During the workshop, the Trillium II project was presented to the audience as well as the state of patient summaries in Denmark and the US. Furthermore, the results of a survey on use of patient summaries in disaster and relief situations were presented.
The purpose of the workshop was to promote the project and the Global Community for Digital Health Innovation and collect feedback on the participants’ attitude towards patient summaries.
The workshop participants were invited to discuss which patient summary use cases they considered most relevant for the Trillium II project to focus on and how an international patient summary should be governed.
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Medinfo2017 Trillium II Workshop
1. Reinforcing the Bridges and Scaling up
EU/US Cooperation on Patient
Summary
Trillium II
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 727745
5. right and enabler of safe
care.
stakeholder groups to identify
needs
key enablers and success
educational and training material
6.
7. • Quality assurance
• Health goals
• Early warnings
Can we use patient summaries to unlock patient data?
8.
9. Reinforcing the Bridges and Scaling up
EU/US Cooperation on Patient
Summary
Trillium II
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 727745
10. 10
HL7 Foundation: who we are..
HL7 the best and most widely-
used
eHealth standards since 1986
HL7 v2
Clinical Document Architecture
CIMI
HL7 FHIR
19 National Affiliates in Europe (~38
wordwide)
European HL7 foundation established
in 2010
European Funded Research
Projects
Annual HL7 in Europe Newsletter
Website: www.HL7.eu
eHealth policy & Research
SDO Joint Initiative Council
HL7 Vision: A world in which everyone can securely access & use the right health data when & where they need it.
August 24, 2017
Hangzhou, China
Building a global community for digital health innovation: the role of patient summaries
11. The Use Case: what if you need care abroad?
• When patient needs unplanned care in another country, a
EHR summary fit for the purpose of safe and efficient
health care is available.
• After the health care encounter, patient receives encounter
report in a format and language that can be understood
back home.
• Addressed by European Union funded projects in cases of
unplanned or emergency care
- among European member states by epSOS (2008-2011) and eHDSI
(2017-2020)
- In the transatlantic setting by the Trillium Bridge project
(www.trilliumbridge.eu)
- Globally by the International patient summary implementation
guide.
12. European Patient Summary
Guidelines, Nov 2013, rev 2016
Country of origin
Country of
treatment
Clinical Records in the
Country of treatment
Contact Point for Patient
Summaries In Country of
Treatment
Translated/
Transcoded
EU Patient
Summary
Terminology
Services
Clinical Records in
the country of Origin
EU Patient
Summary
Contact Point for
Patient Summaries In
Country of Origin
Patient seeks unplanned care
where another language is
spoken.
13. EU Patient Summary Guideline
EU patient summary guideline defines patient summary as the
“minimum set of information needed to assure healthcare coordination and continuity of
care”
• Emergency or unplanned care refers to
“the range of healthcare services available to people who need medical advice, diagnosis
and/or treatment quickly and unexpectedly”
• Types of EHR summaries
• Emergency data set
• Continuity of care record
• Encounter report
• Discharge summary
• 2nd opinion
• Clinical patient summary
• Disease specific summaries
• Around the world many variants of the same basic types of patient summaries
• HL7 Consolidated CDA
• seven document types, seven of which were consolidated in CCDA
14.
15. Results of Trillium Bridge 2013-2015
• Gap Analysis
• Compared patient summary specifications in EU/US
• Shared clinical elements: problems, medications, allergies
• Interoperability Assets
• Established a terminology prototype CTS-2 service: http://extension.phast.fr/STS_UI
• Developed Patient summaries Transformer: http://informatics.mayo.edu/trillium-
bridge
• Identified Gaps in IHE profiles Patient Identity & Document Query/Retrieve
• Validation activities: 4 EU countries/ Kaiser Permanente
• EU/US Marketplace; HIMSS 2015; IHE Connectathon 2015, eHealthWeek
Recommendation: “Advance an International Patient Summary (IPS) standard
to enable people to access and share their health information for emergency or
unplanned care anywhere and as needed. At minimum the IPS should include
immunizations, allergies, medications, clinical problems, past operations and
implants.”
