EU-US eHealth/Health IT Cooperation Initiative Workforce Development Work Group

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EU-US eHealth/Health IT Cooperation InitiativeWorkforce Development

Work Group

January 16, 2014

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Agenda

Topic Time Allotted General Announcements 5 minutesReview Basic Level Competencies 50 minutesNext 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)

Due to the HL7 Work Group

Meetings next week, the

Workforce Work Group will be cancelled on

Thursday, January 23rd and resume on Thursday, January

30th

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Timeline

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We‘re nearing the end of Phase 1

Overview | Process

1. Outline scope statement and goals/obj-ectives

2. Identify setting (acute care selected)

3. Identify roles and map roles between the US and the EU

4. Identify skills needed to support this setting

5. Map skills to professio-nal roles

Phase 1:Analysis of role

based competencies

Phase 2:Identifying a curriculum

based on competency analysis

Phase 3:Definition and agreement

on common standards of

competence and professionalisms

1. Exami-ning curricula that support these skills

2. Gap analysis to determine what‘s missing

3. Final Recomm-endations

• 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

It is important to get the work group on the same page regarding definitions

Overview | Definitions

• We’ve selected the Acute Care setting• We’ve identified the roles in the Acute Care setting (aligned EU and US

terminology), and placed roles in 40 buckets

Roles in the Acute care setting were placed in 40 buckets

Methodology | Completed work

US Roles EU Roles Competency Bucket Type Level

Administrative Assistant Administration Non Clinical Basic

Administrator Administrator Administration Non Clinical Advanced

Admissions Director Administration Clinical Advanced

Anesthesiologist Anesthesiologist (Doctor) Direct Patient Care Clinical Advanced

Audiologist Hearing Aid Dispenser / Audiometric Technician/ Health Scientist

Direct Patient Care Clinical Intermediate

Behavioral Medicine Technician Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technician Direct Patient Care Clinical Intermediate

Bereavement Coordinator Funeral Undertaker / Bereavement Specialist Direct Patient Care Non Clinical Intermediate

Biomedical Technician Biomedical Technician/ Technologist Engineer/Information System

Non Clinical Advanced

A graphical representation of the model can be seen here:

Methodology | The Model

Our 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

Our model’s inheritance structure is described here:

Methodology | The Model (Cont.)

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. This explains our model's waterfall structure described in the diagram

• We’re in the process of identifying skills in the Intermediate, Direct Patient care, Clinical bucket

After identifying roles in Acute Care we started looking at skills

Methodology | Progress

Focus is Intermediate, Direct Patient Care , Clinical bucket

Methodology | Progress

• PRIORITY: Support team will need to focus on categorizing skills (from the 9 silos) that fall under the Direct Patient Care Domain, specifically Basic Clinical, and Non-Clinical, and Intermediate Clinical and Non-Clinical (because of waterfall structure)

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

End goal

IntermediateDirect Patient

Care

Non-Clinical

Clinical

Categorize Roles

(Completed)

Categorize Skills

• We need a high level of granularity- our bucket approach has helped with this– Simply lumping skills in a bucket as broad as “Basic, Non Clinical is not feasible”

• The easiest way to filter the skills from the 9 silos is to look at the silos 5 times, once from every domain’s perspective – Look at them once for Direct Patient Care, Once from the persective of

Administration, Once from Engineering/IS, Once from Informatics, and Once from the perspective of Research

– Once we can filter by Domain, we can filter Setting and then filter by Level • This will give us 40 completely populated competency buckets

• Doing the Role by Role analysis was a bit overwhelming as we have 125 roles and more then 525 non basic unique skills to map to each role

• The lump mapping of skills to the lump mapping of roles allows us to hand off the “lumps” for further analysis and help from the community

What we learned

Timeline

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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 Friday, January 24, 2014.

• Attend the next Workforce development WG meeting on Thursday, January 30, 2014.

Questions

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Workforce Development Project Support Team

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• US Point of Contacts– Mera Choi, [email protected]– Jamie Parker, [email protected]– Gayathri Jayawardena, [email protected]– Amanda Merrill, [email protected]– Kareem Malek, [email protected]– Mark Roche, [email protected] – John Feikema, [email protected]

• EU Point of Contacts – Mary Cleary, [email protected] – Benoit Abeloos, [email protected] – Frank Cunningham, [email protected]

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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