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. 2021 Aug 24;28(2):E430–E440. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001419

TABLE 1. The CCWG Subgroups Established to Conduct Project Taska.

Subgroup Tasks Membership Composition
Research question
  • Draft CODI research questions

  • Provide subject matter expertise to inform the gaps analysis between the PCORnet CDM and CODI research questions

  • Draft CODI pilot use cases

  • Project management

  • Health services researchers

  • Childhood obesity subject matter experts

  • Public health scientists and informaticians

  • DHDN experts

  • Clinicians

Programmatic environmental scan
  • Identified organizations to include in information-gathering activities

  • Conducted outreach to organizations

  • Summarized and presented information for CCWG decision making

  • Project management

  • Childhood obesity intervention experts

  • Pilot site implementation leads

  • Evaluation expert

Technical environmental scan
  • Conducted crosswalk between concepts in the PCORnet CDM and CODI research questions

  • Developed questions and conducted outreach to organizations for the scan

  • Summarized and presented information for CCWG decision making

  • Project management

  • Data science experts

  • Pilot site implementation leads

Record linkage
  • Evaluated and summarized record linkage strategies to inform CCWG decision making

  • Identified and evaluated open-source PPRL tools

  • Developed evaluation criteria to assess performance of the PPRL tools

  • Project management

  • Identity management experts

  • Data science experts

  • DHDN experts

  • Pilot site implementation leads

Governance
  • Conducted gaps analysis of CHORDS governance functions and CODI governance needs and made recommendations to the CCWG about mitigation strategies

  • Evaluated different data sharing and use agreement frameworks and recommended strategies to the CCWG

  • Drafted the data sharing and use agreement

  • Facilitated approvals by each organization's legal authorities

  • Project management

  • Technical leads from each pilot organization

  • Governance leads from each pilot organization

  • DHDN governance experts

Evaluation plan
  • Identified key evaluation questions, goals, indicators, and metrics

  • Recommended a prioritized implementation of the evaluation plan for the CODI pilot

  • Developed data collection tools based upon the evaluation plan

  • Project management

  • Evaluation experts

  • Pilot site implementers

Implementation
  • Provided input and feedback on CODI solutions and implementation guides

  • Tested and implemented CODI solutions

  • Project management

  • Pilot site implementers

Abbreviations: CCWG, CODI Collaborative Work Group; CDM, common data model; CHORDS, Colorado Health Observation Regional Data Service; CODI, Childhood Obesity Data Initiative; DHDN, distributed health data network; PCORnet, National Patient-Centered Clinical Outcomes Research Network; PPRL, privacy-preserving record linkage.

aThe project management team was responsible for facilitating meetings, developing draft materials for review and discussion, maintaining membership, and documenting decisions and recommendations. Subgroup members were expected to attend and actively participate in all meetings, share their expertise, and provide occasional review and offline feedback of materials in preparation for meetings.