16. Comparison of EHR summaries
and the International Patient Summary bottom line
Allergies
Medications
Problems
Pregnancy History
Expected date of delivery
Vaccinations
Social History
Medical Devices
Vital Signs
Blood group
ProceduresAllergies
Problems
Immunizations
Procedures
(surgical )
Functional Status
(autonomy / invalidity)
Results
(blood group )
Social History Observations
(lifestyle history )
Vital signs
(blood pressure )
Medications
Pregnancy history
(expected date of delivery )
Advance Directives
Encounters
Family History
Payers
CCDPS
Plan of Care
(therapeutic recommendations )Medical Devices and Implants
• Same base Standard (HL7 CDA)
• Different philosophy: capture vs continuity of care
• Different IGs: C-CDA/CCD (US realm) vs epSOS IG
• Different technical approach: Open vs Closed Template
17. Transforme
r
(CTS2)
Trillium Bridge Provider-Mediated Exchange
Examples of most significant issues with specification alignment
• Certificates: Self signed for purposes of demonstration
• SAML: Differences in the requirements for eHealth versus epSOS implementation
• Patient Discovery: Demographics versus identifier based search
• Document Query: Difference in Class Code for Document Type used
• Document Retrieve: Country specific identifier is used to retrieve for epSOS
IHE
XCPD
IHE XCA
IHE
ATNA
(epSOS)
IHE
XCPD
IHE XCA
IHE
ATNA
(eHealth)
Trillium Bridge
Gateway
(epSOS Open NCP)
National
Contact
Point
18. The main question for Trillium Bridge..
• Can we convert a patient summary generated in the European Union
according to the EU Patient Summary Guideline to one useful in the USA?
• Our Action: Compared clinically, syntactically and semantically the
European PS (epSOS) and MU clinical summary (HL7 CCDA/CCD)
• Evidence: use specs & examples, carry out tests
• Two use cases:
- Provider mediated (citizen controlled, provider initiated)
- Patient mediated (citizen initiated, citizen controlled)
• Blazing the transatlantic path – constraints and assumptions
- Translation of narrative unstructured content (not in scope)
- Incorporate patient summary elements in EHR or PHR (not in scope)
- EU Citizens have access to their EU Patient Summary (e.g. epSOS)
- US Citizens have access to their Clinical Summary in C-CDA/ CCD
• Feasibility study: what have we learned and what are the implications?
19. Comparison of EHR summaries
and the International Patient Summary bottom line
Allergies
Medications
Problems
Pregnancy History
Expected date of delivery
Vaccinations
Social History
Medical Devices
Vital Signs
Blood group
ProceduresAllergies
Problems
Immunizations
Procedures
(surgical )
Functional Status
(autonomy / invalidity)
Results
(blood group )
Social History Observations
(lifestyle history )
Vital signs
(blood pressure )
Medications
Pregnancy history
(expected date of delivery )
Advance Directives
Encounters
Family History
Payers
CCDPS
Plan of Care
(therapeutic recommendations )Medical Devices and Implants
• Same base Standard (HL7 CDA)
• Different philosophy: capture vs continuity of care
• Different IGs: C-CDA/CCD (US realm) vs epSOS IG
• Different technical approach: Open vs Closed Template
20. Section Comparison
epSOS/EU Directive
EU Patient
Guidelines epSOS PS CCD
Section Optionality Optionality Optionality Optionality
Allergy R R Allergies R
List of current medicines R R Medications R
List of current problems /
diagnoses R R Problem R
Surgical Procedures prior to
the past six months R O Procedures
O (R only for
inpatients)
Major Surgical Procedures in
the past six months R R Procedures
O (R only for
inpatients)
Medical Devices and
implants R R Medical Equipment O
Vaccinations O O Immunizations O
List of resolved, closed or
inactive problems O O Problem R
Social History Observations O O Social History O
Pregnancy history (Expected
date of delivery) O O Social History (Pregnancy Observation) O
Physical findings (Vital
Signs Observations) O O Vital Signs O
Diagnostic tests (Blood
group) O O Results Section R
