Weekly workgroup calls and complete assignments within my areas of expertise as a practicing clinician with HIT post-graduate training.
Transition of Care || Lab Interface || CDA Consolidation
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Transition of Care Initiative
| Organization | Participant Name(s) |
Statement of Commitment | Committed Deliverables | Workgroup Commitment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avisena Inc. FHIMA |
Amber Broadwater, RHIA | I, with both the company and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| AAFP, ASTM, CGC |
David Kibbe |
I, and the organizations that I will represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative, and will contribute learnings, tools, and reference implementations on the use of structured XML for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. Others representing these groups may wish to add their own statements of commitment. |
Weekly participation in phone calls; experiences from the field to the extent these are available; tools, methods, and reference implementation components related to the CCR standard and the harmonization of the CCR standard with the CDA CCD. |
Use Case |
| OpenEMR, Health-ISP |
John Williams |
We will participate in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care (ToC) Initiative by providing resources towards the harmonization of standards, development of reference implementation, and pilot project. |
Weekly participation in phone calls, work groups, calls for consensus, reference implementations, implementation of ToC in a free and open source EHR, pilot of ToC with direct messaging, implementation of ToC between post acute care and long term care settings. |
Use Case |
| Quality Partners of Rhode Island | Teresa M. Mota, RN | I will participate on behalf of Quality Partners in the the S&I Framework's Transition of Care (ToC) Initiative by providing information on transitions of care from CMS Care Transitions project, State of RI Continuity of Care tool, learnings, tools/best practices resulting from this work in all settings of care, and clinical subject matter expertise in the long-term care setting/gerontological nursing. Was a participant on HITSP Provider Perspective TC and ARRA Tiger Team especially in reference to IS09 - Consultations and Transfers of Care/Req for LTC Assessments. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| Siemens |
Doug Pratt |
I, representing Siemens, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative, and will contribute learnings, samples, and reference implementations on the use of structured XML for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. | Weekly participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; experiences from the field and product development to the extent these are available; pilot testing and constructive feedback (bug reports, etc.) of tools such as validators or generators that are produced by the project. |
Use Case |
| IHE PCC | Keith W. Boone | I will participate on behalf of the IHE Patient Care Coordination Committee as cochair of its Planning Committee. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| GE, IHE ITI |
John Moehrke |
As co-chair of HL7 Security WG and member of IHE ITI Technical Committee, I commit to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to contribute my experience and knowledge of standards in network infrastructure, security and privacy; with the goal of reusing globally recognized standards where appropriate. I commit to educating the members about the existing solutions and globally recognized standards; and working toward understandings. Where gaps are identified in these globally recognized standards and will promote the use of appropriate standards organizations to resolve the any gaps identified. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| Oregon HIE Planning Team | Brian Ahier | I will participate on behalf of the Oregon HIE Planning Team as chair of the Technology Workgroup. We will assign other content experts as needed. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| AAFP | Steven Waldren | I will participate on behalf of the American Academy of Family Physicians | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| ANI | Greg Alexander | I will participate on behalf of the Alliance of Nursing Informatics | I will participate in weekly teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| Microsoft | Paul Edge | I will participate on behalf of Microsoft's Health Solutions Group | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. |
Use Case |
| Redwood MedNet | Will Ross | I will participate on behalf the Redwood MedNet health data delivery service in Northern California |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products, with specific interest in workflow appropriate solutions for small facilities. |
Use Case |
| KHIE, KHIN (consultant team) | Greg Smith | I will participate on behalf of the health information exchange activity in Kansas as well as the supporting consulting teams | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, and supply example transitions with specific interest in those involving long term care and biosecurity. | Use Case |
| Covisint | John Haughton, MD | I will participate in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care Initiative Initiative as Covisint's Chief Medical Information Officer | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review; comment on workgroup products as needed; calls for consensus; lessons learned from the Covisint and Docsite implementations; participation in development of documents and feedback | |
| Towson University, IHE PCC | Philip DePalo, Yeong-Tae Song | I will participate on behalf of Towson University as a Doctoral Student with dissertation work in Healthcare IT. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; pilot testing and constructive feedback. | |
| Sunquest Information Systems | Lorre Pacheco | I will participate on behalf of Sunquest Information Systems | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; pilot testing and constructive feedback. | Use Case |
| PANDA and Associates, LLC, and Western Pennsylvania HIMSS | Elizabeth Wertz Evans | I, with both the company and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars, review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus, sharing of experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed, and provision of constructive feedback | Use Case |
| AAFP | Jason Mitchell | I will participate on behalf of the American Academy of Family Physicians. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, sharing of experiences from the field, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
Vocabulary |
| Kindred Healthcare | Larry Wolf | I commit to participate in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative, and will contribute my experience as a long-time clinical systems developer, as an advocate for interoperable systems and as the Health IT Strategist at a multi-state, diversified, post-acute care provider with hospitals, nursing centers, rehab services, home health, and hospice agencies. In addition to being a Kindred Healthcare employee, I also volunteer in the following: HIMSS Interoperability Showcase Planning Committee Co-Chair, Federation of American Hospitals HIT Task Force Chair, American Health Care Association HIT Task Force Member | Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. | Use Case |
| Dispersive Medical | Tom Dawson | I will participate on behalf of Dispersive Medical | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; constructive feedback; contribution towards network and security issues as appropriate. | Use Case |
| Medicity, IHE ITI, NWHIN | Eric Heflin |
Medicity commits to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to help ensure broad scale interoperability, application of appropriate global and national standards, and to help remediate any identified gaps. | Active participation in weekly calls, helping to draft procedures, documents and specifications. Acting as a liaison to standards bodies and to the Nationwide Health Information Exchange. Assisting the Reference Implementation, Harmonization, Testing and other S&I Framework teams. | Use Case |
| HIMSS, IHE USA | Joyce Sensmeier | I will participate on behalf of the HIMSS and IHE USA organizations. We will identify other content experts as needed. | Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. | Use Case |
| NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital | Virginia Lorenzi | I will contribute to this effort as a customer, developer, and educator in the field of HIT standands. In addition to my position at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, I am on the faculty of Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics. | Participating in conference calls, online discussion, reviewing and editing of work products and materials, providing practical experience from the provider perspective, and recommending expert colleagues as applicable. I have a special interest in making sure work products are simple, clear, functional and practical in the real world. | Use Case Vocabulary |
| Veteran's Health Administration, Office of Informatics & Analytics, Chief Health Informatics Office, Standards & Interoperability, Terminology Standards Team | Mike Lincoln Patty Greim Sarah Maulden Holly Miller Catherine Hoang You-Ying Whipple |
The VA commits to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative. We are interested in improving semantic interoperability and computability of clinical data in the electronic health record. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. Will participate in editing and discussion on Wiki pages, calls for consensus, and clinical model development. Will bring relevant examples forward when possible. | Use Case - Patty Greim, Holly Miller, Catherine Hoang, You-Ying Whipple |
| HIMSS and IHE Nursing Subcommittee | Audrey Dickerson | I, Audrey Dickerson, as a technical representative for HIMSS and IHE Nursing Subcommittee, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. | Use Case |
| IJIS Institute | Scott Serich | I will participate on behalf of the IJIS Institute until we can identify more permanent participants from our membership. | Regular participation in meetings; review and comment on work products; status updates on recruiting participants from the IJIS Institute membership. | Use Case |
| American College of Physicians | Thomson Kuhn |
I will participate on behalf of the American College of Physicians. I will bring with me the perspectives, requirements, and challenges of small primary care practices. I commit to efforts to educate our members about this work and to seek their feedback for the benefit of the project. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, and seek involvement of our members as appropriate. | Use Case |
| ApeniMED (formerly known as MEDNET), CHIC, NWHIN, and MITA TAC | Seonho Kim |
I, on behalf of ApeniMED, commit to participate in the S&I Framework initiatives. I and ApeniMED will contribute with knowledge and learning from various efforts including Statewide HIEs, State Medicaid, Medicaid Information Technical Architecture (MITA) Technical Architecture Committee (TAC), and Nationwide Health Information Network workgroup efforts. | Active participation in weekly conference calls (or web meetings) and sub workgroups activities, call for consensus, review and comments for various documents and specifications as needed | Use Case |
| MEDfx |
Mark Bamberg |
MEDfx commits to participate in the S&I Framework Initiative, specifically the Transition of Care Project in order to consolidate and harmonize information needed to create compliant template CDA documents, including C32 constrained CCDs and to create tools to help codify meaningful use. |
Weekly participation in conference calls; Review and add input on workgroup products; Contribute to Reference Implementation and specifications | Use Case |
| Continuum of Care Improvement Through Information (CCITI) | Tom Foley | I, as a Health IT consultant from NextEnt Consulting, will participate on behalf of CCITI. I will contribute with my knowledge of the transition of care between health facilities (more specifically between Acute Care and post Acute Care); coupled with my knowledge of "e" solutions already used that leverages real-time data exchange between the institutions and HIEs as well as SOA apps that resides in the exchange. | Weekly participation in conference calls, review and provide insights regarding workgroup efforts/products. | Use Case |
| Metasteward LLC |
Fred Buhr, MSSW |
I commit to participate from the perspective of an older American consumer on the Vocabulary work group. I will contribute my knowledge gained while serving on several HITSP subcommittees including the Consumer Preferences Tiger Team, the Harmonization subcommittee and the Medical Terminology workgroup. I currently am participating on the HL7 Personal Healthcare Records (PHR) workgroup. I have experience in working with the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and the U.S. Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) toolsets and have a personal IEPD (Information Exchange Package Definition) work space. |
Active participation in weekly conference calls (or web meetings) and workgroup activities; review and comment on various documents and specifications as needed. |
Use Case Vocabulary |
| Healthland | Simpson William | I will participate on behalf of Healthland in the S&I Framework initiatives, and will contribute my experience and Knowledge in HIT and healthcare interoperability. |
Participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing when possible, share implementation experience whenever possible, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
