Cross-Domain Strategic Planning Work Group Tcon Minutes 2010-10-25

Attendees

• Chris Carr
• Emmanuel Cordonnier
• Mike Nusbaum
• Kevin O'Donnell

Minutes

• Reviewed ITI Strategic Planning materials (Mike Nusbaum)

• Establishes personal liaisons with other domains and process to communicate
• Other domains can submit work requests to ITI for needs they have

• Reviewed Process and IHE Profile Design Principles and Conventions wiki pages (Kevin O'Donnell)

• Education Materials, Wiki Pages intended to guide technical framework development processes
• The ways committees develop profiles has diverged--How to fix?

• Document and ask compliance?
• Establish liaison relationships (with ITI; among all domains)
• Establish oversight group (like DICOM WG6, HL7 Architecture Review Board)

• Could be multiple review groups, each one based on different base standards (this could cause more "silo" issues)

• Early cross-domain or central review of proposed work items?
• Strategic review of overall existing inventory of profiles at domain level and identify gaps/redundancies

• Identification of Problems

1. Uniformity of process across committees
2. Coordination of committee work items

• Coordination work between ITI and clinical specialties
• Coordination among clinical specialties (liaison between all committees

• Potential Solutions for problem #1

• Enhance education materials and process, including Wiki, Webinars and templates (#1)
• Establish oversight body to enforce compliance (peer volunteer group or executive/expert review board
• Require early, substantive cross-domain review of supplement work proposals (could use Domain Coordination Committee)

• Potential Solutions for problem #2

• Expand domain liaison relationships to link specialties and ITI

Cross-Domain Strategic Planning Work Group