Workshop Documents

Workshop Presentations

See this page for a complete agenda for the upcoming Provider Directory Workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 5 and 6, 2016. Workshop slide presentations and recordings are available below.

Day 1

• Welcome, Daniel Chaput, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (slides) (recording)
• Charge from ONC and FHA, Steve Posnack, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (slides) (recording)
• Opening Remarks, Rim Cothren, Contractor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (recording)

• Flat File Directory for Direct Addresses and State-level Provider Directory, Britteny Matero and Karen Hale, CareAccord and Oregon Health Authority (slides) (recording)

• Rhode Island Provider Directory Project: Creating a Centralized, Statewide Provider Directory, Amy Zimmerman and Elaine Fontaine, Executive Office of Health and Human Services and Rhode Island Quality Institute (slides) (recording)

• Provider Information as a Component of Trust: California's Directory Services, Robert Cothren, California Association of Health Information Exchanges (slides) (recording)

• The Evolution of Provider Directories: What We've Learned and Where We're Going, Jeff Livesay, Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (slides) (recording)

• Provider Data Accuracy Post-ACA: The Challenges and Opportunities, Sarah Summer, Blue Shield of California (slides) (recording)

• Provider Data: A Fundamental Need for Collaboration, Atul Pathiyal, CAQH (slides) (recording)

• An Overview and Learnings from the DirectTrust Provider Directory Aggregation Service, David Kibbe, DirectTrust (slides) (recording)

• Provider Directories: A Strategic Priority, Eric Heflin, The Sequoia Project and THSA (slides) (recording)

• Provider Directories and Social Security Disability, Marty Prahl, Social Security Administration (slides) (no audio/video recording available)
• Provider Directory Prototype, Vanitha Khetan and Peter Krautscheid, The MITRE Corporation (slides) (recording)
• Modernizing NPPES, Richard Gilbert, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (slides) (recording)

• Journey through the Past: A Review of ONC and FACA Provider Directory Activities, Micky Tripathi, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (slides) (recording)

• Overview of S&I Work on Provider Directory, Bob Dieterle, EnableCare, LLC (slides) (recording)

• Overview of FHA Partner Requirements and Priorities for Healthcare Directory, Bob Dieterle, EnableCare, LLC (slides) (recording)

• Provider Directory Resource Requirements for the EHR|HIE Interoperability Work Group and ConCert by HIMSS, John Donnelly, IntePro Solutions (slides) (recording)

• Group Exercise, Rim Cothren, Contractor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (recording)

• Lessons Learned: Use of the UDDI and HPD Directory Standards, Eric Heflin, The Sequoia Project and THSA (slides) (recording)

• HL7 FHIR and Service Provider Directories, Brian Postlethwaite, Telstra Health (slides) (recording)
  
• Demonstration, Alan Viars, Validity (recording)

• Closing Remarks, Rim Cothren, Contractor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (recording)

• Draft transcript for Day 1

Day 2

• Group Discussion part 1 (recording)
• Group Discussion part 2 (recording)
• Group Discussion part 3 (recording)

• Draft transcript for Day 2

Example Implementations

These project-specific implementations are for information sharing and discussion. If you have an implementation you would like to share, please contact Daniel Chaput via email at daniel.chaput@hhs.gov for consideration.

California Association of Health Information Exchanges

• Governance Policy for Federated Provider Directory Services
• Minimum Dataset for Directory Services based on HPD v1.5

Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services

• Michigan Statewide Health Provider and Consumer Directory FHIR APIs, a RESTful API to the the Statewide Health Provider Directory based on a subset of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard terminology and semantics