Kantara HIAWG Teleconference

Date and Time

Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012
Time: 10am PST | 1pm EST | 5pm UTC | 7pm CEST

Attendees

Laurie Tull
Bob Pinheiro
Joni Brennan
Anna Ticktin
Barry Hieb
Rick Moore
Charles Ye
Dan Combs
John Fraser
Pete Palmer
Dazza Greenwood
Lara Zimberoff

ApologiesNo apologies

Agenda

Intro
1. Roll Cal
2. Approval of 3/29 Minutes
Annual Leadership Elections (Anna)
PIDS Status (Dan)
NSTIC DG Update (Joni)
IAF Education and Advocacy for Health Information Exchanges (Pete and Joni)
Informed Patient Data Matching Strategy (Rick)
Other Business
Adjourn

1. Intro

Roll Call

See above.

Minutes

Approval of 3/29 Minutes tabled until next meeting

2. Annual Leadership Elections

Anna will send open call for nomination so officinal nominations can be made on next call.

3. PIDS Status

Dan posted short form proposal for NSTIC onto HIA WG wiki. Working in various ways to promote, develop, and fund the project.

Pete: we are you at as far as recruiting people to start coding?

Dan: Haven’t started due to funding issues.

Pete: Would you consider looking for volunteers?

Dan: Absolutley. OpenHealth tools.

Barry: ^ consortium focused on open source software for healthcare. Probably the best organized open source group for healthcare specifically. PIDS project would be very much at home in that environment.

Barry: You’re essentially at the finalist stage for NSTIC?

Dan: No, we were not selected.

Rick: No update on informed patient data matching strategy.

Barry: 3 house members appear to be ready to sign “dear colleague” letter. In process of leasing the national health counsel which has 130 members. Briefing HIMSS Patient Center Payor Roundtable meeting on Monday, might be able to get some payors on board. Some progress being made, but in light of the current fragmented environment on capital hill, it’s a slow effort to get people to sign on.

Rick: Thanks Barry, helpful to know. Background: Trying to establish identifier in the market that identifies the patient.

Barry: GAO being asked to do this study. Questions are two-fold – one: cost of putting in place a national HC identifier? two: cost of NOT putting in place a national HC identifier?

Rick: This idea came up over a year ago and it’s been on a slow boat ever since. Back in Feb, I sent out the language that is in the HIMSS letter. Would anyone like to see what HIMSS posted for the GOA study? I can send that information to whoever is interested (Pete requests information).

We may also be able to reach out as a supporter of the HIMSS effort, or actually begin to reach out to our own Senators and reps and let them know that this is an issue we are concerned about.

Barry: Is Kantara a formal member of the HIMSS coalition?

Rick: We are an ancillary association to HIMSS.

Barry: Recommends reaching out to Rich Hodge about how to be recognized as an official supporter.’

Rick: Kantara helped support the HIE symposium and have done so the last three or four.

Joni: HIMSS is a non-profit organizational member for Kantara and I don’t see why Kantara couldn’t be the same for HIMSS. I just need to know who to talk to to move that forward.

Barry: The person to talk to would be Richard Hodge.

Rick: I can forward that information to Joni.

4. NSTIC DG Update

5. IAF Education and Advocacy for Health Information Exchanges

Pete: Since the last call, I’ve had a number of discussions with John and Joni about where our group can make the most impact. It seems like everything coming out of ONC from the DEA and CMS is landing on requiring or recommending level assurance 3 for interoperability. I think this is our moment to really shine and inject ourselves into all this activity. We should be in the thick of every HIE deploying on ONC’s dime.

Joni: The healthcare sector is huge and there is a lot of movement there. One of the things that I ask the HIA WG is to review the service assessment criteria, which would be a benefit to the group and the community. Another thing I would ask is for the group to really converge to assist with marketing and recruiting, etc. by getting out into the community, writing blogs, articles, etc. One of the challenges we have is that the federal government is not able to connect those dots, so we need to take that upon ourselves. The message is there, we just need to focus on getting it out. We all have a part to play, and by really getting HIA to work together and focus on this specific track, we can address the areas that the federal government cannot address for us.

Rick: have you mentioned to Joni that HIMSS does webinars with associated vendors and other organizations?

Pete: That’s a great suggestion. I’d be happy to lead a webinar if folks think I would be a good candidate to do so.

WG - Healthcare ID Assurance

HIA WG Concall 2012-04-26 Minutes