Catherine Hoang, RN, MS, FAMIA

As Associate Director of the Knowledge Based Systems (KBS), Terminology Standards team, Catherine provides all levels of program and project management level support. She served as the Acting Director for 6 months. She facilitated a contract vehicle valued at 100 million in 2015 and has repeated that effort presently in 2020 for 120 million for an additional six years. She oversees contracts, supervises federal resources, enterprise terminology goals, and many collaborations with internal VA partners, DoD and FEHRM. Examples include coordinating quarterly metrics with the NLM to be sure interagency goals are being accomplished, collaborating with Office of Information and Technology (OIT) STS on QA of IPO data domain maps or with the Office of Nursing Service Informatics to QA pressure ulcer assessment data or aid in the migration to Cerner. She helped to write the draft Federated Interagency Terminology Service (FITS) Roadmap, has briefed Sr. leadership. She served as the PM on the OEHRM Vista Content and Structural Variation Analysis project. She oversees the KBS Terminology SDO engagement in HL7 FHIR, Patient Care and Vocabulary working groups. She is engaged with Nursing Informatics collaboration including the OEHRM Interdisciplinary Plans of Care and template creation review for COVID-19. She wrote a project proposal for the COVID-19 funding request for the automation of Pulse Oximetry integration into current VistA systems to save clinician time from entering values, to decrease on transcription errors and to increase patient safety. Recently she worked with the VHA Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM), VHA National Alliance for Patient Medication Information Standardization (NAPMIS), DoD, FEHRM, COTS vendor, VHA Terminologist and FHIR experts on an Outpatient Joint Legacy Viewer (JLV) use case for Medication Status. This resulted in us requesting an addition to the ONCís USCDI effort for a Patient Medication List requirement. The request was entered and the ONC has accepted it and it is now at a Stage 2 review. Mapping of the VistA, DoD AHLTHA, and COTS vendor terms for med status was done to a list of agreed upon interface terms and agreed upon by the Integrated Project Team. In 2003, she received her MS from the Univ. of Utah in Nursing Informatics. She began a VA internship in December of 2002. After her internship, she began her VA career where she tested the Pharmacy and Allergies packages in CPRS as part of the OIT SQA team. Later when the STS team was formed, she was able to join this team and had the opportunity to be the Domain Action Team lead for Allergies and later for the second phase of Pharmacy standardization. She contributed to analysis on standardization of many other domains. She filled many roles such as deployment coordinator for terminology content sent to all sites in the enterprise. She led New Term Rapid Turnaround teams for Allergies and Medication Routes. She modeled new terminology content as a domain steward that would be deployed to the enterprise. She later had an excellent opportunity to join the Gainesville Florida VA Medical centerís nursing informatics team where she was able to work with other disciplines and end users on a daily basis before returning to work again with OIT STS. She then joined the VHA Standards and Interoperability team. She led the terminology tooling efforts for her team including the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) Workbench efforts. Her team was reorganized to the IPO where she engaged more in HL7 activities. She was part of the Medical Device Interoperability Program. She was later promoted to be the Program Manager for the Standards & Interoperability Program of Knowledge Based Systems (KBS). I held this position for almost a year. When the Terminology team that I had left that was at the IPO came back to VHA and were placed in the KBS team, I was then offered the opportunity to rejoin my team as PM.