The EuroRec Certification Suite

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The EuroRec Certification Suite

• Dr. Jos Devlies
• EuroRec

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Issues

• Intro
• The EuroRec Repository
• The EuroRec Certification Suite
• The Certification Related Services

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Intro

• This presentation does not address all the good
  reasons for introducing certification.
• Actual efforts are focused on certification of
  EHR systems but certification should be
  introduced for any software application / tool
  that processes health care related personal
  data.
• This presentation addresses the results of the
  Q-REC project and the tools / services offered by
  EuroRec, as a result of that project.

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Issues

• Intro
• The EuroRec Repository
• The EuroRec Certification Suite
• The Certification Related Services

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EuroRec Repository Data Flow
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Fine Grained Statement

• Granular expression describing a single aspect or
  property of an EHR function or content element
• Derived (most often) from reference statements
• Decomposed
• Local aspects removed
• Reworded in a consistent way.
• Purely descriptive statement.
• To be considered as a domain specific linguistic
  expression.
• They become criteria by adding attributes as
  mandatory/optional
• Indexed by means of a multi-axial indexing
  system.
• Nearby 1.400 FGS in the Repository.
• At present partially translated in up to 11
  languages.

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Origin of the statements

• Each of the Fine Grained Statements has been
  generated within the Q-REC project.
• Many are based on pre-existing certification
  sets Be, DK, F, IRL, US, UK, CN (Alberta,
  British Columbia, Ontario). No copies.
• Each FGS is - in average - linked to two
  referenced statements.
• Over 10 were created from scratch while
  addressing a given functionality. They were not
  included in any of these certification sets.

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Fine Grained Statements - Examples
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Fine Grained Statements Links
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Good Practice Requirements

• Fine Grained Statements are regrouped in Good
  Practice Requirements.
• Homogeneous sets of FGSs.
• Related to Good Practice not necessarily Best
  Practice.
• Some of them are related to existing practice
  rather than to good practice.
• Centrally managed (user rights, authorship,
  national variants, translations, version
  management, indexing).
• Exploitable by means of the EuroRec Tools.
• Used by the EuroRec Tools for retrieval of
  statements.

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Good Practice Requirements Examples
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Good Practice Requirements - Links
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EuroRec Repository Status
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Translations 11 languages
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Issues

• Intro
• The concept of Fine Grained Statement
• The EuroRec Repository
• Exploiting the EuroRec Repository
• The EuroRec Certification Suite
• The Certification Related Services

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EuroRec Repository Data Flow
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EuroRec Repository Use Flow
Composer
EuroRec Baskets
EuroRec Repository Of Statements
Certifier
Procurer
Documenter
Certification
Documentation
Procurement
Test Criteria Sets
Scripter
Test Procedures
Test Scenarios
EuroRec Use Tools
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EuroRec Certification Suite
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Define a certification Step 1

• Agree as authority - with the users and
  suppliers what should be certified.
• Select appropriate criteria to be validated
  during a particular certification session
• Initial certification might be comprehensive
• But is often limited to specific (new/changed)
  functions
• If needed, complete the repository with new
  statements (in cooperation with EuroRec).
• Use the Indexes and Good Practice Requirements as
  filters.
• Result gt EuroRec Basket of Fine Grained
  Statements.

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Composer
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Select the domain / index
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Select the statements
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EuroRec Basket
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Define a Certification Step 2

• Structuring the Basket
• Order
• Grouping in subsets
• Defining
• Essential (mandatory) criteria
• Optional criteria
• Criteria for later
• Weighting individual criteria and/or subsets
• Produce certification documentation (for the
  suppliers / users)

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Certifier
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Define a Certification Step 3

• Define test scripts
• Link to each script a number of FGS / criteria
  that will be validated by that script
• Combine scripts in a test scenario
• Link one or more test scenarios to a
  certification session / basket
• Produce certification formularies (to be
  completed during a certification session)

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Scripter
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Scenario overview
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Issues

• Intro
• The concept of Fine Grained Statement
• The EuroRec Repository
• Exploiting the EuroRec Repository
• The EuroRec Certification Suite
• The Certification Related Services

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Services

• Assistance / consultancy when introducing
  certification for a given market segment in a
  given country.
• Assistance to produce / maintain National
  Statements.
• EuroRec Use Tools training.
• Licensing EuroRec Repository use rights.
• Set-up of a concrete certification session
  (content, scripts, testing, appeal,
  accreditation).
• Operationalizing the certification
• Accreditation of local certification partners.

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EuroRec at your service!

• www.eurorec.org
• 32.475266148

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