Attendees
- Chris Carr
- Didi Davis
- Nichole Drye-Mayo
- Flora Lum, MD
- Joan McMillen
- Lisa Spellman
- Charles Parisot
- Bill Majurski
Minutes
- Need to open for public comment and final review
- Chris Carr to clean up formatting and distribute link for review
- Action Item: Chris Carr to distribute for comment; create a public forum to receive comments; send to National Deployment Committees, Domains and International Board
- Review and disposition comments received on Nov. 22 Testing and Tools Tcon
- Add final review and approval vote to agenda for Dec. 1 face-to-face meeting at RSNA
- epSOS: initial testing event was successful; plan to add epSOS testing to IHE Europe Connectathon in Pisa in April
- Encouraging convergence on specs and testing methods
- North American Connectathon using Gazelle for registration; Steve, Lynn and Bill M feeding bug fixes back to Eric's team
- Results of Training Event
- Action Item: Chris Carr to draft letter of acknowledgment to training participants
- Action Item: Chris Carr to prepare Web page presenting list of certified Connectathon Managers
- HIMSS (Sandy Vance) developing survey to send participants
- Chris Carr and Steve Moore to inquire with professional trainer about future events
- North American Connectathon
- Connectathon Registration has closed; participation strong: record numbers of XDS and overall participants
- NHIN Direct participants important new audience
- Need series of press releases on significant themes related to the Connectathon
- overall growth and areas of growth: Chris Carr to provide updated language and registration numbers; target for week of Oct. 11
- relevance for HIEs, NHIN Direct (becoming the Direct Project) and other North American EHR projects: Didi Davis, John Moehrke, Karen Witting and Charles Parisot can help develop messages (schedule Oct. 19 meeting); Arien Malec from NHIN Direct may also attend in person (target week of Oct. 25)
- significance for Meaningful Use: engage Joyce Sensmeier, John Donnelly and Keith Boone to develop talking points (early Nov.)
- Also need package of communications (key facts and talking points) to supply to other organizations to include in their communications (eg, Direct Project)
- Contact ATCBs: Drummond, Infobard, CCHIT (check ONC page) about participating in North American Connectathon
- Invite executive leadership to conference (dialogue, tour, etc.)
- Where appropriate invite to participate as monitors (eg, CCHIT)
- Communicate through ONC to CHAPL to get contacts; Didi Davis will investigate and try to find appropriate contacts
- Contact Doug Fridsma and Carol Bean specifically to invite to Connectathon
- Action Item: Lisa Spellman and Chris Carr to develop written invitation for ONC to Connectathon
- Eye Care Connectathon/Demonstration
- Meeting for testing at RSNA HQ presently
- Demonstration at McCormick Place next week; Dr. Blumenthal to visit demo on Monday, Oct. 18
- Flora Lum to work with Chris Carr and Joyce Sensmeier regarding plans and messaging for demo
- Tcon: Oct. 25, 10-11:30 am CT
Testing and Tools Committee