Thank You

• The PSE/AE SWG has completed their initial goals and is now closed, with no regular meetings taking place. We will reconvene as a group on an as-needed basis.

Announcements

• SDC Pilots: Pilot activities have been transitioned to the SDC All Hands Meetings. For those of you who are interested in or have committed to participating in an SDC Pilot, please take a look at our SDC Pilots Planning Document (bookmark it at http://bit.ly/SDCPilots). For anyone who has issues accessing google docs, here is a downloadable MS Word version.
• PSE/AE Workflows: The workflow to IG mapping document is available here: SOAP/SAML Technical Mapping (updated 5/30/14) (Follow link for downloads and feedback form.)

Weekly Meetings

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Patient Safety Event / Adverse Event SWG Charter

Goal

The goal of this workgroup is to validate, test and and pilot the SDC interoperability standards identified to date that specify how electronic health records (EHRs) can capture and transmit structured data for PSE and AE reporting.

Objective

Our objective is to identify organization to pilot test the SDC standards, the PSE/AE SWG will focus on achieving the following activities:

• Identification of Common Data Elements (CDEs) and associated value sets, leveraging AHRQ Common Formats, that can be used for PSE and AE reporting from EHRs
• Identification of structured forms/templates these CDEs will populate, leveraging AHRQ Common Formats and FDA Form 3500/3500a
• Development of PSE and AE Reporting end-to-end workflow (from EHR system to AHRQ Repository and from EHR system to FDA Repository)

Value Statement for Participating Entities

This SDC initiative and associated pilot projects will lead the national vision to design the trusted mechanisms to enable patient information to flow securely from the system it was collected—the EHR—to other systems, such as patient safety incident reporting systems, with an authorized use for it. The pilots will also inform upcoming Meaningful Use and EHR Certification Criteria. The piloting of standards for structured data capture within EHRs will not only help achieve this vision, but at a practical level will also help reduce the:

• Time to complete patient safety and adverse event reports by enabling auto population of key fields found in EHR data
• Data collection burden on health care providers by integration of the PSE and AE workflows.

Benefits of Participation as an SDC Pilot Site

The S&I Steering Team is seeking broad participation—by providers, HIT vendors (both EHR and patient safety/adverse event reporting software vendors), patient safety organizations (PSOs), States and other interested parties—in SDC pilots. SDC pilot participants could realize several benefits, including but not limited to:

• Ability to leverage initiative resources. Build on the expertise, tools and any open-source code developed through the SDC PSE/AE SWG to create a better, faster, and higher quality implementation.
• Gain early insights and test EHR functions that are being considered for future certification criteria. Participants in the SDC pilots will gain knowledge and experience that will facilitate early adoption of potential future required functions.
• Contribute to the community. Each pilot has a high profile among government agencies, ONC grantees, and within the community of volunteers that support the Nationwide Health Information Network.
• Be recognized as an early adopter. Use participation in this important national initiative to heighten your organization’s name recognition.

Initiative Contacts