CDA+-+Workgroups+&+Project+Support

Background
The Consolidation Project was presented to ONC as an initiative in which Health Story, IHE and HL7 were collaborating to harmonize CDA Header and Templates across the Health Story guides. Those organizations’ goal was to publish a single Draft Standards for Trial Use (DSTU) which would serve as a single source of truth for Header and Templates. For more background please review the [|CDA Consolidation Project Charter].

**Scope of ONC support within the Consolidation Project**
In addition to ‘housing’ the Consolidation Project within the S&I Framework, ONC is lending contractor support to supplement volunteer efforts in several areas.
 * 1) Harmonization of the CDA components associated with Meaningful Use Stage 1 to be followed with the remainder of C32 Content Modules
 * 2) Model Driven Health Tools (MDHT) Proof of Concept
 * 3) A strategy to bridge gaps between Standards Final rule requirements and the improvements to CCD that will result from this project

Workgroups
In light of the S&I Framework’s open and volunteer-driven processes, the Consolidation Project will be organized into a set of workgroups. The following workgroups reflect the initial distribution of responsibilities suggested by initiative coordinators. Your feedback is strongly encouraged! These workgroups may divide into a series of sub-groups. For example, the **Harmonization WG** initially concentrated on the Header consolidation to establish the basis for future consolidation. Moving forward, this WG may self-divide into “Section” and “Entry” sub-groups, which report back to the greater WG.
 * **Workgroup** || **Workgroup Lead(s)** || **Description** ||
 * Harmonization || //Brett Marquard// || The purpose of the Harmonization Workgroup is identification, analysis and harmonization of CDA Header, Section and Entry issues. ||
 * Documentation || //Keith Boone & Pete Gilbert// || The purpose of the Documentation Workgroup includes publication of DSTU and strategy for impact on HITSP documents. ||
 * Validation || //TBD// || The purpose of the Validation Workgroup is the development of conformance testing and validation tools. ||

Model-Driven Health Tools (MDHT)
The S&I Framework is instituting UML as the basis for a shift toward model based HIT standards and specifications. ONC sees MDHT as a key enabler, and seeks to get an accurate assessment of its current state and future potential. Therefore, it has been understood that MDHT would be central to the Consolidation Project, serving to capture the harmonized Templates in UML and to produce an implementation guide which expands on those demonstrated at HL7 on Cambridge. ONC seeks to evaluate a snap shot of MDHT’s progress and potential at the end of March. ONC has committed to VLER that it will lend resources to MDHT and to the Consolidation Project to harmonize the components of the C32 ‘stack’, produce an implementation guide, and provide VLER implementers with the capability to test and validate C32 instances.

Project Support
//The activities of the work groups will be supported as follows://
 * === Activity === || === Point of Contact . === || === Activity === || === Point of Contact .  === ||
 * **Project Co-Facilitator** || Liora Alschuler || **Vocabulary Facilitator** || Rob Hausam ||
 * **Project Co-Facilitator** || Dave Carlson || **Domain Expert Representative** || Larry McKnight ||
 * **Administration/Project Support . ** || Jillian Wanner || **Data Analyst Facilitator** || Gay Giannone ||
 * **Wiki Support** || Jas Singh || **Business Requirement Analyst** || Brett Marquard ||
 * **Documentation** || Kate Hamilton || **IHE Infrastructure Technical Framework** || Mike Nusbaum ||
 * **Template Tools** || Rick Geimer || **IHE Patient Care Coordination** || Keith Boone ||
 * **Outreach** || Bob Yencha || **IHE Radiology/Cardiology/DICOM** || Harry Solomon ||
 * **Modeling Facilitator** || Austin Kreisler || **IHE General/Other domains** || John Donnelly ||
 * **Senior SME** || Bob Dolin || **Health Story Implementation Guides** || Joy Kuhl ||
 * **Publishing Facilitator** || Peter Gilbert || **IHE Quality, Research, and Public Health . ** || Didi Davis ||