Project Summary for Harmonization of Health Quality Artifact Reasoning and Expression Logic
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Project Details
Number | 1049 View Ballot Items List (with NIBs) |
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Name | Harmonization of Health Quality Artifact Reasoning and Expression Logic |
Sponsor(s) | Clinical Decision Support Work Group |
Co-Sponsor(s) | Clinical Quality Information Work Group, Structured Documents Work Group |
Steering Division | Clinical |
Description | See the PSS Word document for the complete scope description. The expression of clinically relevant logic for the use of health quality measurement and clinical decision support has historically been viewed from different perspectives, based on the different specific needs of each domain. However, the resulting mechanisms have produced significantly different approaches to representation of what are essentially the same underlying concepts. This project seeks to identify the set of concepts and functionality that are common to both domains with respect to the expression of logic for reasoning about clinical information. By identifying this common core set of concepts, and formalizing them in conceptual and logical models that are independent of both the clinical data model involved, and the ultimate container and focus of that logic, the project can establish a basis for describing and sharing health quality knowledge between the historically disparate domains of quality measurement and clinical decision support. Currently, health quality artifacts from the two domains are defined by: 1) Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF) Specification, (release 2 of the DSTU) for quality measures. 2) CDS Knowledge Sharing Implementation Guide (HeD) for decision support artifacts. |
Project Facilitator | Bryn Rhodes |
Status | Archived |
SD Approval Date | Oct 18, 2013 |
TSC Approval Date | Oct 28, 2013 |
Type | Ballot - Informative |
Objectives / Deliverables | Health Quality Artifact Reasoning and Expression Logic Functional Requirements - Target: 10/31/2013 Ballot Phase 1 Deliverables - Target: January 2014 Reconcile Ballot Comments for Phase 1 Deliverables - Target: February 2014 Publish Phase 1 Deliverables - Target: March 2014 |
Next Milestone Date | 2014 May WGM |
Project End Date | 2014 May WGM |
Project Intent | Create New Standard |
Project Need | There is a desire from the Health Quality community to have a single family of standards that support both Quality Measures and Clinical Decision support. As the two domains evolve, the existing specifications have enough discrepancies between them that mapping and/or translation of an artifact intended for measurement to an artifact intended for clinical decision support, or vice versa, is for all practical purposes infeasible. This results in unnecessary duplication of significant effort, both in the creation of artifacts, as well as the environments that must consume and execute those artifacts. By providing a common basis of functionality that is a superset of the requirements of both domains, this redundancy can be largely eliminated, allowing artifact creation and environment implementation efforts to focus on the aspects that truly are different between the domains (e.g. population versus patient focus, post-event measurement versus in-progress detection, and measurement of effect versus process guidance). Therefore, by harmonizing and modularizing, the standards can better support the Health Quality community. |
Implementers | 1) NCQA 2) CMS/ONC 3) The Joint Commission 4) AMA Convened PCPI 5) S&I Pilots |
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Lineage | |
Dependancies | 1. CDS Knowledge Sharing Implementation Guide, #931 2. Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF) Specification, (release 2 of the DSTU), #508 |
Project Document Repository |
http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=Expression_Logic_Harmonization Other related project scope statements can be found here: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=Clinical_Quality_Information_Work_Group |
Backwards Compatibility | No |
External Vocabularies | |
Products | Domain Analysis Model (DAM) |
Joint Copyright? | No |
External Pjt Collaborators | S&I Framework |
Realm | Realm Specific - Enter "U.S." or name of HL7 Affiliate below |
HL7 Affiliate | U.S. |
Stakeholders | Quality Reporting Agencies |
Vendors | EHR, PHR; Clinical Decision Support Systems |
Providers | N/A |
Ballot Cycle Info | 2014 Jan Ballot Cycle Info: INFORMATIVE Ballot results: Met basic vote requirements. 16 Negatives to reconcile Document Name: HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Harmonization of Health Quality Artifact Reasoning and Expression Logic, Release 1 - US Realm |
Misc Notes | 2020 Jan: B.Rhodes: Informative content was published, this project can be closed. PMO archiving project. April 2014: TSC approved informative publication request of HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Harmonization of Health Quality Artifact Reasoning and Expression Logic. PMO changed status to 'Ready for NE'; no further action needed from Project Team. March 2014: CDS WG requests TSC approval for: DSTU Publication Request of L7 Domain Analysis Model: Harmonization of Health Quality Artifact Reasoning and Expression Logic |
U.S. Govt Interest? | Yes |
USRSC Approval | |
FMG Approval | |
ARB Approval | |
Start Date | Oct 10, 2013 |
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