Technical Interoperability

Technical Interoperability and interfaces

The chellenges of the workgroup Technical Interoperability and Interfaces is :

• to define and promote a set of standards that will facilitate data exchanges and communication between actors and institutions of the health sector,
• to define technical choices to assure data exchanges and interaction with the future Luxembourgian Electronic Health Record System (working title: LEHR-S).
• to define how LEHR-S will capture data extracts and doctoral summaries from institutional systems – for example from Clinical Information Systems.

1. A common and shared understanding of technical standards definition in the healthcare sector,
2. An overview of standards and nomenclatures already used in hospitals and institutions, for example for data exchange of laboratory (Labo) and cardiology data (Cara)
3. A priority setting of future standards and nomenclatures to be used in Luxembourg
4. An overview of standards and nomenclatures to be used between primary systems and LEHR-S
5. Creation of a document (guidelines, white book) to be proposed to the CISIS (Commission pour l'interopérabilité des systèmes d'information de santé) for validationPromotion of the validated results for every institutions.

Stefan Benzschawel (Stefan.benzschawel@tudor.lu)
Jean-Charles DRON (Jean.charles.dron@lu.pwc.com)

1. Present the LEHR-S idea and the standards document. 2. Organize the workgroup as seminary where each member of the working group will contribute with one or more active seminar-talks. 3. Use the expertise of the working group members as valuable input for eSanté work. 4. Reflect eSanté results and propositions and ask for verbal feedback in the group meetings and for a written feedback of the contributor to be published.

The members of the workgroups will overtake special tasks. For example if they are collaborators of a hospital they may provide a small report describing which standards are already in use in hospitals and which are in the pipeline for the near future.

Further we like to discuss pros and cons of using IHE profile definitions. Therefore the workgroup will divide up some analysis tasks on IHE profiles, where the members of the WG will prepare special themes and present their knowledge to the WG.

The first meeting agenda The first meeting consists of 3 main points:

1. Feedback on the delivered standards study. Feedback should be expressed verbally in the WG and afterwards within one week delay in a written form to all participants. The final versions of each feedback document will be added as direct comments as attachments into the next version of the study work. (Only substantial feedback will be used. Feedback of the form that time to read was to short will not be added to the study.) 2. Brainstorming session to generate a list of tasks where the workgroup wants to work on. Examples: How is the situation in other countries? Which IHE profiles are of main interests? What is the current status of the HL7 PHR working group? 3. The themes are given to dedicated members of the working group to work on those topics and give an overview (expose) for the group during the next meetings.

The first meeting will be planed for 2nd half of November 2009. The invitations will be send in the 2nd half of October with 3 weeks before the meeting.

Deadlines : For each decision (as far as possible) to take I will prepare a proposed decision as default. The default automatically turns to an final decision within a defined period in case of lack of contra indicated feedback. The time period will be individual for each decision depending on the urgency. The time period for validation will be given with the announcement of the default decision proposal, respectively.

Study on standards in healthcare system communication