EduWG Minutes 2015-04-13

9am Welcome

• Participants and introduction round
  • Stèphane Spahni (IHE user, university hospital, pharmacy expert, Switzerland)
  • Rene Spronk (training provider, IHE expert, Netherlands)
  • Stefan Sauermann (training provider, IHE expert, Austria)
  • Karen Witting (consultant, IHE expert, USA)

Status: What has happened so far

See Google drive

Review of ICP drafts

• CP IHE Foundation Level, CP IHE Document Sharing

• Discussion: What are the "most important" IHE profiles?
  • See Ranking list of profiles by CAT testing frequency
  • How was this list generated:
    • The Advanced Browsing feature of the CAT results webpage was used
    • results were filtered for "Profiles" (Rows)
    • results were filtered for "Companies" (Columns)
    • a specific CAT in the time 2010 to 2015 was selected (Title)
    • The results were exported into a table and the number of "*" per row (profile) was counted
    • the export was repeated for all CATs 2010 to 2015
    • the numbers of all CATs were summed up
  • ranks were colour coded
    • The "Top 20" are coloured dark green
    • Ranks 21-30 are coloured light green
    • The first 30 profiles (top 20%) may be considered to be "important"
    • There are regional differences!

• Agreement: There are 3 categories:
  • The first two categories will be selected from the "Top 20%" of all profiles
    • The current list has 143 profiles, so 20% of this is roughly 30 profiles
  • Category 1: The profiles you must be able to discuss with actors and transactions, on Vol 1 level
    • Rank 1-20 on the "global" list
  • Category 2: The profiles you only know a bit about, like what do they adress
    • Rank 21-30 on the "global" list
  • Category 3: The profiles you can look up in IHE documents in case you need them.
    • all the rest

Methods for testing the skills

• A first list of exam questions has been collected
  • It contains "open text" questions
    • These may be published so that candidates can prepare for the exam
  • It contains single choice questions
    • These will be used for the exam
    • They will therefore remain "secret"
    • They may be published in the future, if there are so many that the sheer mass will assure a fair exam.

• Discuss!!
  • This method was sucessfully used in IHE related training in Vienna.
  • Similar methods are used by others.
  • Does this make sense?

• Decision:
  • This method is a useful way to go forward
  • the available list provides useful examples but definitely needs more work

Management Issues

• Which processes are needed to design, implement and run the ICP scheme
• Which organisational structure is neccessary
• Business model

• HL7 has outsourced the actual remote testing to Kryterion

• Agreement: Professional / expert review of the exam questions and answers is necessary
  • this needs to be independent from those who develop the questions / provide the exams / provide the training
  • The test must be reviewed to be:
    • correct
    • not too easy / too hard

• Agreement: Process for verifying the test
  • have experts and non-experts take the test (IHE workgroup members, CAT monitors, )
    • provide an incentive to them
  • have them pay attention to correctness and level
  • collect feedback from those experts

• Agreement: We need an "exam committee"
  • identifies areas for certifications (e.g. "ICP Foundation" and "ICP Document Sharing")
  • finds someome to write the exam questions and answers (= the test)
    • these need some benefit (e.g being listed as "Official IHE training providers"?? Being the "exam provider"??)
  • verifies the test as described above
  • gets approval from domain committe (if appropriate) and then the international board

• We need an exam provider
  • TODO: How do others (e.g. HL7, DICOM, HIMSS) provide exams?
  • Translations may be necessary.
    • This may be something for GDC / regional / national deployment committes to organise

• the IHE board will need a recommendation on the exam charge
  • (Anecdotal evidence is in the range of 100-400 US$)
  • TODO: Find out what others charge for the exam and certification, with a size / scope similar to the ICP Foundation
  • TODO: What is the cost for providing the exam?

Next meeting: Report to GDC at their next call

See the 2015-05-06 GDC call agenda

Education_Workgroup

Global Deployment Coordination Committee