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Relevant and Pertinent Project
Keith Boone, GE Healthcare
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What would you do with a 69 page C-CDA?
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Nothing?
Throw it away?
Refuse to accept?
– OR –
Incorporate it into your
EHR?
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Too much data is almost as bad as none
(or possibly worse, from the medicolegal perspective).
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Cognitive Overload
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How could I possibly tell what is
the most important?
How can I find what I care about?
What is my liability if I miss
something?
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Relevant and Pertinent Defined
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Relevant
adjective
1. bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent: a relevant
remark.
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Pertinent
adjective
1. pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand;
relevant: pertinent details.
Source: Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.com
(accessed: May 27, 2015).
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These words define the CCD use case.
The CCD is a core data set of the most
relevant administrative, demographic, and
clinical information facts about a patient's
healthcare, covering one or more healthcare
encounters. It provides a means for one
healthcare practitioner, system, or setting to
aggregate all of the pertinent data about a
patient and forward it to another practitioner,
system, or setting to support the continuity of
care.
Page 84, HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA R2: IHE Health Story Consolidation,
DSTU R1.1
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They also appear in other document types
and sections
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The Discharge Summary is a document that is a synopsis of a patient's
admission to a hospital; it provides pertinent information for the continuation
of care following discharge.
The Problems section lists and describes all relevant clinical problems at
the time the document is generated. At a minimum, all pertinent current and
historical problems should be listed.
The Medications section defines a patient's current medications and
pertinent medication history.
At a minimum, it should list currently active and any relevant historical
allergies and adverse reactions.
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ONC rule does allow flexibility
170.314(b)(2) Transitions of care—create and transmit transition of care/referral
summaries. (i) Create. Enable a user to electronically create a transition of care/referral
summary formatted according to the standard adopted at §170.205(a)(3) that includes, at
a minimum, the Common MU Data Set and the following data expressed, where
applicable, according to the specified standard(s):
(A) Encounter diagnoses. The standard specified in §170.207(i) or, at a minimum, the
version of the standard specified §170.207(a)(3);
(B) Immunizations. The standard specified in §170.207(e)(2);
(C) Cognitive status;
(D) Functional status; and
(E) Ambulatory setting only. The reason for referral; and referring or transitioning provider's
name and office contact information.
(F) Inpatient setting only. Discharge instructions.
When is a Data Element Applicable?
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Especially in the Ambulatory Setting
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170.314(e)(2) Ambulatory setting only—clinical summary. (i) Create. Enable a user to create a
clinical summary for a patient in human readable format and formatted according to the standards
adopted at §170.205(a)(3).
(ii) Customization. Enable a user to customize the data included in the clinical summary.
(iii) Minimum data from which to select. EHR technology must permit a user to select, at a minimum,
the following data when creating a clinical summary:
(A) Common MU Data Set (which, for the human readable version, should be in their English
representation if they associate with a vocabulary/code set)
(B) The provider's name and office contact information; date and location of visit; reason for visit;
immunizations and/or medications administered during the visit; diagnostic tests pending; clinical
instructions; future appointments; referrals to other providers; future scheduled tests; and
recommended patient decision aids.
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CMS uses Relevant and Pertinent in the EHR
Incentive Rule
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For summary of care documents at transitions of care, we encourage
providers to send a list of items that he or she believes to be
pertinent and relevant to the patient's care, rather than a list of all
problems, whether they are active or resolved, that have ever
populated the problem list. While a current problem list should always
be included, the provider can use his or her judgment in deciding
which items historically present on the problem list, PMHx list (if it
exists in CEHRT), or surgical history list are included given the clinical
circumstances.
This same principle presumably applies to other data.
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Real-world Experience with C-CDA
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Despite the flexibility referenced in the rules, sites and
providers report high variability in the method of selecting
content to transmit
Many files contain literally every piece of data recorded
that pertains to the patient (hundreds of pages)
Some sites filter and others don’t
Some sites reject files due to size or medicolegal
concerns
Some sites print out C-CDA files and deliver on paper
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What’s “relevant and pertinent”?
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Providers should provide the guidance to improve
and streamline the specification, its guidance,
and use
HL7 and HHS agencies want to reduce
complexity and improve successful exchange
We need your help to determine what the
requirements are for ideal summaries of care
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