GDC Minutes 2020-11-04

Welcome

• Meeting Recording Link (to be inserted)
• Participants

• Mike Nusbaum, IHE Canada (co-Chair)
• Pedro dos Santos, IHE Switzerland
• Dewinder Bhachu, IHE UK
• Jamie Dulkowski, RSNA

• Approval of agenda

National Deployment Committees

• Board reports and status updates

• IHE Switzerland

• Major challenges: Aligning with major healthcare systems and implementation
• Motion: Approve report for presentation to IHE International Board. Motion carried.

• New Reports

• Waiting for representation from IHE Germany to present report

IHE World Summit 2020

• Status update (Jürgen)

Engagement of Deployment Committees

• THESE TOPICS WERE NOT DISCUSSUED DURING NOV. 4 MEETING

• General to work-items

• Result of: Confirmation of work-item approvals with whole GDC committee by email (Jürgen)

• Work item: Interesting presentations could be included in the agenda on a regular basis

• Purpose: "US/Asia/Europe slots" for such presentations of "interesting topic of the country" (maybe 3/6 times a year)

• Expected result: more participation in GDC calls

• Process: Call for presentations to DCs -> make long-term presentation schedule -> do proper advertising and invite (also board)
• Status work item

• Active
• Pending confirmation

• Work item: Activity measurements

• Purpose: Find activity measurements (fees, reporting, ...) for distinguishing active from passive Deployment Committees and find a concept for Deployment Committees not paying their membership fees
• Status work item

• On hold waiting for IHE Europe input, results brought to this group as base for staring the work-item
• Pending confirmation

• Status Action Items

• Report IHE Europe status and outcomes (Jürgen)

• Work item: How can we support national Deployment Committees?

• "Good experiences" is an important way to support, develop a guideline of success factors, any help regarding getting membership

• e.g., by setting up work-items/activities/etc. on International level, which are "so interesting" for countries, to that they can use it to advertise local membership

• Status work item

• On hold waiting for IHE Europe input, results brought to this group as base for staring the work-item
• Pending confirmation

• Status Action Items

• Report IHE Europe status and outcomes (Jürgen)

• Work item: Sharpening the role and purpose of Deployment Committees

• Purpose: Upgrade the governance document, not sure, if hard constraints can be applied, but at least some more guidance, what we expect from a Deployment Committee
• Status work item

• Not started yet due to bandwidth, pending other work-items to finish first
• Pending confirmation

Any other business

• Discuss 2021 meeting schedule

Next meeting

• Wednesday, December 2, 9:00-10:00 AM CT (US / EU friendly time)

Global Deployment Coordination Committee