1. The EuroRec Certification Suite
Dr. Jos Devlies
EuroRec

2. The concept of “Fine Grained Statement” The EuroRec Repository
Issues
Intro
The concept of “Fine Grained Statement”
The EuroRec Repository
Exploiting the EuroRec Repository
The EuroRec Certification Suite
The Certification Related “Services”

3. 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.

4. 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”.
Indexed by means of a multi-axial indexing system.
Nearby FGS in the Repository.
At present partially translated in up to 11 languages.

5. 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.

6. Fine Grained Statements - Examples

7. Fine Grained Statements – Links

8. The concept of “Fine Grained Statement” The EuroRec Repository
Issues
Intro
The concept of “Fine Grained Statement”
The EuroRec Repository
Exploiting the EuroRec Repository
The EuroRec Certification Suite
The Certification Related “Services”

9. EuroRec Repository Data Flow

10. 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.

11. Good Practice Requirements – Examples

12. Good Practice Requirements - Links

13. EuroRec Repository Status

14. Translations: 11 languages

15. The concept of “Fine Grained Statement” The EuroRec Repository
Issues
Intro
The concept of “Fine Grained Statement”
The EuroRec Repository
Exploiting the EuroRec Repository
The EuroRec Certification Suite
The Certification Related “Services”

16. EuroRec Repository Use Flow
Composer
EuroRec
Baskets
EuroRec
Repository Of
Statements
Certifier
Procurer
Documenter
Certification
Documentation
Procurement
Test Criteria
Sets
Scripter
Test
Scenarios
Test
Procedures
EuroRec Use Tools

17. EuroRec Use Tools™ EuroRec Composer™ EuroRec Certifier ™
To compose user defined, re-usable and exchangeable baskets of Fine Grained Statements to be used for certification, product documentation or procurement.
EuroRec Certifier ™
To format a EuroRec Basket content to obtain the basic layer for the certification of EHR systems. This is done by adding structure and attributes to the selected Fine Grained Statements.
EuroRec Scripter ™
To produce and link Test Scenarios to EuroRec Baskets for Certification, Documentation and/or Procurement purposes.

18. EuroRec Use Tools™ EuroRec Documenter ™ EuroRec Procurer ™
To document EHR systems and their functions, enhancing their understanding and comparability by using the EuroRec statements.
EuroRec Procurer ™
To list and describe, for purchase purposes, required functionalities and product characteristics using EuroRec statements.

19. The concept of “Fine Grained Statement” The EuroRec Repository
Issues
Intro
The concept of “Fine Grained Statement”
The EuroRec Repository
Exploiting the EuroRec Repository
The EuroRec Certification Suite
The Certification Related “Services”

20. EuroRec Repository Use Flow
Composer
EuroRec
Baskets
EuroRec
Repository Of
Statements
Certifier
Procurer
Documenter
Certification
Documentation
Procurement
Test Criteria
Sets
Scripter
Test
Scenarios
Test
Procedures
EuroRec Use Tools

21. EuroRec Certification Suite

22. 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 => EuroRec Basket of Fine Grained Statements.

23. Composer™

24. Select the domain / index

25. Select the statements

26. EuroRec Basket

27. 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)

28. Certifier™

29. 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…)

30. Scripter™

31. Scenario overview

32. The concept of “Fine Grained Statement” The EuroRec Repository
Issues
Intro
The concept of “Fine Grained Statement”
The EuroRec Repository
Exploiting the EuroRec Repository
The EuroRec Certification Suite
The Certification Related “Services”

33. 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.

34. EuroRec… at your service!

35. Certification Now !