IHE Domain Coordination Committee Teleconference Minutes 2010-08-03

Minutes

General Committee Business

1. Roll Call see Roster

2. Review of Minutes

• July 20 Minutes
• July 26 Documentation Work Group Minutes

3. New Business: from Future Agenda Topics Page

Domain Announcements

1. Domain Milestone Dates

• ITI, PCC, PCD and QRPH Call for Profile Proposals issued 8/2; Deadline for brief proposals 9/17
• Cardiology: Three profiles for Trial Implementation

• REWF: Resting EKG Workflow
• IEO: Image Enabled Office
• DRPT: Displayable Reports

• Anatomic Pathology

• AP Workflow for Trial Implementation
• ARPH for Trial Implementation
• APSR for Public Comments

• QRPH

• Five profiles for Trial Implementation

• Radiology

• MIMA profile under review for approval for Trial Implementation

• Action Item: Add Milestones table for 2010-2011 cycle

Domain Coordination Issues

1. Documentation Workgroup

• Comparison of content templates to be prepared by PCC, AP and QRPH for use in specification of content modules across domains

• Tone Southerland, Wendy Scharber, Mary Jungers part of work group to perform analysis of templates
• Action Item: Chris Carr to issue scheduling survey for meeting of Documentation Workgroup, week of Aug. 23

2. HL7 Task Force

• Email to group to check status of work on CP for ITI Tech on how to manage transition between versions of HL7

3. Cross-domain Strategic Planning

• Workgroup created by IHE International Board to propose a process and documentation for cross-domain strategic planning
• Workgroup's thesis is that there would be real value in having a general long-range plan that all domains can reference for guidance and provide input to, as well as long-range plan in each domain that its members and other domains can refer to.
• Workgroup will develop a plan and bring it to the Board and Domain Coord Cmte for Review
• Work output should be tactical plan to articulate objectives and processes for cross-domain evaluation and selection of profiles
• Audience for document is domain planning committees
• Sections:

• confirmation of principles of IHE, (eg, profiles must be based on established standards, eliminate arbitrarily divergent methods for accomplishing the same end, profiles are to encourage adoption, international in scope, vendor neutral)
• vision of the gestalt of IHE and how the pieces fit together
• tactical process for domain profile selection
• themes and scope areas for each domain:

• ITI has grouped its profiles into theme/topic areas; Mike Nusbaum will provide document
• have other domains develop similar documents grouping their work output into themes

• domain work plans

• Approval role for Board in profile selection/publication? Board should at least approve the Strategic Plan and possibly advise domains on how their plans fit into it.

• Concerns about how quickly priorities shift due to changes in environment; three year time horizon may not be feasible in all domains

• Where has the lack of strategic planning caused problems?

• Multi-year development projects and development requiring input from across domains; avoid adopting divergent approaches to a common use case across domains
• Where there is a large body of proposed work items and strategic selections need to be made to narrow scope; need better criteria than "popularity vote"

• Committee work plans largely driven by availability of volunteers to support work items

• PCC example: Maternal and Child Health required sustained support from pediatric and obstetrics groups (ACOG); could not have determined this activity as a strategic priority without that support

Documentation, Websites and Public Information

1. Document and Profile Inventory and Publication Schedule

2. ftp directory structure for Technical Framework documents

• Mary Jungers has implemented a directory structure where published Technical Framework documents will be made available
• Committee members who have used it find the structure of the site usable

Next Steps and New Actions Items

1. Review Action Items List

2. Next Teleconference:

• Aug. 17, 9-10:30am
• Documentation Workgroup to be scheduled the week of Aug. 23

Domain Coordination Committee