IHE Domain Coordination Committee 2009-04-28 Teleconference Minutes

Attendees

• Mike Nusbaum, ITI Plan
• Tone Southerland - PCC Tech
• Rick Butler - Eye Care Tech
• John Rhoades - PCD Tech
• Steve Merritt - PCD Tech
• Karen Witting - ITI Tech
• Kevin O'Donnell - Radiology Plan
• Jason Colquitt - QRPH Tech
• Ken Fuchs - PCD Plan
• John Donnelly - PCC Plan
• Bruce Curran - RO
• Steve Moore - MIR
• Lisa Spellman - HIMSS
• Chris Carr - RSNA
• Nichole Drye-Mayo - RSNA
• Guest: Frank Oemig - Agfa

Minutes

General Committee Business

1. Roll Call see Roster

2. Approval of Minutes

• April 14

3. New Business: from Future Agenda Topics Page

4. Review Action Items List

• Reviewed sample text in draft Domain Mission Statements

Domain Announcements

1. Domain Milestone Dates

2. Laboratory: Opening Public Comment

• Publication Plan: Soon Comments Due: May 23, 2009

• White Paper on External Laboratory Order
• No specific feedback requested

3. ITI: Evaluated for Final Text

• Evaluation process followed. Worked well. No changes recommended.
• See March 31 minutes

• XDS.b Approved pending outcome of Euro-Connectathon; Final decision in May
• PDQ.v3 Approved pending development of test tools, resolution of CPs and outcome of Euro-Connectathon
• PIX/PDQ Approved pending development of test tools, resolution of CPs and outcome of Euro-Connectathon
• XDR not approved due to lack of implementations and testing

4. ITI: Evaluated for Retirement

• Evaluation process followed. Worked well. No changes recommended.
• See March 31 minutes

• XDS.a proposed for retirement due to universal vendor shift to XDS.b which makes XDS.a redundant.
• Final decision will be made in May

Domain Coordination Issues

1. R2/RE Discussion

• Outcomes of 4/16 Tcon

• Optionality and Terminology Discussion

• R2 vs RE is one example of terminology discrepancies within technical frameworks
• Frank Oemig presented a document that attempts to address these issues and provide a consistent explanation of each
• Normative language terms need to be defined and documented here; likely remain a stable reference
• Needs to include specific mapping to underlying standards; consistent with terminology used in underlying standards
• Intended to provide abstract use case descriptions; not to address how individual profiles work, dependencies, etc.
• Provides guidance to profile authors, but also for implementers of profiles
• Action Item: Chris Carr to circulate Frank Oemig's optionality document to co-chairs and profile authors; co-chairs and profile authors to provide comments to Frank Oemig; Frank Oemig will continue to be primary edit document

• Review again on May 26 (?) tcon

Documentation, Websites and Public Information

1. Supplement Packaging for TI and PC

2. Radiology Board Report

• Reviewed Draft Document

Governance Implementation

1. Adherence to balloting process for co-chair elections

• Deprecation process needs review: what are the steps needed to document, etc.

• Laboratory Domain holding co-chair elections at Kyoto meeting:

• Governance document requires 15-day email ballot for co-chairs
• Action Item: Chris Carr to communicate requirement to Lab secretary the requirement in Governance document for email ballot

• Teleconference Access is not always being offered for domain meetings

• Impress upon domain secretaries that telephone access is highly advised
• Teleconference access for detailed discussions is not optimal; committee members should be encouraged to attend face-to-face meetings; but access for votes must be provided by tcon to facilitate international participation

Next steps and New Actions Items

Domain Coordination Committee