IHE Domain Coordination Committee 2009-08-18 Teleconference Minutes

Attendees

• Karen Witting - ITI Technical
• John Donnelly - PCC Planning
• Mike McCoy - PCC Planning
• Tone Southerland - PCC Technical
• Ken Fuchs - PCD Planning
• John Rhoads - PCD Technical
• Todd Cooper - PCD Technical
• Jason Colquitt - QRPH Technical
• Kevin O'Donnell - Radiology Planning
• Steve Moore - MIR
• Lisa Spellman - HIMSS
• Chris Carr - RSNA
• Joan McMillen - RSNA

Minutes

General Committee Business

1. Roll Call see Roster

2. Approval of August 4 Minutes

3. New Business: from Future Agenda Topics Page

4. Review Action Items List

Domain Announcements

1. Domain Milestone Dates

• ITI
  • Published all new Trial Implementation supplements (2009-08-11)
  • Published updated versions of Technical Frameworks, splitting volume 2 into subdocuments
  • Re-published all existing TI supplements with updated references
  • ITI - Calling for Workitem Proposals
    • Deadline: 2009-09-25
    • Final Selection: Dec. 2009 (date tbd)

• PCC
  • Published all new Trial Implementation supplements (2009-08-11)
  • PCC - Calling for Workitem Proposals
    • Deadline: 2009-09-15
    • Final Selection: 2009-10-06

• PCD
  • PCD - Calling for Workitem Proposals
    • Deadline: 2009-09-25
    • Final Selection: 2009-10-06

• QRPH
  • Published all new Trial Implementation supplements (2009-08-11)
  • ITI - Calling for Workitem Proposals
    • Deadline: 2009-09-15
    • Final Selection: TBD

Domain Process Issues

• Profile Selection Methods

Documentation, Websites and Public Information

1. Review Document Specialist/Information Librarian Job Description

• Technical Framework section numbering (Karen Witting)
  • Some domains use static section numbering so that section numbers, at least the two or three top levels, don't change. i.e. a profile is always section x and a transaction is always section y. Some domains (ex. PCC) are not maintaining static section numbering so this has caused ITI has to update their section references each year as sections are moved. Should domains use consistent section numbering to support consistent cross-referencing.

• Consistent naming strategies for yearly directories on ftp site.
  • Recently the ITI, PCC, QRPH domains reviewed the naming of year directories and agreed on a common approach, although some have issue with the approach. In general a yearly directory includes:
    • An indication of what "year" by count (i.e. yr1, yr2, yr3, ... ) of the domain
    • A year range that starts at the year new profiles will be released and ends the year the new profiles will be tested at connectathon.
  • ITI has adopted a single year range for its maintanence work, i.e. the 2009 folder is named TF_Maintenance-2009.
  • The ITI planning cycle for the 2010-2011 year will begin in the Fall of 2009 and the directory associated with the work will be named /iheitiyr7-2010-2011/. Planning committee members find this odd, since their work is in 2009. But it is consistently done this way in the ITI, PCC and QRPH domains. What about other domains?
  • RAD works on an annual TF development cycle. (Proposal-Selection-Draft-PublicComment-TI Publication)
    • The cycle years reflect when that happens. The TI Supps we published a few weeks ago are for Yr11-2008-2009.
    • On the wiki we refer to both years. On the ftp site, we shortened the name to just list the second year since that's when the bulk of the TF development work happens.
    • A Profile is tested at various Connectathons over multiple years and will become Final Text at some time in the future.

Next steps and New Actions Items

Domain Coordination Committee