Description
The electronic collection of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) supports patient-centered outcomes research by offering a complementary perspective to clinician assessments, and may provide greater insights into health status, symptom burden, adherence, and quality of life. However, PRO data are not routinely available electronically for clinical care or research due to various challenges including the lack of standards and easy-to-use data collection applications. This session will present findings from a project jointly led by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology that tested the use of the Health Level 7 International (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) technical specifications to collect and integrate standardized PRO physical function data in ambulatory care settings. The panel will engage in a discussion regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the different implementation approaches and architectures that were used in the project’s pilot tests as well as opportunities for the scale and spread of these implementation models to other use cases. The learning objectives include: (1) understanding different technical approaches for PRO implementation using FHIR® in settings with different characteristics and resources, and (2) learning about the required capabilities and resources for standardized PRO implementation.
Learning Objective: (1) Understanding different technical approaches for PRO implementation using FHIR® in settings with different characteristics and resources
(2) Learning about the required capabilities and resources for standardized PRO implementation
Authors:
Chun-Ju Hsiao (Presenter)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Stephanie Garcia (Presenter)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Daniella Meeker (Presenter)
University of Southern California
Joseph Blumenthal (Presenter)
MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
Keith Marsolo (Presenter)
Duke University
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