ITI Planning Co-Chair Role

This page gives the activities the ITI Planning co-chairs are responsible for managing the ITI Planning committee.

Selection of work items

A key responsibility, and most time consuming, is managing the selection of new work items. Steps include:

• HIMSS sends a call for proposals to all IHE International members and national/regional committee for new work requests for ITI. The call for proposals is issued in July or August, the deadline for submissions is two weeks before the face-to-face ITI planning meeting. The wiki page "IHE International Call for Proposals - Timelines & Procedures" https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/IHE_International_Call_for_Proposals_-_Timelines_%26_Procedures gives information related to proposals to potential submitters.

• Collect submissions on the ftp site. Up to the deadline for submissions, the submitters send their brief IHE proposals to iti@ihe.net or to the ITI planning co-chairs email, if given during the announcement. The co-chairs place the proposals on the ftp site, in the appropriate directory for that year’s submissions. For the year 17, it is ftp://ftp.ihe.net/IT_Infrastructure/iheitiyr17-2019-2020/Planning_Cmte . Note: The co-chairs have to make sure they are on the iti@ihe.net email list.

• Schedule and prepare webinars. One week before the face-to-face meeting, the co-chairs schedule and prepare for webinars – work with HIMSS to select several 2 hours slots for webinars on the incoming proposals. The number of webinars depends on the number of proposals submitted. All Proposal authors are required to present a 15 min. summary of their Brief Proposal on one of these webinars. These webinars are decision meetings. The co-chairs have to prepare the agenda of each webinar with the items to be presented (the agenda of last year can used as a template and updated).

• Lead webinars and post minutes. The purpose of the webinars is NOT to analyze the proposals but only to introduce the use case and concepts and identify areas of confusion, conflict or duplication. Those can be resolved before the in-person meeting, or be a point of discussion during the in-person meeting, depending on the preference of the proposal submitter. The goal of these webinars is to provide early feedback to the submitter, early understanding to committee members and results in a more effective in-person discussion. The quorum is 50% of voting. The co-chairs take the minutes and post them on the wiki.

• Prepare the agenda for in-person meeting and post minutes. The agenda of last year can be used as a template and updated by co-chairs. The key responsibilities during the meeting:
  • Keep discussions on understanding use case and urgency of need. Try to limit discussion of how to solve the problem or debates on the value of one solution over another (these tasks are under the responsibility of the ITI Technical committee);
  • Provide clear minutes;
  • Make sure next steps are clear.

Outcome of the meeting is a short list of proposals to be further reviewed by the ITI Technical committee. These proposals are refined, sometimes combined, adjusted to white papers, broken apart, withdrawn, moved to another IHE domain. Eventually a slate of candidates is agreed to and a vote is taken. Outcome of vote is discussed. Goal is to cut the full set up proposals into a list that is small enough that the ITI Technical committee has time to review each technically during their meeting. But not too small… relay on those co-chairs to tell you how long the list should be. This is a creative process sometimes, follow the lead of those who have been through it many times.

• Communicate with the ITI Technical Committee co-chairs regarding the short list of selected proposals. Once the in-person meeting is over, document the meeting in minutes and communicate the short list for ITI Technical review to the ITI Technical co-chairs.

• Participate in the ITI face to face Technical discussion, in-person. Arrange for a joint ITI Tech/ITI Plan discussion, often during the in-person ITI Tech meeting, where a final decision is made. Document the final decision and update the main ITI wiki page.

Keeping the Wiki pages up to date

Another key responsibility is keeping the IT_Infrastructure and the ITI planning committee wiki pages up to date.

IT Infrastructure page

The IT Infrastructure page is the main page for the ITI domain. It contains the following sections:

• Strategy and liaison activity with a link to the strategy and activity page.
• IT Infrastructure Committees with links to the ITI planning and technical committee pages.
• Current IT Infrastructure Profiles (in Final Text and Trial Implementation)
• Planning and development cycle. The Planning and Development Cycle table has to be:

• initiated at the beginning of a new cycle with the planning and technical key dates; • updated, when needed, at any time during the cycle.

• Demonstrations & Presentations.The calendar of events of the cycle year (connectathons, etc.) has to be updated at least at each new cycle.

See Also

Domain Planning Committee Cochair

• Return to ITI Planning Committee
• Return to IT Infrastructure domain page

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