Meeting Information

Date:	August 19, 2008
Time:	11 AM EDT

Agenda Items

1. Review minutes of last meeting

Susan introduced herself. She is a part of the project handling point of care for Genova.

The Last call was June 10. We reviewed the in-person meeting and asked for an implementers update. That is our focus right now, supporting implementation tests. We want to help as much as possible. We also discussed developing a 2 page document for Electronic Medical Record (EMR) companies to tell them about what we do, educate them about point of care learning. It is intended to be a marketing piece.

2. Implementation updates

Jabin asked several of the participants about their progress. Laird commented that they have received grant money to do two new collections. They expect to get that operational this fall. Both will be implementations of the specification involving Penn. There has been a flurry of activity in CME grant requests. He was involved in another grant request where he introduced them to the MedBiquitous standards. There is movement to more implementation.

Susan - They are going to market with CME headquarters, which will provide point of care learning. Three hospitals are interested. They will want to be able to gather data and then make it available electronically for the hospitals so that they can use it for accreditation purposes. They are hoping that by January the system is up and running.

Chad  has customer in North Carolina. They have expressed interest in exporting data for reporting to a statewide database. He told them he would like to use the MedBiquitous format. They will start to work on it before the end of the year.

Jabin and Valerie extended an offer to help implementers with the spec implementation. Valerie asked implementers to contact her with any technical questions they may have.

3. Discussion of 2 pager for EHR companies

Jabin summarized that we are trying to test the standard and prove its use. Once we have implementations we can point to, we want to be able to go out to EMR companies and give them a brief introduction that goes over what point of care learning is and why it's important to them. The document would also provide some information about the committee, explaining why the standard is beneficial. Peter's initial intent was to get the group in agreement regarding the overarching direction. Jabin can do a high level outline, but he wants the committee to agree on the direction and outline. What ideas would make it more effective?

Laird commented that the strongest point should be benefits to the EMR companies. This is work that is already done and helps them coordinate with others. We need to make it look attractive - here's a simple way to go about this. Jabin commented that EMRs tend to be very busy; there are more customers than they can get to. If we can pitch this as another benefit to developers and customers, that will be effective. How much depth can we get into? We need to cover how they do the next steps. Laird offered to collaborate - ready to use jumps to mind. Valerie suggested developing an implementation guideline and packet to be available should the EMR company want more information.

Jabin, Laird and Valerie will work together on a two pager.

4. Open discussion

The next call is September 23 at 11 AM Eastern time.

Decisions

Action Items