Use Case |
| MedAllies | Holly Miller, MD, MBA | I commit to participate on behalf of MedAllies in all meetings, taking on additional assignments and projects as required. As a physician working in health information technology, while maintaining a clinical practice using EHR systems for the majority of my career, I will leverage my own and my organizations’ expertise in the interface of clinical workflow with health information technology to ensure the adoption of HIT to optimize the continuity of clinical care across transition of care settings. I will also draw on the expertise within my organization from their previous participation in a multitude of ONC work groups and committees to help to achieve the goals of this project. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, sharing of experiences from the field, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. I will bring my working knowledge of clinical workflows, interoperability, and EHR systems to help develop deliverables which may include determining the content of clinical message document payloads with a strong emphasis on the appropriate clinical workflow process to ensure outstanding provider adoption and usage thereby truly enhancing patient care and safety across care transition environments. | |
| CentriHealth | Gary Dickinson | I am Director of Healthcare Standards and will participate on behalf of CentriHealth. I am currently Co-Chair of the HL7 Electronic Health Record (EHR) Work Group, Co-Facilitator of the HL7 EHR Interoperability Work Group and Co-Facilitator of the HL7 Personal Health Record Work Group. I am also a member of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO TC215 on Health Informatics. Previously I was Head of US Delegation to ISO TC215 and Co-Chair of the HL7 Security and Accountability Work Group. | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, face-to-face meetings, review and comment on work group products, including ballots and calls for consensus. | Use Case |
| NextGen Healthcare | Robert Barker Steven Saitsky |
I commit to participate on behalf of NextGen Healthcare. | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. | Use Case, Harmonization, Vocabulary |
| NCPDP | John Klimek, Lynne Gilbertson, Teresa Strickland | NCPDP will participate on behalf of pharmacy and electronic prescribing standards. | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, bringing representation from the pharmacy and electronic prescribing industries, review and comment as possible. | Use Case - Lynn Gilbertson, Teresa Strickland |
| IBM | David Cheng | I commit to participate on behalf of the IBM SWG Healthcare Product Group | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, workgroup and other activities as needed to accomplish the mission of the S&I Framework ToC Initiative. | Use Case |
| HealthURL, MedCommons |
Adrian Gropper |
I will participate on behalf of HealthURL and MedCommons to continue the momentum of the Direct Project and Blue Button with enhanced provider portals accessible to patients and physicians alike. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| HCIC, LLC |
Joan Duke |
I will participate on behalf of HCIC, LLC. I was previously involved in HITSP Education and Outreach and would like to continue helping with communications. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. | |
| Epocrates | Thomas Giannulli, MD,MS | I commit to participate on behalf of the Epocrates EHR Team |
Participation in teleconferences, webinars, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. |
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| AHRQ | J. Michael Fitzmaurice Robin Barnes Martin Chaparro Chuck Penosa Heather Johnson |
I commit as a government liaison on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) | Participation and representation in weekly teleconferences, webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, and pilot the orderly organization of data elements names, definitions, representations, and standards from which the come in the United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK). | Use Case, Harmonization |
| Accenture | John Quinn | I commit to participate on behalf of Accenture in the S&I Framework Transition of Care Initiative as an Accenture consultant with extensive industry experience. I will contribute my knowledge of HIT, HIT Architecture and HIT Standards Development and Standards Use. | Participation in weekly teleconferences/phone calls/webinars, etc. Review documents as created and contribute as needed. | |
| CHIRP, Drexel, IHE | Elliot Sloane | I commit to participate on behalf of the Center for Healthcare Information Research and Policy, the IHE Patient Care Device Domain, IHE-USA, and the Health Systems Engineering Program at Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. | Participation in teleconferences and webinars; contribute industry experience, academic research, and education perspectives from and for the disciplines of clinical engineering, health systems engineering, software engineering, health data security and privacy, and health information and management systems design and operations; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; review and comment on workgroup products; and, as appropriate, provide liaison with relevant professional, technical, and standards organizations including ACCE, HIMSS , ISO/IEEE-11073, IEEE-EMBS, IEEE-USA, IHE International, IHE-USA, and the IHE Patient Care Device Domain | Use Case |
| GSI Health |
Susan Johnston |
On behalf of GSI Health, I commit to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to contribute our experience and knowledge. | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. | |
| SAIC |
Lane Chambers |
SAIC commits to participation in the S&I Framework Transition of Care initiative. Submitted by Austin Kreisler on behalf of SAIC. |
Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | |
| Argus Health Systems | Mary Lynam | Argus commits to participate in regards to pharmacy transactions including e-prescribing and pharmacy electronic transactions. | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, bringing representation from the pharmacy and electronic prescribing industries, review and comment as possible. | |
| Coto Partners, AIIM, CGC, C4UH | John Odden | I, and the organizations and company that I represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework’s Transition of Care Initiative, engaging and executing initiatives to improve interoperability and adoption based on relevant learnings, tools and reference implementations. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, model development, review and comment on Wiki pages and workgroup products as needed. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. | |
| Health Care Service Corporation | Durwin Day | I, on behalf of Health Care Service Corporation, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care Initiative. As a past member of HITSP, and a co-chair of Admin. & Finance Domain TC, I am very familiar with the HITSP constructs, including C32, C80 and C83. I am currently a co-chair of the Attachments workgroup at HL7 and participant in the EHR and PHR sub-committee. |
Participation in teleconferences/webinars, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | |
| Axolotl Corp |
Lin Wan |
We will participate in the Transition of Care (ToC) Initiative by providing resources towards the harmonization of standards, development of reference implementation, and participation in the pilot project. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. | Use Case |
| Independent Registered Nurse | Dalana Ostlie | I will participate as an independent registered nurse volunteer to represent inpatient and IDS nursing workflow. I will be available to offer consideration and/or consultation regarding data collection and disbursement on the clinical level. I currently serve a clinical informatics project manager for a hospital system in Spokane, Washington. Associations include ANIA-Caring (clinical informatics) and various in-house clinical documentation vendors. |
I will participate in teleconferences/webinars; review and comment on workgroup products; consultant interest in workflow for hospitals and IDS solutions. | |
| Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI) | Gary Christensen | As COO/CIO of RIQI, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they related to our Direct Project pilot and subsequent statewide rollout. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. |
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| Arcadia Solutions | Greg Chittim | As a Principal Consultant, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they related to the RIQI Direct Project pilot and subsequent statewide rollout, of which I am the PM. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. |
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| Quest Diagnostics | Ken McCaslin, Freida Hall |
We will participate in the S&I Framework' Transition of Care initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback. | Use Case Vocabulary Harmonization |
| DoD Military Health System | Stephen Hufnagel | We will participate in the S&I Framework' Transition of Care initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback. | Use Case Vocabulary Harmonization |
| WellPoint, Inc. |
Terry Hearn Michael Meyer |
We, representing WellPoint Health Information Technology, will participate in this initiative. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
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| Intermountain Healthcare | Cyndalynn Tilley | I will participate as a representative of Intermountain Healthcare | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. Editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback. | Use Case Vocabulary Harmonization |
| Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) |
Mayuri Patel, Aaron Stranahan, Tim Dunnington, Adora Bruce |
We will participate in the S&I Framework Transition of Care Initiative on behalf of Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) and commit to participating in related activities towards the improvement of interoperability standards. | Weekly participation in conference calls, review and comment of workgroup products as needed, calls for consensus and voting, other activities as needed. |
Use Case |
| FEI Systems On Behalf os SAMHSA |
Joel Amoussou | I will participate in the Transition of Care Initiative by providing resources and a reference implementation | Phone calls, contributions to document, review, feedback comments and voting as needed. | |
| CGI |
Greg Turner |
I will participate on behalf of CGI and CGI Federal. I and my organization through me will contribute clinical and technical experience from many areas and levels of the HIT ecosystem working to further interoperability and standards in efforts to support better quality outcomes. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. |
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| Rhode Island Quality Institute |
Charles Hewitt |
As Director, HIE Program Management of RIQI, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they relate to the rollout and further development of RIQI’s HIE service. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. |
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| Independent Registered Nurse working as a Women Health Educator in Family Planning and Foreign Medical Graduate |
Rosa Aleman |
I will participate as an independent registered nurse volunteer to represent outpatient clinical data. Working with a diverse population and can bring consultation on preventive health care data and research - work currently with EPIC systems Bilingual in Spanish/English. Worked as a foreign Doctor-knowledgeable in International Health Care Settings. Interested in the future in Implementing Health IT systems in third world countries. |
I will participate in teleconferences/webinars; review and comment on workgroup products; consultant interest in workflow for Community Clinics/hospitals and IDS solutions. |
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| Medicomp System, Inc. |
Luann Whittenburg |
I will participate on behalf of Medicomp Systems, Inc. a health information knowledgebase company. I am currently Co-Convenor of the ISO/TC215 Health Informatics Technical Committee on Pharmacy and Medications. I am also a member of the American National Standards Institute US Technical Advisory Group on Health Informatics. In addition to national and international health informatics experience, I bring my experience in health policy research. |
Participation in teleconferences, webinars, face-to-face meetings, review and comment on work group products, including ballots and calls for consensus. |
Use Case, Vocabulary |
| Business Strategix Inc |
Sriram Bharadwaj |
I will participate in the S&I Framework Transition of Care Initiative on behalf of Business Strategix and will focus on meaningful use and compliance to HIPAA transaction and security standards. |
Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback. |
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| CareTech Solutions |
Paula Gwyn |
I will participate on behalf of my company, CareTech Solutions, and the over 150 hospitals the we provide IT services. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review; comment on workgroup products as needed; calls for consensus; share lessons learned and best practices as implemented in our hospital clients; participation in development of documents and feedback. |
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| Lewis And Clark Information Exchange |
Jeff Bloemker |
