IHE Domain Coordination Committee Teleconference Minutes 2014-10-28

Attendees

• Alex Lippitt - Sec ITI, PCC, PCD
• Amit Popat - QRPH
• Antje Schroeder – Card/Rad TC
• Bruce Curran – Rad Onc TC
• Chris Carr – RSNA
• Chris Lindop - RAD
• Crystal Carter, Sec Rad Onc
• Denise Downing – PCC Tech
• Eric Heflin - ITI Plan
• Flora Lum – EyeCare
• Gila Pyke - ITI Tech
• Jamie Kontos - RSNA
• Joan McMillen - RSNA
• Karen Witting – ITI Planning
• Kevin O’Donnell - RAD
• Mary Jungers – Documentation Specialist
• Michelle Williamson - QRPH
• Monroe Pattillo – PCD
• Nancy Ramirez - HIMSS
• Nichole Drye-Mayo - RSNA
• Paul Dow - CARD
• Paul Sherman - PCD
• Riki Merrick – Lab
• Sarah Willis-Garcia - HIMSS
• Tone Southerland – PCC Plan

Absent domains: Anatomic Pathology, Dental, Endoscopy, Pharmacy, Surgery.

Minutes

General Committee Business

1. Roll Call see Roster

2. Approval of Minutes

• September 23 Minutes

• Motion: Approve as published. Carried unanimously.

3. New Business: from Future Agenda Topics Page

• Direct support of users by domain committees to address interoperability issues

• Deferred: Awaiting input from Chris Pauer

4. Review Action Items List

• RSNA staff has started updating and cleaning up list. Will identify priority backlog items for next call.

Domain Announcements

1. Domain Milestone Dates

• Radiology completed profile selection:

• Remote Reporting for Imaging (TeleRadiology)
• Clinical Decision Support for Radiology (CDS-R)
• Image Viewing and Upload over the Web (IVUW)

• ITI PC has made initial short listing of profiles for detailed assessment by TC available here

• Information governance white paper: crosses IHE domains; US Federal contractors are contributing to work, but intended to be international in scope
• Cross-community Workflow (XCDR)

• PCC PC has made initial short listing of profiles

• Put forward seven proposals to Tech Cmte
• Potential PCC Joint efforts:

• Radiology:

• CDS for Radiology
• Remote Reporting/Read

• PCD:

• Device Observation Semantic Bridge
• Remote Patient Monitoring

• Implementation guide for Data Access Framework; working on how to handle since it is specific to US domain; make national extension?

• QRPH Work Items following Planning Meeting:

• Discussion of work on developing the QRPH Technical Framework: doing analysis of which profiles are suitable to move to Final Text
• Moved to ITI - De-identification of healthcare data to central reporting authority - Family Planning Profile
• 4 profiles:

• Quality Measure Execution-Early Hearing (QME-EH)
• CRDX (Care-Research Data eXchange)>
• Aggregate Health Data Exchange
• Healthy Weight R2 Content Profile

• 2 White papers:

• CRDX (Care-Research Data eXchange)
• RPE (Retrieve Process for Execution) for ICP (Integrated care pathways)

2. Domain Board Reports

• PCC Domain Report

• Tone Southerland presented report
• Kevin O'Donnell provided extensive comments; Tone has responded and will update document appropriately
• Change to report template: Change "Notes" column to "Why it is significant" in significant profiles table.
• Motion: Approve as amended for presentation to IHE Intl Board. Carried unanimously.

• ITI Domain Report

• Karen Witting presented updated version of report with additional deployment committee information
• Motion: Approve as amended for presentation to IHE Intl Board. Carried unanimously.

Domain Coordination Issues

• Review the current listing of IHE Profiles implemented and in use in major US initiatives

• Spreadsheet of IHE Profiles Supporting Major Initiatives
• Action Item: Chris Carr to add items from ITI domain report to spreadsheet

• Multi-domain content creator/consumer harmonization effort

• Tone reported that focus for now is on discussion between ITI and PCC to harmonize definitions

Documentation, Websites and Public Information

• CP communication process (see sample Radiology page)

• Kevin O'Donnell, Lynn Felhofer and Mary Jungers meeting to come up with proposed format for publishing information about CPs approved and implemented
• Action Item: Kevin and Mary will present CP publication guidelines proposal to DCC for review

• New tools and methods for creating technical documentation

• Work group of Testing and Tools Committee is being convened to do initial environment scan, requirements definition and review of available tools

• Profile-specific Connectathon marketing messages

• Sarah Willis Garcia reported on targeted marketing of new profiles: achieved success with new profiles like MHD drawing strong participation

• ITI domain has conducted extensive outreach, including multiple Webinars and volunteer use of social media and community contacts

• Some gaps in participation persist in some domains/profiles, eg, Radiology SWF needs Order Fillers
• Sarah will approach domains in Spring about efforts for next year

Governance Implementation

• Link to IP guidelines on Webex sessions

• Goal to have them persistently available during committee discussions
• Action Item: Chris Carr to explore putting permanent link in Webex meeting templates for IHE

• Implementation of IHE-HL7 Collaborative Work Group - Outcomes of meetings on 9/18

• Group met at HL7 working group meetings in Chicago

• Todd Cooper is taking the lead in finalizing a proposal to be presented at January HL7 meeting
• Meeting included leadership of HL7 Technical Steering Committee, who were very much in favor of creating joint work group

• ITI/PCC/QRPH leadership met last week and expressed desire to be involved in process of completing proposal and developing list of work items
• RSNA staff is working with Todd Cooper on scheduling a teleconference to move these activities forward
• Add to the working group list: Riki Merrick, Tone Southerland, Paul Dow and Mary Jungers

Next steps and New Actions Items

• Next DCC Tcon, Nov. 25, 9-10:30 CT

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