OSEHRA Interoperability Work Group (OSEHRA IWG)

April 29, 2014

Mario G. HylandChair and Senior Vice PresidentAEGIS.net, Inc. @Interopguy

• Previous Meetings– (Launch) Monday, December 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM (EST)– Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM (EST)– Monday, March 24, 2014 at 2:30 PM (EST)

• Next Meeting: – May 2014

• WebEx Participation:  https://osehra.webex.com/osehra/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=668350106

• Dial-In: 1-650-479-3207; – Access Code: 668 350 106 

Logistics

• Roll Call• Tracking Progress & Issues• Today’s Topic: Who are we Aligning With?• Next Meeting Topic• Supporting Infrastructure

AGENDA

• Overview & Governance• Define Interoperability• What We Delivering

• 4th Meeting – Who can we Align with?

Tracking Progress & Issues

• Interoperability Issues we would like to collaborate about:– Security Interoperability– Transport Interoperability– Syntactic Interoperability– Semantic Interoperability– Vocabulary and Value Sets– Versioning (any and all of the above)

Interoperability issues

• As a convener of Interoperability issues– Invite Industry leaders in addressing Interoperability Challenges. – OSEHRA Interoperability Work Group members

• Potential Organizations we could align with– IEEE (Alpesh Shah, Director, Business Strategy & Analytics)– ANSI (Joe Bhatia, CEO)– ONC (Julia Skapik, MD, MPH Medical Officer)– HL7 (Charles Jaffe, CEO)– IHE– HIMSS– OASIS– NIST (Adam Sedgewick, Federal IT Policy)– NYeC (IWG) (John Donnelly)– ASTM, FHA, VA Interoperability

Who can we Aligning With

OUTCOMES or when “Action turns into Results”

• Publish White Papers– User Experiences, Approaches, and Integration of Standards and

Technical Challenges

• Industry conference and panel participation

• Align to other (OSEHRA) Work Groups/Projects• Develop Tools, Standardized Data Sets and a National Test Lab

– The AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL) Project– Support OHT efforts to Standardize National Test Patients – Support VistA Evolution and other SOA architectures Test

Interoperability

How can we Align With Others

• A Collection of our thought process to support and ensure Interoperability– Improve User Experiences, – Share our Collective Approaches and Successes, – Integration of Standards, – and Technical Challenges

• “Being ahead of a curveball”– How do we find Interoperability issues earlier in our

processes?

• “Lessons Learned”– What Interoperability challenges have we

experienced and wish to share with others?

Publish White Papers

• April 2014 – ANSI Member Forum Meeting, San Diego, CA– Topic Session Interoperability, Panelist Mario Hyland

• May 2014 – HL7 Work Group, Phoenix, AZ (Attend: AEGIS, P Systems)

• May 2014 – DoD / VA EHR and HIT Summit (Attend: AEGIS)

Opportunities to Promote the OSEHRA IWG Work Group

Industry conference participation

• AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL)– Test Platform to demonstrate

Interoperability issues when identified– Support efforts to Standardize National

Test Patients– Potential SOA Testing for VistA Evolution

National Test Lab

Interested Participants

• How do I join OSEHRA and the OSEHRA IWG?

• To join the IWG community– http://www.osehra.org/content/interoperability-work-group

• To join OSEHRA as an Associate Member– https://www.osehra.org/index.php?q=civicrm/contribute/transact&reset

=1&id=3

• Annual Dues: None• Benefits:

– Interact with the community via the OSEHRA website.– Participate in discussion groups and working groups.

Supporting Infrastructure

Contacts:

Mario G. Hyland Barry DickmanChair & Senior Vice President IWG SupportAEGIS.net, Inc. AEGIS.net, Inc. 703-893-6020 x 707 703-893-6020 x379301-529-5466 Mobile 703-980-6780 Mobilemario.hyland@aegis.net barry.dickman@aegis.net @Interopguy

Elizabeth BadtOSEHRAExecutive Assistant571-858-3381badte@osehra.org

Resource:

OSEHRA IWG Websitehttp://www.osehra.org/content/interoperability-work-group