
Present:Jose Costa Teixeira, Emma Jones (Scribe), Michael Tan, David Pyke, David Parker, Vassil Peytchen, Massoud Hosseiric, Andrea Pitkus, Maribeth Gagnon, Mark Jones, Carolyn Knapik, Elisabeth Berger, David Burgess, Lloyd McKenzie, Ilcon Kim, Sungchud Bae, Joon Hyun Song, M'Lynda Owens, Larry McNight, Rob Hausam, Lorraine Constable, Swapna Bhatia, Jennifer Brush, Greg Gustafson, Elaine Ayres, Chris Melo, Dennis Patterson, Andrew Tores, Michell Miller, Jenni Syed, Tim McNeil, Laura Heermann (Chair), Hans B, Sheryl Taylor, Riki Merricke
Minutes:
Goal: discussion of resources where PC and OO have touching boundaries
- Update on ordersets and careplan (out of CQI)*
- Observation and clinical impression for capturing clinical notes*
- Update on the negation topic*
Observation and documents - Michelle presented the background to this issue
- How to represent notes using observation resources?
- structure notes
- Annotations
- Pure commentary notes
- Can we use document reference?
The following discussion occurred
- Clinical impression was intended to document the thought process that leads to a diagnosis - not meant to be used for notes
- What should be used? -
- composition resource is like CDA header. It gives the metadata about the document. Used when the system hasn't bother to encode the data
- Document is always a bundle resource and starts with the composition
- Doc ref resource is an indexing resource - points to fhir or other structures. Provides the metadata but would not contain the document content
- A FHIR document sections are other resources. Can have observations and bundle them up with other things.
- Observations may not be a great fit for narrative data
- Observation is a point in time statement made about a general statement
- Diagnostic report points to observation. Having a big blob of text does not make a document
- Blob of text can be used in the right context - in what context do we deal with documentation?
- documentation does not mean document. Need to use the appropriate resource for the best fit
- Need a way to define what these things are in a glossary
- Examples in patient care minutes Notes -
- Does observation implied the subject is a patient? If the patient is the subject, should annotation be used because it may not need to be
- The intent of observation is to be made on anything {patient, group, defice, location} - subject
- Annotation is appropriate if everyone can modify the resource
- Where ever we end up putting it, need to be clearly named
- Physician will be likely to give the note some sort of structure. Attending may need to annotate the resident note - using an observation doesn't feel like the right fit
- May need to understand how use cases fit into this - e.g. Pathologist uses templates that fits in a bigger report
- Narrative goes in the narrative of the resource and apply the code - list of allergy will fo in the narrative of a list resource. If there is a narrative and you want it fully encoded FHIR will support this.
- This is not intuitive for implementers - even for ones participating in HL7
- From Lloyd - according to Graham, annotation is a separate resource than observation. It already exists. Clinical impression should be used. It's the summary of everything.
- Clinicians thinks an observation is a synthesis of the provider thoughts.
- When annotations are associated with other resources, when do we split it and when to we keep it together? RIM made this mistake.
- Clinical impression is not the only resource intended to contain freeText - every resource is intended to contain freeText.
- If clinical impression is intended as a summary of everything - if that's the case, it can be used for every note type - H&P and progress notes etc.
- Freetext yes or no does not do it. Clinical impression has other properties in it that isn't appropriate for use with everything
- Point made that clinical impression was not meant to be used in this context
- Clinical impression cam eabout as a collector - samilar to orderset. Don't need to build an artificial place to put these notes.
- Use cases are on the patient care wiki - these are the places we need to capture data and can't use FHIR to do this
- Somehow we have to figure out how the improve the problem -
Next Steps
- Small group to work on it
- Patient care can continue to work on this - we will take a stab at it to come up with a way to document a note
Orderset
- Update on Negation
- Resource owner: DS
- Resource: orderset
- There is a potential overlap between orderset and care plan
- OO has strong interest in orderSet
- FMG have not made a ruling on where it sits. Would like to see the draft proposol
- Related to a broader topic for protocol. It's also a topic for the FHIR workflow project. Will end up with a resource or set of resource. DS has not come to FMG to rule on this yet.
OO, PC, RCRIM will care about it.
- Timeline - workgroups are asked to let FMG know how comfortable with going forward with a May ballot - see Lloyd's slides for time line.
- Per Lloyd, This is not a candidate for May ballot.
