GDC Agenda 2024-12-04

Welcome

• Participants
• Agenda Approval
• Permission to record this session

National Deployment Committees

• Board reports and status updates
• IHE France Deployment Committee Report] (Jean-François Lahaye)

• 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 2025

• 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)

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)

• IHE North America Connectathon Week 2025 - Feb. 3-7, Toronto Canada
• IHE Europe Connectathon Week 2025 - June 23-27, Vienna Austria

Next meeting

• 2025 Schedule TBA - next call is(US/Asia friendly time)