IHE Domain Coordination Committee Teleconference Minutes 2016-03-22

Participants

• Antje Schroeder

• Art Amano

• Gila Pyke

• Nancy Ramirez

• Tone Southerland

• Chris Lindop

• Mary Jungers

• Riki Merrick

• Laura Bright

• Monroe Pattillo

• Kevin O'Donnell

• Mauro Zanardini

• Crystal Carter

• Jose Costa Teixeira

• Michael Tan

• Amit Popat

• Jamie Kontos

Quorum attained

General Committee Business

1. Roll Call see Roster

2. Approval of Minutes

• February 23, 2016 Minutes

• Motion: Approve minutes as posted. Carried.

Domain Announcements

1. Domain Milestone Dates

• RO, EYE CARE, ITI documents ready to be published. Mary to manage technical updates.

2. Domain Board Reports

• IHE Surgery report

• DCC Recommendation to IHE Surgery:

• In order to move to active status the domain needs to publish and maintain its full roster and timeline of events. This information is needed before DCC can approve report for presentation to IHE Intl Board.
• Review and approve the Surgery Report
• Deferred pending recommended modifications

3. QRPH, ITI, PCC, Pharmacy Face to Face Meeting Updates

• Pharmacy/ITI - discussing developing a standard template to make profiles based on the FHIR standard
• Updating supplement templates and will work with documentation work group
• Tone and Laura working on handling all non-CDA data types

Domain Coordination Issues

• None to report

Documentation, Websites and Public Information

• Reconvening of Documentation Work Group

• Update on work being done Status Tracking Spreadsheet

• Moving forward with supplement template - adding data types to templates
• Glossary completed waiting for review

• Subgroup forming to talk about new tools to use to create documents

• Develop a proposal with list of tools

• Progress made on developing a watermark to appear on search "as deprecated" - help users know if a document is being used or not
• Group meets regularly on the 1st and 3rd of the month @ 9:30am CT

• Subgroups meeting ad hoc

• Not move forward - process for collecting name spaces

• Incorporating process into new templates
• Collecting legacy name spaces

• Action: Schedule a call to begin production of this process. Participants: Mary Jungers, Rob Horn, Kevin O'Donnell, Lisa Nelson

• Need help reviewing Appendices

• Integration statements
• Transaction descriptions
• Content module descriptions

• Name/Space Management

• 1. Forming a process for collecting and maintaining name spaces moving forward.
• 2. Collecting legacy data. Will move forward while working on this part.

New Business

• How to connect IHE International to regional deployments so we can better understand which profiles are in use, which can be deprecated, and how to organize the IHE "architecture". (Action from the Joint ITI, PCC, QRPH and Pharmacy f2f Mtgs)
  • How to measure maturity of a profile
  • Annual domain reports provide new profiles in development, but does not capture holistic data
    • Source of information: Deployment committees include profile information on their reports to help gauge adoption
  • Immediate ideas: Googlegroups for implementers of each profile like we have for XDS and HPD
    • Could be useful for a pilot project
  • Having implementations register with IHE
  • Are implementers using tools to gather specs?
    • NIST tools are freely available - Google group is a feature of the tool where users can ask questions
  • Use RSNA, HIMSS, IHE.net, etc. to gather input from vendors/implementers
  • IHE "registration" automation site to allow vendors to indicate which profiles they are using
  • incorporate a poll at Connectathon - where are they deploying IHE solutions?
• Especially prominent in QRPH - there are no vendors involved in solutions to adopt profiles
  • We have no way of knowing, in smaller countries, if the profiles are being used and not tested in Connectathons
• What metrics can we use to gather this information?
• Collection mechanism (e.g. IHE.net/???)

• Next steps:

• Find owner of the bullet. Ask to refine the problem statement and locate the owner of the first bullet. Bring back to DCC. Provide approach and next steps

• Educational Workshop about Workflows and IHE profiles - Amit
  • Go beyond profiles - think about real-world workflows and solutions. Develop Webinar/learning session that allows 1) more understanding of what the problems are and how to use current profiles to solve and 2) given underlying foundational profiles that allow for workflows - how do we write the content or develop extensions to solve problems not already defined by current profiles
  • There is a call scheduled for April 5 at 3pm CT to discuss further logistics and details of content - looking at 2 half-day webinar learnings.
  • What is the scope?
  • Propose adding this to the Educational Webinar series below.

• IHE International 2016 Educational Series
  • Goal: Highlight what's new or important in IHE Domains before IHE North American Connectathon registration opens. Attendees will receive a high level overview of new profiles and use cases domains will address in their work cycle and in Connectathon testing. Can also highlight user success stories.
  • Webinar Presentations: June 1-August 26
    • May 1: Deadline for DCC Planning Committee and Domain Secretariats to submit logistics form.

Next steps and New Actions Items

• Next teleconference: April 26, 2016

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