Card Tech Minutes 2012.04.11

Attendees

• Jason Kreuter (ACC)
• Dr. James E Tcheng (ACC) - absent
• Barry Brown (Mortara) - absent
• Anthony Scinicariello ( St. Jude)
• Bryan Jennings (Medical Micrographics)
• Duncan Wood (Medical Micrographics)
• Harry Solomon (GE)
• Nick Gawrit (heartbase)
• Paul Seifert (Agfa)
• Tom Dolan (Philips)
• Antje Schroeder (Siemens)
• Chris Melo (Philips)

Agenda

• Review supplement documentation conventions from a TF documentation alignment viewpoint
  • The editorial team have taken up some elements from the new IHE TF documentation groups WIP restructuring effort - particularly in Vol 1. As the overall IHE TF documentation work is still under construction, particularly regarding new mechanisms to document CDA-content, we are still using the existing (old) Vol 2 format for our CDA-content.
  • The editorial team have been working with Mary Jungers from the IHE Documentation workgroup and have her agreement on this approach for the Cath/EP reporting supplements.
  • From an cardiology-domain perspective, the new supplement is NOT-consistent with the existing TF and CIRC-TI-supplement. It has duplicated some vol 2 sections numbering from CIRC, and has also changed the mechanisms for organizing CDA-content to align with C-CDA conventions.
  • This inconsistency is by design based on the new direction we chose for CDA-content, and the fact that the new IHE-TF work is not finalized and we have not looked at aligning cardiology with that, including re-documenting the existing CIRC-profile .
  • in order to explain the inconsistency for supplement readers who may be familiar with CIRC implementation the request was made to align with CIRC.
  • During the discussion the comittee was divided on whether correcting this inconsistency was important to meeting the obvjectives of public comment and hence should be addressed BEFORE public comment.
  • a motion was made to - clearly document this inconsistency, but leave the section numbering as is and proceed with the current-draft documentation-convention for public comment.
  • quorum was achieved and the vote was as follows:
    • Siemens - against
    • Philips - for
    • GE - for
    • Agfa - for
    • Medical Micrographics - for
    • Heartbase - for
    • St. jude - abstain
  • The motion was approved
  • NOTE - in the mean time - the editor of the cath-supplement increased the section counter to NOT overlap with CIRC, which mitigates some of the issues.

ACTION

• Chris - put in clarification on documentation-convention inconsistency in Vol2 section 6 of Cath supplement - DUE - Friday april 13 - DONE
• Bryan - ditto for EP, and try to replace section 6 with section 8 - as Nick has done.