Rachel,
Thanks for the hard work! I guess the next step is to look at these protocols
and come up with a list of requirements.
A demonstration from one standard (clinical research) information model to a
single healthcare information model (Dr. Huff's detailed clinical models, DCM)
could at least demonstrate the value of a standard clinical research information
model and might even facilitate its adoption...
[VK] This could be a pragmatic goal for this group in the short term. However,
it's not easy as it sounds.
Either way, I believe that an early task for our group should be to identify
what information model is most likely to represent Protocol Eligibility in a
standardized way. I do not believe that the CDISC's SDTM is the best model, but
I could be wrong. I am fairly certain that *all* the CDISC models will
eventually become harmonized with the BRIDG model
(https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/News_Folder/BRIDG_v1.0_Release/ ) , which is planned
to harmonize w HL7 models as well.
[VK] It may not be easy to "guess" a Protocol Eligibility Information Model. A
methodical way to do it would be draw up a list of functional requirements and
see to what extent each of the models mentioned above satisfy them.
So, I wonder if one strategy might be to use the BRIDG as a starting point - map
sample protocols to BRIDG as case exemplars, and then map the appropriate BIRDG
constructs to the DCM models in some general, re-usable way ....
[VK] Determining a starting point may not be a bad idea. May make sense to
analyze which of the information models discussed support the requirements
distilled from the use cases.
I look forward to talking on this topic tomorrow. Meanwhile, another
outstanding task for me is to think of definitions/measures of "success" for
this project. If anyone has suggestions, please direct them to me.
[VK] One definition of "success" could be that we achieve the pragmatic goal
satisfied above?
Cheers,
---Vipul
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