Date: Sept 13 2023


Quarter: Q1


Minutes Approved as Presented 


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Goals

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Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes

Vital Records IG harmonization

Cindy, Saul, Sarah
    • VR_UpdatesHL7_Sept2023_v5_final.pptx
    • Mortality and Birth
      • NVSS Mod efforts
      • Modernization- from batch legacy interjurisdictional exchange to record oriented FHIR based exchange
      • NAPHSIS is engaged
      • Current phase is mortality data to NVSS, YE23
      • Next phase will be birth data to NVSS, testing in first quarter of 2024
    • Medicolegal death investigation
      • MDI Connect, lead by CDC foundation with working with CDC’s Collaborating Office of Medical Examiners and Coroners
    • Other engagements’
      • Mortality
        • Landscape analysis- jurisdictional engagement
          • As is of EHR to EDRS workflow
        • Standards based integration of funeral homes within the mortality workflow
      • Birth- data quality projects have been informing the use of SMAR on FHIR for birth reporting to VROs.
    • Birth and Fetal Death Reporting
    • VR Common Profiles Library
      • Both IGs published in Oct 2021
      • Will be seeking extensions today
      • Working over summer on unballoted updates
      • Want to align with VR death reporting
      • Received approval 9/7/23 and publication from FMG 9/9 and want to publish both by end of Sept.
    • Major updates for BFDR
      • US Core 5.0.1
      • Split resources with value sets (see slides)
      • Added guidance on mother-child linkage and plurality and multiple births, sources of data
      • IJE mapping updates to reflect changes in IG and format updates to align with VRDR, as well as change log for all updates.
    • Library
      • Updated to US Core 5.0.1
      • Split resources
      • Added death related profiles
      • Patient plurality
      • Change log
    • MDI Development
      • STU 1 published 9/2022
      • STU 1.1 unballoted updates, started in 2022
      • Updates in progress now and expected to be completed by end of this month with publication expected late 2023
      • Bundles and compositions for bidirectional exchange
      • DocumentReference
      • Narrative pages
      • Change log.
    • VRDR IG
      • Just short of TSC approval to publish unballoted updates (STU 2.2)
      • Want jurisdictions to be able to submit FHIR for death records by end of the year.
      • Update reflects findings from jurisdictions as folks began implementing.
      • Addresses all known data requirements
      • Planned future work involves refactoring of vital records IGs to reduce redundancy
    • NEXT Steps on all 4 IGs
      • NVSS has 3 feeds from jurisdictional VR offices
      • Want to transition all of these to record-based submission via FHIR
      • Medicolegal Death Investigation- COMEN team working with CDCF on various information exchanged among the MDI office participating in the collaborative
    • Goals of Harmonization
      • Support known/anticipated use cases
      • Continued development of BFDR to support EBRS-NCHS and EBRS-EBRS use cases
      • Eliminate redundancy and improve consistency of representation among VR IGs
      • Consistent documentation style across vital records IGs to ease Implementation.
      • Want all 3 IGs to leverage the VR common library and use US Core 5.0.1
      • Wanting to Harmonize BFDR with Birth Defects IG (with VRCPL and USCore 5.0.1)
      • Comment about moving some more broadly used profiles into the PH Common Profiles Library since they are not specific to VR, like education.
      • Also should be able to document more than one occupation in accordance with the ODH profile, right now only permits one on the return
      • Consolidate Birth content into BFDR
      • Consolidate Death content into the VRDR
      • Common demographic elements, extensions, value sets into VR Common Profiles Library
      • Go to Ballot in January 2024, approve NIB by Nov for VRCL & BFDR
      • May or Sept Ballot 2024 for VRDR and MDI
  • BFDR/VRCPL STU Extension Requests:  

BSeR ballot reconSarah 
  • https://jira.hl7.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=16617
  • Didn’t pass
  • 201 comments, 153 change requests
  • Technical Corrections-Vote Group 1
    • Reviewed all Confirmed Typos x 12
    • 41213, 41653, 41827, 41829, 41985, 41993, 42199, 42208, 42226, 42227, 42663
    • Motion- Sarah moves to approve all 12 in group 1 as persuasive
    • Second- John Loonsk
    • Abstain-0
    • Against-0
    • For- 16
  • Slightly more than Typos- Vote 2
    • Change requests and technical
    • 2 in person comments, both have been reviewed and approved by commenter
    • Reviewed all in group 2. 41209 pulled
    • 41205, 41207, 41210, 42110, 42454, 42458, 42463, 42464, 42494, 42511
    • Motion- Sarah moves to approve group 2 as documented
    • Second- John Loonsk
    • Abstain-0
    • Against-0
    • For- 15
  • Change Requests- Vote 3
    • Only 2 included, both reviewed
    • 41810, 41861
    • Motion- Sarah moves to approve group 3 as documented
      • Second- John Loonsk
      • Abstain-0
      • Against-0
      • For- 15
    • Change Requests- Vote 4
      • Only 3 included, all three reviewed.
      • 41208, 42350, 42518
      • Motion- Sarah moves to approve group 4 as documented
        • Second- John Loonsk
        • Abstain-0
        • Against-0
        • For- 15
      • 42108-
        • 1 Trigger Events and State Transitions (table) needs to be updated
        • Similar comments made by others. Will group as a block and review.
      • 42111-
        • May be able to derestrict a bit, may want to provide guidance as to why its restricted if it needs to be restricted.
        • Its difficult know when to apply the must support flag because its hard to find that definition
        • Need to research
      • 42113-
        • Harmonization with Gravity
        • May want to include some narrative to explain
        • Can have chained referrals and referrals can be broken up
        • Marked as persuasive
        • Will add guidance on when and how to use basedOn- i.e. changing of referrals
        • Motion- Sarah moves to approve 42113 as persuasive
          • Second- John Loonsk
          • Abstain-0
          • Against-0
          • For- 15

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