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CAST Work Programs

CAST forms ad hoc task groups and work programs around the following four focus areas:
  1. Policy
  2. Standards
  3. Pilot Projects
  4. Community, Communications, Education
Most task groups meet via monthly conference calls with additional calls scheduled as needed. Task group volunteers include university researchers and employees of aging services providers, companies, associations, and government agencies.

In nearly all cases, task group participants are CAST members. There are exceptions for government representatives and for other non-members with expertise needed by a specific task group. These individuals may be invited to participate after a completed application is reviewed by the task group chair and CAST staff. If you are interested in volunteering on a task group, please contact Majd Alwan.

Majd Alwan
info@agingtech.org
(202) 508-9463

CAST Task Groups

  1. Electronic Health Records/Personal Health Records (EHR/PHR)

    Mission
    Advance the use of person-centric electronic health and wellness records by aging services organizations. We will accomplish this by:
    • Facilitating involvement in Electronic Health Records (EHR) standards development
    • Promoting research regarding EHR impact
    • Monitoring key vendor and provider EHR implementations to identify best practices
    • Educating EHR stakeholders

    Chair: Peter Kress, ACTS Retirement Life Communities.


  2. Continuity of Care Document Project

    Mission
    Develop requirements, recommendations, guidelines and standards advocacy towards the adoption of an HL7 implementation guide for an aging services Continuity of Care Document (CCD) with support for functional status and wellness content.
    • Initiate work that will result in an HL7 approved implementation guide
    • Progress standards related to functional status and wellness content
    • Complete formal interoperability demonstrations of vendor, provider and consumer uses

    Learn more about the project.


  3. Web Communications Task Group (formerly Clearinghouse Task Group)

    Mission
    Continue the content drive and feature enhancement to the CAST website to support CAST communications.
    • Review and approve web content submitted via the online tools (Clearinghouse, Partnering Opportunities and Online Communities
    • Maintain and upgrade online tools as needed.
    • Monitor and analyze website traffic to drive communications decisions.
    • Provide leadership on new features and content for the website.

    Chair: Lisa Gaudet, Northeast Health & The Eddy.



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