TSC Meeting



HL7 Technical Steering Committee

Meeting Minutes

Monday, September 11, 2006

The meeting convened at 7:40 p.m.

TSC Retreat portion

Mark McDougall introduced new staff member Mary Ann Boyle.

Mead Walker presented a report of the Architectural Review Board activities. The group reviewed the Community Based Health SIG. They have updated the document that defines the Version 3 Substantive Changes.

file name: none, verbal report

Ioana Singureanu presented a report of the HL7 Development Framework Adoption Plan.

file name: HDF Update.ppt

Woody Beeler provided a Version 3 status update. It included publishing proposals, tooling changes, the harmonization report, and the 2007 ballot schedule. Discussion items included: were the publishing proposals final decisions or proposals: it was a proposal that was voted on later in the meeting; when would the new capabilities for documentation in R-MIM designer be available: response was end of September.

file name: V3-TSC-Beeler.ppt and Gforge-TSC-Beeler.ppt

TSC Meeting portion

Karen Van Hentenryck presented the HL7 Housekeeping items. Co-chairs were reminded of the room balancing procedure. Attendees were reminded to complete the staff assessment form.

file name: paper handout

Karen Van Hentenryck noted that ballot results were sent out to all co-chairs by Don Lloyd.

Woody Beeler made a motion to accept the proposal for balloting domains. The motion was seconded by Ed Hammond. In response to a concern about challenges the proposal might present, it was noted that ANSI processes have specific requirements that HL7 must follow.

The motion carried by a vote of 23 for, 5 against, 7 abstentions.

Woody Beeler made a motion to change balloting of CMETs to the associated Domain Committee. The motion was second by Gunther Schadow.

The motion carried by a vote of 28 for, 1 against, 8 abstentions.

Woody Beeler made a motion accept the proposed publishing schedule for 2007. The motion was seconded by Lloyd McKenzie. A question was asked: would publishing committee consider moving to fewer number of ballot cycles per year; the response was that committees needn’t submit items for ballot each time.

The motion carried by a vote of 29 for, 0 against, 3 abstentions.

Woody Beeler made a motion accept the harmonization report. The motion was seconded by Craig Parker.

The motion carried by a vote of 30 for, 0 against, 3 abstentions.

Rene Spronk presented a proposal to request BOD arrange for internet access at Working Group Meetings. A motion to accept the proposal was made by Rene Spronk and seconded by Lloyd McKenzie. The motion carried by a vote of 30 for, 2 against, 3 abstentions.

file name: paper handout

Rene Spronk presented a proposal related to facilitation of out-of-cycle committee meeting logistics.

A motion to accept the proposal was made by Rene Spronk and seconded by

Martin Hurrell.

Discussion items included the following: Is there a cost estimate associated with the proposal? Specifically what support was being asked for: arranging for location, arranging for attendee fee collection. What does this bring to the current process? In response to a note that one set of committee co-chairs ended up paying for interim meeting expenses, the HL7 Chair told the co-chairs to submit a request for reimbursement for this past meeting and the reimbursement would be made. The motion was withdrawn.

file name: none

Richard Thoreson presented a proposal to revise the name and mission/charter of the Community Based Health Services SIG. A motion to accept the proposal was made by Richard Thoreson and seconded by Ed Hammond. The motion carried by a unanimous vote.

file name: CBHS SIG Mission Charter-20060817.doc (distributed with pre-meeting handouts)

The preliminary agenda item to promote the PHER Special Interest Group to a Technical Committee was withdrawn by the submitter, Jim Case.

file names: PHER TC Mission and Charter-20060831.doc and PHER-Justification for move from SIG to TC-20060831.doc (distributed with pre-meeting handouts)

John Travis and Nancy Leroy presented a proposal to dissolve the Medical Records/Information Management Technical Committee. The following were discussion items. A question was asked whether the Draft Standard for Trial Use should be allowed to sunset; the question was withdrawn when the co-chairs explained the updated status of that item. It was noted that patient consents contains administrative items as policy, security has responsibility. It was noted that the proposal as distributed seemed to require changes of mission/charter of other committees. It was clarified that the committee doesn’t require any permission to dissolve. The committee is recommending successorship for each of the committee’s work items. It was clarified that this was an informative report with suggestions of the committees to assume responsibility for committee’s material. A question was asked, who is deciding on where the work items will transfer to: the response was that the committee has been; it was noted that the committee currently is assumed to have responsibility for one CMET. It was noted that the Financial Management committee is not taking responsibility for any of the committee’s work products; it was note that the reference to the Financial Management committee was an error. There was a suggestion that Structured Documents committee assume responsibility for the committee’s work items. The Orders/Observation indicated it might agree to maintain the Version 2 work. Architecture Review Board indicated it would be happy to review suggestions for successor committees to which to distribute the committees work products. It was asked if the Technical Steering Committee is voting on the dissolution or the successor committees. It was finally determined to treat the submitted proposal as informational, and the motion was withdrawn by the John Travis.