I will participate on behalf of the Lewis And Clark Information Exchange – a multistate exchange in the Heartland. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review; comment on workgroup products as needed; calls for consensus; lessons learned from the a multistate implementation; participation in development of documents and feedback |
Use Case |
| Healthwise |
Leslie Kelly Hall |
I, representing Healthwise, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve patient centered HIT. Specific interests include interoperability, transitions of care, and CDA harmonization that recognize the patient/consumer as co-producers of health. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. |
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| MedAZ.net, LLC |
Vasu Iyengar |
I, and the organization that I will represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care and CDA harmonization, use case and pilot initiatives for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences, testing tools, pilot projects, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
Use Case, Harmonization |
| Deloitte (Health and Life Sciences) |
Randolph Sanks, MBA |
I commit from the perspective of an educator and project manager in the field of Biomedical Informatics who has implemented EMR systems at some of the nation’s leading hospitals. |
I commit to review documentation and add value on how an end-user within hospitals will interpret and understand the final deliverables. I volunteer to participate in weekly conference calls/Webinars and testing of tools. |
Use Case, Harmonization, and Vocabulary |
| Misys Open Source Solutions (MOSS) LLC. |
Konda Mullapudi |
I, representing MOSS, will participate to provide meaningful contributions in the area of Standards and Interoperability. |
Weekly participation of teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, participate in pilot initiatives as appropriate |
Use case, harmonization |
| L.A. Care Health Plan – HITEC-LA |
Sajid Ahmed |
I, with both the company and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
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| Vecna Technologies |
Rob Lecker |
I, as a Health IT consultant will commit to participate in the S&I Framework initiative group |
Weekly participation in teleconferences, testing tools, pilot projects, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
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| Georgia Institute of Technology |
Steve Rushing |
Georgia Tech commits to participate in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative on behalf of Georgia Tech’s Health Systems Institute, Institute of People & Technology. We will identify content experts as needed. |
We will participate in weekly teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
Use Case, Harmonization |
| Epic |
Vassil Peytchev |
I, and the organization that I represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative |
We will participate in the calls and meetings, calls for consensus, review documentation and deliverables, provide feedback |
Use Case, Vocabulary |
| Recursion Software |
Bob DeAnna |
I will participate on behalf of Recursion Software in the S&I Framework ToC initiative, and will contribute my experience and Knowledge in HIT and interoperability and assist in the harmonization of standards, development of reference implementation, and pilot project. |
Weekly participation in phone calls, work groups, calls for consensus, reference implementations and pilot of ToC. |
Use Case, Vocabulary, Harmonization |
| Cal eConnect | David Lenhart | I will participate on behalf of Cal eConnect | Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products | Use Cases and Requirements |
| IRIS Partners, LLP | David E. Clark |
I, representing IRIS Partners, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative, and will contribute learnings, samples, and reference implementations on the use of structured program information exchange languages, cloud computing and web services for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. | Weekly participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; pilot testing and constructive feedback as well as providing subject matter experts with the experience in the latest integration and interoperability practices. I am interested in helping to develop other work groups that would be valuable to the S&I initiatives and have extensive experience leading and working with non-profit special interest groups. | |
| Piedmont Health Services | C John Torontow MD MPH | Piedmont Health Services is committed to adding to the HIT dialogue in our state, our region, and the nation. We recognize that community health centers as well as other safety net providers have needs that may differ from our colleagues who practice in other settings. Since safety net providers are by definition limited by our financial resources we can not be limited by our imagination nor our commitment to improving healthcare for our patients. We are committed to full participation in the Transition of Care work group. | ||
| HealthyCircles, LLC. | Susan Nedza MD | I will participate on behalf of HealthyCircles Connected Care Platform. I will engage other associates as necessary in the Transitions of Care Initiatives Use Case . | I commit to weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. I commit to participating the harmonization sub-groups for clinical information model and architecture if asked. | Use Case Harmonization |
| Clopton Clinic | Justin Austin | I commit to participate in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care, Lab Results initiative, and CDA Consolidation initiative. I will contribute my healthcare and information systems knowledge/experience from both a hospital setting and private practice setting. | Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | |
| BH&A Ins. Services | Tara Jacquet | I will participate in the S&I Framework’s as well as the supporting consulting teams | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed | |
| IHE PCC, ACOG, Catholic Health East | Michael J. McCoy, MD | I will participate on behalf of the IHE Patient Care Coordination Committee as co-chair of its Planning Committee. I will also participate representing ACOG, having assisted that organization for HITSP work, and development of use cases used in Maternal Child Health. Finally, I can represent the provider world, serving as the CMIO of a multi-hospital organization covering the continuum of care, with ambulatory physicians, acute and long-term care hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, and palliative care. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield | Louise Fryer, Penny Probst | I, with both the company and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology for the Transition of Care and CDA Consolidation initiative. | Louise Fryer: Use Case, Harmonization, Vocabulary |
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| Sandlot |
Vera Blanc |
I will participate on behalf of Sandlot in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care (ToC) Initiative by participating in all meetings and developing needed deliverables, such as the documentation development, and/or supporting implementation of the S&I Framework pilot efforts. |
Participating in all meetings and developing needed deliverables, such as the documentation development, and/or supporting implementation of the S&I Framework pilot efforts. |
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| George Washington University |
Patricia MacTaggart |
I commit to participate in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative, and will contribute my experience as a long-time public program policy expert on both the program and HIT perspectives to the vocabulary standardization effort. |
Participation in teleconferences, webinars, face-to-face meetings, review and comment on work group products, including ballots and calls for consensus. |
Harmonization and Vocabulary |
| Telemedicine Advance Technology Research Center/Department of the Army |
Ollie B. Gray, Betty Levine |
We will participate in the S&I Framework' Transition of Care initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. |
Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback. |
Use Case, Vocabulary, Harmonization |
| American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) |
Anne Diamond, James Scroggs |
We will participate in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care Initiative on behalf of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. | We will participate in weekly teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, and will review and comment on workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| Secure Hitech LLC | Lester Keeper Jr., Ernest Grove | I commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care initiative, - Lab Results and Transitions of Care inititives that include integrated functions, processes and tools. "Use Case," "Harmonization," and "Vocabulary" and will contribute my experience and knowledge in Trusted Identification interoperability learnings, tools, and reference implementations for use of structured layers of Identification for Privacy needs for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, experience form privacy research and indentification, the editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. | Use Case, Harmonization, Vocabulary |
| Prosocial Applications, Inc. | Elaine A. Blechman | I, and the organization I represent, commit to participation in the S&I framework for the purpose of enhancing interoperability and, thereby, improving the quality and reducing the costs of patient-centered coordinated care. | Participation in weekly phone calls; experiences from the field; review and add comments on workgroup products. | Use Case |
| T.P. Caruso & Associates, Biomedical Informatics Think Tank (BITT) | Thomas P. Caruso | I and, both the company and Biomedical Informatics Think Tank (BITT) that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards for health information technology. | A white paper that discusses how a universal exchange language as proposed in the PCAST Health IT Report could benefit comparative effectiveness research that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards for health information technology. | |
| AZZLY | Coletta Dorado, Jeffrey Ice | I, with the company that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review; comment on workgroup products as needed; calls for consensus; discussion on Wiki pages; sharing of connectivity and interoperability experiences with stakeholders in the ambulatory market space ; participation in development of documents and feedback; experiences from the field and product development to the extent these are available; pilot testing and constructive feedback of tools that are produced by the project. | |
| Evolvent & DoD | David Parker, MD | I will participate in the S&I Framework' Transition of Care initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | We will participate in weekly teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, and will review and comment on workgroup products as needed. | |
| Selover Company | Sherry Selover | I will commit to attending the meetings and providing interoperability expertise. | I commit to providing interoperability expertise and technical architecture expertise. | |
| Health Management Strategies | Sandra Hudak MS RN, Siobhan Sharkey, MBA | HMS commits to participation in the S&I Framework’s Transition of Care initiative. We will contribute our knowledge and expertise of workflow redesign across continuum of care, requirements gathering and development of HIT functional specifications for clinical decision support tools, and strategies for HIT implementation in health care settings. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences; experiences from the field; review and comment on workgroup products. | Use Case |
| AHRQ | Robin A. Barnes Nurse Informaticist | I commit as a government liaison on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) via Data Consulting Group | Participation and representation in weekly teleconferences, webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, and pilot the orderly organization of data elements names, definitions, representations, and standards from which the come in the United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK). | TBD |
| Dossia Consortium | Jim Hansen | I will participate on behalf of the Dossia Consortium. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, in-person meetings as needed, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed, clinical and technical model development, standards development, calls for consensus, participation in a pilot. | Use Case, Harmonization, Vocabulary |
| System Administrative Services, L.L.C. | Mark T. Palen, PMP, CPHIMS | I, with both the company and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology and will contribute my 25 years experience in EMR systems and development, acute and post-acute care experience, PMP and Six Sigma - healthcare methodologies. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, testing, increasing levels of commitment, and review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Harmonization |
| Office of eHealth Initiatives, State of Tennessee |
Russell B. Leftwich, MD | I am committed to working with others to participate in the S&I Famework's Transition of Care Initiative as a member of the State of Tennessee's Office of eHealth Initiatives and as chair of the Clinical Workgroup for the state's HIE, the Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIP TN). Also, as an informatics leader with the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. |
