HeD+UC+1+-+Community+of+Interest+Table

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Section Description: The Communities of Interest table/section identifies relevant stakeholders that are potentially affected by the content of the Use Case. This list may vary per Initiative, but the stakeholder definitions will be consistent throughout the S&I Framework, as defined by the Use Case Simplification Workgroup.

Click to view the list of working definitions defined by the S&I Simplification Stakeholder Sub Work Group.

Organizations that are engaged in or support the delivery of healthcare. These organizations include but are not limited to hospitals, ambulatory centers, provider practices, integrated delivery systems, preferred provider organizations, health maintenance organizations, accountable care organizations, and academic health systems. || Person who may access CDS to make personal healthcare and/or wellness decisions. || An organization that produces an EHR, EMR or PHR System that includes capabilities to access Clinical Decision Support. ||
 * ** Member of Communities of Interests ** || ** Working Definition ** ||
 * Healthcare Professionals || Healthcare providers with patient care responsibilities (including physicians, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, Physician Assistants, nurses, pharmacists, emergency care providers and other patient care personnel) who may access CDS during the course of providing care. ||
 * Provider Organizations || //1) Any supplier of a healthcare service or products; 2) Healthcare Provider - Person or organization that furnishes, bills, or is paid for healthcare in the normal course of business.//
 * Patients || //Person who is the target of healthcare activity.//
 * Health Professional Associations || Professional organizations with health professionals as members focused on a joint purpose and having similarities such as specialty, medical field. These organizations may develop the evidence based guidelines used in CDS artifact development. ||
 * Standards Organizations || Organizations whose purpose is to define, harmonize and integrate standards that will meet clinical and business needs for sharing information among organizations and for system interoperability. ||
 * Federal & State Agencies || Organizations within the federal and/or state governments that deliver, regulate or provide funding for health, healthcare and clinical or biomedical research. ||
 * Accreditation Organizations || Organizations that review healthcare professional and provider organization practice against defined standards (which may include Medicare Conditions of Participation). Examples include but are not limited to the Joint Commission, The American Osteopathic Association, Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care and Det Norske Veritas. ||
 * Healthcare Payer/Purchaser || //A third-party entity who pays for or underwrites coverage for healthcare expense.// ||
 * EHR/EMR/PHR System Vendor || //1) EHR: A longitudinal electronic record of patient health information produced by encounter in one or more care settings. 2) Vendor: A company/consortium that provides products and/or services.//
 * CDS Vendor (John Faughnan & Rob McClure) || An organization that produces Clinical Decision Support artifacts or Clinical Decision Support systems ||
 * CDS Service Provider || An organization that provides Clinical Decision Support services to EHR, EMR or PHR Systems. //This implies that these CDS services are implemented separately from the EHR/EMR/PHR System; there may be CDS services built into the functionality of an EHR/EMR/PHR System, but such a system would not interact with a CDS Service Provider.// ||
 * EHR/EMR/PHR Service Provider || An organization that operates an EHR, EMR or PHR System and manages its access to CDS artifacts and/or services. An EHR/EMR Service Provider might or might not be the Provider Organization in which the Healthcare Professional works. ||
 * Healthcare Researchers || Individuals who use healthcare information to develop the rules that are used in CDS, as well as to investigate their usage by healthcare professionals, and their effectiveness in improving individual health. ||
 * Healthcare Product and Service Companies || Organizations that provide healthcare products (disposables, devices, etc.) and services to healthcare professionals that are meant for use in healthcare procedures, //e.g medical devices.// ||
 * Pharmaceutical Companies, Medical Device Manufacturers, Ancillary Medical Service Providers (the definition seems to have gotten somewhat bigger than just pharmaceutical companies; do we need to split it up?) || Organizations that develop products (devices, medicines, services) to improve health and well-being at every stage of life that support wellness and prevention, as well as treatment and cures for diseases across a broad range of therapeutic areas. They work in partnership with everyone from patients to health care providers and payers to both government and non-government entities to ensure that people have access to treatments and quality healthcare. ||

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