file name: MR IM TC Dissolution.ppt

William Goossen presented an expression of concern relating to duplication of data items between different committees Version 3 models. Discussion items included the following. Some of the challenges are due to the lack of a formalism to constrain general models. It was noted that the latest Clinical Statements has a method for performing those constraints. It was noted that several items in the proposal appeared to be methodology and tooling process issues. It was suggested that we consider the proposals from a tooling standpoint and methodology adoption. It was noted that it’s challenging to find items in the ballot. There was a suggestion for a shared repository as to assist the review process. There was a suggestion to change to a tooling process rather than a human process. There was a suggestion to check in analysis artifacts to a public repository (e.g. gforge). There was an expression of agreement with the portion of the proposal to write down requirements and use cases.

A motion to accept the proposal was made by William Goossen and seconded by Bob Dolin. The motion carried by a vote of 27 for, 0 against, 8 abstentions.

file name: WilliamGoossen-Expressionofconcern-20060902.doc (distributed with pre-meeting handouts)

The meeting adjourned at 9:10 p.m.

Norman Daoust

Secretary, Technical Steering Committee

Meeting Attendees:

|Name |Representing Committee (or Organization or guest) |

|Rita Altamore |Public Health and Emergency Response SIG |

|Calvin Beebe |Structured Documents |

|George Beeler |Modeling and Methodology |

|Fred Behlen |Imaging Integration SIG |

|Lillian Bigham |HL7 staff |

|Bernd Blobel |Security and Accountability |

|Bill Braithwaite |HL7 BOD |

|Hans Buitendijk |Orders/Observations |

|Lisa Carnahan |Conformance |

|Jim Case |Public Health and Emergency Response SIG |

|Mike Cassidy |Attachments SIG |

|Chris Chute |Vocabulary |

|Kathleen Connor |Financial Management |

|Todd Cooper |DEV SIG |

|Norman Daoust |TSC Secretary |

|Mike Davis |Security and Accountability |

|Bob Dolin |Structured Documents |

|Brett Esler |Templates SIG |

|Linda Fischetti |Electronic Health Record |

|Jane Foard |Scheduling and Logistics |

|William Goossen |Patient Care |

|Bob Greenes |Clinical Guidelines SIG, Clinical Decision Support |

|Ed Hammond |TSC Vice-Chair, Vocabulary |

|Peter Hendler |Java SIG |

|Stan Huff |Vocabulary |

|Martin Hurrell |Anesthesiology SIG |

|Anthony Julian |INM |

|Jill Kaufman |Clinical Genomics SIG |

|Bron Kisler |Cardiology SIG |

|Francine Kitchen |Financial Management |

|Ted Klein |Vocabulary |

|Paul Knapp |XML |

|Helmut Koenig |II SIG |

|John Kosh |SOA SIG |

|Austin Kreisler |Orders and Observations |

|Joy Kuhl |Pediatric Data Standards SIG |

|Susan Lepping |Financial Management |

|Nancy LeRoy |Medical Records/Information Management |

|Randy Levin |RCRIM |

|Cecil Lynch |Vocabulary |

|John Lyons |Conformance SIG |

|Glen Marshall |Security and Accountability SIG |

|Jim McCain |Government Projects SIG |

|Ken McCaslin |Lab SIG |

|James McClay |Emergency Care SIG |

|Mark McDougall |HL7 staff |

|Lloyd McKenzie |Modeling and Methodology |

|Chuck Meyer |HL7 Chair |

|Dale Nelson |Modeling and Methodology |

|Thomas Norgall |DEV SIG |

|Frank Oemig |Conformance SIG |

|Craig Parker |Modeling and Methodology |

|Jael Pocasssma |SOA SIG |

|Dan Pollock |Public Health and Emergency Response SIG |

|Doug Pratt |INM |

|John Quinn |Chair TSC |

|Scott Robertson |INM |

|Craig Robinson |Lab SIG |

|June Rosploch |Personnel Management |

|Dan Russler |Patient Care |

|Gunther Schadow |Orders and Observations |

|Gregg Seppala |Patient Administration |

|Amnon Shabo |Clinical Genomics SIG |

|Ioana Singureanu |Modeling and Methodology |

|Rene Spronk |INM |

|Lise Stevens |Patient Safety |

|Jeff Sutherland |Orders and Observations |

|Richard Thoreson |CBCC SIG |

|John Travis |Medical Records/Information Management |

|Edward Tripp |RCRIM |

|Michael Van Campen |Pharmacy |

|Karen Van Hentenryck |HL7 staff |

|Max Walker |Community Based Health Services SIG |

|Mead Walker |Architectural Review Board |

|Galen Mulrooney |guest - VHA |

Last updated: ND 09/23/2006

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