Card Tech Minutes 2013.10.13-10.17.01
Attendees
- Abdul Malik Shakir - ACC (NCDR Profile)
- Alan Katz - ACC (Strategy)
- Antje Schroeder - Siemens
- Charles Thomas - University of Washington (Strategy)
- Chris Melo - Philips
- Elias Mazur - ACC
- Elizabeth Perpetua - University of Washington (Strategy)
- Ganesan Muthiah - ACC (NCDR Profile)
- Harry Solomon - GE
- Jason Kreuter - ACC (Strategy)
- Jimmy Tcheng - ACC (Strategy)
- Kim Kayler - ACC (Promotion)
- Mead Walker - ACC (NCDR Profile)
- Nakano Shinichi - IHE-J (NCDR profile)
- Nandini Kuntipuram - ACC (NCDR profile)
- Nick Gawrit - heartbase
- Paul Dow - ACC
- Paul Seifert - Agfa (TF Maintenance)
- Salima Shakir - ACC (NCDR Profile)
- Sharleen Fairbanks - ACC (Promotion)
- Tom Dolan - Philips
- Traci Connolly - ACC (NCDR Profile)
Meeting Notes
EP Report Content
- very active sub committee involving three physicians and two nurses
- It was decided to use MDC codes (MDC_IDC IEEE 11073) for Result Obeservations (as used in the IDCO profile)
- Snomed is more focused on procedures and lacking codes for device measurements.
- Potentially need to apply for new MDC codes
- Switched to using new NYUMC templates rather than the previously used "Hungo-Reports"
- Use case section has been updates based on physician feedback
- Template development started with defining a complete xml sample for an implant/explant report as a basis
- Review of the single lead ICD Implant Report example, which is about 95% ready.
- Started review of code sets
Registry Submission Content - NCDR Cath/PCI Registry
Promotion
- Review of survey results
- only 8% of 149 participants had heard about IHE
- 86% think that interoperability is very important and that ACC should support IHE
- some of the interoperability concerns are focused around cross-enterprise document sharing.
- with regards to MU2 requirements and what they mean to cardiologist we should work with the ACC advocacy group (Lisa Goldstein):
- Show how stage 1/2 and trends for stage 3 impact interoperability
- make clear what IHE has to offer in order to address these requirements
- Some more ideas on what we can do:
- make use of Success stories like the Dutch Cardiology XDS example
- Illustrate how HIEs are using IHE for cross enterprise exchange
- Map survey feedback for interoperability issues to IHE profiles for the ACC taskforce by Nov.2 (Tom), where ACC is putting togehter a 5year plan for IHE - TOM
- Discussion with ACC Marketing Team (Kim Kayler, Sharleen Fairbanks)
- Promote IHE to ACC audience
- ACC Management
- ACC Staff
- ACC membership
- Use ACC publishing media to get news out (e.g. CardioSource World News
- Start with staff, then management and then members
- ultimate goal is to educate clinicans to assertain their IT needs to their IT staff
- ACC on behalf of their members should communicate the message that interoperability is a big need to Product Management of vendors, so that systems are ready for Health Information Exchange
- Some of the basic messages
- IHE ties into quality which is key mission of the college by making practice more efficient and enabling data collection for NCDR part of regular clinical practice
- MU – all state HIE’s are run using work done by IHE-ITI. Emerging MU guidelines will be about clinical information exchange and image transfer - IHE has been establishing the standards underlying the MU and the role of IHE in supporting connecting practices to HIE’s for referrals and care transition documents will be key.
- In cardiology we have focused on better working of cardiology department – the challenge is that there are not MU spend here, there isa value prop for members so that systems work better together within cardiology which efficiencies should underlie accreditation issues
- Action Item for Paul Dow to provide logos and IHE visuals to ACC marketing team
- Promote IHE to ACC audience
Technical Framework Maintenance
- There are currently no new CPs that need work
Updates from other SDOs, IHE Domains, ...
