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:

  1. Send us a note saying you’re interested so we can get you on the list-serves.
  2. Come to face to face meetings, and attend the telephone conferences.
  3. Submit your profile proposals by:
    • 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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