Clinical Interoperability Council
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Mission
This Workgroup provides a nexus of communication and bridge to the standards development framework, organizational processes and forums for the clinical community to define content, flow and other domain requirements necessary to the development of robust health data standards. The Council provides a mechanism for clinical domains to develop common approaches to standards-related activities and form consensus on issues of interest among multiple groups.
Charter
The Clinical Interoperability Council (CIC) will establish and support a process whereby a master set of data elements with their attributes will be defined and harmonized using a common process and a common set of attributes. The attributes will include a name (terminology), a unique and unambiguous definition, units, data type and complete value sets. The CIC will assure the decision making practices related to ensuring appropriate subject matter expertise and governance models are employed as part of the master set of data elements definition and harmonization of standards as appropriate.
CIC will support decision making practices related to clinical domain requirements developed by this committee. We will also, collaborate and offer support to other working groups when requested.
Work Products and Contributions to HL7 Processes
The CIC will define a process by which data elements are vetted, managed and maintained. The CIC will also define requirements for tool sets to use and integrate these data elements into clinically useful applications. The vision is (1) these data elements will encompass the entire set of data elements required for all aspects of clinical care and the management of that care as defined by the community’s needs; (2) only one definition per term will be permitted; and (3) no one group is likely to use all data elements, but any data elements used will come from that master set.
The CIC together with the Clinical Information Interchange Collaborative and the rest of the HL7 community will help define clinical domain requirements following the HL7 Development Framework Domain Analysis Model methodology. This typically includes documentation of the clinical processes and data flow within the clinical setting, trigger events, EHR content and other details necessary to articulate the clinical domain requirements (e.g. relationships to clinical guidelines, disease management protocols, decision support and other clinical issues).
The CIC will focus on bridging the clinical requirements and technical representation of data standards including Harmonization across standards within HL7. The output from CIC work products will flow into appropriate Work Groups within HL7 who will apply the clinical content to technical standards.
HL7 will provide essential knowledge and information to support the CIC.
Formal Relationships With Other HL7 Groups
The Clinical Interoperability Council is a member of the Domain Experts Steering Division (DESD). Close collaboration is expected with Public Health and Emergency Response, Vocabulary, Electronic Health Record, RCRIM, Modelling and Methodology, Patient Care, Anaesthesiology, Child Health, and Emergency Care Work Groups, among others.
Formal Relationship With Groups Outside of HL7
CIC currently does not have formal relationships with groups out side of HL7 at this time but will establish these relationships as appropriate.
Decision Making Practices
Date of Last Revision
April 26, 2010