Participation in phone calls and other workgroup activities; experiences from communications and interactions with providers involved in EHR implementation, creation of Patient Centered Medical Homes and involvement in communications and interactions with hospitals around EHR implementation and establishment of HIE with their communities and regions. Participation in efforts to harmonize standards for information modeling and vocabulary around documentation of reactions to foods and reactions to medications, including allergic reactions in order to improve patient safety as it relates to these. |
Use Case, Vocabulary |
| SimulConsult, Inc. | Michael M Segal, MD PhD | SimulConsult is the leading provider of computational diagnostic decision support. Its curated, evidence-based database current covers > 2,600 diseases and associated findings, with a focus today in genetics and neurology. As part of this, we are constantly working to refine the definition of clinical findings - beyond what is available today in the UMLS concept codes and incorporating other terminology effort such as the Malformation Terminology Effort hosted at http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/morphology/ . I, and SimulConsult, commit to help in efforts to standardized the terminology of clinical findings, to help interoperability be less costly. | Weekly participation in calls, sharing of the clinical findings definitions used in SimulConsult, review of workgroup products, as needed. | Vocabulary |
| McKesson | Corey Spears | I will participate in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care Initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback | Use Case, Vocabulary, Harmonization |
| Onyx Home Health Care, LLC. | Lola McCune, Kimberly Tooles | We commit, as representatives of Onyx Home Health Care, to participate in the S&I Framework Transition of Care Initiative | Participation in weekly teleconferences/phone calls/webinars, etc. Review documents as created and contribute as needed. | Use Case, Vocabulary, Harmonization |
| Epic |
Peter DeVault |
I, and the organization that I represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative. | I will participate in the calls and meetings, calls for consensus, review documentation and deliverables, and provide feedback. | |
| Drummond Group Inc. | Kyle Meadors | Drummond Group will participate in the S&I Framework’s Transition of Care initiative to assist in the achievement of secure end-to-end interoperability within this effort. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup deliverables as needed, contribute regarding interoperability and security issues as able. | Use Case, Harmonization |
| Health Information Network of Arizona | Jaime Estrada | I commit to participate on behalf of HINAz in the S&I Framework initiatives, particularly Transition of Care (ToC), contributing my experience and knowledge in HIT and healthcare interoperability. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, research, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages and other team documentation, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case, Harmonization, Vocabulary |
| HRSA/BPHC- OQD-HIT Branch | Anna Poker | I commit as a government liaison on behalf of HRSA/BPHC-HITBranch in the Transitions of Care Initiative. | Participate in teleconferences and webinars and review workgroup product(s). | |
| Enable Healthcare Inc | Hari Ramachandran, Rahul Dewan | We will participate in all the three streams as the representatives of Enable Healthcare Inc | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, model development with tools made available from the project, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. Sharing experiences from the field, pilot testing with the tools whenever made available and constructive feedback (bug reports, etc.) of tools. | |
| IntePro Solutions, IHE |
John Donnelly |
I commit to participate on behalf of IntePro Solutions, a HIT consulting firm focused on info systems, medical device and imaging modality interoperability in and across all care delivery settings and IHE domain activity in general. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case, Harmonization |
| Deloitte | Chris Doucette |
I, along with the company that I represent, are committed to engage in the S&I Framework’s initiatives, working and volunteering with my experience in state level HIT/HIE initiatives including AHIC use cases, information technology and EDI, and privacy/security policies and procedures. |
Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; sharing of experience in the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; constructive feedback; contribution towards network and security issues as appropriate. | Use Case, Harmonization, Vocabulary |
| Deloitte Consulting, LLC Federal Strategy & Operations | Susan E. Campbell, PhD, RN, CCM, CPHQ, CIC | I, and the organization that I represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care initiative. | Weekly participation in phone calls, work groups, and consensus calls, participating in writing and editing of deliverables – with the view of ensuring compatibility of work products with natural language to strategically serve patient and provider needs and ease of use; seeking consistency with ARRA-HITECH Meaningful Use and PPACA aims, especially in the context of Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), Accountable Care Organization (ACO) formation, and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) objectives for better population health and individual patient outcomes through high-quality care and self-care information availability, facilitated through efficient unambiguous health information Exchange (HIE) about the right patient, at the right time, in the right venue, for the right purpose - flexibly enough structured to be defined individually through shared decision-making of the patient and his/her care team, sufficiently granular for performance improvement monitoring to the provider level. | Use Case & Requirements |
| CTG Healthcare Solutions / Omni Micro Solutions; HIMSS Advocacy and Public Comment Workgroup |
Rachelle Blake, PA, MHA | I, with both the companies and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. This includes contributions of samples, toolsets, instructional materials, resource guides and protocols, informatics approaches and workflow integration, and evidence-based best practices. My contributions will result from cumulative work in all settings of clinical care and subject matter expertise in integrating meaningful use of electronic health records and clinical technologies into clinical practice and improvement of quality patient care. | Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls, workgroups, and task forces; contributing experiences from the field to the extent these are available; development of toolsets, toolkits, documentation, methodologies, and implementation, standards and certification reference components; technical writing, editing and discussion of subject matter on Wiki pages; review and comment of workgroup documents and products as needed. | Harmonization, Vocabulary |
| Fallon Clinic/SAFEHealth | Larry Garber, MD | I will participate on behalf of Fallon Clinic and the SAFEHealth HIE, contributing my experience and knowledge, as well as aligning the activities of IMPACT (the Massachusetts’ Care Transitions HIE Challenge Grant Project) with those of the Transitions of Care Initiative. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| GE Healthcare | Ruth Berge | I, Ruth Berge, request to be a "committed" member of the TOC workgroup. I represent the clinicians and developers in the GE HCIT Enterprise product and Business Solutions. | I will review the TOC proposals with experts within my organization both from a clinical and technical perspective. I will attend weekly meetings whenever possible, review the proposals and work to submit meaningful suggestions for improvement. | Use Case |
| American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) | Harry Rhodes | I will participate on behalf of AHIMA. Subject matter experts will be provided as needed. | Participation on weekly conference calls, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, participation on workgroup review and comment via Wiki pages. | Use Case |
| Independent | Robert A. Kaye, MD MS |
I am committed to improving interoperability and information exchange among providers. I have been a participant with HITSP, IHE, and have worked as a monitor at the IHE Connectathon. |
Weekly workgroup calls and complete assignments within my areas of expertise as a practicing clinician with HIT post-graduate training. |
Lab Interface Initiative
| Organization | Participant Name(s) | Statement of Commitment | Committed Deliverables | Workgroup Commitment |
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| CDC- PHITPO | Nikolay Lipskiy | We will participate in the S&I Framework' Laboratory Interface initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; pilot testing and constructive feedback. | Use Case |
| NYeC | Nick VanDuyne | We will participate in the S&I Framework' Laboratory Interface initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. Our perspective it that of connecting multiple EHR/HIE platforms to the Lab companies for bi-directional orders/results | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; pilot testing and constructive feedback. | Use Case |
| Microsoft | Paul Edge | I will participate on behalf of Microsoft's Health Solutions Group | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. | Use Case |
| NeHII | Carrie Adams | I will participate on behalf of NeHII the HIE for the state of Nebraska. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; pilot testing and constructive feedback. | Use Case |
| Siemens | William Ormerod Hans Buitendijk |
We, on behalf of Siemens; will participate in the S& I Framework Laboratory Interface Initiative by participating in meetings, conference calls, sharing our experience and developing documents. | Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | Use Case |
| Covisint | Wayne King | I will participate in the S&I Framework's Lab Interface Initiative on behalf of Covisint | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review; comment on workgroup products as needed; calls for consensus; lessons learned from the Covisint and Docsite implementations; participation in development of documents and feedback | Use Case |
| Sunquest | Lorre Pacheco | I will participate on behalf of Sunquest Information Systems | Participation in teleconferences/webinars; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; pilot testing and constructive feedback. | Use Case |
| Medicity, IHE ITI, NWHIN | Eric Heflin |
Medicity commits to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to help ensure broad scale interoperability, application of appropriate global and national standards, and to help remediate any identified gaps. | Active participation in weekly calls, helping to draft procedures, documents and specifications. Acting as a liaison to standards bodies and to the Nationwide Health Information Exchange. Assisting the Reference Implementation, Harmonization, Testing and other S&I Framework teams. | Use Case |
| Oregon HIE Planning Team | Brian Ahier | I will participate in the S&I Framework's Lab Interface Initiative on behalf of the Oregon HIE Planning Team as chair of the Technology Workgroup. We will assign other content experts as needed. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
Use Case |
| Ignis Systems | Ken Willett | I and other key staff from Ignis will participate on behalf of Ignis Systems. | Active participation in weekly calls; contribution to specifications and review of specifications; development or testing of prototypes and proofs of concept; knowledge sharing based on interface experience connecting a large number of labs to EMR's. | Use Case |
| Veteran's Health Administration | To be determined by Feb 4th | The VA commits to participation in the S&I Framework's Lab Interface initiative. We are interested in improving the interoperability and computability within the laboratory domain. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on work products and bringing relevant examples forward will occur as possible. | |
| Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) | Wes Kennemore, Srinath Remala and others as appropriate | APHL as an organization commits to participate in the S&I Framework's Lab Interface Initiative. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents.Participation of laboratory subject matter experts where warranted. | Use Case |
| ApeniMED (formerly known as MEDNET), CHIC, NWHIN, and MITA TAC | Seonho Kim |
I, on behalf of ApeniMED, commit to participate in the S&I Framework initiatives. I and ApeniMED will contribute with knowledge and learning from various efforts including Statewide HIEs, State Medicaid, Medicaid Information Technical Architecture (MITA) Technical Architecture Committee (TAC), and Nationwide Health Information Network workgroup efforts. | Active participation in weekly conference calls (or web meetings) and sub workgroups activities, call for consensus, review and comments for various documents and specifications as needed | Use Case |
| University of North Florida, School of Computing |
Arturo Sanchez-Ruiz |
I am a Computer Scientist and also a Software Engineering Independent consultant with experience in the general interoperability problem. I would like to offer independent views, which include approaches based on automatic generation of software components, as well as on model-driven, domain-specific, and ontology-driven strategies. |
Weekly tele-conferences, review/critique/creation of artifacts such as specifications, models, software architectures, use cases, software prototypes, etc. |
Use Case |
| California HealthCare Foundation |
Glen Moy |
