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EU-US eHealth/Health IT Cooperation InitiativeWorkforce Development Work GroupDecember 18, 2014

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Meeting Times

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Washington, DC

10:00 am (EDT)

Eastern Daylight Time

London

15:00 (BST) British Summer Time

Berlin

16:00 (CEST)Central European Summer Time

Athens

17:00 (EEST) Eastern European Summer Time

Our last Workforce Development WG meeting is for the year is December 18th (we are canceling the

Dec 24th and December 31st meetings)

We will resume our normal schedule January

8th, 2015

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Agenda

Topic Time Allotted Presentation: Global Health Workforce Council Release of Global Curricula for Public Comment 15 minutes

Introduce Strategy and Timeline for Competency Review Going Forward 5 minutes

Continue Refining Admin-Intermediate Competencies 35 minutes

Next Steps 5 minutes

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EU-US Workforce Development Workgroup

Global Health Workforce Council Update – December 2014

Global Health Workforce Council

• Sponsored by the AHIMA and IFHIMA through a grant by the US Department of Commerce

• The goal of the GHWC is:– to establish a global health information

curricula and competency standard– to provide a framework for healthcare

and education systems worldwide– to update and/or build a workforce

development strategy– The GHWC includes representatives

from all six WHO Regions GHWC Members:

http://www.ahima.org/about/global?tabid=members

Release of Global Curricula Draft for Public Comment

• On November 21, 2014, the GHWC released the Draft of the Global Academic Curricula Competencies for Health Information Professionals

• It is a resource for academic programs across health information professions including Health Information Management (HIM), Health Informatics (HI), and Health Information and Communication Technologies (HICT)

• The overarching goal of the initiative is to articulate a common global language between education and industry to develop competency-based curriculum, certifications, and training initiatives which will assist in the development of a global e-health workforce

Release of Global Curricula Draft for Public Comment

• This has been a significant milestone for the Council to achieve in the six short months they have been working together

• This first version provides a foundation for evolving/improving the global curricula and a mechanism to provide leadership in developing an e-health workforce globally

Release of Global Curricula Draft for Public Comment

• There are two versions, a 53-page PDF and a 53-page Word rich-text formatted version

• There are 28 modules, or competency domains

• Each module is organized into curricular content, which contains both academic and other considerations, framing the guidelines that support competency requirements and related Blooms level

Release of Global Curricula Draft for Public Comment

Global Curricula Design and Organization• The global curricula is designed in a modular

format to allow flexibility by academic programs • Guidance on reviewing/commenting on the

module is provided below: – Module Title: Describes the content area – Module Overview: A brief statement that

summarizes the scope of the competencies for the module.

– Competency Level: Each academic level is meant to stand on its own and not build from entry to advanced. Entry level equates to an entry level academic programs such as a two-year Associate degree, the intermediate level to academic programs such as a four-year Bachelor degree, and the advanced/graduate level to academic programs such as Master or Doctorate degrees.

Release of Global Curricula Draft for Public Comment

• We are soliciting the following types of feedback and comments: – Comments on the front matter (e.g., forward, overview sections, etc.) – Comments on the Curricula Modules – Submissions of additional curricular modules for considerations – Comments on appendices and models/examples – Comments on current and future integration/alignment with EU-US

Workforce Development Workgroup competencies and HITCOMP tool***

– Other general feedback • Submit comments through the EU-US Workforce Development Workgroup

WIKI: http://wiki.siframework.org/Workforce+Development+Work+Group • Comments from our group are due January 8, 2015 and will be

consolidated and submitted on January 15, 2015 to the GHWC

***Feedback is specific to the EU-US eHealth/Health IT Workforce Development Workgroup

Release of Global Curricula Draft for Public Comment

January 29: Completion of Admin Domain

February 27: Completion of Engineering/IS Domain

March 26: Completion of Informatics Domain

April 23: Completion of Research Domain

April 30: First Draft Presentation for Riga eHealth Week

May 7: Final Draft Presentation for Riga eHealth Week

May 11-13: Riga, Latvia: eHealth Week

Strategy and Timeline for Competency Review

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Admin-Intermediate

Next Steps

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• Join us Thursday, January 8th, 2015– Continue refining Admin-Intermediate competencies– Timeline / Next Steps

Happy Holidays!

We’ll see you next year!

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– Christina Nguyen, christina.nguyen@esacinc.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

• US/EU Point of Contact– Rachelle Blake, shelblake@omnimicro.com

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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+Wo

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