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The ACTS COVID-19 Guidance-to-Action Collaborative is bringing together organizations and initiatives with the goal of enhancing collaborations to:
Develop, refine, and implement tools and standards that seed the digital knowledge platforms, knowledge ecosystem, reference architecture, and public private partnerships called for in the ACTS Roadmap
Help stakeholders better address specific COVID-19 care support needs with living CDS interventions in the short term, and many other urgent care/public health improvement targets in the longer term.
This page provides an overview of what everyone in the collaborative is doing. The four child pages are where you can do work on actually coordinating the various components of the work including the knowledge supply chain, intervention development, intervention implementation, and closing the loop.
The table/diagram skeleton below is a more detailed framework for enhancing knowledge/evidence/quality ecosystem collaboration than the diagram above. After framework vetting and refinement by the Collaborative, participants will help populate tables/diagrams based upon it as a means to coordinate and enhance efforts within this ecosystem and the results it produces.
The initial core focus will be the COVID-19 topics outlined below and described in more detail following the framework. However, broader opportunities to strengthen the ecosystem in ways that drive progress toward implementing the ACTS Roadmap are also of interest. Portions of skeleton below are populated in the respective Community of Practice pages.
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Produce/Synthesize Evidence and Guidance
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Create CDS/eCQMs
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Implement CDS and eCQMs
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Topics (e.g., core foci for Collaborative: Severity/Risk/Triage, Monitoring, Anticoagulation; others)
Actors (e.g., participants in ACTS COVID Guidance to Action Collaborative, many other orgs/initiatives; also roles - e.g., CDO leader, care delivery participant, quality person etc. [label discussion threads by these roles]
Standards for Outputs (e.g., from HL7/FHIR, BPM+)
Sources for Inputs/Outputs (e.g., SRDR, L*VE/Epistemonikos, CDS Connect)
Tools/Methods/Platforms (Systematic review creation tools, tools from COKA WG, CDS Connect Authoring Tool)
Questions/Needs Addressed in Collaborative Participant Efforts
's Learning Community brings together individuals, organizations, and initiatives represented in the ACTS Stakeholder Community to accelerate progress toward their respective goals. A key, related goal is leveraging this collaboration to simultaneously advance progress toward a high-functioning healthcare knowledge ecosystem for COVID-19 and beyond, as envisioned in the ACTS Roadmap.
These Learning Community webpages (see page tree in left navigation sidebar) provide:
Activities within the Learning Community are currently focused on enhancing through cross-fertilization initiatives already underway in various organizations to develop, deploy and evaluate 'living CDS interventions' for several specific COVID-19 clinical topics, as outlined below.
This Learning Community is a growing network of organizations and initiatives. The early draft diagram below outlines some of the initial participants.
Collaborative/Learning Community Overview Diagram
The Learning Community is initially focused on coordinating and enhancing participant efforts to develop, implement and evaluate support for care team decisions and actions related to the targets outlined below. Related efforts to strengthen the evidence/knowledge/guidance 'supply chain,' incorporate this information into decision/action support tools and performance measures, implement these in clinical setting, evaluate the results and feed implications back into the 'knowledge ecosystem,' and scale these Learning Community efforts to other settings and targets, are also of interest (see tables on respective CoP home pages).
Activity/Status Summary by Organization implementing the living CDS
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Org
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Targets addressed
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planning/implementation status
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Notes (challenges, pearls, needs, etc.)
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UMN
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anticoagulation
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CDS intervention under development with C19HCC team
Preliminary development, implemented, and evaluated (details)
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VA
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Remote triage
Patient Manager
ICU Severity Assessment
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See goals/plan draft in on implementation page; see sample draft charter here
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Health Centers
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*Remote triage
*Home management
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Others?
Activity/Status Summary by target
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CDS/ Target
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Sites Addressing
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Evidence/guidance/Measure highlights
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Intervention development highlights
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Cross-fertilization Needs (e.g., tools, strategies)
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Remote triage
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•Health centers (details)
•VA (details)
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University of Manchester developing the intervention (details?)
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Home management
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•Health centers (details)
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Anticoagulation
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UMN (14 hospitals)
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ED severity/ disposition
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TBD by ACEP/ EvidenceCare
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Content has been finalized and is in the approval process at ACEP. Shareable assets are being developed.
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Inpt. Severity Assessment
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VA (ICU)
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Others?
Activity/Status Summary by Supply Chain Component
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Supply Chain Component
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Overview of efforts to optimize this component
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Gather evidence, produce living systematic reviews
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Explorations underway with AHRQ EPCs/SRDR, COKA, COVID-END and others about strengthening this portion of the supply chain
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Produce living guidance and measures
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•Explorations with ASH, ACCM, ACEP, C19HCC about collaboration to enhance flow from row above through this row to following row.
•Explorations with AU Living Guidelines team and other Collaborative participants about leveraging their living guidelines in living CDS development efforts by Collaborative participants and leveraging efforts in row above to support their living guideline efforts
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Incorporate/update guidance/ measures in CDS interventions
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•Collaborations with C19HCC Digital Guideline WG to foster synergies between the CPG IG-based Agile Knowledge Engineering approach they’re applying in the anticoagulation and ED severity work and efforts by other Collaborative participants.
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Deploy CDS interventions
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•Collaborations with C19HCC Digital Guideline WG to foster synergies between the CPG IG-based Agile Knowledge Engineering approach they’re applying in the anticoagulation and ED severity work and efforts by other Collaborative participants.
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Measure results and use for continuous improvement
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•Collaborations with C19HCC Digital Guideline WG to foster synergies between the CPG IG-based Agile Knowledge Engineering approach they’re applying in the anticoagulation and ED severity work and efforts by other Collaborative participants.
I. Exploring Components of 'Supply Chain' for Addressing Clinical Questions/Needs in an LHS Cycle (working backwards from supporting patients and care teams)
II. Additional notes about initiatives focused on COVID-19 knowledge supply-demand chain/cycle
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L*VE/Epistemonikos project (.RIS file with some citations relevant to Collaborative targets retrieved by David Tovey)
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III. Explorations/efforts above as a seed for the AHRQ Digital Knowledge Platform (DKP) and Knowledge Ecosystem