On behalf of the California HealthCare Foundation, I will participate in the S&I Framework Lab Interface initiative. |
Participation in teleconferences and meetings; participation in development of use cases, documents, etc.; review of deliverables; timely voting on calls for consensus; and constructive feedback. | Use Case |
| GE Healthcare | Torin Shepard | I will particpate in Lab Interface Initiative as a software engineer with 15 years experience with interoperability and interfaces in GE's Centricity EMR and Centricity Practice Solutions products. | On behalf of GE Healthcare Clincal Business Solutions I will participate in teleconferences and webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. | |
| Univ. of Virginia Clinical Laboratories, CAP, HL7, IHE Lab | James Harrison | I will participate in the S&I Framework Laboratory Interface Initiative as an academic clinical laboratory pathologist, member of the College of American Pathologists, member of the HL7 Orders & Observations Workgroup, and member of the IHE Labs Workgroup. |
Participate in meetings and teleconferences; provide input to and review of any deliverables built on HL7; participate in consensus decisions as a clinical pathologist; facilitate review with the HL7 Orders & Observations workgroup, the CAP, and IHE as needed; provide assistance in balloting any new/updated implementation guides and/or necessary adjustments to the base standard through the HL7 balloting process. |
Use Case |
| College of American Pathologists | John Ritter; Andrea Pitkus; Walter Henricks; Julie Cantor-Weinberg; Jim Carlson | The College of American Pathologists (CAP) will participate in the S&I Framework' Laboratory Interface initiative by participating in meetings and conference calls, sharing our expertise, and developing documents. | Participation in phone calls; preparation and review of deliverables; timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents. | Use Case - John Ritter, Andrea Pitkus, Walter Henricks, Julie Cantor-Weinberg; Vocabulary - Andrea Pitkus, Jim Carlson |
| IBM | David Cheng | I commit to participate on behalf of the IBM SWG Healthcare Product Group | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, workgroup, and other activities, as needed to accomplish the mission of the S&I Framework Lab Interface Initiative. | Use Case |
| Manatt Health Solutions | Jonah Frohlich | I will participate on behalf of Manatt Health Solutions | Participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. | |
| Gensa Corporation | Robert Lutolf | I will participate in the S&I Framework Lab Interface initiative on behalf of Gensa Corporation | Participate in meetings and teleconferences, provide input to and review of any deliverables, participate in consensus decisions. | Use Case |
| University of Southern California Dept. of Pathology and Laboratories, Informatics |
Raymond Aller |
I will participate in the S&I Framework, Lab Interface initiative, with a particular interest in the Vocabulary work group, representing the informatics program of USC Pathology (I am also a member of several relevant national committees) |
Participate in meetings and weekly teleconferences/webinars, and review and comment on work group products. Interact with various professional societies in evaluation of proposals. |
Vocabulary |
| CDC - National Healthcare Safety Network |
Austin Kreisler |
I will participate in the S&I Framework Lab initiative as an SAIC consultant representing the CDC - National Healthcare Safety Network. |
Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | Use Case Harmonization |
| Accenture | John Quinn | I commit to participate on behalf of Accenture in the S&I Framework Lab Interface Initiative as an Accenture consultant with extensive industry experience. I will contribute my knowledge of HIT, HIT Architecture and HIT Standards Development and Standards Use. | Participation in weekly teleconferences/phone calls/webinars, etc. Review documents as created and contribute as needed. | |
| CHIRP, Drexel Univ BMES, IHE | Elliot Sloane | I will participate on behalf of the Center for Healthcare Information Research and Policy, the IHE Patient Care Device Domain, IHE-USA, and the Health Systems Engineering Program at Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. | Participation in teleconferences and webinars; contribute industry experience, academic research, and education perspectives from and for the disciplines of clinical engineering, health systems engineering, software engineering, health data security and privacy, and health information and management systems design and operations; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; review and comment on workgroup products; and, as appropriate, provide liaison with relevant professional, technical, and standards organizations including ACCE, HIMSS , ISO/IEEE-11073, IEEE-EMBS, IEEE-USA, IHE International, IHE-USA, and the IHE Patient Care Device Domain | Use Case |
| LabCorp | Kathy Walsh Cindy Johns Donna Carter Bill Scanlon David Burgess |
On behalf of Lab Corp, we will commit to participating in the Lab Results Interface Initiative Workgroups. | Participation in weekly conference calls and review of documents, contribute expertise as needed for the development of the deliverables and provide feedback as requested. | Use Case - Kathy Walsh Vocabulary - Cindy Johns |
| iConnect Consulting |
Ulrike "Riki" Merrick | On behalf of iConnect Consulting I will participate in the Lab interface initiative. |
Participation in weekly conference calls, provide input to and review of any deliverables, participate in consensus decisions - main focus will be the harmonization WG. | Use Case |
| SAIC |
Michael J Trebatoski | SAIC commits to participation in the S&I Framework Lab interface initiative. Submitted by Austin Kreisler on behalf of SAIC. | Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | |
| Health Care Service Corporation | Durwin Day | I, on behalf of Health Care Service Corporation, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Lab Interface Initiative. As a past member of HITSP, and a co-chair of Admin. & Finance Domain TC, I am very familiar with the HITSP constructs. I am currently a co-chair of the Attachments workgroup at HL7 and participant in the EHR and PHR sub-committee. I have participated in the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase for the last three years. |
Participation in teleconferences/webinars, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | |
| Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI) | Gary Christensen | As COO/CIO of RIQI, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they related to our Direct Project pilot and subsequent statewide rollout. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. |
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| Arcadia Solutions | Greg Chittim | As a Principal Consultant, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they related to the RIQI Direct Project pilot and subsequent statewide rollout, of which I am the PM. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. |
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| Quest Diagnostics | Committed:Ken McCaslin, Freida Hall; Non-Committed:Roger Hornsby | We will participate in the S&I Framework' Lab Interface initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback | Use Case Vocabulary Harmonization |
| DoD Military Health System | Stephen Hufnagel | We will participate in the S&I Framework' Lab Interface initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback | Use Case Vocabulary Harmonization |
| Cerner |
Gaby Jewell |
I will commit to participate in scheduled conference calls to work on User Stories and specifications to support those user stories. I will also commit to working with domain experts within Cerner to assure the user stories are real world and the specifications are supportable. |
Participation in teleconferences/webinars; participation in specification development; call for concensus, review and comment on outputs. |
Use Case |
| WellPoint, Inc. | Terry Hearn Michael Meyer |
We, representing WellPoint Health Information Technology, will participate in this initiative. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| HealthNow NY Inc | Lalith Vaka | I commit to participate on behalf of HealthNow NY Inc | Participate in all workgroup activities as needed to accomplish the mission of S&I Framework's Lab Interface Initiative | Both Functional and Technical |
| Rhode Island Quality Institute | Charles Hewitt | As Director, HIE Program Management of RIQI, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they relate to the rollout and further development of RIQI’s HIE service. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. | |
| Deloitte (Health and Life Sciences) | Randolph Sanks, MBA | I commit from the perspective of an educator and project manager in the field of Biomedical Informatics who has implemented EMR systems at some of the nation’s leading hospitals. |
I commit to review documentation and add value on how an end-user within hospitals will interpret and understand the final deliverables. I volunteer to participate in weekly conference calls/Webinars and testing of tools. | Use Case, Harmonization, and Vocabulary |
| Epic | Vassil Peytchev | I, and the organization that I represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Lab Results Interface initiative | We will participate in the calls and meetings, calls for consensus, review documentation and deliverables, provide feedback | Use Case and Requirements, Vocabulary, Harmonization |
| Oregon Health & Science University | James McCormack | I will participate in the Lab Interface Simplification Initiative and represent the Oregon state HIE's lab stakeholder's group (HITOC). | Phone calls, review, voting, and constructive feedback as a former vendor/consultant and current academic studying lab interoperability. | Use Case and Harmonization |
| Cal eConnect | Robert Dieterle | I will participate on behalf of Cal eConnect | Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. | Use Cases and Requirements |
| Clopton Clinic | Justin Austin | I commit to participate in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care, Lab Results initiative, and CDA Consolidation initiative. I will contribute my healthcare and information systems knowledge/experience from both a hospital setting and private practice setting. | Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | |
| HL7 | Rob Hausam, MD | I will participate in the S&I Framework Lab Interface Initiative as a Co-chair of the HL7 Orders and Observations and Vocabulary Work Groups. I am also a physician and a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and I currently serve as the primary clinical vocabulary specialist for the CDC National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). | Participate in meetings and teleconferences, provide input to and review of any deliverables built on HL7, participate in consensus decisions, facilitate review with the HL7 Orders & Observations workgroup as needed, provide assistance in balloting any new/updated implementation guides and/or necessary adjustments to the base standard through the HL7 balloting process. | Use Case & Requirements, Vocabulary, Harmonization |
| Epic | Thanos Tsiolis | I, and the organization that I represent, commit to participate in the S&I Framework's Lab Results Interface Initiative. | We will participate in the calls and meetings, calls for consensus, review documentation and deliverables, provide feedback. |
Use Case and Requirements, Harmonization |
| Healthland |
Susan Irby |
I commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Lab Interface initiative. I am interested in improving the interoperability and computability within the laboratory domain. |
Participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on work products and bringing relevant examples forward will occur as possible. |
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| Secure Hitech LLC | Lester Keeper Jr., Ernest Grove | I commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care initiative, - Lab Results and Transitions of Care inititives that include integrated functions, processes and tools. "Use Case," "Harmonization," and "Vocabulary" and will contribute my experience and knowledge in Trusted Identification interoperability learnings, tools, and reference implementations for use of structured layers of Identification for Privacy needs for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, experience form privacy research and indentification, the editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. | Use Case, Harmonization, Vocabulary |
| AZZLY | Coletta Dorado, Jeffrey Ice | I, with the company that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review; comment on workgroup products as needed; calls for consensus; discussion on Wiki pages; sharing of connectivity and interoperability experiences with stakeholders in the ambulatory market space ; participation in development of documents and feedback; experiences from the field and product development to the extent these are available; pilot testing and constructive feedback of tools that are produced by the project. | |
| Selover Company | Sherry Selover | I will commit to attending the meetings and providing interoperability expertise. | I commit to providing interoperability expertise and technical architecture expertise. | |
| McKesson | Corey Spears | I will participate in the S&I Framework's Lab Results Interface Initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback | Use Case, Vocabulary, Harmonization |
