popHealth

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popHealth
PopHealth logo.png
Developer(s) OSEHRA
Initial release February 5, 2010 (2010-02-05) (0.2)[1]
Stable release

6.2.2  (December 6, 2022; 23 months ago (2022-12-06))

[±]
Preview release 6.1.0 Beta  (December 17, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-12-17)) [±]
Written in Ruby (on Rails)
Platform Cross-platform
Type Healthcare reporting software
License(s) Apache License v2.0
Website projectpophealth.org

popHealth is free open-source healthcare reporting software, described as such:

"popHealth is an open source reference implementation software service that automates the reporting of Meaningful Use quality measures. popHealth integrates with a healthcare provider's electronic health record (EHR) system using continuity of care records. popHealth streamlines the automated generation of summary quality measure reports on the provider's patient population."[2]

Product history

On September 21, 2009, the popHealth open-source project was approved for funding by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).[1] The MITRE Corporation would act as the primary developer of the software, which would be designed to be compatible with ONC-certified electronic health record systems.[2] The software would use Health Level 7's Continuity of Care Document and Continuity of Care Record standards to allow healthcare providers to extract quality data from patients' records.[3]

The first commit to the associated GitHub project occurred on October 5[4], and a stable prototype version 0.2 of popHealth was made finally available to the public on February 25 and 26, 2010.[1][3] Version 1.0 of the software was released on April 7, 2011.[5]

On January 21, 2014, members of the popHealth community attended a stakeholder meeting to discuss the transition of popHealth to the open source community. The ONC stated:

"[T]here is a large and diverse user group that is utilizing the application (and/or parts of the technology) for a variety of use cases. These uses of the technology will set the stage for the application’s long-term utility. Ultimately, the governance and development of popHealth will be transitioned from being a government-supported piece of software to one that is supported by the open source community."[6]

In March 2014, tentative dates were set for the transition process: April 1, 2014 – July 1, 2014.[7] At the end of July, a transition plan was published, indicating[8]:

  • a source code freeze on GitHub in mid-September 2014;
  • a transfer/fork of the source code to an open-source development team;
  • the take-down of the ONC popHealth website;
  • a continuation of the associated listserv; and
  • a discontinuation of the old popHealth logo.

By late 2015, popHealth became "part of the 'Population Health Analytics Suite' stewarded by the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance."[9] The first open-source community release from the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) arrived as version 4.0.0 on November 17, 2015.[10]

Features

Features of popHealth include[11]:

  • view quality measure results by patient demographics or provider characteristics
  • view quality measure parameters
  • view patient lists and single patients
  • customize the reporting period
  • manually exclude patients from patient lists
  • manage provider records

Hardware/software requirements

Installation requirements for popHealth include:

  • an NLM VSAC account
  • Ubuntu
  • Git
  • RVM and Ruby 2.2.5
  • MongoDB

Consult the installation guide for more information.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Entities using popHealth

Further reading


External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "popHealth - An Open Source Population Health Reporting Prototype". The MITRE Corporation. Archived from the original on 15 March 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100315154916/http://projectpophealth.org/. Retrieved 29 May 2014. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "popHealth - Frequently Asked Questions". The MITRE Corporation. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160122212949/http://projectpophealth.org/faq.html. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mosquera, Mary (26 February 2010). "ONC unveils "popHealth' for EHR-based quality reporting". Government Health IT. HIMSS Media. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120513024248/http://www.govhealthit.com/news/onc-unveils-‘pophealth-ehr-based-quality-reporting. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 
  4. ↑ "intitial commit". GitHub. 5 October 2009. https://github.com/OSEHRA/popHealth/commit/86eaee96d9ead5c353f36a851390b50e2b444e30. Retrieved 31 may 2019. 
  5. ↑ "popHealth - An Open Source Quality Measure Reference Implementation". The MITRE Corporation. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110727185610/http://projectpophealth.org/. Retrieved 29 May 2014. 
  6. ↑ "popHealth – Overview of Plan to Transition Governance to the Open Source Community" (PDF). National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. 2013. Archived from the original on 03 June 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140603010234/http://projectpophealth.org/documents/pophealth_overview_governance_transition_plan.pdf. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 
  7. ↑ "popHealth Stakeholder Meeting Summary 3/20/14" (PDF). National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 03 June 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140603010157/http://projectpophealth.org/documents/popHealth_stakeholder_mar_mtg_summary_draft.pdf. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 
  8. ↑ Office of the National Coordinator (31 July 2014). "Process for 2014 Transition of popHealth to Open Source Community" (PDF). Archived from the original on 01 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160401191754/http://projectpophealth.org/documents/popHealth%20Transition%20memo%207-31-14%20(FINAL).pdf. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 
  9. ↑ Center for Healthcare Transparency (9 November 2015). "Increasing transparency on the relative cost and quality of healthcare" (PDF). Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement. http://www.nrhi.org/uploads/grcinci-proposal-cht-innovation-pilot-rfp-2014-07-v10-final-draft.pdf. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 
  10. ↑ OSEHRA (17 November 2015). "OSEHRA/popHealth - v4.0.0". GitHub. https://github.com/OSEHRA/popHealth/releases/tag/v4.0.0. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 
  11. ↑ "popHealth code Windows User Instructions" (PDF). OSEHRA. 17 April 2012. https://www.osehra.org/sites/default/files/pophealth_doc/pophealth_instructions_04172012-new.pdf. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 
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