- Would it make sense to play with these resource to test out the real use of these resources
- They've already been to draft for comment ballot. Created profile of the basic resource that went for a draft for comment ballot.
Negation - PC report out
- Voted that this is a problem
- Ended up talking about an outline for capturing the use cases. Need to come up with a full list of requirements that we need to solve
- Desire a need for consistency - not completely clear on the scope of the consistentcy
- Progress was made
- Want to ground the discussion and solution on real world use.
- Will address as part of the Clin-on-FHIR testing
Will keep this spot at next wgm - need to add CDS and RCRIM for the orderset discussion.
Patient Care Wednesday Q4
Present: George Cole Greg Gustafson Nancy Orvis Margaret Ditloff Russell Leftwich Rob McClure Russel Ott Brett Marquard David Parker Sheryl Taylor Rob Hausam Elaine Ayres Bruce Bray Michelle Miller Serafina Versaggi Emma Jones Michael Tan Ted Klein Gay Dolin Jim Case Tom de Jong Susan Matney Jay Lyle Sylvia Tun Susan Barber Marla Albitz Melva Peters Heather Grain Sandy Stuart Carmella Condere M'Lynda Ownds Donna Quirk Dan Rutz Lindsey Hoggle Larry McKnight
Minutes:
David Parker presented VA/DoD JET project to identify substances commonly used in allergy records by frequency using 18 million VA & DoD records.
Slides and results will be posted
There are ~200,000 terms in the set of allowable terms (i.e., as defined in C-CDA)
There is very heavy skewing of terms: most of the data is supported by a small number of terms.
RxNorm mapping supports ~70% correlation VA DoD; 85 if IN MIN PIN only
Classes: sulfa 70%, opioids 10.
Group proposes that RxNorm Active Ingredient (IN, MIN) is the functionally relevant level to report
Non-drug substances represented by SCT & UNII. SCT has a better level of granularity but lacks some terms; UNII has more terms but granularity does not support allergen reporting.
The group recommends
- sharing medications as RxNorm IN/MIN
- using a very short Class list
- submitting gap concepts to SCT & remove UNII from the value set
Discussion
International difficulties. We could use SCT with national drug extensions.
IDMP defines similar levels to RxNorm. 11238 how to identify a substance.
Larry McKnight presented a similar analysis of data from Cerner, using a frequency count from a 45MM patient database
Even in “standardized” data we see some duplication of terms
Deduplicated first, then mapped to SCT & RxNorm
SCT seems to works better than NDF-RT for classes; NDF-RT also changes.
Counted 40 ways to say “no known drug allergies”
~3% were text entries
Procedure flags are another class: these are relevant at different points of the care process
They are often recorded in the negative as they are used to clear a procedure
How information is captured matters, as patient reports are likely to be less precise.
Foods & environmentals can be much more vague; we need to understand what is the right level of granularity
Next steps: looking for an owner.
Russ Leftwich provided the clinical moment. Recent reports on overrides: 91%. 90% of Penicillin records don’t react when challenged. Drug rash is not immunological. Reactant is often metabolite; which can’t be tested for. Most cross reactions are not immunologic: true immunology is too specific.
What should Patient Care do next?
Rob McClure encouraged the group to think more broadly about the process and how to address problems like false positives and the litigious system that encourages them.
It was suggested that clinical practice does not line up with data standards: domain analysis should assert what is needed to the standards process.
Brett Marqhard moved "To form a minimum universal realm list of substances for allergy and intolerance lists, including negation.
Rob second"
Vote: 8 abstentions, 0 against, 24 for; motion carries.
Patient Care WGM, Thursday, January 14, 2016
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Patient Care WGM, Friday, January 15, 2016
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Patient Care Friday Q0: PCWG Co-Chairs meeting
NOTE: co-chairs to determine whether this will be moved to Thursday Q-Lunch
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Patient Care Friday Q1
(1) Template WG meeting
- - PCWG representative(s) to attend
(2) Agenda: open
- - Possible: Clinical Connectathon
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Patient Care Friday Q2
Agenda: open
- Possible: Clinical Connectathon
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Patient Care Friday Q3
Agenda: open
- Possible: Clinical Connectathon
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Patient Care Friday Q4
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- No Clinician-on-FHIR session (to be concluded Friday Q3)
PCWG will meet if there are topics of interest
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