PCD Technical Committee Action Items

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Items 110-119

Number	Action	Owner	Participants	Due Date	Status	Comments
118	Implementation Guide	John Garguilo		Dec 31, 2015	OPEN	May 2011 F2F, reviewed by TC June 1: John Garguilo will provide a first draft of the Implementation Guide and vendors will be essential contributors. Sept. 5, 2012: Change date to October 19, 2012. Nov. 12, 2012: Change date to March 13, 2013. Jan. 9, 2013: John Garguilo reported Sandra will look at POI supplement as an initial PCD example. John Rhoads noted that an implantation guide is very different than specifications found in the TF. Add Sandra. An example will be provided at the F2F. Change date to April 17. Oct 22, Discussion of progress and planned progress, plan on webex for users in November. Nov 6, 2013: John G – building resources to help implement. Building a guide from the TF, hone in on other items. Will be 2014 Spring f2f Goal – impl gde 0.1 for vol 2. Change date to December 8 January 15, 2014: Still working on PCD-01 walk through. Change date to March 26 June 11, 2014: Build a base implementation guide to follow TF. Change date to Sept 24 October 15, 2014: John G can provide an update at F2F, add to agenda. Two parts – how to build software and also documentation.Change date to F2F. Nov 5, 2014: Still in progress, Dec 3, 2014: First pass will be basic structure. Some will be auto-generated. Will need some help to describe constraints and use cases. Once created, it can be reused in other message types. Change date to end of December. Jan 4, 2015: No change, push to February. Feb 11, 2015: Set date to end of March. April 22, 2015: New NIST tool not quite ready, will update when it's ready. Change date to June 10. June 3, 2015: Change due date to July 1 July 1, 2015: Still working on it, change date to August 19. Aug 19, 2015: In progress, change date to Sept 30. Oct 14, 2015: John will update at F2F, There will be some interim work as well. Oct 22, 2015: Ties to Igamt and tcamt work. Trying to implement PCD-01. Will mirror TF Vol 2, provide more focused device specialization guides. Set date to Dec 31.

Items 130-139

Number	Action	Owner	Participants	Due Date	Status	Comments
136	WCM Attribute List	Paul Schluter, Ken Fuchs		Nov 18, 2015	OPEN	F2F May 18, 2012: Paul and Ken will take the WCM parameter list to the IEEE meeting next week to seek codes for those attributes currently lacking definition. August 8, 2012: WCM Parameter List: In process. July 10, 2013: Ken reported that some attributes remain to be added to 10101. John Rhoads will ask Jan about the status and Paul offered to add them to 10101a if appropriate. Change date to August 7. Nov 6, 2013: Paul Schluter – John G, please send list of decimal list numbers for Ref ID attributes and scada. Change date to Nov 20, 2013. Feb 19, 2014: Code assignment should be complete by mid March. Change date to March 5 June 11, 2014: May be some more based on prototype. WCM needs an owner, none currently available. Change date to Fall F2F. Nov 19, 2014: Can wait for 10101b. Paul Schluter will work with Chris Courville on this. Change date to Dec 3 2014. Dec 3, 2014: Keep open until after Connectathon. Change title to WCM Attribute List and set date to February. Jeff M will check with Chris, Bikram and Paul Schluter. Set date to mid-March. April 22, 2015: Defer to 10101b. Change date to June 10. June 3, 2015: Change due date to August 5. Aug 5, 2015: 136 - Have a number defined in another partition. May define equivalents in 10101b. Defer to 10101b. Change to Nov 4 TC call. Oct 22, 2015: Can use numeric Ids or annotated ECG. Not a compelling need to include them.Have a good way to show filters. Change to Nov 18.

