GDC Minutes 2024-08-07

Welcome

• Participants

• Jürgen Brandstätter
• John Moehrke
• Moira Guenther
• David Kwan
• Yasunari Shiokawa
• Evert Sanders

• Agenda Approval

• Approved

• Meeting Recording

• https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/sh5Rx6NPOPRKbxUW0avcPBl5Rd3sSEYj3EAQJGqqGv9gky3DZwgJ1zUoyQNVb0LU.wX5j_oFnvTIAQ_OG

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National Deployment Committees

• Board reports and status updates
• IHE Austria Deployment Committee Report (Jürgen Brandstätter)

• Decision: Report is approved for the board
• Notes: Discussion around how MarCom can be organized:

• Top-down by IHE International
• "Network" of MarCom people of Deployment Committees or individuals contributing

• IHE Germany Deployment Committee Report
• IHE USA Deployment Committee Report
• Current National/Regional Deployment Committee commitments to provide reports:

• IHE Netherlands: September GDC meeting

• Evert confirms presentation in September GDC

• Call for overdue reports based on the above schedule, singling out attendees attending this meeting

Special Presentation

• None

Future Special Presentations and tentative schedule 2024

• IHE Catalyst update on IHE Europe Connectathon including implications to DC (Claudio Saccavini)

• -> Try to organize for September GDC

• General IHE Catalyst Update (Lapo Bertini)
• Netherland's setting up of a National Test and Validation Center (Tie Tjee)
• UK Special Interest Group: Digital Pathology (Robin Breslin, IHE UK)

• Question: is there a relation to the Netherlands Pathology? (Evert checks)

Work-item: Volume 4 of the Technical Framework - implications for National Deployment Committees

• New IHE publication framework, and the impact on Volume 4 of the Technical Framework documents - implications for National Deployment Committees (John Moehrke)

• Discuss how IHE Europe is thinking about better utilization of Volume 4, and get the Asia perspective

• Europe will be in the need to create "European IHE profiles" for the EHDS

• John: Now is a good time to look on new ways on managing Volume 4 in terms of governance, etc.

• Introduction of "realms" for regions is in discussion (e.g., US, Europe, ...)
• Governance for that needs still to be created
• This work should happen in the GDC for later approval by the board

• Jürgen: After collecting requirements by calls like this, at some point we need to form a task-force/workgroup to seriously work on the governance

Open Forum (informal information sharing)

• None

Other business

• None

Next meeting

• Wednesday, September 4, 2024, 2am CT (EU/Asia friendly time)