What Is PCC? Welcome! The Patient Care Coordination (PCC) domain was established in July 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 that are common to multiple specialty areas and the integration needs of specialty areas that do not have a separate domain within IHE. The PCC Domain is sponsored by: - HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society)
- ACP (American College of Physicians)
IHE Patient Care Coordination Profiles - Medical Summaries Profile defines the content and format of Discharge Summaries and Referral Notes.
- Exchange of Personal Health Record Content Profile describes the content and format of summary information extracted from a PHR system for import into an EHR system, and visa versa.
- Emergency Department Referral Profile allows clinicians to create electronic referrals to the emergency room including the nature of the current problem, past medical history, and medications. Upon arrival of the patient to the Emergency Department, the patient is identified as a referral, and the transfer document is incorporated into the EDIS. This profile builds on medical summaries by adding structures to pass data specific for ED referrals such as the estimated time of arrival and method of transport.
- Antepartum Care Summary Profile describes the content and format of summary documents used during antepartum care.
- Functional Status Assessments Profile describes the content and format of Functional Status Assessments that appear within summary documents.
- Emergency Department Encounter Summary Profile describes the content and format of records created during an emergency department visit.
- Query for Existing Data Profile allows information systems to query data repositories for clinical information on vital signs, problems, medications, immunizations, and diagnostic results.
- Antepartum Record Profile describes the content and format of the history and physical, laboratory results, and education information as well as a summary of pertinent information including allergies, problems/plans, medications, estimated due dates, and visit summary flowsheet. This is data that is relevant to the course of antenatal care.
- Care Management Profile provides a mechanism for EHR and other HIT systems to communicate information to Care Management systems in support of specialized care programs through the use of evidence based guidelines.
- Immunization Content Profile defines the content and format of immunization data.
- Cancer Registry Pathology Report Profile defines the the content used in the PCC-11 to send a completed pathology report to a Cancer Registry using an HL7 Version 2.3.1 ORU message.
You can submit your comments at the disussion forum What is planned for the future? See the roadmap How does this process work? What's going on now? Like other IHE domains, PCC follows an 18-month cycle as follows: | When | Who | Event | | November | 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 memebers 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 | 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. | Jan. 15-19, 2007 | All | IHE North America Connectathon | | Feburary | Selected Developers | HIMSS Interopability 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 overlaping 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 himss 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:
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- Fill out this template.
- Submit the propsal draft to us.
- Attend the november 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. Help make sure profiles are feasible and will work for you. Implement the profile, and come experience the Connectathon. Other links Presentations Referenced standards Committee Roster To subscribe to the listserves for the PCC, click on the link below and send the message with subscribe in the subject line to the desired list: | Name | Company | | Jamey Aita | MedcomSoft Inc. | | Mureen Allen | American College of Physicians | | Liora Alschuler | HL7 Board of Directors, CDA Co-editor | | Landen Bain | Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, Inc. CDISC | | Robert Barker | NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. | | Michael Barr, MD/MBA | American College of Physicians | | Bruce Bergendahl | Camtronics Medical Systems | | Tyler Blitz | Kryptiq Corporation | | Keith Boone | GE Healthcare | | Fco. Javier Broullón Molanes | Complexo Hospitalario Universitario Juan Canalejo | | Michael Burger | WebMD Practice Services | | Phil Businger | MEDITECH | | Bobbi Byrne, MD, MBA | Eclipsys Corporation - The Outcomes Company | | Rick Case | MediNotes Corporation | | Jim Cato | Eclipsys Corporation | | David S. Channin, MD | Northwestern UniversityThe Feinberg School of Medicine | | Jim Cincotta | GE Healthcare | | George Cole | Allscripts | | Sarah Corley, MD | American College of Physicians | | Tanmay Date | Epic Systems Corporation | | Didi Davis | HIMSS Staff | | Lyman Dennis | Partnership HealthPlan of California | | Darby K. Dennis RN, MS | St. Rita's Medical Center | | Peter DeVault | Epic Systems Corporation | | John Epler | Picis | | Marc Erickson | Communications and Media Arts | | J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., FACMI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | | Shirley Garcia | Misys Healthcare Systems | | Jack Harrington | Healthcare Professional Services, Philips Medical Systems | | Robert Haskell | Siemens - Medical Solutions - Health Services | | Davin Hills | MediNotes Corporation | | Barbara Hobbs | MEDITECH | | Sandra Hubbell, RPh | Noteworthy Medical Systems, Inc | | Beth Hurter | CapMed, A Division of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. | | Sookyung Hyun, RN, MS | Columbia University, School of Nursing | | Alexis Jacobs, RN, BSN, PHN | St. John's Health Center, Oncology Unit | | V. "Juggy" Jagannathan, PhD* | Assoc Prof, West Virginia University | | Michael G. Kahn, MD, PhD | GE Healthcare | | Angelo Kastroulis | XPress Technologies | | Susan Kerwin RN/MBA PMP | Technology Consultant | | Stephen Klugherz | Hill-Rom, A Hillenbrand Industry | | Debra J. Konicek, RN, MSN, BC | SNOMED® International | | Thomson Kuhn | American College of Physicians | | Ed Larsen | E.R. Larsen, Inc. | | Kent Locklear, MD/MBA | Siemens - Medical Solutions - Health Services | | Marion Lyver, MD | SSHA | | Guy Mansfield, PhD | IDX Carecast Division | | Rebecca Marshall, CPHIT, CPEHR | AAP Division of Health Care Finance and Practice | | Stephen Marth | Allscripts Healthcare Solutions | | Adrian Maull | XPress Technologies | | John May | Misys Healthcare Systems | | John McDermid | AGFA | | Clement McDonald, MD | Regenstrief Institute | | Larry McKnight, MD | Siemens - Medical Solutions - Health Services | | LaVerne Palmer | HIMSS Staff | | Charles Parisot | GE Healthcare Information Technologies | | Guy Paterson | ISIS Health Informatics Resource Group, Inc. | | Monte Prentice | Healthcare Informatics Associates, Inc. (HIA) | | Urvi Randhar | MEDHOST Inc. | | Wes Rishel | The Gartner Group | | Eric Rock | MEDHOST Inc. | | Dick Roskam, MD MBA | Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, Inc. | | Todd Rothenhaus, MD | a) American College of Emergency Physicians b) Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine | | Dan Russler, MD | Oracle | | Sandy Segeren | MedcomSoft | | Joyce Sensmeier | HIMSS Staff | | Khiang Seow | Epic Systems Corporation | | Tom Stevenson, DO | Misys Healthcare Systems | | Michelle Troseth | CPMRC - Grand Rapids | | Charlene Underwood | Siemens - Medical Solutions - Health Services | | Marcia Veenstra | Eclipsys Corporation | | James M. Walker, MD | Geisinger Health System | | Elizabeth West | Misys Healthcare Systems | | Pat Wise | HIMSS Staff | | Hugh Zettel | GE Healthcare |
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