Presentations from HIMSS19
Getting Started with CQL: Technical Implementation for Vendors
"Transitioning from the Quality Data Model to Clinical Quality Language (CQL) impacts health IT vendors who implement electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM). This session provides an overview of the CQL architecture, building a CQL execution engine, and using...
FHIR’s Impact on eCQM Development and Testing
"Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a draft Health Level Seven International (HL7) standard describing data formats and elements and an application programming interface for exchanging electronic health records. Join this session to learn about...
CMS Collaborative Measure Development Workspace Feedback Session
"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the Collaborative Measure Development (CMD) Workspace, bringing together a set of interconnected resources, tools, and processes to promote clarity, transparency, and better interaction across...
Adapting Guidelines for Emergencies in the Digital Age
"Operationalizing clinical decision support (CDS) from clinical guidelines is challenging and particularly difficult during emergencies when recommendations are often developed in real time. This is an overview of a CDC-led, multi-stakeholder initiative, Adapting...
Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals Supply Chain
"A recent World Health Organization report estimates that 1 in 10 medical products – including pills, vaccines, and diagnostic kits – circulating in low and middle-income countries are either substandard or falsified. This counterfeit issue is growing exponentially...
Advancing Technology: The Impact on Military Medicine
"Military medical organizations around the world are faced with an increasing number of challenges that can be helped and hindered by technology. Whether it’s cybersecurity or technology standards, military health IT decision makers are working to improve their...
Creating a Core Cancer Data Model to Enable a Learning Health System
"MITRE is collaborating with ASCO, CancerLinQ, and other clinical experts to develop mCODE (Minimal Common Oncology Data Elements). mCODE models a standard set of interoperable data that will be collected for every cancer patient, with the objective of substantially...
Rubric for Applying CVSS to Medical Devices
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Leveraging Local Data for Public Health with “SMART Scatter”
"A domestic violence analysis shows how using multiple data sources for an urban community in Virginia identified previously undiscovered populations at-risk to enable improved public health interventions. Based on risk factor estimates, actionable "heat maps" of high...