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HL7 Making Progress on ONC Grant Projects • September 2016
The following deliverables have been completed:
• Created a Common Clinical Data Set
(CCDS) requirements mapping spreadsheet
from the 2015 certification rule to the
appropriate C-CDA location
• Created a Meaningful Use (MU) mapping for
additional data specified for: CCD, Discharge
Summary, Referral Note, and Care Plan
• Created a draft version of the C-CDA R2.1
Companion Guide which is currently available
to the public through the HL7 Wiki. A
webinar was conducted to advise the industry
of its availability and review its content
• The C-CDA R2.1 Companion Guide was
balloted in the September 2016 ballot cycle;
reconciliation will occur for the coming
weeks and then it will be published
HL7 Wiki pages have been created to
store documents and deliverables for
the above components of the grant
project. The pages are accessible a
couple of ways — via the Structured
Documents Work Group wiki page
or under the projects listed on the
HL7 Wiki main page. The URL is:
http://wiki.hl7.org/index.
php?title=C-CDA:_Enhancing_
Implementation_(ONC_Grant_Project)
The C-CDA Rendering Tool Challenge
The next component of the grant supported a
challenge to improve C-CDA rendering tools.
The objective of the tool is to reduce frustration
by clinicians with the usability of C-CDA
documents, make it easier to find relevant clinical
information, and decrease the overabundance of
rendered data sent to providers. The challenge to
participants was to develop a viewer that enables
clinicians to efficiently review clinically relevant
patient data from C-CDA documents by:
• Presenting requested data quickly and clearly
• Providing section based view preferences
• Providing filter and sorting functions
• Being easy to use
Evaluating and judging was conducted in June
and July. The first prize winner, Bryn Lewis, PhD,
is featured in an article on page 21. The winners
will be recognized at HL7’s 30th Annual Plenary &
Working Group Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
The ONC allocated $20,000 of the grant funds to
the winning entries and the entries will be made
freely available on the HL7 website for use.
The C-CDA Scoring Methodology
The focus of the C-CDA scoring methodology
component is to create a methodology, approach and
requirements with the ultimate goal of creating a tool
to score C-CDAs that have been created or received.
Thanks to Calvin Beebe who extracted the rubrics that
were used to create the SMART C-CDA Scorecard
tool. The Structured Documents Work Group
reviewed the data and it was ultimately provided
to the ONC for the development of their tool.
Upcoming Project Elements
The final components of the cooperative projects are
still in their infancy. Work on extending/modifying
C-CDA template samples to address inconsistencies
identified by the surveys and implementation-A-
Thons will ramp up soon. Additionally, funds have
been allocated to enhance or upgrade the platform
where these sample templates reside. Currently,
they are located on the HL7 Wiki at: http://wiki.hl7.
org/index.php?title=CDA_Example_Task_Force.
The last element of the grant project is to
update the C-CDA FAQs and articles on the
HL7 Help Desk. Work on this can begin as
the other components draw to a close.
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