Patient Care Coordination

IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) domain was established in July 2005 to deal with integration issues that cross providers, patient problems or time. It deals with general clinical care aspects such as document exchange, order processing, and coordination with other specialty domains. PCC also addresses workflows that are common to multiple specialty areas and the integration needs of specialty areas that do not have a separate domain within IHE.

IHE Patient Care Coordination manages the PCC Profiles and the Patient Care Coordination Technical Framework.

The Patient Care Coordination Domain is sponsored by:

HIMSS

Health Information Management Systems Society

ACP

American College of Physicians

Quick Links

• Nursing Subcommittee Proposal Approved!
• Roadmap
• Development Timeline
• Change Proposals

Upcoming Events

A detailed event calendar for the Patient Care Coordination committee can be found here.

Face to face meetings generally start the first day at 10AM, and end the last day at 3PM time to allow participant sufficient travel time to arrive and leave. During the week, meetings last from around 8:30am to 5:30pm depending upon workload. All meetings are telecast so that folks unable to travel can attend via phone. Profile proposal editors should be present at face-to-face meetings.

Committee Activities for 2008-2009 Cycle

On December 10th we held a T-Con to review the profile proposals to move forward for the 2008-2009 season. We agreed to move forward on 4 new profiles, continue work on one profile, and to complete one white paper.

New Profiles Moving Forward

• Focused Care Management (with reduced scope)
• Clinical Trials
• Public Health Registry Content
• Antepartum Record

Continuing Work

• Functional Status Assessments (focus on internal transfers)

White Papers

• Medical Home Identification

Technical Committee Review (Nov 7-8)

A Face to Face meeting of the PCC Technical Committee was be held at the RSNA Headquarters in Oakbrook, IL to review the Profile proposals that the Planning Committee agreed to move forward for the 2008-2009 season.

The agenda and minutes of that meeting can be found here: Agenda for Technical Committee Meeting, Nov 7-8

Initial Proposal Review (Planning) (Oct 16-18)

On October 16^th - 18^th, we reviewed several profile proposals to move to technical committee for discussion at their upcoming meeting on November 7^th - 8^th (see above).

Proposals in the following areas were accepted to move forward to the technical committee:

1. Focused Care Management
   • Chronic Disease Management
   • Public Health Registries
   • Decision Support Integration
2. Patient Care Workflow
   • Critical Results
3. Prehospital Care Report
4. Family History Exchange
5. Antepartum Record
6. Nursing Transfers of Care
   • Transfer of Care (Omaha System)
   • FSA Year 2
7. Clinical Trials and Adverse Event Reporting
   • Clinical Research Data Capture Fields
   • Drug Safety Content

Committee Activities in 2007-2008

Each season we go through a Profile Selection Process, which helps us decide upon which profiles to develop for that season.

In the 2007-2008 cycle we worked on the folloinw profiles:

1. Functional Status Assessments
2. Query for Existing Data (QED)
3. Emergency Department Encounter Record
4. Lab Public Health Reporting Content
5. Antepartum Summary (APS)
6. Technical Framework Updates

And a white paper on:

1. Clinical Research, Public Health and Quality use of EHR Data

During the selection process, we update our Roadmap, which shows the strategic direction of the domain. Work which isn't selected for the current season may be placed upon the roadmap for reconsideration in a future season.

Profiles that are selected are developed according to the Development Timeline, which shows when we have face to face meetings, and the important delivery dates.

The ongoing work of the committee also includes the processing of Change Proposals to the current technical framework and supplements from the prior season.

Patient Care Coordination Profiles

Participation

As a Clinician / Patient Advocate

Get involved in the planning committee. This is where the clinical problems are discussed and prioritized. The planning committee is an open group and is interested in having your input! Bring us your interoperability problems! You can also help by participating in the himss showcase scenario definitions.

You can do this by:

1. Send us a note saying you’re interested so we can get you on the list-serves.
2. Come to face to face meetings, and attend the telephone conferences.
3. Submit your profile proposals by:
   • Fill out this template.
   • Submit the propsal draft to us.
   • Attend the October planning meeting to help clarify and prioritize your proposal
   • Follow up by submitting a formal proposal
   • Attend the joint planning/technical meeting to explain your idea to the technical committee
   • Any additional resources you can provide toward the problem will help prioritize getting your proposal solidified more quickly.

As a Hospital Administrator

In addition to getting involved in the planning committee, hold your vendor accountable. Put a statement in your rfp that indicates you want the vendor to support the actor in the profile you desire.

As an Implementer

Get involved in the Technical Committee. Help make sure profiles are feasible and will work for you. Implement the profile, and come experience the Connectathon. Send us a note saying you’re interested so we can get you on the list-serves.

Demonstrations & Presentations

Date	Location	Event	Details
2007.02.25-2006-03.01	New Orleans, LA	HIMSS 2007	HIMSS Interoperability Showcase

See Also

• Committees
• PCC Vocabulary Registry and Data Dictionary

This page is based on the Domain Template.