Transition of Care (ToC) Initiative

Recent Updates The Transition of Care (ToC) Initiative launch schedule can be found at the S&I Framework Calendar! The initial ToC workgroups have been announced by the Initiative Coordinator. Transition of Care Kickoff presentation slides can be downloaded here.  Check back soon to access the recording. Register for the ToC Use Case & Requirements Workgroup meeting here.** Use this link to receive your unique dial-in/webinar information.  In the future, the process will likely change to make it more conversational.  We appreciate your patience as we strive to make participation as easy as possible.

Charter

Meaningful Use Stage 1 and foreseen Stage 2 requires information to be exchanged in transition of care. Implementers are often confused on how to use the specifications to exchange the required data.  The exchange of clinical summaries is hampered by ambiguous  common definitions of what data elements must at a minimum be exchanged, how they must be encoded, and how those common semantic elements map to MU specified formats (C32/CCD and CCR). Finally, the lack of a robust toolset to aid in development and validation of conformant templated clinical documents is a major impediment to the widespread adoption of the standards

Purpose and Goals

Meaningful Use:  Exchange key clinical information among providers of care and with patients and other authorized entities electronically  based on level of system capability, i.e., human readable, unstructured text or full interoperable structured data

• Enable Clinical Summary validation services to be available such that if an organization passes validation, they have a high degree of confidence that any other organization passing the same validation has a 99.9% opportunity to understand the same core clinical information whether as unstructured data or structured and encoded data. 
• Reduce template development time through new tools and process developed through the S&I Framework and public/private activities (such as Open Health Tools) by a factor of 1.5x. Reduce time to create a new unstructured  and structured documents based on the HL7 CDA by 10% in 2011 and by 25% in 2013
  

Scope

The Scope of this Initiative is as its first priority support for Meaningful Use Stage 1 summary of care (Eligible Provider, Eligible Hospital, and Critical Access Hospital) requirements for transition of care and transition of care to consumer and as a second priority support for expected Stage 2 requirements.

Success Metrics

Timeline

Schedule

• Transition of Care Project Kickoff Meeting - Monday, January 31st - 2pm ET.
• Telecom Occurs every Wednesday effective 2/9/2011 until 12/28/2011 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM (ET).
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Members

Transition of Care initiative stakeholders come from across the health care IT industry to make up the Transition of Care Initiative Members.

About our Workgroups

Note: Initiative members will determine necessary workgroups with launch of initiative. Below are an initial list of proposed Workgroups by the Initiative Coordinators.

Committed members participate in at least one of the following workgroups under the Transition of Care project:

The Transition of Care project is coordinated by Arien Malec with the guidance of the Office of Interoperability and Standards (OIS) under the Office of National Coordinator.

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