IHE Testing and Tools Committee 2009-09-28 Teleconference Minutes
Attendees
- Bruce Curran
- Didi Davis
- Cor Loef
- Steve Moore
- Charles Parisot
- Eric Poiseau
- Lisa Spellman
- Nichole
- Chris Carr
Minutes
1) Connectathon Guidelines
- Gather input from national committees
- Action Item: Chris Carr to distribute for review (allow two weeks for review)
- Method of distribution after approval:
- Find place on ihe.net Website: link to Connectathon pages?
- Make general announcement to ihenews list
2) Monitor Recruitment and Training
- SIIM has made selections and sent out invitations for scholarship winners
- Steve, Lynn and Bill Majurski working on agenda for Oct. 21 meeting
- Need program to recruit monitors in other domains (esp, ITI, PCC)
- Potential recruiting targets:
- HITSP Work Group volunteers
- Showcase attendees: poster with flyer/form
- Action Item: Chris Carr and Lisa Spellman to work with Joyce Sensmeier to recruit HIT Standards Committee members: Invite them to designate someone from their organization (~25 organizations); listed on Website of ONC; Joyce may have contact info
- November/December training Webinars for new and returning monitors
- Action Item: Cor Loef to work with IHE Europe leadership to send similar recruiting letter to EPSOS members
3) Spring Connectathon Manager Training Event
- Feedback on Spring Connectathon dates
- Preference is for April-June dates; location to be determined
- Possibility of doing one European and one North American event
- Eric's group to provide faculty for European event: probably May in Paris
- Steve and Bill to be faculty for North American event: probably June dates in Chicago or DC
- Action Item: Bill, Eric and Steve to determine preferred dates and locations
- Target participants: IHE National Groups (eg, Japan, China, Australia); "Projectathons": national projects that have their own testing needs
4) Gazelle Status Update
- Set up call on linking Gazelle information and development pages to ihe.net domain
- Reviewed list of tasks on Gazelle Progress Tracker
5) Product Registry
- Volume of statements and traffic growing slowly
- Action Item: Chris Carr to send reminder messages to testing participants and broader news list
- Need administration functions, eg, linking or removing duplicate entries from a company (eg, Dejarnette vs Dejanette, inc.)
6) US Federal Health Architecture/NHIN Testing
- Goal to release technical specs to NHIN board by Oct. 1; testing to be based on NHIN gateway
- Need to have method of documenting crosswalk of conformance with IHE profiles/HITSP ISes and gaps; NHIN testing group taking back to ONC leadership
7) H1N1 Contingency Planning Update
- Guidelines confirm policy: no refund based on illness; companies responsible for providing backup
- Contingency plan for missing key staff/team members
- Monitors: encourage to get flu shots and H1N1 mist
8) Next tcon: Oct. 12
- Connectathon Manager testing dates, locations, recruiting message
- Review outcomes of MITA meeting
- Gazelle status update
- Product Registry and Integration Statement Migration