Treatment Recommendations R O Plan of Care O
Autonomy / Invalidity R O Functional Status O
Advance Directives O
Family History O
Payer O
Encounters O
Text only
4 sections not present in
epSOS PSepSOS: 14 sections, 1 grouped = 13 sections
CCD: 15 sections, 4 not mapped = 11 sections
Can be grouped
together, only
difference is the date
21. Statistics: coverage of value sets
epSOS Value Set epSOS Code
System
concepts with
corresponence/
concepts present/
(% covered)
CCD Value Set CCD Code
System
concepts with
corresponence/
concepts present/
(% covered)
epSOSActiveIngredient ATC 606/5592 (6%) Medication Drug
Class
NDF-RT 1365/10699 (13%)
epSOSActiveIngredient ATC 2836/5592 (51%) Medication Brand
Name
RxNorm 3329/13885 (24%)
epSOSActiveIngredient ATC 2836/5592 (51%) Medication Clinical
Drug
RxNorm 9642/31214 (31%)
epSOSAllergenNoDrugs SNOMED CT 79/112 (71%) Ingredient Name UNII 5315/63996 (8%)*
epSOSRoutesofAdminis
tration
EDQM
Standard
Terms
55/73 (75%) Medication Route
FDA
NCI Thesaurus 57/118 (48%)
epSOSDoseForm EDQM
Standard
Terms
28/457 (6%) Medication Product
Form
NCI Thesaurus 99/153 (65%)
epSOSIllnessesandDisor
ders
ICD-10 1775/9525 (19%)
IHTSDO maps
Problem SNOMED CT 7204/16443 (44%)
IHTSDO maps
epSOSIllnessesandDisor
ders
ICD-10 1147/9525 (12%)
NLM maps
Problem SNOMED CT 6914/16443 (42%)
NLM maps
epSOSVaccine SNOMED CT 27/31 (87%) Vaccine
Administered
CVX 87/163 (53%)
38. Reinforcing the Bridges and Scaling up
EU/US Cooperation on Patient
Summary
Trillium IIThis project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 727745
39. Scaling-up the use of patient
summaries
Emergency
• Emergency response teams
August 24 2017, Hangzhou, China
Building a global community for digital health innovation: the
role of patient summaries
Trillium-II’s ambition touches individuals through their mobile hub and the
community through an aggregating dashboard making the most of our data-driven
economy.
46. The Situation in Denmark
Jan Petersen, Chief Consultant
MedCom, Denmark
Building a global community for digital health
innovation: the role of patient summaries
47. 5,7 million citizens
Centrally-managed health care system
Health care is provided directly by the public sector, primarily paid
trough taxes and free of charge
5 Regions + 98 Municipalities
54 Public hospitals (+ 19 Private)
Approx. 2000 GP clinics
Approx. 1200 Specialists
407 Pharmacies
60 IT vendors – 100 IT systems
Danish Healthcare Sector - a few facts
48. Prerequisites for eHealth and standardization in
Denmark
• Unique Person ID - life-long and multi-purpose since 1968
• National registration of hospital contacts since1976
• Legal authorization registry for health care professionals
• Health provider/organization registry since 2006
• National security services
• National health service – tax financed
• National it-strategies
• National classifications and terminology
• - and a multi-vendor policy within eHealth
• Combination unique to Denmark
49. eHealth strategies
• Multi-vendor policy
• Standardised interfaces
• Messaging and central services
• Consensus building
• Regulation through (financial) agreements
50. The Danish Health Data Network
Exchange of data:
• Messaging
– One-to-one
– One data provider - One data
consumer
• Web service
– One-to-many
– One data provider – Many data
consumers
• Index lookup
– Many data provider – Many data
consumers
51. • A persistent document composed by a medical doctor
• An on-demand document compiled on-the-fly extracting
information from relevant sources
• A window – giving access to health information relevant to the
current clinical workflow/clinical task
• Sundhed.dk is such a clinical window
Patient summary – different concepts
The Human Condition
René Magritte (1933)
52. • The official portal for the public Danish Healthcare
Services
• Enables citizens and healthcare professionals to find
information and communicate
• Facilitates patient-centered digital services
• Provide access to and information about the Danish
healthcare services.