| Mirth Corp | Jonathan Bartels & Gary Teichrow | We will participate in the S&I Framework Laboratory Interface Initiative on behalf of Mirth Corporation and commit to helping foster broader adoption of existing Lab Result standards and significantly lowering the financial costs and work effort required to implement these standards. | Participation in calls, webinars, face to face meetings, customer stories, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. Example functioning interface artifacts to serve as documented reference products demonstrating use of standards. |
Use Case |
| American Osteopathic Association of Medical Informatics | Robert Hunter, DO,FACOEP,FACOFP | I will participate on behalf of the American Association of Medical Informatics. | I will particpate in weekly teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical & technical model development, review and comment on workgroup products as needed, correspond with the AOAMI with results and obtain further information that may be needed from the association or members | Use Case |
| Deloitte |
Chris Doucette | I, along with the company that I represent, are committed to engage in the S&I Framework’s initiatives, working and volunteering with my experience in state level HIT/HIE initiatives including AHIC use cases, information technology and EDI, and privacy/security policies and procedures. |
Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; sharing of experience in the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; constructive feedback; contribution towards network and security issues as appropriate. | Use Case, Harmonization, Vocabulary |
| Enable Healthcare Inc | Hari Ramachandran, Rahul Dewan | We will participate in all the three streams as the representatives of Enable Healthcare Inc | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, model development with tools made available from the project, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. Sharing experiences from the field, pilot testing with the tools whenever made available and constructive feedback (bug reports, etc.) of tools. | |
| Northrop Grumman Information Technology | Cindy Vinion | I will participate in this Initiative as a representative of Northrop Grumman Information Technology. | Participation in phone calls; preparation and review of deliverables; timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; participation in subgroups to initiatives | Use Case |
| S&P Consultants, Inc | Andrew Splitz | I, with the support of S&P’s company resources, will participate and commit to engaging in meetings, discussions, and workgroups to help support the understanding of lab application issues that may face the lab staff, hospital resources, or interface experts. Our 15 year experience in the hospital labs allows us to understand the database requirements, coding issues, and possible resource constraints that could be caused by implementation mandatory changes. | Weekly participation in conference calls and webinars. Inclusion in sub-groups as available. Review and comments on workgroup product and deliverables. | Use Case, Harmonization |
| Diagnostic Information System Company |
Robert D. Coli, MD |
I will participate in the S&I Framework's LRI Initiative as a private practice physician and Diagnostic Information System Company’s founder & CEO. |
Weekly participation in Webinar teleconferences and review and comment on workgroup products. Participation in development of documents and feedback and calls for consensus. Sharing physician experience and knowledge of clinical workflow processes and relevant reference materials from the healthcare delivery and HIT field. Sharing lessons learned about overcoming barriers to providing the data liquidity, semantic and process interoperability and platform-neutrality that are necessary for physicians and patients to efficiently view and share cumulative diagnostic test results. |
Use Case & Requirements; Harmonization |
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CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation Project
| Organization | Participant Name(s) | Statement of Commitment | Committed Deliverables | Workgroup Commitment |
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| Lantana Consulting Group | Brett Marquard | Lantana Consulting Group specializes in the design and implementation of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) compliant systems, including validation, document management, authoring, data conversion and web services for information exchange. Our group includes authors for each of the 8 Health Story guides, and CCD, and we are committed to bringing them into a single specification. | Weekly conference calls, project coordination, template analysis, documentation strategy, outreach to standards organizations, tooling requirements and development, and ballot management | |
| OpenEMR, Health-ISP |
John Williams |
We will participate in the S&I Framework's CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation (CDA) Initiative by providing resources towards the harmonization of standards, development of reference implementation, and pilot project. | Weekly participation in phone calls, work groups, calls for consensus, reference implementations, implementation of CDA in a free and open source EHR, pilot of CDA in push and publish-discover exchange. | |
| Quality Partners of Rhode Island | Teresa M. Mota, RN | I will participate on behalf of Quality Partners in the S&I Framework's CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation (CDA) Initiative by providing information from RI Continuity of Care work (RI is currently developing CCD based electronic tool) and clinical subject matter expert in transitions of care in all settings, long term care assessment tool (MDS 3.0) expertise, and gerontologic nursing. Was a participant on HITSP Provider Perspective TC and ARRA Tiger Team especially in reference to IS09 - Consultations and Transfers of Care/Req for LTC Assessments. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| Advanced Technology International (ATI) | Jack Corley | I will participate on behalf of ATI in the S&I Framework's CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation (CDA) Initiative. I was the Deputy Program Manager for HITSP, architect for the HITSP ARRA Project, and staff lead for the HITSP Internal Review Team. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| DICOM, IHE | Harry Solomon | I will participate on behalf of the DICOM Standards Committee as co-chair of its WG-08Structured Reporting, and on behalf of the IHE Cardiology Domain as editor of its Cardiology Imaging Report Template profile project. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| IHE PCC |
Keith W. Boone | I will participate on behalf of the IHE Patient Care Coordination Committee as cochair of its Planning Committee. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| Serendipity Health, LLC & IHE QRPH |
Didi Davis |
I will participate on behalf of the IHE Quality, Research and Public Health Domain as Planning Committee Co-char. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, review and comment of workgroup products as required. In addition, I will assist with education and other outreach as required. |
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| Siemens Healthcare |
Larry McKnight and David Tao (backup) |
I (Larry McKnight) will contribute as a practicing physician to provide clinical review and oversight as might be seen by an end user of the software creating and receiving documents specified by these profiles. Additionally, I will feed back learnings and discussions from developers in the company I work for, Siemens, which intends to implement support for relevant profiles in their products. I (David Tao) will work w. Larry McKnight as necessary to assist him in this work. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| Microsoft | Paul Edge | I will participate on behalf of Microsoft's Health Solutions Group |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. |
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| Department of Veterans Affairs | Marie Swall | I will participate as representative of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA is progressing on the presidential mandate to support the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) for its veterans which involves the standards-based exchange of patient health data via the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) as well as benefits, disability and adminstrative data. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. Lessons learned from the DoD-VA-Kaiser Permanente San Diego NwHIN pilot and the DoD-VA-KP-MedVirginia Hampton Roads NwHIN pilot will be provided well as specific implementation challenges with the HITSP C32 Specification. | |
| University of North Florida, School of Computing | Arturo Sanchez-Ruiz | I am a Computer Scientist and also a Software Engineering Independent consultant with experience in the general interoperability problem. I would like to offer independent views, which include approaches based on automatic generation of software components, as well as on model-driven, domain-specific, and ontology-driven strategies. | Weekly tele-conferences, review/critique/creation of artifacts such as specifications, models, software architectures, use cases, software prototypes, etc. | |
| Social Security Administration | Tom Davidson Dave Katz Michael Tyburski Marty Prahl |
Social Security Administration (SSA) commits to participation in the S&I Framework CDA Consolidation initiative. SSA is involved in standards-based exchange of patient health information via the Nationwide Health Information Network to support the SSA disability determination process. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, calls for consensus; review and provide comments for various documents and specifications as needed. | |
| American College of Physicians |
Thomson Kuhn |
I will participate on behalf of the American College of Physicians. I will bring with me the perspectives, requirements, and challenges of small primary care practices. I commit to efforts to educate our members about this work and to seek their feedback for the benefit of the project. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, and seek involvement of our members as appropriate. | |
| Covisint | Thomas Stevenson, DO | I will participate in the S&I Framework's CDA Consolidation Project as Covisint's Chief Medical Officer | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review; comment on workgroup products as needed; calls for consensus; lessons learned from the Covisint and Docsite implementations; participation in development of documents and feedback | |
| Towson University, IHE PCC | Philip DePalo, Yeong-Tae Song | I will participate on behalf of Towson University as a Doctoral Student with dissertation work in Healthcare IT. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| Wayne State University Physician Group |
Pete Gilbert |
I will participate in the S&I Framework's CDA Consolidation Project representing the Wayne State University Physician Group and as the Publishing Facilitator of the HL7 Structured Documents Work Group. |
Weekly participation. |
Documentation Workgroup |
| Dispersive Medical |
Tom Dawson |
I will participate on behalf of Dispersive Medical. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, contribute regarding security and network issues as able | |
| Medicity, IHE ITI, NWHIN | Eric Heflin |
Medicity commits to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to help ensure broad scale interoperability, application of appropriate global and national standards, and to help remediate any identified gaps. |
Active participation in weekly calls, helping to draft procedures, documents and specifications. Acting as a liaison to standards bodies and to the Nationwide Health Information Exchange. Assisting the Reference Implementation, Harmonization, Testing and other S&I Framework teams. |
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| Greenway Medical Technologies | Johnathan Samples | I will participate on behalf of Greenway Medical Technologies. | Weekly participation in meetings to provide input and feedback from an Ambulatory EHR perspective | |
| OZ Systems | Ken Pool | My organization will commit to contributing to the advancement of effective interoperability especially representing the public health perspective. | Conference calls, wiki dialogs, drafting and editing, and feedback from experiences in implementation. |
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| MedQuist, Inc |
Juggy Jagannathan |
I will participate in behalf of MedQuist and provide our perspectives in creating a variety of CDA document types across our 2000+ hospitals we serve. |
Participate in weekly conference calls (to the best of my ability) and review all artifacts and provide feedback. |
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| IFMC | Srinivas Velamuri | I will participate on behalf of Iowa Foundation for Medical Care (IFMC) |
Weekly participation |
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| ApeniMED (formerly known as MEDNET), CHIC, NWHIN, and MITA TAC | Seonho Kim |
I, on behalf of ApeniMED, commit to participate in the S&I Framework initiatives. I and ApeniMED will contribute with knowledge and learning from various efforts including Statewide HIEs, State Medicaid, Medicaid Information Technical Architecture (MITA) Technical Architecture Committee (TAC), and Nationwide Health Information Network workgroup efforts. | Active participation in weekly conference calls (or web meetings) and sub workgroups activities, call for consensus, review and comments for various documents and specifications as needed | |
| CDISC |
Landen Bain |
