IHE Domain Coordination Committee 2009-08-04 Teleconference Minutes

Attendees

• Flora Lum - Eyecare Planning
• Rick Butler - Eycare Technical
• Mike Nusbaum - ITI Planning
• Karen Witting - ITI Technical
• Manuel Metz - ITI Technical
• Sondra Renly - Lab Technical
• John Donnelly - PCC Planning
• Mike McCoy - PCC Planning
• Tone Southerland - PCC Technical
• Ken Fuchs - PCD Planning
• Todd Cooper - PCD Technical
• John Rhoads - PCD Technical
• Kevin O'Donnell - Radiology Planning
• Steve Moore - MIR
• Celina Roth - HIMSS
• Lisa Spellman - HIMSS
• Chris Carr - RSNA
• Joan McMillen - RSNA

Minutes

1. General Committee Business

• Approval of Minutes from July 21 teleconference

• • <Motion> Approved with two abstentions

3. Review Action Items List

• Set aside 20 minutes on 8-18 tcon to review updated action item list

4. Domain Milestone Announcements

• Radiology has opened call for work item proposals; due Aug. 28

5. Domain Coordination Issues

• Table of Cross Domain Dependencies
  • Process for update and use of the table at Cross-Domain_Dependency_Process
  • Action Item: Domain Technical Committee Co-chairs to begin populating Dependency Spreadsheet for their domains
  • PCC domain volunteers to make a start: Tone Southerland will populate the PCC tab

• Update on URN registration: Rob Horn will report on in Sept.
  • Add to Sept. 15 agenda

• Who is allowed to submit new work item proposals to a domain planning committee?
  • Does it need to be a representative of an IHE member?
    • Committee Consensus: No. Non-members will be encouraged to to find a "sponsor" from within the committee to be an author.

Or a voting member of the planning or technical committee. Or can it be any person? What would be the purpose of restricting who can submit proposals?

• • This is urgent because the planning cycle is starting in many domains and we should understand what, if any, the restrictions are.

• The HL7 subgroup (cross-domain is making little progress and it is critical that this group begin delivering results
  • This is urgent because the group was formed a long time ago yet is not solving the problems it was charged with. A new model should be considered.
  • Yongjian Bao and Vassil Peytchev are working on authoring "Appendix L" for ITI framework defining use of HL7 messages in profiles
    • Appendix is needed before coding begins for Connectathon
    • Change proposals in ITI are awaiting this appendix, as is revision of Rad SWF
  • Action Item: Chris Carr will request that Yongjian and Vassil take part on Sept. 1 tcon to provide update on progress and schedule for completing draft for review

6. Documentation, Websites and Public Information

• Name space management and information librarian position are urgent to be addressed in near term
  • Action Item: Publish job description: Chris has completed description and will publish to group
• Chris Carr will follow with suggested list of priority tasks for information librarian

• Review of Upcoming Domain Reports to IHE Board
  • Eye Care and PCC have submitted their reports
  • Lahey Clinic in Boston potential success story candidate

7. Webinar Series

• IT Infrastructure Update - August 13, 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
• IHE 2010 North American Connectathon Process moved to August 28
• Steve Moore presented list of profiles that are to be tested at Connectathon

• Action Item: Co-chairs to review
• IHE News to send notice of upcoming events

8. Governance Implementation

• Patent Disclosure Process and materials

9. Next steps and New Actions Items

• Next call, Tues., August 18, 9-10:30am CDT

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