Sundhed.dk (sundhed ~ health)
53. • Providing general health related information to citizens and health care
professionals
• Granting privileged access to person related health information for citizens
and health care professionals
• A window for looking into person related health information residing in
national and local data repositories
• Sundhed.dk is displaying information not storing information
• Most information is read-only; with a few exceptions, e.g vaccinations, organ
donation
Sundhed.dk principles
54. 54
Available Services:
• Appointments
• X-ray reports
• EHR extracts (hospital)
• Lab reports
• Your GP
• Hospital encounters
• Referrals
• GP, Dentist, Specialist contacts
• Current medication
• Vaccinations
• Power of attorney
• Organ donation
• Living will
• Scanning program participation
• Denial to share information
• Access to log data
The National Danish Health Portal
https://www.sundhed.dk/borger/service/om-sundheddk/ehealth-in-denmark/
55. 55
• If an IPS (International Patient Summary) is a useful tool in planning and
delivering healthcare, then (yes/no questions)
– IPS available through an mobile app.
– IPS should be accessible in a national health portal
– IPS should be controlled by the patient or his relative only
– IPS should be accessible by relevant health care professionals
– IPS should only reflect the last 2 years history
Question to the audience
57. Sharing Data in the US Between
Different EHRs
~40% of systems are sharing data
~30% of physicians can find the data
~20% of the time data is integrated into the physician
workflow
~10% of the time the data has an impact on patient
care
Challenges of sharing summary documents
57
58. Data Exchange vs Services
Data exchange
Standard HL7 messages
Data is copied from one EHR/system to another
Many copies of the same data – oncology, wound care, pharmacy
Difficult to keep multiple copies synchronized
“Two copies of anything will eventually kill you.” – Al Pryor, PhD
One example of data duplication (Intermountain)
49 copies of patient registration data
294 million patient records online
288 million or 97% are duplicate copies
125,000 registration updates/day or 6.1 million total data
updates daily
58
59. Data Exchange vs Services
Standards based services
Data is accessed via standard Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs)
The data is accessed in “real time”, on demand
The data does not get stored in the new system
Current best example: HL7 Fast Healthcare
Interoperability Resources (FHIR – pronounced like
Fire)
59
60. Healthcare Services Platform Consortium
Mission
Improve health by creating a vibrant, open ecosystem of
interoperable applications, content, and services
Vision
Be a provider-led organization accelerating the delivery of
a platform that supports innovative healthcare
applications for the improvement of health and healthcare.
60
62. Implications for Patient Summaries
The same program could be used to create the patient
summary from different EHRs
A program could access multiple EHRs using the same
API to create the patient summary
The clinician could review “always” important data
Problem list, allergies, current medications
Followed by focused queries related to the patient
Last 5 HgbA1c, weights in the last year, BPs in last 3
months
62
64. Apps that enable data sharing…
Next-gen Interoperability
Disease and quality registries
Population Health integration
HIE integration
Data capture for research
Clinical Trial recruiting
EHR
2
Patient
Summary
EHR
3
EHR
1
Public
Health
64
65. Progress
FHIR is easy to implement
FHIR has unprecedented support from EHR vendors
SMART on FHIR really works!
Applications at Intermountain Healthcare
In use - Pediatric growth chart, Pediatric drug card, BP
Centiles
In development – HIE viewer, Pulmonary Embolus diagnosis
and management
University of Utah collaborations
ONC Challenge grant: Neonatal bilirubin app
ONC High Impact grant: Surgery transition app
65
66. What is the Clinical Information
Interoperability Council?
We want to create ubiquitous sharing of standardized data across the
breadth of medicine for:
Direct patient care
Research and learning
Public health
Clinical trials
International patient summaries
Data from devices
Post market surveillance
Quality and disease specific registries
Billing and health administration
Any where that we share health related data and information …..
67. HL7 CDA
CDISC
HL7 FHIR
data 138
mmHg
SystolicBPSystolicBPObs
quals
data Right
Arm
BodyLocatio
n
BodyLocation
data Sittin
g
PatientPositi
on
PatientPosition SNOMED CT
LOINC or
SNOMED Observable
Repository of
Shared Models
in an approved
Formalism
Model Review
SNOMED CT
LOINC
RxNorm
Core Reference Model
Standards Infusion
CEMs
Initial Loading of Repository
DCMs
CDEs
CDA
Templates
openEHR
Archetypes
ISO EN 13606
Archetypes
FHIM
Models
FHIR
Resources
Logical Model Development Lifecycle
CDISC
SHARE
Model Dissemination
Translators
HL7 V2
NCPDP
X12
70. Core Assumptions
‘The complexity of modern medicine exceeds the inherent
limitations of the unaided human mind.’
