GDC Minutes 2017-12-06

Welcome

• Participants

• Jürgen Brandstätter
• Mike Nusbaum
• Stephane Spahni
• Tie Tjee
• Andrea Garay

• Approval of agenda

• Approved

IHE Deployment Committee Reports

• Board reports and status updates

• IHE Austria Deployment Committee Report

• Approved for submitting to the board, with the following information to be delivered:

• Status of project corrected
• Membership details: Numbers of members per category, membership model (categories, fees)

IHE World Summit

• Discussion on next instance

• Targeted year: 2019

• Recommendation: minimum gap between World Summits: 18 months

• Options:

• Europe, Swiss eHealth Summit, Sep 2018, Switzerland
• Europe, HIMSS Turkey, Oct 2018, Istanbul, Turkey
• Asia, HIMSS AsiaPac18 Australia, 5-7 Nov 2018, Brisbane, Australia
• Middle East, UAE eHealth Week, 3-5 Dec 2018, Dubai & Abu Dhabi, UAE
• UK, UK eHealth Week, May 2019, London, UK
• Middle East, HIMSS Saudi Arabia, April 2019, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Downside: Visa problem, few other countries would join

• Europe, HIMSS Europe19, May 2019, Barcelona, Spain

• Downside: Europe is quite satisfied with other IHE events (IHE EU CAT, ...)

• Latin America, HospitalAR, May 2019, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• Downside: Not many other countries will most likely attend

• Asia, AsiaPac19, 2019, Singapore

• Downside: Same location as last time

• Africa:

• IHE Services starts a huge project with Gabon, supported by World Bank, starting in 2018 -> could be an option for that region (providing that the project partners with us)

IHE Certified Professional Program

• Status

Any other business

• Other section initiatives: Energy, Publishing, Agriculture (Tie Tjee)

Next meeting

TBD

Global Deployment Coordination Committee