In collaboration with CDC, APHL has technical assistance subject matter experts whose mission is to assist public health partners in implementing data exchange solutions. The ETOR team will provide expertise in project management, laboratory workflow, terminology support, technical architecture and systems integration.
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Approach By Phase
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- Completion of a profile with the Public Health Laboratory
- Completion of a profile with the Healthcare Organization(s)
- Identification and allocation of required project roles at all organizations (Creation of Contact List)
- Identification of tests in scope (test catalogue)
- Completion of legal agreements
- Project schedule creation
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- Commitment to Project Schedule
- Commitment to Project Charter
- Initial Use of Project Control Measures (Communication, Issue/Risk/Change Managment, and Status Reporting)
- Analysis, design and approval of test order and results workflow for selected test types
- Identification of tests in scope (test catalogue)
- Analysis of data for selected test types (gap analysis)
- Analysis of current technical environment
- Integration/Connectivity planning
- Provide healthcare organization test order message (via email)
- Provide public health laboratory test result message (via email)
- Collection of pre-ETOR metrics
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Note that initial configuration work will begin prior to the completion of Planning & Analysis and will extend into the Validation phase. This overlap of these phases reflects the coordinate work that takes place between the organizations and the centralized intermediary team.
The primary components of this phase include:
- Establishing connectivityMapping/Translation of healthcare data elements to the intermediary data elements
- Mapping/Translation of the public health laboratory data elements to the intermediary data elements
- Establishing connectivity
- Creation of the intermediary test order and results messages
- Configuration of monitoring tools
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- Validation of connectivity and data flow
- Validation of successful test ordering for all scenarios associated with select test types
- Validation of successful test ordering for all scenarios associated with select test types
- Validation of expected error handling
- Validation of monitoring tools
- Validation of operational processes
- Updates to intermediary configuration as needed
- Training of staff in ongoing ETOR support and maintenance responsibilities
- Approval for public health laboratory to proceed to production
- Approval for healthcare organization(s) to proceed to production
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