Countermeasure and Response Administration Working Group Webinar

1. Countermeasure and Response Administration Working Group Webinar Webinar Presented September 18, 2008 Jeanne Tropper, MS, MPH jwu0@cdc.gov & CRA Development Team Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response National Center for Public Health Informatics

2. Agenda • Introductions and purpose • Activities of CRA Working Group to date and planned • Priority area rankings • Agile Development • Organization of Focus Groups • CRA Working Group and OM Community of Practice (CoP)

3. Purpose • Foundation for All Hazards support near completion • V1.9 and V1.10 likely last releases before migrating to open source (OS) environment and closer alignment with OMS and Epi Info ™ • Formalize process for prioritizing features, gathering requirements and development of final releases • Position CRA to work with the Outbreak Management (OM) Community of Practice (CoP) governance structure

4. Activities of CRA Working Group, to date July 30 - CRA Working Group Webinar Background and Purpose Demonstration of selected features of CRA 1.8 Introduction of CRA high priority areas August 13 - CRA Working Group Webinar Demonstration of additional features of CRA 1.8 Discussion of high priority areas and requirements August 26 - CRA Working Group Meeting at PHIN conference Establish rankings for highest priority areas Demonstration of CRA 1.8

5. Activities of CRA Working Group, planned Establish CRA Focus Groups to gather requirements for each high priority area and report back to the CRA Working Group CRA Working Group reviews Focus Group requirements and suggests refinements CRA Development Team assesses impact and level of effort; suggests scope adjustments as necessary; begins development CRA Working Group participates in Sprint Reviews and provides input to finalize new features CRA V1.9 estimated to be released February 2009

6. Priority Area Rankings

7. Topics Not Ranked for CRA Version 1.9

8. Agile Development • Custom Development • Need to mitigate risk • Need Rapid Development Process • Agile Methodology • New Mindset • Based on sprints • Fixed Work/Fixed Time • Work Fits Timeline

9. Agile Development 2008 Development Sprints Register Patient Adverse Events Patient Import Patient Search Sub- jurisdiction Data Exchange Patient Follow-up Aggregate Reporting Data Security September August Release of CRA 1.8.0 July Confirm Aggregates Products Reports & Extracts June May Offline Aggregate Reporting April User-Defined Fields March

10. Organization of Focus Groups • Each Focus Group concentrates on one priority topic area • Each Focus Group works with a Facilitator and Business Analyst to gather requirements, define data elements and formats • As needed, CRA V1.8 is demonstrated to facilitate discussion of features • Each Focus Group works iteratively and meets roughly once every three weeks beginning Wednesday, October 8, 2008; example meeting iterations • Meeting 1 – define scope; begin requirements gathering • Meeting 2 – confirm/continue requirements gathering • Meeting 3 – confirm/continue/finalize requirements

11. CRA Working Group and OM Community of Practice • The OM Community of Practice is still under development • At this point, it appears the CoP will focus on policies, protocols, data sharing agreements, best and shared practices • It appears there is a role for both an OM CoP and a Working Group for CRA • As the CoP continues to develop, we will keep each other informed as to how, if and/or when it will affect the CRA Working Group • Comments on the OM CoP and CRA Working Group are welcome

12. Next Steps • Determine Focus Group(s) of interest • Identify representative from project area to participate • E-mail contact information to CRAHelp@cdc.gov • Focus Group meeting schedule to be sent along with webinar links

13. Getting Started with CRA V1.8 • CRA 1.8 is now available • Consider using during an exercise • Demonstration version will be available for partner “try outs” – no later than 10/01/2008 • CRA training available • PHIN Help Desk first line of contact for accessing CRA • Telephone 1-800-532-9929: 8 AM to 8 PM EST •  Email:  Phintech@cdc.gov

14. Questions?