IHE Domain Coordination Committee 2008-11-25 Teleconference Minutes

Attendees

• Bruce Curran - RO Tech
• Ana Estelrich - QRPH Planning
• Floyd Eisenberg - QRPH Tech
• John Donnelly - PCC Planning
• Chris Lindop - Radiology Tech
• Flora Lum - Eye Care Planning
• Francois Macary - Lab Plan/Tech
• Manuel Metz - ITI Tech
• Mike Nusbaum - ITI Planning
• Kevin O'Donnell - Radiology Planning
• Charles Parisot - ITI Planning
• Celina Roth - HIMSS
• Didi Davis - HIMSS
• Nichole Drye-Mayo - RSNA
• Chris Carr - RSNA

Minutes

Regular Committee Business

1. Roll Call

• Quorum attained

2. Approval of Minutes

• 2008-09-30 Minutes

• Approved unanimously

• 2008-10-21 Minutes

• Approved with two abstentions (absentees)

• 2008-10-28 Minutes

• Approved with four abstentions (absentees)

• 2008-11-11 Minutes

• Approved with three abstentions (absentees)

3. Schedule Future Agenda Topics for upcoming meetings

• Action Item: John Donnelly to add Showcase priority discussion for August 2009 timeframe

4. Review previous action items

• Action Item: Committee to review and fill in status of action items for Dec. 9 call
• Action Item: Secretary to add ID# column to Action Items list

Domain Coordination Checkpoint Announcements

1. ITI Meeting Outcomes

• Final profile selection tcon upcoming: Dec. 17

2. PCC Meeting Outcomes

• Reviewed and provisionally selected three profiles and one white paper

• <List to be inserted>

• Joint call with PCC Planning to finalize scope and approve Nov. 26
• PCC Tech development kickoff tcon Dec. 5

3. QRPH Meeting Outcomes

• Reviewed and provisionally selected four profiles and one white paper

• Chronic Disease Management Reporting
• Retrieve Protocol for Execution Detailed Proposal
• Maternal child health
• Diabetes Care Management: White Paper Approved in Technical Committee - Review by Dec 22 regarding consolidation with Chronic Disease Management Reporting
• Performance Quality Report
• New-born screening: Planning White Paper
• Pseudonmyzation white paper likely to be deferred by ITI (final decision, Dec. 17)
• QRPH may take on development as off-cycle white paper for resubmission next May

• Editorial groups to begin development in advance of joint call to finalize scope
• Next discussion: Dec. 22 call with QRPH Planning to finalize scope

4. Anatomic Pathology TF Publication

• Confirmed selection of domain name; needs to be updated on www.ihe.net
• Trial Implementation version ready for publication on ftp site

• TF document contains one profile: Anatomic Pathology Worklow (APW): intra-enterprise workflow using PAM
• Will be tested at IHE Europe Connectathon in April
• One profile selected for 2009 development: Reporting to Cancer Registries
• One white paper: structured reports from anatomic pathology
• Will meet with HL7 Pathology Reporting committee in January in Orlando

Domain Coordination Issues

1. R2, RO definitions

• Action Item: Chris Carr to schedule working teleconference

• Document from Rob Horn, Frank Oemig, Keith Boone, etc.

2. HL7 Task Force

• Revision of ITI TF Appendix C: attempting to synchronize publication with update of Rad SWF to use HL7 v2.5 transactions
• Action Item: Chris Carr to schedule tcon to update on progress developing new Appendix C

Publication Issues

1. Technical Framework Publication Page(s)

• Wiki-based Framework editing

• Sponsors have put a block on editing of final technical framework documents on the Wiki
• Need a more stable publishing medium

• Action Item: Technical Committees required to output their work as MS-Word documents for conversion into pdfs for publication

• Possible that Wiki editing could be expanded in future as document production tools improve

• Facilitates cross-linking to related documents

• Use Wiki to do brainstorming (eg, profile proposals); link final documents to Wiki

• Action Item: Domain Committee Secretaries to update Framework Publication Process documents on Wiki to reflect this requirement

2. Domain Scope Statements

• Action Item: Kevin O'Donnell will add to "normalized" domain statements a sample paragraph on relationships between domains
• Action Item: Secretaries to make email distribution lists more visible on Domain Committee pages

3. Definitions of Profiles

• Kevin O'Donnell reviewed profile descriptions published at Profiles

• Add comments to listings noting where significant content is missing
• Related profiles section missing in many profile descriptions

• Consider matrix approach for some profiles (eg, PIX/PDQ) that are implicated in many other profiles

• Action Item: Planning Committee Co-chairs to oversee their domain committees in completing work
• Action Item: Chris Carr to forward to Planning Co-chairs by name and include list of outstanding or incomplete profile definitions

4. ITI Security Cookbook

• Purpose is to help ITI profile authors develop the security sections of their profiles
• Need volunteer from outside ITI to review it and try use it as guidance for writing security functions into a profile

• Discusses, eg, what security environments need to be taken into account in developing security policies

• Radiology is a candidate: currently engaged in developing updated version of XDS-I and PDI, which currently do not include detailed security discussion

• Action Item: Radiology Technical Committee will review and respond to ITI Tech

• Anatomic Pathology also interested in reviewing during development of its new profile

Next Meeting

• Tues., Dec. 9, 10-11:30am
• Tues., Jan. 6, 10-11:30am; committee refresh meeting

Domain Coordination Committee