IHE DCC Documentation Work Group Teleconference Minutes 2010-07-26
Attendees
- Chris Carr
- Mary Jungers
- Mike McCoy
- Mike Nusbaum
- Kevin O'Donnell
- John Rhoads
- Tone Southerland
- Karen Witting
Minutes
- Strategic Goal: improve efficiency of documentation process and quality of product
- Ease of use for adopters/implementers
- Analyze users' needs and the problems they encounter:
- Key needs are consistency and simplicity
- Implementers often have specific needs that often require moving across several volumes of documentation
- Indexing and cross-referencing critical
- Strategic decision makers' initial interest is often more general than our documentation: at level of general functionality; IHE's documentation does not provide sufficient
- Technical implementer need very specific pieces (one transaction, one document type) in a convenient package; currently this information is often scattered across several references
- Individual Technical Framework volumes in some domains (eg, ITI) have grown beyond the limit of effective usability for pdf technology; breaking into multiple volumes multiplies the complexity of documentation
- Efficient tools and clear instructions for authors
- Requirements for consistency and quality of documentation
- Models and input from other organizations IHE should study and consider adopting
- Templates for supplement development
- Content modules: how to generate and publish
- Input from adopters: NHIN comments on IHE documentation