~ David M. Eddy, MD, Ph.D.
‘... man is not perfectible. There are limits to man’s
capabilities as an information processor that assure
the occurrence of random errors in his activities.’
~ Clement J. McDonald, MD
70
72. Why?
We need to
Provide better care
By sharing executable clinical decision support modules
Decrease cost
Make clinicians and patients happier
Provide accurate computable data as the foundation of a
learning health system
73. The July 13th meeting in
Bethesda
Keynote speaker – Don Rucker, MD (National Coordinator for HIT)
About 120 attendees
Representing – AAN, AAO, ACOG, ACS, ACC, ACP, APTA, ANA, FDA, CDC, NCI,
AHRQ, NIAID, DoD, VA, PCPI, AMIA, SPM, HIMSS and many other organizations
Meeting outcomes
CIIC should continue
Create mission, vision, a plan for initial governance
Develop a mailing list and a discussion forum
Projects
ACOG – OPA – FPAR, Cancer DTR, MDEpiNet RAPID, Wound Assessment, PCPI registry
interoperability project, Quality measures
Next meeting – December 5-7 in New Orleans with HL7 Partners in Interoperability
75. 17/02/2018
Building a Global Community for Digital Health Innovation:
the Role of Patient Summaries
24.08.2017
Henrique Martins | President of the Board of SPMS
77. International Patient Summary
Strategic Intent
Citizens have scattered data, in multiple locations
Citizens have data in multiple systems
Citizens receive care in multiple places
Citizens receive care in multiple contexts
Citizens own their data
Citizens want to control their data…
Citizens wnat to write their health data
Citizens take pills (imagine… by them selves…)
GREAT!!
Ego….
The citizen will gather, collect,
analyse and validade, identify
and question his/her health
data, will “move” part of the
data with in, to him, to
others, to the governement
for secundary use. The citizen
will move his/her data to the
care setting…
Information nomadicity ERA
83. ENESIS2020–NationalStrategyforHealthInformationEcosystem2020
Strategic Principles and Objectives:
…principle of transparency and open data, proactive management of the value of
health data, and promotion of a new knowledge-based knowledge economy;
…principle of centrality in the citizen;
…principle of data portability (...) adoption of the Mobile Health / mHealth
concept;
Promotion of interoperability (...)
Adoption of a comprehensive governance model (...) Council of Ministers Resolution n.º 62/2016
84. Videocall
On Web: site
and email
On APP and
Phone
NO Paper!
ENESIS2020–NationalStrategyforHealthInformationEcosystem2020
90. MySNSWallet
Portability – the Patient Summary and additional relevant
Health information directly in the Citizen’s possession.
Tailoring – the Citizen can choose what information is
relevant for him, download only those cards, delete them or
add new ones when he wants.
Your Patient Summary in your pocket!
91. MySNS Wallet: new cards with new information
• Allergies;
• Vaccines;
• Procedures;
• Diagnostics;
• Medical Devices;
• Medication;
• Rare Diseases;
• Living Will;
• Emergency card;
• Blood Donor;
• Oral Health;
• …
92. MySNS WaitTimes
Real time information on waiting time for emergency
rooms
Citizens’ “own” information
Information anywhere
98. Card by Card… we are making Portguese Health better!
Individual
Vaccines Card
4 298 408
Total
treated
individual
s
2 542 202
Patient
with
Vaccine
registratio
n
Number of patients existing in the
original and treated database.
It includes all users who have at least
one contact with the migrated CS
(enrolled, non-registered and
sporadic), and the same user will count
as many times as the different CSs
where they have passed.
1 985
694
Patient
with
Active
enrollme
nt
Number of migrated patients
with active enrollment in
HealthCare already migrated
Number of patients migrated
with contact with CS already
migrated and with registration
of vaccines.
44 641 Centrally registered vaccines
(since april 2016)
Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
We have a problem with health data. My premise is that patient summaries can serve as the entry point to health information.
My talk today will be on Trillium II – an initiative that aims to create a community of innovation for the practice of digital health starting from the notion of patient summaries.
And my premise here for you to think about is that patient summaries can serve as the entry point to navigate through a person’s health data offering essential data and links to find additional information.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
We have a problem with health data. My premise is that patient summaries can serve as the entry point to health information.