I will participate on behalf of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC). I bring with me the perspectives, requirements, and challenges of clinical research. I will in turn take information from my participation to educate CDISC members about this work and to seek their feedback for the benefit of the project. I also served as author of the HITSP Clinical Research I.S. 158. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, and brining the involvement of CDISC members as appropriate. | |
| NextEnt Consulting | Tom Foley | I, on behalf of NextEnt Consulting, will provide expertise/insigths of EHR product management and engaged in several innovative interoperable health IT solutions. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and provide insights regarding workgroup products. | |
| Health Care Service Corporation | Durwin Day | On behalf of Health Care Service Corporation, I commit to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to contribute my experience and knowledge of standards. I am currently co-chair of the HL7 Attachment Workgroup, and Blue Cross Representative for the ANSI Codes Committee. In the past, I have served as the co-chair for theX12 Patient Information Workgroup, as co-chair of the HITSP Administrative and Financial Technical Committee, and as a member of the HITSP Internal Review Team. I have also served on various WEDI and CORE committees. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| GSI Health |
Susan Johnston |
On behalf of GSI Health, I commit to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to contribute our experience and knowledge. |
Weekly participation in teleconferemces/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. |
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| TJB Consulting | Tory Berger | I will participate on behalf of TJB Consulting |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed |
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| Department of D Defense & Evolvent |
David Parker |
I will participate on behalf of both the Department of Defense (DoD) and Evolvent Technologies. These organizations are heavily committed to large scale, national interoperability programs. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. I will provide lessons learned and noted interoperability issues from the DoD VLER pilots, as well as other national interoperability efforts. |
Validation |
| University Bancorp. |
Mick Talley | I shall participate on behalf of the University Bancorp and the other organizations I represent in Healthcare Information Technologies and the use of standards for interoperability for secure data sharing. | I shall participate in the teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on work group production and provide the knowledge wisdom and experience I have obtained from work in ANSI/X9, OMG, HITSP, and HIMSS IHE and secure financial services consortia in collaboration with NIST and other federal agencies. | |
| Metasteward LLC |
Fred Buhr, MSSW |
I commit to participate from the perspective of an older American consumer. I will contribute my knowledge gained while serving on several HITSP subcommittees including the Consumer Preferences Tiger Team, the Harmonization subcommittee and the Medical Terminology workgroup. I currently am participating on the HL7 Personal Healthcare Records (PHR) workgroup. I have experience in working with the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and the U.S. Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) toolsets and have a personal IEPD (Information Exchange Package Definition) work space. |
Active participation in weekly conference calls (or web meetings) and workgroup activities; review and comment on various documents and specifications as needed. |
Vocabulary & Use Case |
| Accenture | John Quinn | I commit to participate on behalf of Accenture in the S&I Framework CDA Implmentation Guide Consolidation Initiative Project as an Accenture consultant with extensive industry experience. I will contribute my knowledge of HIT, HIT Architecture and HIT Standards Development and Standards Use. | Participation in weekly teleconferences/phone calls/webinars, etc. Review documents as created and contribute as needed. | |
| CHIRP, Drexel Univ BMES, IHE | Elliot Sloane | I will participate on behalf of the Center for Healthcare Information Research and Policy, the IHE Patient Care Device Domain, IHE-USA, and the Health Systems Engineering Program at Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. | Participation in teleconferences and webinars; contribute industry experience, academic research, and education perspectives from and for the disciplines of clinical engineering, health systems engineering, software engineering, health data security and privacy, and health information and management systems design and operations; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; review and comment on workgroup products; and, as appropriate, provide liaison with relevant professional, technical, and standards organizations including ACCE, HIMSS , ISO/IEEE-11073, IEEE-EMBS, IEEE-USA, IHE International, IHE-USA, and the IHE Patient Care Device Domain | |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama | Jim McKinley | On behalf of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, I commit to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to contribute my experience and knowledge of standards. I am currently Co-chair of the HL7 Attachment Workgroup, and Blue Cross Representative Alternate for the ANSI Codes Committee. I participate in standards development activities with X12, participated in both the HITSP Panel and Technical Committee efforts, and am providing technical assistance to the developers of the Alabama HIE. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| SAIC |
Paula Mossaides |
SAIC commits to participation in the S&I Framework CDA Consolidation initiative. Submitted by Austin Kreisler on behalf of SAIC. | Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | |
| Henry Ford Health System and Southeast Michigan Health Information System (SEMHIE) | Helen L. Hill, FHIMSS | I commit to participate in the S&I Framework CDA Consolidation effort on behalf of Henry Ford Health System, SEMHIE and its SSA e-Disability and Beacon projects, the MiHIN Shared Services Governance Board (Michigan's SDE) and the other professional HIE and HIT organizations and consortia in which I participate, including OMG, HITSP, Kantara Initiative, HIMSS HIE Committee and the HIMSS Public Policy Committee. All of these entities are involved in and committed to the use of standards and interoperability in healthcare. | I commit to participate in teleconferences and webinars and will participate in, review and comment on work group products and provide the knowledge wisdom and experience I have obtained from my extensive career in healthcare, standards bodies and professional associations. | |
| Axolotl |
Lin Wan |
I will participate on behalf of Axolotl Corp | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, model development, and review and comment on workgroup products. | |
| Rhode Island Quality Institute | Gary Christensen | As COO/CIO of RIQI, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they related to our Direct Project pilot and subsequent statewide rollout. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. |
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| Arcadia Solutions | Greg Chittim | As a Principal Consultant, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they related to the RIQI Direct Project pilot and subsequent statewide rollout, of which I am the PM. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. |
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| Quest Diagnostics | Ken McCaslin, Freida Hall | We will participate in the S&I Framework' CDA Consolidation initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback. | Ken McCaslin and Freida Hall: Harmonization, Documentation. |
| DoD Military Health System | Stephen Hufnagel | We will participate in the S&I Framework' CDA Consolidation initiative by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback. | Use Case & Requirements, Vocabulary, and Harmonization. |
| WellPoint, Inc. | Terry Hearn Michael Meyer |
We, representing WellPoint Health Information Technology, will participate in this initiative. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| FEI Systems On Behalf os SAMHSA |
Chirag Bhatt | I will participate in the S&I Framework' CDA Consolidation initiative joining meetings and conference calls as well as developing and reviewing documents |
Phone calls, contributions to document, review, feedback comments and voting as needed. | |
| CGI | Greg Turner | I, representing CGI and our partners, will participate in this initiative. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, calls for consensus; review and provide comments for various documents and specifications as needed. | |
| Allscripts |
Emma Jones |
I, representing Allscripts Community Solutions, will participate in this initiative. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, provide constructive feedback, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. | Assist as needed. |
| FEI Systems On Behalf ofSAMHSA |
Tony Calice | I will participate in the S&I Framework's CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation (CDA) Initiative by providing resources and a reference implementation | Phone calls, contributions to document, review, feedback comments and voting as needed. | CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation (CDA) Initiative |
| FEI Systems On Behalf of SAMHSA |
Claudio Sanchez | I will participate in the S&I Framework's CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation (CDA) Initiative by providing resources and a reference implementation |
Participate in the consolidation of Terminologies and Develop Reference Implementation Of Clinical Decision Support to enforce Clinical Quality Measures | Provide Technical assistance as needed |
| Social Security Administration | Mike Lomangino | Social Security Administration (SSA) commits to participation in the S&I Framework CDA Consolidation initiative. SSA is involved in standards-based exchange of patient health information via the Nationwide Health Information Network to support the SSA disability determination process. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, calls for consensus; review and provide comments for various documents and specifications as needed. | |
| Rhode Island Quality Institute | Charles Hewitt | As Director, HIE Program Management of RIQI, I will participate on behalf of the organization. I will contribute my knowledge of the industry and related technologies, particularly as they relate to the rollout and further development of RIQI’s HIE service. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, and participate in pilot. | |
| Health Project Partners, LLC | Lindsey Hoggle | I will participate on behalf of present work underway by the American Dietetic Association in this area. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | CDA Harmonization |
| IHE PCC, ACOG, Catholic Health East | Michael J. McCoy, MD | I will participate on behalf of the IHE Patient Care Coordination Committee as co-chair of its Planning Committee. I will also participate representing ACOG, having assisted that organization for HITSP work, and development of use cases used in Maternal Child Health. Finally, I can represent the provider world, serving as the CMIO of a multi-hospital organization covering the continuum of care, with ambulatory physicians, acute and long-term care hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, palliative care, etc. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case |
| Nachimson Advisors, LLC | Stanley Nachimson | I will participate in the CDA consolidation initiative, to provide guidance and comment on the need to meet both administrative and clinical needs. | Writing and review of documents. | "Harmonization," "Documentation," and "Validation" |
| The Barcenas Group, Inc | Camilo Barcenas | I, as one of the Principals of The Barcenas Group, commit to participate on behalf of the in the S&I Framework CDA Implmentation Guide Consolidation Initiative Project as an Healthcare IT consultant with extensive industry experience. I will contribute my knowledge of HIT, Process and Standards methodology experience, and network of vast resources to | Participation in weekly teleconferences/phone calls/webinars, etc. Review, comment, and contribution of workgroup documents as needed. | Harmonization, Validation, "as needed" |
| Cerner | Gaby Jewell | I will commit to participate in scheduled conference calls to work on User Stories and specifications to support those user stories. I will also commit to working with domain experts within Cerner to assure the user stories are real world and the specifications are supportable. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars; participation in specification development; call for concensus, review and comment on outputs. | |
| Healthwise | Leslie Kelly Hall | I, representing Healthwise, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve patient centered HIT. Specific interests include interoperability, transitions of care, and CDA harmonization that recognize the patient/consumer as co-producers of health. | Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls for consensus, experience from the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products. | Harmonization |
| MedAZ.net, LLC |
Vasu Iyengar | I, and the organization that I will represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care and CDA harmonization, use case and pilot initiatives for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. | Weekly participation in teleconferences, testing tools, pilot projects, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Use Case, Harmonization |
