GDC Minutes 2024-11-06

Welcome

• Participants

• Mike Nusbaum (IHE Canada) - co-Chair
• Jan Hulek (IHE Czech Republic)
• Martin Zubek (IHE Czech Republic)
• Stephane Spahni (IHE Suisse)
• John Moehrke (IHE USA)
• Didi Davis (IHE USA)
• David Kwan (IHE Canada)
• Yasunari Shiokawa - Salt (IHE Japan)

• Agenda Approval

• Approved

• Permission to record this session

• Granted by accepting in Zoom

• Meeting Recording (TBA)

National Deployment Committees

• Board reports and status updates
• Czech Deployment Committee report (Jan Hulek, Martin Zubek)

• Presentation Deck
• The report was presented with a lively discussion following
• The IHE Czech Deployment Committee report was approved by consensus for inclusion on the IHE Board consent agenda.

• Current National/Regional Deployment Committee overdue to provide reports:

• IHE Germany
• IHE USA

Special Presentation

• None

Future Special Presentations and tentative schedule 2024

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

Skipped due to time

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

Skipped due to time

Open Forum (informal information sharing)

• IHE North America Connectathon Week 2025 - Feb. 3-7, Toronto Canada

• David Kwan (IHE Canada) presented an overview of the 2025 Connectathon Week programs, and encouraged GDC members to attend and participate

Other business

• None

Next meeting

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