Today’s Topics

• Data Commons’ approach• Data Commons’ Services• Use of MedBiquitious Professional Profile

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Six organizations partnered…

To create a robust data sharing system…

By matching Identifiers from multiple organizations

Data in Original StateAAMC

ECFMG

NBME

Other

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atch

Data Commons’ Data Hub

Jane SmithAAMC #4

NBME #10

Med School #25

ECFMG #90

Using MedBiquitious Professional Profile standard

To create aggregated data sets: identified or de-identified

Data in Original State

AAMC

ECMFG

Med Schl

OtherID

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ch

Data Commons’ Data Hub

AggregatedData Set

Temporarily Created in Data Commons & Sent to Requestor

Send data to “apps”

Current & Planned Services • Verification• Verification+• Research

• Staff exploring for possible future development: • Outcome Tracking• Direct Credential Verification

Verification• Need: Company want to offer a service to a medical professional and

need to make sure that s/he is a medical professional, but do not want to check with every hospital, state, medical school, etc.

• Solution: Company sends information to Data Commons, LLC, who verifies it.

• Example: Check to see someone has a valid medical license; is enrolled in medical school.

• Timeline: Launching in Su 2014. Marketing underway now.

Participation• By Data Holders:

• If your data can be used to “prove” something, e.g. with a “yes / no” answer• Medical student status• Resident status

• API complete. Service ready Summer 2014.• By Software / Data Consumers / Companies:

• Connect to our web service.

Verification+• Need: Hospital need verified information / documents proving that

someone has the status that is claimed.

• Solution: Software program hospital uses requests that Data Commons receive official documents, and send them on.

• Examples: Board certification and license status

• Timeline: Summer 2014

Participation• By Data Holders:

• If your data can be used in credential verification, or pre-population of fields physicians need filled out, e.g.• Physician employment• Physician credentialing / privileging

• Data need to be identified – e.g. about a specific person.• Business analysis to begin late winter. Service should be ready in the

Summer.

• By Software / Data Consumers / Companies:• CVOs (credential verification organizations) are welcome to participate.

Research• Need: Researcher wants to create a robust data set to do research – a

data set that includes many organizations’ data, linked together by individual.

• Solution: Data Commons can search across many organizations’ data at once, create a data set linked together by matched identifiers, and then return a de-identified data set.

• Example: How many students who have an MCAT score of “x”, a USMLE Step 3 score of “y”, now have ABFM certification and work in a rural area?

• Timeline: Public demonstration projects underway; service launch after that date. Likely no earlier than Fall 2014.

Participation• By Data Holders:

• If you are willing to share de-identified data, to be combined with other data, about specific individuals.• Process to approve research has been drafted. We are not likely to publicly

launch the service until Fall 2014 at the very earliest.

• By Researchers:• We are looking for beta users who are interested in working with us to test

and develop the service.

Data Commons and the HPP• MedBiquitous Healthcare Professional Profile (HPP)• HPP v.1.81 (with extension schemas) serves as the core result

payload structure• Assessments• Student data• Simplified results

• Worked with MedBiquitous to add common source and id attributes to all elements• source attribute allows Data Commons to identify data contributor

for XML subtrees

Data Commons Payload

Use of the HPP source Attribute

Use of the HPP source Attribute

Contact:Dana Bostrom202.741.6450bostrom@mydatacommons.org