- DICOM
- WG 1 Cardiology has been quiet - there are open work items on additional SR templates for EP and IVOCT
- WG 27 Web Technology - working on restful web services for imaging.DICOM needs to “brand” the web services ( DICOM Web). Looking for ways to ty into FHIR
- WG8 and WG 20
- DICOM will develop a method for creating CDA radiology reports - will allow professional sub-societies to write clinical templates for those reports e.g. knee musco-skeletal MR – primarily standard text in a narrative structure, may highlight a few discrete structured measurements to use of that report which would be mapped to CDA and
- Obstetrics and breast imaging are more interested in structured data for registry and data collection use.
- Work is Proceeding, but slowly
- HL7
- Structured documents - late binding of vocabulary to structured CDA templates to enable medication and clinical vocabularies to specific regions
- FHIR – next gen HL7 – simplified resource modelling compared to HL7 V3 , can be represented by web-services
- Use case is lightweight and ad-hoc access to healthcare information - flexible, mobile-device , more dynamic workflow with unpredictable, on-demand access
- Production-oriented workflow in hospitals could still be in v 2
- HIT is considering FHIR going forward
- C-CDA 2.0 was balloted for DSTU ( 53% approval) with over 1000 comments to be procesed before publication
- Multiple new templates addedd ( because of no late binding)
- Pain points on binding are not obvious – most folks are at too high a level
- Lack of tool support ( which isoutside HL7) is the biggest reason
- The issues in tool support for template versioning
- The PCC CCDA harmonization effort will see some o the pain this year - so that may be a way we can get attention to this
- Art-décor is a non lantana, international realm tool set that exists
- IHE
- IHE Certification
- IHE international issued an overview of conformance assessment
- IHE Schema owner
- Connectathon testing
- Product iIHE ntegration statement ( attestation)
- Product accredation testing ( ISO….)
- Certification ( ISO….)
- HIE states have asked for certification of technology
- E.g. illinois HIE re facing issues onboarding new members and would like some of that integration work pushed back down the chain
- Still no tie-in to real benefits, market needs - or to other certification bodies – HL7, MU-certification
- IHE international issued an overview of conformance assessment
- IHE-RAD
- Tomosynthesis
- Mobile health for imaging – rest-based access to images
- PCC
- Patient visit view summary - patient-oriented summary document
- IHE Certification
Strategic Discussion with Planning Committee
- Review of University of Washington Proposal for TAVR structured Reporting
- Workflow for creating evidence docs for TAVR
- Should cover Registry Reporting into the joint NCDR/STS registry, which currently has about 200 members
- Currently 200-300 different data elements need to be collected for registry submission, about 100 of them are the same as in CRC. Therefore CRC could be used as a starting point that would have to be expanded in the procedure section as well as in the pre-procedure section.
- Starting point could be a paper, that publised the TAVR vocabulary (REFERENCE!)
- Market forces driving TAVR
- reasonable high prevalence of the disease – current meds are ineffective, surgical treatments are high-risk,
- TAVR is attractive and effective for high-risk patients. – CMS coverage demands registry submission as a renumeration pre-condition. Innermax registry funding is been defunded.
- CMS is not interested in data collection
- Some statistics
- TAVR – world - multiple 10’s of thousands – 2 orders of mag. Less than angio ( 3 milion/year) ,,, there is 20 angio patients versus 1 aortic stenosis - 83/1,000,000 cases in Germany .
- About 200 members of TAVR registry vs. 2500 for PCI – 8000 cases done per 18 months. – Duke does 5-10/week – needs 2 cardiologits plus 3.5 FTE’s on mgt. – expensive procedure vs. angio ( $500) ….room to grow.
- Current plan:
- Charles Thomas and colleagues start mapping the TAVR vocabulary (using CRC and the Mapping Sheets as a starting point). This will be used as input for a proposal for next year's cycle. Nick and Chris to provide latest mapping spread sheets.
- First call to introduce CRC and some initial planning on Dec.11, 2013 at 10am EST.
- Jason is working with EHR vendor community to provide information for registries (PINNACLE)
- EPIC is on board with this effort
- Most of EHRvendors are currently working on MU
- Dr. Katz is working on an outline for a paper to promote IHE to the ACC
- Any promotion effort should target the business level (c-level), therefore the American Hospital Association, CHIME and HIMSS are a good audience.
- Four year plan should cover
- Marketing
- Make sure our current profiles are contemporary and meet current needs
- Clean up existing profile proposals