IHE Domain Coordination Committee Teleconference Minutes 2014-03-25

Minutes

1. Roll Call

2. Approval of minutes

PCD and ITI distributed recruiting flier at Connectathon
Held lunch and learn session and individual discussions regarding items of particular interest to potential volunteers
Some potential volunteers had the impression committee participation was by invitation only

Review welcome letter for new organizations
Review letter sent to people who subscribe to email lists
Review Web materials describing committee participation. Highlight that all stakeholders/members are welcome. List categories of stakeholders. Tone down language about level of commitment.
Annual general committee recruitment letter; follow-up mailing after selection of work items to domain lists

Action Item: Gila to distribute recruitment letter handed out at Connectathon.
Action Item: Chris Carr and La Shawn Edwards to schedule call with Gila, Kevin and Mary Jungers to review and update materials

Jose presented vision of cross-domain effort to achieve common approach to supply management. Pharmacy has a keen interest in the issue, but wishes to proceed in collaboration with other domains.
Which systems are used to manage inventory in current environment? Falls between operational management and clinical management systems. Interaction between systems needs to be considered.
X12m is a standards committee focusing on supply chain management issues.
Action Items: Expand current document to include overview of problem space, available standards, key priorities, etc. Invite other domains to develop example use-case specific scenarios for their domains for collaborative work. Review on April tcon.

Sometimes published for public comment and sometimes not. Those that are published with public comment status often don't progress through further review/revision, move from public comment page to main TF page.
Consider establishing a lifecycle for white paper publication: eg, public comment --> final --> retired
Action: Documentation Work Group to develop proposed process for organizing and cycling white papers

On behalf of the RO domain, Bruce Curran asks, "Can XML be considered a standard for purpose of creating a profile?"

No more specifically defined standard currently exists for radiation therapy objects. Committee wants to build its own xml language for these.
Is there a healthcare-based standard that can support this development?
Action: Schedule a call with Bruce and others from RO, Kevin O'Donnell and Eric Heflin to discuss possible standards-based approaches.

Cardiology Report - Approved by DCC, awaiting review by Board. Need Cardiology domain rep to participate in Board teleconference April 10.
Dental Report - Ready for review by DCC. No Dental representative present to discuss; discussion deferred.
Lab Report - Ready for review by DCC.

Significant deployment activities section is based on old template; Secretary to provide new template, which provides this section in tabular form.
Motion: Approve with proposed change of Significant Deployment Activities section. Carried unanimously.

Domain Milestone Dates page needs to be updated for 2013 and 2014.
Significant deployment activities section is based on old template; Secretary to provide new template.
Motion: Approve with proposed change of Significant Deployment Activities section. Carried unanimously.