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EU-US eHealth/Health IT Cooperation InitiativeWorkforce Development

Work Group

January 2, 2014

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Agenda

Topic Time Allotted General Announcements 5 minutesReview Competency Approach 15 minutesUpdates on Completed Activities 25 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)

Workforce Development Work Group meets every

Thursday

General Announcements• To join our weekly webinars, visit the EU-US eHealth

Collaboration Wiki Homepage for the latest meeting information: http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+eHealth+Cooperation+Initiative

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Workforce Development TimelineDate Meeting Topics

January 2, 2014 • Review Mapping Approach• Review Competency Silo Consolidation• Call for Health IT Competency materials

January 9, 2014 • Review Competency Buckets on Competency Tabs

January 16, 2014 • Review Competency Buckets on Competency Tabs

January 23, 2014 • Review Consolidated list of Competencies• Begin Mapping Role Competency Buckets to Competencies

January 30, 2014 • Finalize Role and Competency Mapping• Create “Bucket Mapping Document”

Selection Criteria for Competency• Picking a group that has

significant Health Informatics activity as part of his/her day to day job–Direct Patient Care–Clinical– Intermediate

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Approaches to Refining Competencies… Preferred Approach• Competency Buckets

– We consolidate the silos of competencies provided to us into one Master list

– From that list we apply competencies at the Bucket Level• Example: What competencies qualify as Direct

Patient Care, Clinical, Intermediate and we form a smaller list from the large competency list for those

– After we have completed the Competency Bucket Mapping we review the assignment made to the Acute Care Roles and tweak them as necessary (basically all Acute Care Direct Patient Care, Clinical Intermediate would have the same competencies to start and then we would tweak as necessary

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Option A: Pros and Cons• Pros

– We have done this process before when identifying roles (master list vs. acute Care)

– We only have to create the list one time

– This falls into the “lumping” category which makes it easier to start

– Falls in line with the vision leadership team has for the Athens meeting

• Cons– We may miss some of

the nuances – Our master list will be

very large and somewhat unwieldy – which means more time in the beginning getting the list together

– Classifying the competencies into our buckets will take time

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• Systems Perspective Approach– Identifying systems in the Acute Care

setting– Identifying system capabilities/skills

necessary to interact with the systems– Identifying staff interacting with the

systems (roles)–Skill-Role mapping

Approaches to Refining Competencies A Pilot Approach

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• Pros – Once system

capabilities are identified, it will be very easy to identify the staff interacting with the systems and mapping the skills to roles

Option B: Pros and Cons• Cons

– How do we define a system ? and how do we define what systems are in the Acute care setting?  

– Identifying system capabilities will be hard

– Variability of systems in Acute Care depending on hospital and country

– Variability in terms of vendors, which affects system capabilities

– Need to get conversations with vendors and Acute Care hospital to get list of systems and capabilities

Next Steps

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• Review Competencies Spreadsheet• Call for additional Competency Silos to add to this

spreadsheet

Questions

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Workforce Development Project Support Team

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• US Point of Contacts– Mera Choi, Mera.Choi@hhs.gov– Jamie Parker, jamie.parker@esacinc.com– Gayathri Jayawardena, gayathri.jayawardena@esacinc.com– Amanda Merrill, amanda.merrill@accenturefederal.com– Kareem Malek, kareem.malek@accenturefederal.com– Mark Roche, mrochemd@gmail.com – John Feikema, John.Feikema@hhs.gov

• EU Point of Contacts – Mary Cleary, mary@ics.ie – Benoit Abeloos, Benoit.ABELOOS@ec.europa.eu – Frank Cunningham, frank.cunningham@ec.europa.eu

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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