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How to specify route for Medication Dispensed in QRDA Category I?

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      There are several cases where a QRDA template, having been derived from a C-CDA template, has vocabulary constraints that conflict with the value sets used in eMeasures: gender, discharge disposition, route code, etc. Below are the resolutions for resolving this issue of conflicting vocabulary constraints:

      1) Short-term: relax the validation to allow for SNOMED route codes; provide guidance to implementers that SNOMED route codes will be accepted.

      2) Intermediate-term: work with NLM/VSAC to support measure developers creating value sets that align with approved vocabulary recommendations.

      3) Longer-term: QRDA templates inherit from C-CDA templates, and therefore adhere to C-CDA vocabulary recommendations. eCQMs adhere to HITSC vocabulary recommendations. In a few cases, the recommendations haven’t aligned. The longer-term suggestion was to invite HL7 into the LEAN process to help identify the reason for these mismatches and to collaborate on a “single source of truth” solution.

      We are currently working to create a stakeholder group that would respond to and follow HL7 errata and DSTU, update Implementation Guides, and unite all of these related issues in one location.
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      There are several cases where a QRDA template, having been derived from a C-CDA template, has vocabulary constraints that conflict with the value sets used in eMeasures: gender, discharge disposition, route code, etc. Below are the resolutions for resolving this issue of conflicting vocabulary constraints: 1) Short-term: relax the validation to allow for SNOMED route codes; provide guidance to implementers that SNOMED route codes will be accepted. 2) Intermediate-term: work with NLM/VSAC to support measure developers creating value sets that align with approved vocabulary recommendations. 3) Longer-term: QRDA templates inherit from C-CDA templates, and therefore adhere to C-CDA vocabulary recommendations. eCQMs adhere to HITSC vocabulary recommendations. In a few cases, the recommendations haven’t aligned. The longer-term suggestion was to invite HL7 into the LEAN process to help identify the reason for these mismatches and to collaborate on a “single source of truth” solution. We are currently working to create a stakeholder group that would respond to and follow HL7 errata and DSTU, update Implementation Guides, and unite all of these related issues in one location.

      The QDM defines the route attribute for all Medication datatypes and all Substance datatypes. But the QRDA Category I template for Medication Dispensed (2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.24.3.45) is based on the Supply type and, unlike the SubstanceAdministration type, Supply does not support a routeCode element. It is therefore not clear how route can be specified in a Medication Dispensed entry. Please advise.

            j44y carol (Inactive)
            jon.salmon Jon Salmon (Inactive)
            Robert Dingwell (Inactive), Yan Heras
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