IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC)
The Patient Care Coordination (PCC) domain was established in 2005 to deal with integration issues that cross providers, patient problems or time. It deals with general clinical care aspects such as document exchange, order processing, and coordination with other specialty domains. PCC also addresses workflows thatare common to multiple specialty areas and the integration needs of specialty areas that do not have a separate domain within IHE.
The PCC Domain issponsored by:
- HIMSS (Health
Information Management Systems Society)
- ACP (American
College of Physicians)
IHE
Patient Care Coordination Profiles
Integration profiles defined by the
PCC Technical Committee are published in the IHE PCC Technical Framework. Brief descriptions of these
profiles are available here and more detailed summaries are available here.
How
does this process work? What's going on now?
Like other IHE domains, PCC follows an
18-month cycle as follows:
| When
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Who
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Event
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October
|
Planning Committee
|
Annual PCC Planning Meeting This is where the roadmap is updated, and
draft proposals are reviewed. The Planning Committee submits the roadmap and
proposals to the Technical Committee for review and scoping. Bring your new
ideas here (use the draft proposal template). This is where a profile is
born.
|
December
|
Technical Committee
|
Roadmap and draft proposal review
for scoping.
|
December
|
Joint Planning/Technical Committee
|
Review, Clarify, and Re-prioritize
profile proposals.
|
December
|
Planning Committee
|
Proposal edits and submission of
final profile proposal to the technical committee. Technical Committee members
then work to write profile offline.
|
May
|
Technical Committee
|
Review and Final edits to profile
"draft for public comment" and submit for review. Developers and
Planning Committee begin submitting comments.
|
June
|
Developers, Marketing, Technical,
Planning Committee
|
Educational Workshop. This is an overview of IHE. Profiles
are described to Developers and Developers are encouraged to consider
implementing new profiles.
|
July
|
Developers, Planning Committee
|
Profile draft comment period ends.
Technical Committee begins editing.
|
July
|
Developers
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Connectathon registration begins.
This is the developers intent to implement profiles.
|
August
|
Technical Committee
|
Makes final edits and publishes
"profile draft for trail implementation"
|
September
|
Developers
|
Connectathon registration ends.
|
October
|
Developers, Technical, Planning
Committee
|
HIMSS Showcase Participant Workshop. Here, Developers/Vendors that plan to show
their implementation at HIMSS learn how the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase
will work.
|
October
|
Tooling
|
Connectathon MESA tests
available.
|
December
|
Developers
|
MESA tool tests due.
|
January
|
All
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IHE North America Connectathon
|
Feburary
|
Selected Developers
|
HIMSS Interoperability Showcase
|
April
|
All
|
IHE Europe Connectathon
|
April
|
Developers
|
Comment period for "Draft for
Trial Implementation" closes.
|
July
|
Technical Committee
|
Incorporate draft for Trial
Implementation and comments into Technical Framework. Planning Committee
updates the website.
|
Note that there
are overlapping processes because profiles from the prior year are being
implemented, tested and updated while new profiles are being added.
For exact times
and dates, please see the IHE Calendar.
How
do I Participate?
As a Clinician /
Patient Advocate
Get involved in the planning committee. This is where the clinical problems are
discussed and prioritized. The planning committee is an open group and is
interested in having your input! Bring us your interoperability problems!
You can also help by participating in the annual HIMSS Interoperability Showcase
scenario definitions.
You can do this
by:
- Send us a note saying you’re interested
so we can get you on the list-serves.
- Come to face to face meetings,
and attend the telephone conferences.
- Submit your profile proposals by:
- Fill out this template.
- Submit the proposal draft to us.
- Attend the October planning meeting to help clarify
and prioritize your proposal
- Follow up by submitting a the
formal proposal
- Attend the joint planning/technical
meeting to explain your idea to the technical committee
Any additional
resources you can provide toward the problem will help prioritize getting your
proposal solidified more quickly.
As a Hospital
Administrator
In addition to getting involved in the planning committee, hold your vendor
accountable. Put a statement in your RFP that indicates you want the vendor to
support the actor in the profile you desire.
As an Implementer
Get involved in the Technical Committee to help ensure profiles
are feasible and will work for you. Implement the profile, and come
experience the Connectathon.
Other
links
Committee
Roster
To subscribe to the Google Groups for the PCC domain committees, follow the links below and apply for membership:
Committee Co-Chairs
Planning Committee: Laura Heermann-Langford, Tone Southerland
Technical Committee: Emma Jones, Denise Downing
Nursing Sub Committee: Denise Downing
email: pcc@ihe.net
Wiki
IHE Patient Care Coordination Wiki