Thursday, May 31, 2012

Query Health - by the numbers

I'm finishing up a year with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.  Thought you'd be interested in this blog post, summing up the work on Query Health.

Query Health – by the numbers
From Rich Elmore, Coordinator, Query Health

I wanted to share with you an update on Query Health - - by the numbers.

One
Transformative concept
Sending questions to the data

Two
Operational documents
1)      Data use agreement
2)      Operational guidance
Three
Reference Implementations
1)      i2b2
2)      PopMedNet
3)      hQuery
Four
Standards
1)      Question (HQMF)
2)      Data (CEDD)
3)      Results (QRDA Cat 2&3)
4)      Query Envelope
Five
Pilots
1)      NYC/NYS DPH
2)      Mini-Sentinel (FDA/BID)
3)      CDC BioSense 2
4)      Mass DPH
5)      CQM (Allscripts)

The Query Health technical work group is making fantastic progress on the reference implementations.  We’ve also had recent exciting news with ONC and HL7 working jointly on preparing HQMF and QRDA for ballot, and ONC and NQF working jointly on aligning CEDD with QDM. 

The Query Health pilots are poised to ask and answer important questions related to diabetes, hypertension, post-market surveillance, situation awareness and clinical quality measures.

Most importantly, Query Health aligns with the concept of a learning health system, focusing on improving patient and population outcomes.

All of this is the result of the energized, expert, engaged community that have provided shape and direction for distributed population queries.  Thank you to all of the Query Health members and support team for your outstanding contributions! 

The time I had promised to ONC has gone by so quickly.  I am thrilled that Feik (John Feikema) is taking the reins.  We’ve been working together on the transition for the past month and the project will not miss a beat. 

Onward!
Rich