IHE Testing and Tools Committee 2008-01-07 Teleconference

Agenda

Committee Business Plan Outline

Cor Loef will lead discussion on "Tiger Team" tcon later this afternoon to develop outline; drafting will take place during HL7 meeting, Jan. 7-11

• Draft will be available for committee to review on Jan. 14 or Jan. 21 tcons

Key question to be resolved in developing business strategy is the extent to which we should rely on existing revenue stream from Connectathon fees vs. pursuing revenue streams from governments and other potential users of tools

Draft Committee Member Agreement

Current outline needs to be developed into a text document for review

• Language of agreement/commitment to contribute to tools development is the critical section
• Chris Carr will provide draft agreement language for review during the Jan. 14 tcon

Product Registry Development Status

• Development is ongoing
• Eric Poiseau will provide more detailed status report on Jan. 14 tcon

CCHIT/MITRE Consortium Discussions on Collaboration with NIST and IHE

• As reported on previous tcons, IHE and NIST have had positive discussions with CCHIT and their development partner, MITRE Corp, about coordinating work on testing tools
• MITRE's contribution would likely be a validation engine for CDA documents; possible that this could be configured to validate documents for specific IHE profiles
• CCHIT and IHE developing joint press release about the respective roles of the organizations in testing and certification and about the agreement to cooperate on tools development
• Steve Moore will renew discussions with MITRE personnel toward engaging them in Gazelle team design discussions