IHE Domain Coordination Committee Teleconference Minutes 2010-08-03

Attendees

Rick Butler - Eyecare Tech
Chris Carr - RSNA
Tom Dolan - Cardio Tech
Ken Fuchs - PCD Plan
Rob Horn - ITI Tech
Flora Lum, MD - AAO
Mike McCoy, MD - PCC
Steve Merrit - PCD Plan
Sondra Renly - Lab Tech
Celina Roth - HIMSS
Lisa Spellman - HIMSS
Karen Witting - ITI Tech

Minutes

General Committee Business

1. Roll Call see Roster

2. Review of Minutes

3. New Business: from Future Agenda Topics Page

Domain Announcements

1. Domain Milestone Dates

ITI, PCC, PCD and QRPH Call for Profile Proposals issued 8/2; Deadline for brief proposals 9/17

Cardiology: Three profiles for Trial Implementation

REWF: Resting EKG Workflow
IEO: Image Enabled Office
DRPT: Displayable Reports

Anatomic Pathology

AP Workflow for Trial Implementation
ARPH for Trial Implementation
APSR for Public Comments

QRPH

Five profiles slated for Trial Implementation:

Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI)
Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
Provider Reporting to a Public Health Repository - Cancer Registry (PRPH)
Redaction Services (RSP)
Retrieve Protocol for Execution (RPE)

Radiology

MIMA profile under review for approval for Trial Implementation

Action Item: Chris Carr to add Milestones table for 2010-2011 cycle

Domain Coordination Issues

1. Documentation Workgroup

Comparison of content templates to be prepared by PCC, AP and QRPH for use in specification of content modules across domains

Tone Southerland, Wendy Scharber, Mary Jungers part of work group to perform analysis of templates
Action Item: Chris Carr to issue scheduling survey for meeting of Documentation Workgroup, week of Aug. 23

2. HL7 Task Force

Task Force email list has been established; domain committee members can request to join
Action Item: Rob Horn to send Email to group to check status of work on CP for ITI Tech on how to manage transition between versions of HL7

3. Cross-domain Strategic Planning

Workgroup created by IHE International Board to propose a process and documentation for cross-domain strategic planning
Workgroup's thesis is that there would be real value in having a general long-range plan that all domains can reference for guidance and provide input to, as well as long-range plan in each domain that its members and other domains can refer to.
Workgroup will develop a plan and bring it to the Board and Domain Coord Cmte for Review
Work output should be tactical plan to articulate objectives and processes for cross-domain evaluation and selection of profiles
Audience for document is domain planning committees
Planning Document Sections:

confirmation of principles of IHE, (eg, profiles must be based on established standards, eliminate arbitrarily divergent methods for accomplishing the same end, profiles are to encourage adoption, international in scope, vendor neutral)
vision of the gestalt of IHE and how the pieces fit together
tactical process for domain profile selection
themes and scope areas for each domain:

ITI has grouped its profiles into theme/topic areas; Mike Nusbaum will provide document
have other domains develop similar documents grouping their work output into themes

domain work plans

Approval role for Board in profile selection/publication? Board should at least approve the Strategic Plan and possibly advise domains on how their plans fit into it.

Domain Coord Committee feedback:

Concerns about how quickly priorities shift due to changes in environment; three year time horizon may not be feasible in all domains

Where has the lack of strategic planning caused problems?

Multi-year development projects and development requiring input from across domains; avoid adopting divergent approaches to a common use case across domains
Where there is a large body of proposed work items and strategic selections need to be made to narrow scope; need better criteria than "popularity vote"

Committee work plans largely driven by availability of volunteers to support work items

PCC example: Maternal and Child Health required sustained support from pediatric and obstetrics groups (ACOG); could not have determined this activity as a strategic priority without that support

Documentation, Websites and Public Information

1. Inventory of Profiles and Published Documents

Reviewed structure and content of document
Lists all current documents and publication steps
Tab for profiles identifies which Trial Implementation profiles still need to be added to the Profile Library
Action Item: Mary Jungers will adjust column headings to make more clear the status and publication schedule for documents

2. Cross-domain Profile Dependencies Table

Reviewed structure and content of document
Action Item: Chris Carr, Lisa Nelson and Mary Jungers to work with Project Mgt Team to extract data from Gazelle testing management tool to incorporate in spreadsheet

3. Access to Domain Coordination Committee Google Docs Folder

Committee members should be able to access and edit documents
Action Item: Chris Carr to add link to Google Docs folder on Domain Coordination Committee wiki page, Working Documents section

4. ftp directory structure for Technical Framework documents

Mary Jungers has implemented a directory structure where published Technical Framework documents will be made available
Committee members who have used it find the structure of the site usable

Next Steps and New Actions Items

1. Review Action Items List

2. Next Teleconference:

Aug. 17, 9-10:30am
Documentation Workgroup to be scheduled the week of Aug. 23

Domain Coordination Committee