Content Comparison

Project Champion

(Project Sponsor, HCO Leadership POC, Lab Director)

Overall - 0.2

• Planning & Analysis - 0.2

• Configuration - 0.2

• Validation - 0.2

• Limited Production - 0.1

0.1

Implementation and Sustainability

• Approves milestones for progress (e.g., CLIA approval in Validation, approval to move from Limited Production to Full Production)

• Advocate for ETOR with all public health laboratory stakeholders, including ?.

• Identifies resources and allocates their time appropriately to the project and long-term maintenance needs

• Work closely with healthcare organization and APHL team during the implementation

• Provides leadership representation for discussions between public health laboratory and healthcare organization

• Removes obstacles for the project team and negotiates escalated issues and risks related to the project and/or solution

• Coordinates appropriate discussions to get approval for milestones for progress (e.g., CLIA approval in Validation, approval to move from Limited Production to Full Production)

Often a Lab Director

• Organizational knowledge of the public health laboratory

• Has access to and influence with leadership

• Authority to make project decisions

• Ability to access and allocate resources to the project

• Understands the value and benefits of ETOR

• Understands the laboratory workflow involved in receiving a test and providing a result

• Understand competing priorities and impacts to the ETOR implementation project

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Lab Workflow SME

(LIMS Administrator, Business Analyst)

Overall - 0.5

• Planning & Analysis - 0.5

• Configuration - 0.5

• Validation - 0.5

• Limited Production - 0.1

Implementation

• Acts as point person for the TA Team, healthcare organization, and any visit(s)

• Provides insight into lab processes and workflow

• Coordinates testing between public health laboratory and healthcare organization

• Implement the non-technical workflow changes

• Create lab process documentation that reflects updated workflows

Often a LIMS Administrator, Laboratory Business Analyst

• Knowledge of lab processes and workflows (specifically NBS)

• Access to and experience with LIMS applications

• Experience writing workflow procedures for business use

• Knowledge how of to implement workflows

• Excellent written/oral communication and organizational skills

• Team player

Informatics/Technical Analyst

Overall - 0.5

• Planning & Analysis - 0.2

• Configuration - 0.2

• Validation - 0.75

• Limited Production - 0.2

Implementation

• Collaborates with HCO to send/receive necessary artifacts and/or tests

• Works with APHL Terminologist to create test messages

• Acts as the LIMS end user

• Pulls reports/other artifacts or coordinates between PHL IT to do so

Sustaining

• Monitors ETOR feed

• Coordinates required updates and/or changes with test(s)

Often a ???

• Knowledge of laboratory standards (HL7, IHE, LOINC, SNOMED CT, UCUM, ICD)

• Knowledge of Symedical mapping tool

• Familiarity with healthcare organization test data

• Access to and experience with LIMS applications

• Excellent communication and organizational skills

• Understanding of how to monitor data feeds (e.g., quality of data, quantity of data)

• Ability to maintain knowledge of NBS test updates and/or changes

• Knowledge of integration engine a plus

• Team player

LIMS Vendor Representative

Implementation

• Addresses changes needed in LIMS (as needed)

• Authority to execute requested changes in LIMS applications

Project Sponsor

(PHL Leadership Liaison)

Overall - 0.2

• Planning & Analysis - 0.2

• Configuration - 0.2

• Validation - 0.2

• Limited Production - 0.1

Implementation and Sustainability

• Advocate for ETOR with all healthcare organization stakeholders including medical staff, nursing, laboratory, and IT leadership.

• Identifies resources and allocates their time appropriately to the project and long-term maintenance needs.

• Work closely with public health laboratory and APHL team during the implementation

• Acts as conduit for raising project issues with public health laboratory leadership

• Provides leadership representation for discussions between public health laboratory and healthcare organization

• Removes obstacles for the project team and negotiates escalated issues and risks related to the project and/or solution.

Often a ???

• Organizational knowledge of the healthcare organization

• Has access to and influence with leadership

• Ability to access and allocate resources to the project

• Understands the value and benefits of ETOR

• Understands the clinical workflow involved in ordering a test and receiving a result

• Understand competing priorities and impacts to the ETOR implementation project

Project Manager

0.0

Implementation

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the project.

• Works closely with public health laboratory team to align goals and tasks.

• Works closely with APHL Project Manager to establish timeline and priorities.

• Directs the work assigned to the healthcare organization, monitoring and ensuring timely and quality completion.

• Provides issue and risk management, escalating as necessary to the Project Sponsor.

• Provides status updates to the Project Sponsor.

Often a ???Project Manager

• Knowledge of project management principles and practices

• Previous project management experience

• System implementation experience

• Knowledge of public health laboratories and healthcare organizations

• Ability to grasp technical information

• Ability to work cooperatively with other organizational entities and engage 3^rd parties as necessary

• Excellent communication and organizational skills

Testing Analyst

(Testing Manager)

Implementation

• Acts as point person for the TA Team, PHL, and any visit(s)

• Provides insight into HCO processes

• Creates test messages in sending system

• Collaborates with PHL to send/receive necessary artifacts and/or tests

• Acts as the EHR end user

Sustaining

• Monitors ETOR feed

• Coordinates required updates and/or changes with test(s)

Often a ???Testing Manager

• Understands the clinical workflow involved in ordering a test and receiving a result

• Knowledge of public health data standards (HL7, IHE, LOINC, SNOMED CT, UCUM, ICD)

• Knowledge of Symedical mapping tool

• Access to and experience with healthcare organization data management (EHR) system

• Excellent communication and organizational skills

• Understanding of how to monitor data feeds (e.g., quality of data, quantity of data)

• Ability to maintain knowledge of NBS test updates and/or changes

• Knowledge of integration engine a plus

• Team player

IT Representative

(Vendor Representative)

Implementation

• Sets up API connection to AIMS intermediary

Sustaining

Often a ???

• EHR expertise

• Integration expertise

• Troubleshooting/problem solving skills