Joint Content Tiger Team Meeting

December 3, 2012

Agenda

• Roll – Tom• Introductions - All• Context – Eric Heflin and John Donnelly

INTRODUCTIONS

Introductions

• John Donnelly and Eric Heflin are the Co-Chairs• Asked for broad participation including from all eHealth Exchange and IWG members

CONTEXT

Background

Problem

• Many production care summary documents being exchanged today are insufficient

• Current content standards are not implementation ready and are not interoperable due to extreme optionality

• Absence of well defined test cases• Overall: lack of a single “target” for the industry

Impact

• Lack of sufficient structured clinical content can compromise the core value proposition of healthcare information exchange

• Lack of a single target makes it very difficult for vendors to select a viable content strategy

• Virtually impossible for customers to specify and purchase precisely

• Fragmentation is a real danger

Timing

• Recent selection of CCHIT and AEGIS with a Dec 9th target Beta test date

• Shall allow multiple current C-CDA approaches to be leveraged once completed

The Approach

• Will be detailed during the Joint Content Tiger Team kick off discussion

• Exchange participants use C-32 by policy with knowledge about real interop issues

• IWG has created a field-level constrained content implementation specification

• These will be harmonized with a coherent pathway leading to C-CDA

The Approach

• Will be detailed during the Joint Content Tiger Team kick off discussion

• Exchange participants use C-32 by policy with knowledge about real interop issues

• IWG has created a field-level constrained content implementation specification

• These will be harmonized with a coherent pathway leading to C-CDA

MU2 Alignment

The Deliverables

• TBD by the Joint Content Tiger Team• Implementation content specification• Samples• Test cases• Executable test cases if needed• Implementation guide• Longer term: Content roadmap + C-CDA content implementation specification

DRAFT HARMONIZED CONTENT SPEC REVIEW

Next Steps/Timeline

• Today (12/3/12): Review first draft and provide feedback by email prior to next call next week.

• 12/10/12: Review feedback; working session to revised draft if/as needed. Identify any deltas prior to ratification.

• 12/17/12: Straw poll: Is the harmonized specification ready for ratification?

• 12/?/12: Ratification (email vote).

Q&A