PCD MEM LS 2013-08-02

Patient Care Device Domain - Medical Equipment Management Working Group

Meeting Purpose

Regularly Scheduled Location Services (LS) (also referred to as Location Tracking) WG Meeting

Meeting Information

Topic: PCD Device Management Communication

Duration: 60 minutes

Proposed Agenda

Introductions

Review last meeting's discussion summary PCD MEM LS 2013-07-19

Define the scope, goals and process.

Next Meeting

- DMC WG July 26

- LS WG will meet August 2.

Participants

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Chair: Monroe Pattillo

Carlene Anteau, Angie Baltz, Al Engelbert, Robert Flanders, Ken Fuchs, Ploypan (Aom) Jensen, Vivek Kamath, Liz Lutheran, Michael McDonald, Monroe Pattillo, John Rhoads, Paul Schluter, Paul Sherman, Stan Wiley, Benjamin Yam, Manny Furst

Discussion

Monroe led the discussion, focused on the draft WP distributed just before the meeting. Discussion included:

- Detailed description of several HL7 segments and components.

- PL within OBX vs. PRT – more discussion will take place regarding use of the PRT instead of OBX.

o PRT segment attributes (Table 4) will require more detail.

- Location data type will need to accommodate GPS including indoor locations in three dimensions – future

Monroe will send the update resulting from today’s discussion and request responses.

Other:

- E911 can use triangulation or GPS in the cell phone.

Monroe provided a draft WP. It is posted at: ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Patient_Care_Devices/IHEPCDYr9-2014-2015/

Next Meetings

Next Meetings

- DCM will meet Friday July 26 PCD MEM DMC 2013-07-26 and August 9 PCD MEM DMC 2013-08-09

- LS WG will meet Friday August 16 PCD MEM LS 2013-08-16 and August 30 PCD MEM LS 2013-08-30