popHealth Tool Development

Challenge

Webinar Presentation

Thursday, October 27

On today’s call:

Wil Yu

Special Assistant

of Innovations

and Research

ONC

JL Neptune

Senior Vice

President

Health 2.0

Rob McCready

Principal Software

Systems Manager

The MITRE

Corporation

Agenda for Today’s Meeting

ONC and the Investing in Innovation (i2)

Program

An Introduction to the popHealth Tool

Development Challenge

Q&A About the Challenge

ONC and i2

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i2 – Investing in Innovations

Wil Yu Wil.Yu@HHS.gov

Adam Wong

Office of the National Coordinator

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i2 Goals

• Better Health, Better Care, Better Value through Quality Improvement

– Further the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services

– Highlight programs, activities, and issues of concern

• Spur Innovation and Highlight Excellence

– Motivate, inspire, and lead

• Community building – Development of ecosystem

• Stimulate private sector investment

A Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measure Reporting

Reference Implementation

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Partners

A not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest

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An Open Source, Reference Implementation, Clinical Quality

Measure Reporting Tool • Empowers healthcare providers to perform Meaningful Use Clinical

Quality Measure reporting

• Promotes easier submission of Clinical Quality Measure to public health organizations

Key Features • A healthcare provider-friendly user interface

• Includes support for all 44 of Meaningful Use Stage 1 Outpatient Clinical Quality Measures

• Integrates with Electronic Health Record systems via nationally recognized data standards

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Leverages Standards-Based Data Inputs • Integrates with certified EHR continuity of care data standards for

patient inputs

• HITSP C32 XML

• ASTM CCR XML

Deployed within a Healthcare Provider’s Firewall

Identifiable Patient Data Remains in the Provider’s Practice

• Addresses security and privacy issues

Design

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Concept of Operations

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Demo

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Healthcare Provider Dashboard

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Patient List

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Quality Measure Definition

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An Open Project • Freely available via an Apache 2.0 Open Source software distribution

license

• Allows EHR vendors to better understand the intention and interpretation of the Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures, as well as integrate the popHealth software with commercial products

Benefits of Open Source • Creativity – Stimulates design and programming innovation

• Transparency – Allows access and freedom to view, inspect, modify and re-distribute open source work

• Auditability – Provides accessibility to inspect and scrutinize the underlying source code for the popHealth software

• Lower Cost – Lowers financial costs normally associated with software development

and Open Source

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Partners

Governors

Contributors

Users

Leaders on deciding activities the project Moderates announcement list and forums Resolves conflicts on commit disputes Administers the email list memberships and messages

Granted direct commit access to repository Included in popHealth weekly teleconference meetings Invited to quarterly face-to-face status meetings led by governors Can respond to feedback emails

Governors

Partners

Contributors

Users

Posts patch files to either bugs or features under the popHealth Apache 2.0 open source distribution license May be invited to dial into weekly popHealth teleconference meetings Can claim, on their own, to be a popHealth contributor if patch is accepted

Free to download, use and modify the popHealth software Inputs to forums, announcements welcome Governors, and partners will engage on questions users may have about popHealth

and Open Source

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Additional Information

Open source project website http://projectpophealth.org

Email us via talk@projectpophealth.org

Planned to be featured at HIMSS 2012 Interoperability Showcase

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The Challenge:

“Develop an application that leverages the popHealth

open source framework, existing functionality,

standards, and sample datasets to improve patient

care and provide greater insight into patient

populations”

• These apps should:

• Help providers improve patient safety and engage patients and family

• Use quality measure calculations and address disparities in care

• Aggregate data from across multiple sites

• Visualize information in the popHealth system related to meaningful use

• Target patients with high disease burden in need of early intervention

Judging Criteria

1. Integration with popHealth system

2. Value Added to Existing Functionality

3. Creativity and Innovation

4. Usability and Design for all stakeholders

5. Impact on stakeholders

Timeline

Submission Period Ends

01-20-12

Winner Notified

02-20-12

Winner Demo

March/April 2012

For More Information

http://www.health2challenge.org

Contact Jean-Luc Neptune:

jl@health2challenge.org