OK, I created #17<http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/ticket/17> provider identification across sites<http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/ticket/17>
and assigned it to a new milestone, morning-star<http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/milestone/morning-star>, for issues beyond the scope of the initial 18 month PCORI project. ________________________________ From: Greater Plains Collaborative Software Development [[email protected]] on behalf of Campbell, James R [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 6:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PCORI Information Model draft_v1.2 I think the issue of provider identification across sites is one to discuss as to overhead for our standardization effort worklist. Our 10 sites are very unlikely to have duplicate reports of observations, but within PCORI and when we network hundreds of sites, increasingly interoperable passage of clinical data between systems will lead to duplicate reporting of an observation. This is true in Public Health all the time today. Mitigating this issue suggests that NPI for provider and institution should be considered although they may have to be removed from the anonymized repository. This will not have much utility in the short term but we should be discussing it for optimal design of a network that will ultimately serve many researchers, our public health people included. Jim
