April 29 - QRPH Planning Discussion

Agenda

• Presence
• Summary of the previous activities
  • The wiki pages have been moved to reflect the new domain name.
  • A two new co-chairs was elected on March 14, 2008
    • Ana Estelrich (GIP-DMP, French Government) for the Planning Committee Quality Domain
    • Jason Colquitt (Greenway Medical)for the Technical Committee Quality Domain

Persons Present April 29, 2008:

• Ana ESTELRICH (GIP-DMP)
• Floyd EISENBERG (SIEMENS MEDICAL)
• Anna ORLOVA (PUBLIC HEALTH DATA STANDARDS CONSORTIUM)
• Jason COLQUITT (GREENWAY MEDICAL)
• Vassil PEYTCHEV (EPICS)
• Keith BOONE (GE MEDICAL)
• Landen Bain (CDISC)

Work in progress

1.Performance Measurement Data Element Structured for EHR Extraction Issues:

• Dependencies on the
  • ITI Sharing Value Sets Profile
  • Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with EHR Systems XML Schema Reference Guide

The technical details are listed under the technical frameworks. Certains things that must be considered:

• The white paper Performance Measurement Data Element Structured for EHR Extraction should remain as such since there are some gaps between the Collaborative's current schema and what the EHR vendors might wish. The EHR Vendor Association is planning to join the Collaborative and naturally bring changes to the existing schema are to be expected. Nevertheless, this is a hot topic interesting Europe, USA, and Asia. The white paper can have an implementable part (written like a profile) which includes using SVS to get the Value Sets, and a transform it to get a performance measure from XML to a template format (using the modified schema that Vassil proposed to Floyd and Jason).

2. Another point that was brought up in the April 22 call is the additional set of stored queries for XDS metadata (not patient-centric). Perhaps a revision of priorities is needed. The deadline for a Change Proposal for the ITI Committee is May 2nd.