My talk today will be on Trillium II – an initiative that aims to create a community of innovation for the practice of digital health starting from the notion of patient summaries.
And my premise here for you to think about is that patient summaries can serve as the entry point to navigate through a person’s health data offering essential data and links to find additional information.
I am the secretary general of the HL7 foundation.
The vision of HL7 is a world in which everyone can securely access and use the right health data when and where needed.
HL7 was formed in the US in 1986 to connect lab systems for EHRs.
Since then it has been leading innovation in standards: first with CDA, and then spawing out Fresh Look task force,
CIMI and FHIR bringing together the power of APIs and the extensive domain knowledge developed in HL7 over the years.
The European office was formed in 2010 and since then has participated in a number of leading initiatives.
It is the third year that we bring this event to you; bridging a strong a academic perspective to a rather practical on interoperability and standards.
The patient feels sick and seeks healthcare in a country that is not his/her country of origin.
The most frequent situation is that the health professional has no prior clinical information
about that patient and it is not expected that his visit will be repeated. They will not normally
have a language in common.
Trillium Bridge concluded a gap analysis comparing the implementation guides for epSOS and CCD-CCD and managed to identify the shared clinical elements: problems, medications, allergies. It also triggered the creation of interoperability assets: terminology prototype, transformer, and also an account of differences in the IHE profiles in EU and US on patient identity and document query retrieve.
Several validation activities where carried out in EU/US Marketplace, HIMSS, IHE Europe, eHealth Week.
Finally it led to a key transversal recommendation, and 20 thematic ones. The key recommendation is advance an international patient summary standard to enable people to access and share their health information for emergency or unplanned care anywhere and as needed. At a minimum the IPS should include innumication, allergies, medications, clinical problems, past operations and implants.
Speaker Notes:
Sections not included in epSOS PS (or with limited Value Sets):
Test lab results
Non surgical procedure and results
Sections optional in CCD:
Implanted devices
Surgical procedures
Pregnancy (wider than in epSOS)
The IPS Principles
The standards specification for the IPS will be implementable
Promote (the evolution and convergence of) existing standards
Rely on solutions that are already implemented or ready for implementation
Consider new or additional solutions as they become available
The standards specification for the IPS will be applicable for global use
Strive for global accessibility of standards for use at no cost
Strive for a core set of globally accessible and usable terminologies and value sets
Include free text in addition to the structured codes as needed
Do not include local solutions in the core specification that are not available in other jurisdictions
The standards specification will be extensible and open to future use cases and solutions
The IPS provides common content that can be extended and specialized for other use cases, or localized for specific jurisdictional needs
The IPS is open to emerging solutions for unresolved issues or improvements
The standards specifications and their implementation must be sustainable through:
A robust maintenance and update process for the IPS
A process to ensure clinical validity of the IPS, meeting:
clinical requirements (including workflow)
clinical documentation requirements
information quality requirements
Moreover HL7 International and CEN/TC 251 will manage the expectations of the IPS standards specifications among stakeholders, by
stipulating the role of the IPS as a foundation for others to extend
justifying the inclusion of items in the IPS within the limited context of cross-border or cross-jurisdiction unscheduled care.
Note that the last two items are not considered part of a Patient Summary.
Specialty-agnostic means that an IPS is not filtered for a specialty. As an example, allergies are not filtered to the specialty of internal medicine, thus may also include food allergies, if considered to be relevant for, e.g. unplanned care.
Condition-independent means that an IPS is focused on the actual situation (e.g. unscheduled care) and is not intended to represent the entire patient's medical history.
Furthermore the scope of the IPS is global. Although this is a major challenge, this implementation guide takes various experiences and newer developments into account to address global feasibility to the extent possible.
The more relevant consequences of these principles in the template design are:
The adoption of a meet in the middle approach in the templates’ design to balance the need of maximizing the reuse of existing implemented templates (epSOS, C-CDA CCD; IHE PCC…) and facilitate implementation with the need of optimizing the fitness for purpose within the IPS scope. This approach aims to avoid a pure technical exercise of templates harmonization or an academic exercise that does not take in account what is already implemented.
