GDC Minutes 2024-09-04

Welcome

• Participants

• Jürgen Brandstätter
• Vincent van den Berg
• Vincent McCauley
• Yasunari Shiokawa
• Events Sanders
• Peter MacIsaac

• Agenda Approval

• Approved

• Permission to record this session

• Granted by accepting in Zoom

National Deployment Committees

• Board reports and status updates
• IHE Japan Deployment Committee Report (Salt)

• Decision: Approved

• IHE Netherlands Deployment Committee Report (Evert)

• Decision: Approved

• Key learning of both reports

• IHE XDS/XCA is currently still around, but considered as "legacy". No interest in testing in Japan, no interest in education in Netherlands
• Important messaging: IHE is broader than just XDS and Radiology!
• Backwards compatibility / migration scenarios are important

• Discussion on how to present Deployment Committee reports

• Added value is clearly the "discussion" on the reports
• Having 2 reports in a call is critical regarding timing, but has an added value, because you can compare them
• Suggestion:

• Restrict presentation time to 10-15min
• Presenters need to present the "most important points"
• Afterwards discussion
• Chair together with presenter note the most important points in the minutes
• Those were reported as sort of "executive summary" in the board call

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

• IHE Germany
• IHE USA

• 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)
• 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)

• None

Other business

• None

Next meeting

• Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 6pm CT (Asia/US friendly time)