| L.A. Care Health Plan – HITEC-LA | Sajid Ahmed |
I, with both the company and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| Epic | Vassil Peytchev | I, and the organization that I represent, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's CDA Consolidation Project initiative | We will participate in the calls and meetings, calls for consensus, review documentation and deliverables, provide feedback | Harmonization, Documentation, Validation |
| CA (Carl Ahmed) Associates | Carl Ahmed | I will participate in the S&I Framework's CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation (CDA) Initiative. I have worked for hospitals, for vendors, with payors, with physician practices, for government agencies and large enterprises, and non-profit organizations. Capitalize on my real-world implementation experience with EHRs, revenue cycle, HIPAA compliance, and program and project management expertise. I will weave the thread between: 1. Compliance (HIPAA: privacy, security, physical security, business associate agreements, auditing and monitoring) 2. Business 3. EHR & EMR & EPM (features and functions, cost, hardware requirements, certification, references. I have worked with NextGen, Epic, Cerner, GE Centricity, eClinical Works, Allscripts, Misys, etc.) 4. Patient Accounting / Revenue Cycle 5. ICD-9 to ICD-10 6. HIPAA EDI 4010 to 5010 7. Portfolio, Program and Project Management (initiation, planning, execution / implementation (strategy, business & technical requirements, training, workflow), controlling, closing) 8. Healthcare policy (ARRA, Stark, Healthcare Reform, HITECH, RHIOs, HIEs, meaningful use, stage 1, etc.) 9. Wired and wireless medical devices integrated with EHRs as well as secure remote access (e.g. to annotate charts) 10. Interoperability and standards such as NHIN, HITSP so you can network to external organizations, such as public health department, state immunization registries, and also connect with hospitals and other physician practices to receive results and transmit orders. 11. Clinical quality measures, data mining, data repositories, effective outcome measures. |
Participation in teleconferences and webinars. Review and editing of comments of workgroup products as needed. | Harmonization, Documentation, Validation |
| First Insight Corporation | Sarah Sugarman | I will participate on behalf of First Insight Corporation in the S&I Framework's CDA Consolidation Project to provide input from an eyecare specialty EHR perspective. | Phone calls, contributions to document, review, feedback comments and voting as needed. | Harmonization |
| Pediatric Associates Inc. P.S. | Brock Morris | I will participate on behalf of Pediatric Associates in the S&I initiatives by providing my knowledge regarding the implementation EHR, along with my experience in HIT and healthcare interoperability. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed | |
| National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion | Akaki lekiachvili | I will participate on behalf of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation (CDA) Initiative | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| Clopton Clinic | Justin Austin | I commit to participate in the S&I Framework's Transitions of Care, Lab Results initiative, and CDA Consolidation initiative. I will contribute my healthcare and information systems knowledge/experience from both a hospital setting and private practice setting. | Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. | |
| Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield |
Louise Fryer, Penny Probst |
I, with both the company and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology for the Transition of Care and CDA Consolidation initiative. |
Penny Probst: Harmonization, Documentation, and Validation |
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| Gensa Corporation |
Rob Allen |
I will participate in the S&I CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation Project by participating in meetings, conference calls, sharing my expertise and experience, and by contributing to and reviewing documents. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences and/or webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. |
Harmonization; others as needed. |
| Secure Hitech LLC | Lester Keeper Jr., Ernest Grove | I commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Transition of Care initiative, - CDA Consolidation inititives that include integrated functions, processes and tools. Harmonization," "Documentation," and "Validation" and will contribute my experience and knowledge in Trusted Identification interoperability learnings, tools, and reference implementations for use of structured layers of Identification for Privacy needs for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. | Participation in teleconferences, webinars, experience form privacy research and indentification, the editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. | Harmonization, Documentation, Validation |
| LOTS, LLC | Lisa Nelson | I will participate as an independent consultant and Medical Informatics student interested in contributing to CDA Harmonization efforts. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, review and comment of workgroup products as required. In addition, I will assist with education and other outreach as required. | Documentation, Harmonization |
| AZZLY | Coletta Dorado | I, with the company that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars and review; comment on workgroup products as needed; calls for consensus; discussion on Wiki pages; sharing of connectivity and interoperability experiences with stakeholders in the ambulatory market space ; participation in development of documents and feedback; experiences from the field and product development to the extent these are available; pilot testing and constructive feedback of tools that are produced by the project. | |
| Alexandria Consulting | Eric Jahn | I commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. | Weekly participation inteleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Harmonization, Documentation, Validation |
| Selover Company | Sherry Selover | I will commit to attending the meetings and providing interoperability expertise. | I commit to providing interoperability expertise and technical architecture expertise. | |
| System Administrative Services, L.L.C. | Mark T. Palen, PMP, CPHIMS | I, with both the company and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology and will contribute my 25 years experience in EMR systems and development, acute and post-acute care experience, PMP and Six Sigma - healthcare methodologies. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, testing, increasing levels of commitment, and review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | Validation |
| McKesson | Corey Spears | I will participate in the S&I Framework's CDA Consolidation Project by participating in meetings, conference call, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback | Harmonization, Documentation, Validation |
| Office of eHealth Initiatives, State of Tennessee | Nathalie Hartert | Participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars and review and comment on workgroup products. | |
| HRSA/BPHC- OQD-HIT Branch | Anna Poker | I commit as a government liaison on behalf of HRSA/BPHC-HITBranch in the Clinical Data Architecture Initiative. | Participate in teleconferences and webinars and review workgroup product(s). | |
| Sypherlink | Kris Hardy |
I will participate on behalf of Sypherlink in the S&I Framework initiatives, and will contribute my experience in interoperability and data sharing using the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), National Data Exchange (N-DEx), and developing and implementing NIEM Information Exchange Package Definitions (IEPD) and integration software. |
Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, standard development, review and comment on workgroup products, pilot project participation as feasible. |
Harmonization, Documentation, Validation |
| Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) | Chris Carr |
I will participate on behalf of the RSNA and IHE International organizations. I commit to provide my knowledge of the IHE process and work product and liaison to IHE domain experts. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. | |
| Practice Fusion | Thomas McMennamin | I will participate on behalf of Practice Fusion EHR in the S&I Framework’s CDA Implementation Guide Consolidation work. | Participation in weekly teleconferences and/or webinars. Lessons learned from rapid scale-up of 70k users. Review and comment on workgroup products. | |
| Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum/Louisiana HIE | Al Manint | I will participate on behalf of the HIE for the State of Louisiana. | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars. Review and comment on workgroup products. Seek use case and participation/comment from our members as necessary. | Harmonization |
| HL7 Child Health Workgroup |
Andy Spooner |
I will participate on behalf of the HL7 Child Health Workgroup. | Clinical review of document formats. |
Documentation |
| IntePro Solutions, IHE |
John Donnelly |
I commit to participate on behalf of IntePro Solutions, a HIT consulting firm focused on info systems, medical device and imaging modality interoperability in and across all care delivery settings and IHE domain activity in general. | Participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. I will bring issues raised on conference calls for this project to the IHE domain memberships not otherwise represented on these calls as appropriate. |
Use Case, Harmonization |
| Deloitte |
Chris Doucette | I, along with the company that I represent, are committed to engage in the S&I Framework’s initiatives, working and volunteering with my experience in state level HIT/HIE initiatives including AHIC use cases, information technology and EDI, and privacy/security policies and procedures. |
Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; sharing of experience in the field, editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; constructive feedback; contribution towards network and security issues as appropriate. | Harmonization, Documentation, Validation |
| CTG Healthcare Solutions / Omni Micro Solutions; HIMSS Advocacy and Public Comment Workgroup |
Rachelle Blake, PA, MHA | I, with both the companies and the organizations that I represent, commit to engage and execute initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology. This includes contributions of samples, toolsets, instructional materials, resource guides and protocols, informatics approaches and workflow integration, and evidence-based best practices. My contributions will result from cumulative work in all settings of clinical care and subject matter expertise in integrating meaningful use of electronic health records and clinical technologies into clinical practice and improvement of quality patient care. | Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, calls, workgroups, and task forces; contributing experiences from the field to the extent these are available; development of toolsets, toolkits, documentation, methodologies, and implementation, standards and certification reference components; technical writing, editing and discussion of subject matter on Wiki pages; review and comment of workgroup documents and products as needed. | Harmonization, Documentation, Validation |
| Telemedicine Advance Technology Research Center/Department of the Army | Ollie B. Gray | I will participate in the S&I Framework CDA Consolidation Project initiative by participating in meetings, conference calls, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents. | Participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback. | Harmonization, Documentation |
| Enable Healthcare Inc | Hari Ramachandran, Rahul Dewan | We will participate in all the three streams as the representatives of Enable Healthcare Inc | Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, model development with tools made available from the project, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. Sharing experiences from the field, pilot testing with the tools whenever made available and constructive feedback (bug reports, etc.) of tools. | |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Bob Beckley | I will participate in the CDA Consolidation Project Initiative. |
Testing implementation specifications in the real-world, supporting providers in real-world pilot implementations, and writing code for production or test implementations. | Harmonization |
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) | Robin Barnes, J. Michael Fitzmaurice |
I commit as a government liaison on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) | Participation and representation in weekly teleconferences, webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, and pilot the orderly organization of data elements names, definitions, representations, and standards from which the come in the United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK). | |
| Independence Blue Cross | Kenneth Russo | I will participate on behalf of the Independence Blue Cross. | Participation in weekly teleconferences/phone calls/webinars, etc. Review documents as created and contribute as needed | Validation |
| Active Health Management | Elvino Saldanha | I , on behalf of Active Health Management, commit to participate in the S&I Framework’s CDA Consolidation Initiative | Weekly participation in teleconferences / webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools , model development, review and comment of artifacts generated by the project. |
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