Project Summary for CDA R2 CCD Transform to VA Blue Button ASCII Text File
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Project Details
Number | 843 View Ballot Items List (with NIBs) |
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Name | CDA R2 CCD Transform to VA Blue Button ASCII Text File |
Sponsor(s) | Electronic Health Records Work Group |
Co-Sponsor(s) | Structured Documents Work Group |
Steering Division | Administrative |
Description | This project will produce a sample XSLT stylesheet and reader's guide on usage that will transform a CDA R2 CCD file into a U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Blue Button ASCII text file. |
Project Facilitator | Lenel James & Keith Boone |
Status | Archived |
SD Approval Date | Jan 16, 2012 |
TSC Approval Date | Jan 30, 2012 |
Type | - Other - |
Objectives / Deliverables | High level business requirements complete - Target: Jan 2012 Determination on approach for tool documentation - Target: February 2012 Development of XSLT - Target: February 2012 EHR & Structured Document WG approval - Target: March 2012 Project End Date:publish the transform and background text - Target: April 2012 |
Next Milestone Date | 2013 January WGM |
Project End Date | 2013 January WGM |
Project Intent | Supplement to a Current Standard |
Project Need | VA developed the Blue Button in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Department of Defense, along with the Markle Foundation's Consumer Engagement Workgroup. VA's Blue Button feature allows Veterans to access and download their information into a very simple text file. However most EHR and PHR vendors have focused their development efforts on certification for Meaningful Use (MU) and support for industry interoperability based on the S&I Framework initiatives of ONC. As a result, most certified EHR & PHR vendors support CCD. To take full advantage of the existing CCD capabilities of MU certified vendors and support the Blue Button goal for a 'very simple' ASCII text file, it would be helpful for the healthcare industry if it were possible to transform an existing MU-certified CCD export file into a VA Blue Button ASCII text file. The intended result would be with a common, consistent-format ASCII file - without any substantive additional coding effort for MU-certified systems. NOTE: The scope of this project explicitly excludes transforming Blue Button ASCII into CCD, because ASCII text does not have the capacity to carry key privacy, security and data integrity meta-data needed to help ensure the reliability and quality of the patient data for secure computer-to-computer interoperability. The stylesheet on usage content will include purpose, audience, approach, usage recommendations, a discussion of limitations and issues, and an appendix with the XML transform (XSLT stylesheet) and a sample CCD and the related Blue Button ASCII text output. |
Implementers | SpinnPHR |
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Dependancies | Non |
Project Document Repository | All project documentation will be on HL7 EHR Wiki - http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=EHR |
Backwards Compatibility | N/A |
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Realm | Realm Specific - Enter "U.S." or name of HL7 Affiliate below |
HL7 Affiliate | U.S. |
Stakeholders | Payors |
Vendors | EHR, PHR |
Providers | Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health) |
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Misc Notes | May 2013: PVanDyke: Okay to close - The project is finished and published. It was not balloted and there was no intention to ballot it. PMO archiving. Dec 2012: The TSC endorsed the CCD to Blue Button® Transform Tool from the EHR Work Group as the product of Project Insight # 843. Using this tool one can transform a CDA R2 CCD file into a U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Blue Button ASCII text file. Sept 2012: EHR reported they gathered approval. PMO changed milestone dates based on original objectives. |
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ARB Approval | |
Start Date | Jan 13, 2012 |
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