LTPAC+Care+Transitions+SWG+MM+2011-12-12

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**Meeting Agenda:**

 * **Topic** || **Time Allotted** ||
 * Introductions || 10 mins ||
 * Sub-Workgroup Background and Goals || 20 mins ||
 * Transitions of Care Use Case || 30 mins ||

Attendance
Larry Garber, Terry O'Malley, Paul Burnstein, Jim Logan, Meredith Lewis, Robin Barnes, Terri Peterson, Kory Mertz, Kris Cyr, Larry Wolf, Sue Mitchell, Gail Inderwies, Jim Brennan

Action Items

 * **#** || **Action** || **Owner** || **Status** || **Due Date** ||
 * 1 || Become a "committed member of the LTPAC Care Transitions SWG || All || In Progress || 12/19/11 ||
 * 2 || Review and Edit the Sub-Workgroup Charter on the Wiki || All || In Progress || 12/19/11 ||
 * 3 || Begin Use Case Development || All || In Progress || ??? ||
 * 4 || Refer new members to the SWG || All || In Progress || On-going ||
 * 5 || Develop Agenda for the next meeting || Larry, Terry || In Progress || 12/16/11 ||

Meeting Notes

 * LTPAC Care Transitions SWG Background and Goals**
 * Key Discussion Points:**
 * The LCC LTPAC project grew out of the nationwide initiative for Meaningful Use and Health Information Exchange (HIE).
 * Massachusetts has been involved in a project called Improving Massachusetts Post-Acute Care Transfers (IMPACT) that will help inform some of the products of the LTPAC Care Transitions Sub-Workgroup.
 * The goal of the Sub-Workgroup is to contribute to national standards for Health Information Exchange, focusing on patient transitions among Acute and Long Term Post Acute Care (LTPAC), in time for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use.
 * Required data elements for LTPAC are not necessarily the same as those required by Primary Care Providers or Acute Care facilities or patients.
 * The vision for the LTPAC Care Transitions SWG is to expand beyond transitions __between__ LTPAC organizations, to include transitions of care to and from hospitals and other types of providers as well as communication to the patient, i.e. __Longitudinal__ Care Coordination

**Key Discussion Points:**

 * A proposal was made that the first step for the SWG is to develop a use case.
 * Kris Cyr discussed a high level use case that his group is working on that includes some provider-to-provider and provider-to-patient scenarios.
 * What are the core data elements and additional data elements that are important for LTPAC?
 * Resolutions:**
 * The process to develop a use case for LTPAC should include:
 * Consideration of the desired outcomes/results of the use case.
 * Consideration of the inputs (data elements) necessary to achieve the desired outcomes.
 * Review the existing use case on the SWG Wiki.
 * Gap analysis to determine what needs to added to the existing use case.

Next Steps

 * See Action Items above.
 * Future meetings of the Sub-Workgroup will be every Monday from Noon - 1:00 pm (ET)
 * Next meeting on December 19 at Noon (ET).

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