The IPS meet-in-the-middle approach
Cooperate with the HL7 Terminology Authority and the organizations that own the used code systems (e.g. SNOMED International) to make available the IPS value sets for global use at no cost for implementation of the IPS.
When global identifiers are not (or not yet) available, as in the case of the medicinal products, enhance the model proposed for that element with relevant identifying and descriptive attributes that could help the global identification of that element.
Select a set of reference global terminologies, provisioning for the inclusion of the locally used terminologies.
Avoid solutions (e.g. identifiers, terminologies, standards), even promising in the resolution of some of the well-known issues (as the medicinal product identification), that are not yet available for concrete global use. The IPS has been however, already designed, where possible, to be ready to adopt these solutions when they are made available for real use (e.g. the IDMP identifiers) and to already support parts of those solutions that can be used today.
Within the scope of the IPS and of the “implementable” principle, attempt to be enough generic in the design of the templates so that the IPS templates are extensible to support new scenarios, specific specialties, or conditions through templates specialization or adaptation mechanisms.
Let’s focus on the content..
CEN prEN: The Patient Summary for Unscheduled, Cross-border Care
The IPS project works for assuring the compliance and the traceability i order implementable specification actually fullfill the business requirement
From deployment perpsctive the IPS project is aware about the importance of the conformance (assessment) and any kind of conformance support to implementers
Martha’s patient summary: a traveling corporate executive
Martha, a 45-year old corporate executive and breast cancer survivor travels frequently on business between the US and EU countries. She carries a clinical summary including a plan of care on her mobile phone and on paper just in case she needs to seek medical care regarding recurring symptoms.
HEALTH CONDITIONS(e.g. includes current health problems that the person is being treated for, as well as chronic conditions and disabilities)
HEALTH CONDITIONS(e.g. includes current health problems that the person is being treated for, as well as chronic conditions and disabilities)
The point is that barriers to current data sharing will also exist for sharing and use of patient summaries.
First meeting held Aug 5, 2013
Incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation on Aug 22, 2014
3 Benefactor members
Veterans Administration
Louisiana State University Health
Intermountain Healthcare
Key alliances
Center for Medical Interoperability (C4MI)
OSEHRA
3 Associate (organizational) members
Regenstrief
Motive
Allscripts
11 Individual members
Society Members: AMA, MHII and ACOG
Create an open shared repository of “logical models” in an agreed format
Import existing content whenever possible
Select one approved logical model for a given kind of data in a given context (data entry, data retrieval and analysis)
Create “approved” mappings to standard implementations
Caveats
This is the first meeting of a “campaign” or a “crusade”
This is a huge project – it will take many years
This is an essential first step to semantic interoperability. We also need
Security
Legal basis for sharing data
Aligned incentives for sharing data
HL7 meeting in San Antonio January 2012
30 something, newly married, planning for a family
Expert informaticist
Ran a half marathon 2 weeks before the HL7 meeting
Fever, nausea and vomiting, collapsed, taken to a community hospital
Unrecognized sepsis, died of untreated septic shock
The clinicians involved were not “bad” people. They were just busy and did not apply all the knowledge that they had.
If you are a practicing clinician, you are very lucky if you haven’t been involved in a similar bad outcome. I was, as a first year Internal Medicine resident. (Acute abdomen in a really tough cowboy. I frail old woman vomiting blood.)
$1.2 billion to install an EHR system
We do the right thing about 50% of the time
250,000 deaths per year due to medical errors - NPR
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/476636183/death-certificates-undercount-toll-of-medical-errors
440,000 deaths per year due to medical errors – Northwestern
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/11/how-to-prevent-440000-yearly-deaths-due-to-medical-errors/
~35,000 deaths per year from automobile accidents, estimated 40,000 in 2016
When did it become socially acceptable to have a quarter of a million people die each year from medical errors?
It is like trying to do thermodynamics before there were reliable thermometers
Each EHR vendor uses a proprietary database schema, proprietary models and unique terminology to represent clinical data
Some standardization of codes is now occurring, but
Data is not consistent vendor to vendor, or even organization to organization within the same vendor
This means that:
Sharing data is difficult
Sharing executable software across vendors is impossible
Each useful application is created or re-created on each different platform (and we pay for it!)
There are unmet needs for health care applications and decision support
Software costs are higher than they need to be