IHE Domain Coordination Committee Teleconference Minutes 2012-02-28

1. Roll Call see Roster

1. Roll Call see Roster

Please note new DCC email list: dcc@ihe.net (replaces google groups list)

2. Domain Board Reports (10 min - Karen Witting)

Lab Report approved with minor adjustments:
- wiki timeline needs updating
Under Significant Deployment Activity:
- Austrian Ministry of Health has approved/required summary, lab, and rad report (EHRA - Electronic Health Record of Austria)
- France has similar national requirement
- U.S./Canada - there are four other implementation guides which are prevalent, especially eLinks (HL7); Note that most lab interfaces in the U.S. are custom.
Future Plans:
- Be more explicit (add a sentence/bullet) on focus (one of): 1.) write additional profiles, 2.) focus on implementing profiles into products, 3.) focus on getting IHE products into hospitals
Present to IHE Board on March 12th meeting

Endoscopy Report status:
- Endoscopy report sent previously, but needs to be converted to new Provisional Board Report template.
- email sent Feb 15th. To get onto April IHE Board agenda, need by March 8th to DCC.
- Chris Carr to follow up with Endoscopy co-chairs.

Dental Report status:
- Sent to Chris Carr last week using new Provisional template.
- Approved with minor changes: (collected by Chris Carr, to be sent back to Dental also)
  - delete editors notes, fix roster link, note lack of DCC call attendance
- Present at next IHE Board meeting; get onto Board agenda

Cross-Domain Strategic Planning Work Group (update - Mike Nusbaum/Chris Carr - 10 min)

1.) Cross-Domain Strategic WG update: (Karen Witting)

One hour board discussion; conclusion: complex topic, far ranging
agreed to convene a "Board retreat"; planning for date is underway -May or June probably
e.g., need a single, unified Mission Statement
Looking for retreat facilitator suggestions: Joe Biegel (McKesson), Gila Pike (spelling? Rob Horn?)
Send suggestions for facilitators to Chris Carr and Karen Witting

2.) SNOMED Codes: (Juergen Brandstetter)

See presentation sent out in email Feb 28th; presentation given by Juergen
There are SNOMED codes which are MANDATORY for use by IHE in countries which do not have licenses for using SNOMED (see presentation for many more details and examples)
This infers that these IHE Profiles cannot be used in certain countries!
Create a small list/subset of mandatory codes and apply for IHE-wide waiver to SNOMED (Sondra Renly (Lab) has been through this process once.)
IHE Board has authorized request for IHE-wide waiver request to SNOMED; Need each domain to contrib info; Juergen is collecting information on specific codes required
Each domain needs to look at each profile and document mandatory SNOMED codes or state "not applicable"
Try to gather by April 30th, 2012. Will use Google doc/form created by Chris Carr after Juergen reviews it.
Teri SS to send out formal request to all domains.

Technical Framework Publication Planning and Schedule - 2012 cycle (10 min Mary Jungers)

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