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EU-US eHealth/Health IT Cooperation InitiativeWorkforce Development

Work Group

January 30, 2014

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Agenda

Topic Time Allotted General Announcements 5 minutesBrief Recap of Methodology 10 minutesWorking Session: Review Baseline Competencies 40 minutes

Next Steps/Questions 5 minutes

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Meeting Times

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Washington, DC

10:00am (ET)London

3:00pm/15:00 (GMT)Germany

4:00pm/16:00 (CET)Athens

5:00pm/ 17:00 (EET)

Workforce Development Work Group meets every

Thursday

General Announcements• To join our weekly webinars, visit the EU-US eHealth

Collaboration Wiki Homepage for the latest meeting information: http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+eHealth+Cooperation+Initiative

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Date Inputs Discussion Outputs8/14/13   • Launch of the Workgroup9/05/13 • Selected Acute Care

settingAcute Care Setting Selection

12/12/14

Acute Care Setting Selection • Completed defining roles in the Acute Care setting

• Completed EU-US Role Mapping into Buckets

EU-US Role Mapping

1/9/14 EU-US Role Mapping • Aggregated eight competency sources recommended by community

Silo consolidation on master spreadsheet

1/16/14 Silo consolidation on master spreadsheet

• Discuss overall mapping strategy (role bucket & skill bucket)

• Review Baseline skill extraction• Assign categorization of skills to

domains (DUE 1/30)

Finalized mapping strategy

Baseline skill extraction

1/23/14 CANCELLED DUE TO HL71/30/14 Finalized mapping strategy

Baseline skill extraction

• Review skill categorization• Finalize Baseline skill list

Baseline skill list complete

2/6/14 Baseline skill list complete • Finalize skill categorization• Discuss validation strategy

Skill to Role (Bucket) mapping completed

Timeline

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Methodology

Overview

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• Current Goals: – to develop buckets across all silos (buckets will be composed of

competencies that are domain, level, and setting specific); and– to create a baseline set of IT skills that will be required for all individuals in

a healthcare environment.• Definitions: we have created definitions to ensure that we are all on the

same page with the terminology that is used in this Work Group – Domain: Department, or group of department in a hospital setting. The

workgroup defined 5 domains: Direct Patient Care, Admin/Fin/Law/Mgmt, Engineering/Information systems, Informatics, Research

– Level: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert– Setting: Clinical, Non-Clinical– Bucket : A bucket is a bundle of skills that is domain, level, and setting

specific i.e. The Intermediate/Direct Patient Care/Clinical bucket– Baseline: IT Skills that everyone in the hospital setting needs– Silo: Previous work effort that lists Health IT skills we can leverage in our

work i.e. AHIMA, AMIA, DOL, UKHICF, eCompetence Framework

Methodology

Overview CONTINUED

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• Completed– We have identified the roles for the Acute Care setting and have placed the

roles into 40 buckets• Model Structure

The Model Contains:• A baseline• 4 levels of skills (Basic, Intermediate,

Advanced, and Expert)• 5 domains: (Direct Patient Care,

Administration/Finance/Law/Management, Engineering/Information Systems, Informatics, and Research)

• 2 settings: Clinical and Non-Clinical.

Total groups of skills 4*5*2= 40 buckets + 1 baseline

Methodology

Model Structure

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• The broad baseline of skills and competencies needed for every occupation is included in the "IT Baseline Skills" bucket.

• Professionals in each domain inherit all competencies from the lower skill levels, all the way down to the baseline skills; however, it is important to note that some professionals in the Clinical realm inherit both lower Clinical and Non-Clinical competencies (we’ve seen this in the calls), whereas professionals in the Non-Clinical realm inherit only lower Non-Clinical competencies. – For example, staff in the Intermediate/Direct Patient

Care/Clinical competency bucket could inherit skills from the Basic/Direct Patient Care/Clinical buckets, as well as the Intermediate, Basic/Direct Patient Care/Non-Clinical buckets.

To automate the Skill to Role mapping and populate all 41 buckets

IntermediateDirect Patient

Care

Non-Clinical

Clinical

Categorize Roles

(Completed)

Categorize Skills

Methodology

End Goal

Working SessionBaseline Competencies

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• Recap: – Baseline skills from each silo have been

extracted in order to develop a comprehensive final list

• Today we will:– Review and reach consensus on the list of

baseline skills, specifically we will examine rows A47 – A62

– Review and reach consensus by identifying the most appropriate wording for each baseline skill

Working Session

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• Now let’s examine the baseline skill sets…

Timeline

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Date Inputs Discussion Outputs8/14/13   • Launch of the Workgroup9/05/13 • Selected Acute Care

settingAcute Care Setting Selection

12/12/14

Acute Care Setting Selection • Completed defining roles in the Acute Care setting

• Completed EU-US Role Mapping into Buckets

EU-US Role Mapping

1/9/14 EU-US Role Mapping • Aggregated eight competency sources recommended by community

Silo consolidation on master spreadsheet

1/16/14 Silo consolidation on master spreadsheet

• Discuss overall mapping strategy (role bucket & skill bucket)

• Review Baseline skill extraction• Assign categorization of skills to

domains (DUE 1/30)

Finalized mapping strategy

Baseline skill extraction

1/23/14 CANCELLED DUE TO HL71/30/14 Finalized mapping strategy

Baseline skill extraction

• Review skill categorization• Finalize Baseline skill list

Baseline skill list complete

2/6/14 Baseline skill list complete • Finalize skill categorization• Discuss validation strategy

Skill to Role (Bucket) mapping completed

Next Steps

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• Review the basic level competencies and provide your feedback through the online form located here: http://wiki.siframework.org/Workforce+Development+Work+Group#Work Group Activities, by no later than Monday, February 2, 2014.

• Attend the next Workforce development WG meeting on Thursday, February 6, 2014.

Workforce Development Project Support Team

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• US Point of Contacts– Mera Choi, Mera.Choi@hhs.gov– Jamie Parker, jamie.parker@esacinc.com– Gayathri Jayawardena, gayathri.jayawardena@esacinc.com– Amanda Merrill, amanda.merrill@accenturefederal.com– Kareem Malek, kareem.malek@accenturefederal.com– Mark Roche, mrochemd@gmail.com – John Feikema, John.Feikema@hhs.gov

• EU Point of Contacts – Mary Cleary, mary@ics.ie – Benoit Abeloos, Benoit.ABELOOS@ec.europa.eu – Frank Cunningham, frank.cunningham@ec.europa.eu

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Initiative Resources • EU-US Wiki Homepage

– http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+eHealth+Cooperation+Initiative

• Join the Initiative– http://

wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+MOU+Roadmap+Project+Sign+Up

• EU-US Initiative Reference Materials– http://

wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+MOU+Roadmap+Project+Reference+Materials

• Workforce Development Homepage– http://wiki.siframework.org/Workforce+Development+W

ork+Group