The Sequoia Project’s Data Usability Workgroup Releases Implementation Guide Draft Version 2.0 for Public Feedback
23 Julio 2024 - 1:13PM
The Sequoia Project, a non-profit and trusted advocate for
nationwide health information exchange, today announced the release
of the draft Data Usability Workgroup Implementation Guide, Version
2 and is seeking public feedback through Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.
The implementation guide covers the identified priority use
cases that can be readily adopted within health information
exchange vendors, implementers, networks, governance frameworks,
and testing programs. Some key changes in this version include:
- Added guidance for
receiving systems in addition to sending systems
- Advancing the
baseline requirements from USCDI V1 (Problem, Allergy, Medications,
Immunizations ONLY) to all data classes within USCDI V3
- Expanded guidance to
be technology agnostic with added requirements for HL7® FHIR®, HL7
v2.x and HL7 C-CDA across the topic categories
- Added an additional
topic category for laboratory
“We value the leadership from our co-chairs and the input
received from the workgroup members and Laboratory Tiger Team that
informed the edits and additions to this second public comment
version of the implementation guide,” said Didi Davis, vice
president of Informatics, Conformance & Interoperability of The
Sequoia Project. “Laboratory guidance is the most significant
addition to this implementation guide that expands requirements for
all the topic categories that will help enable improvements to the
usability of data exchanged today to benefit the public good.”
The Data Usability Workgroup (DUWG), which is part of The
Sequoia Project’s Interoperability Matters initiative, was launched
in October 2020 to develop specific and pragmatic implementation
guidance on clinical content for healthcare stakeholders to
facilitate health information exchange. Stakeholders from all
healthcare and interoperability industries participate in the DUWG
to ensure the development of comprehensive and inclusive guidance
that will improve usability of data among healthcare communities
and networks. The first version of the implementation guide was
published in December of 2022 after collecting public feedback.
“A lot of hard work and collaboration went into the updates made
in the new version of the implementation guide, and we look forward
to the feedback from industry colleagues and the public,” said
William Gregg, MD, vice president, clinical data and
interoperability, at HCA Healthcare and co-chair of the Data
Usability Workgroup.
“The Data Usability Workgroup has been working tirelessly to
continue to improve the implementation guide and continue to
identify and solve barriers to improving data usability,” said Adam
Davis, MD, physician informaticist at Sutter Health and co-chair of
Data Usability Workgroup. We are thrilled to be moving forward to
the next level.”
The draft Data Usability Workgroup Implementation Guide Version
2.0 is developed in coordination with related standards development
organizations and industry initiatives, including the Data
Usability Taking Root Movement Implementers and Supporters focused
on deploying Version 1.0 guidance in the real world. The DUWG is
seeking feedback from the public on this guide through Friday, Aug.
23, 2024. You can view the implementation guide and submit feedback
via the online form here.
Learn more about the DUWG and other Interoperability Matters
workgroups
at https://sequoiaproject.org/interoperability-matters/.
About The Sequoia Project The Sequoia
Project is a non-profit, 501c3, public-private collaborative
chartered to advance implementation of secure, interoperable
nationwide health information exchange. The Sequoia Project focuses
on solving real-world interoperability challenges and brings
together public and private stakeholders in forums, such as the
Interoperability Matters cooperative, to overcome barriers. The
Sequoia Project is the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) for the
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Trusted Exchange
Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), for which it will develop,
implement and maintain TEFCA’s Common Agreement component and
operationalize the Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN)
designation and monitoring process. For more information about The
Sequoia Project and its initiatives,
visit www.sequoiaproject.org. Follow The Sequoia Project
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