Items 170-179

No.	Action Item	Owner	Participants	Due	Open/Closed	Description/Update
170	Convert IPEC to EC	Todd Cooper		Nov 4, 2015	OPEN	Spring 2013 F2F: CP to change the name and provide additional changes to convert IPEC to EC. To be completed in time to submit for ballot and TI. August 6, 2014: Change due date to October 8, 2014 October 15, 2014: Push to next cycle Change due date to F2F for brief discussion (15 Minutes). Dec 17, 2014: Change due date to April 2015 F2F. Jan 7, 2015: Cochairs will come up with a direction and bring up to F2F. June 10, 2015: Set due date to June 17. June 17, 2015: Todd disowned it a bit. EC is a higher scale; use IPEC as a specialty of EC. A small number of generalities would cover them. EC was mostly device to device, don't always require human intervention. Joe will contact Todd to discuss at TC, change due date to August and add to agenda. (Check F2F notes). Aug 5, 2015: Joe will ping Todd again. Change date to Sep 2 TC. Sep 2, 2015: Working on IPEC right now. Al working on a sample message, hope to review at F2F. Change to F2F. Oct 22, 2015: Do we take it down a notch and put info in framework, and let device specific groups define as needed (IPEC becomes an example of EC)? IPEC principles can provide a base for others to build on. Close this and open another to create common EC material to go into TF. Owner of new AI – IPEC team and John R. What is the need for this material? Would be a template for other equipment types to build on. Change date to Nov 4.
178	MSH-5 and Connectathon	Jeff McGeath		Nov 4, 2015	OPEN	When required, PCD will need to come up with a mechanism to populate the fields. One option: Insert a sentence into the text to emphasize, and have NIST update test to indicate an error. Indicate to participants in pre-connectathon that this will now be part of the test. August 6, 2014: NIST to verify MSH-5 validation is addressed, Change date to August 20. Sept 24, 2014: Put identifier into Gazelle. Where test case descriptions are very important, we could use the demographics spreadsheet. there's no CN document across PCD. Some discussion of RE in the test case description. Change due date to F2F. October 15, 2014: Should have a value in this field for Gazelle. John G – ties to specific test cases. Important for test cases to have preambles to help set the message up. Nov 19, 2014: Jeff McGeath will provide text to Paul Sherman. Change due date to Dec 3. Change owner to Jeff, change date to January. Jan 7, 2015: Move to February. April 22, 2015: Change to F2F June 10, 2015: Set due date to June 17. July 1, 2015: Paul will ping Jeff for update. Change date to Aug 5 Aug 5, 2015: No update, Paul pinged Jeff this day, change date to Sep 2 TC. Sep 2, 2015: No response from Jeff, Paul will ping again, change to Sep 30. oct 14, 2015: Tom will call Jeff to see if he can update at F2F (1/2 hour discussion). Set to F2F. Oct 22, 2015: Retitle to MSH 3 and ACKs. Look for Jeff's email and use that an update to the TF. What to do as a gateway? The gateway is responsible for the ACK. Change date to Nov 4 and put on the TC agenda. Nov 4, 2015: Jeff McGeath's notes - The final outcome was that systems would be graded on what they are sending in MSH:3. This is the sending application, and therefore should be known in advance. We ran into an issue at last year's (Jan 2014) connectathon where systems were receiving a message, then when building their ACK they would create a MSH:3 that just copied the original message’s MSH:5 value. Those systems should know who they are and would never send out an ACK with an empty MSH:3. Jeff: My memory on the action item was that either Gazelle or the NIST tools would have a table to track the vendor names and map that to the Connectathon IP address assignments. If that were in place, the validation engine could then cross reference the sending IP with the known vendor and fail any transactions that have incorrect or empty MSH:3 values.

Items 180-189

No.	Action Item	Owner	Participants	Due	Open/Closed	Description/Update
183	CP for WCM and implementation	Chris Courville, Paul Schluter	WCM Workgroup	Nov 18, 2015	OPEN	April 4, 2014: August 6, 2014: Paul Sherman will ping Bikram and Chris for any activity. Change date to August 20. Oct 1, 2014: No specific update, they're working on it. Change to F2F. Oct 23, 2014: Progress on integer/second issue. Chris and Paul Sc will update documentation. Change due date to Dec 17, 2014. Jan 2015: Met 2 months ago with some follow-up. Don't need any changes now, maybe in the future. Most work clarifies text. Change due date to TC call in February. April 22, 2015 Meetings underway. CPs expected, but not before F2f, need to be out by July. IDCO looking at waveforms as well. Move to June 10. Per Chris, WCM work is generic for PCD. change owner to Chris, participants to WCM workgroup. IDCO is participating; Paul Schluter hopes to define WCM as a general drop-in module. Move to June 17. July 1, 2015: Two CPs under way for WCM, Once CP approved WCM Trial implementation will need updated. Change due date to July 15. July 15, 2015: No change, move date to to Aug 5. Add Paul Schluter, there are a couple of CPs related to it. Change Date to Sep 2 TC. Sep 2, 2015: Paul Schluter is sending out tech notes to broader group. Has more topics to explore, such as representing invalid values. Move to Sep 30. Oct 14, 2015: Most issues resolved, haven't had time to complete. Set to F2F. Oct 22, 2015: Will update WCM TI rather than create a CP. Change date to Nov 18.
186	Review and reformat ftp site	CoChairs	Jeff McGeath, Paul Sherman	Dec 31, 2015	OPEN	April 4, 2014: August 6, 2014: Set date to August 20 . Oct 1, 2014: Set as a Face to Face item. Duplicate of item 163 in PC list, close the PC item. Oct 23, 2014: Discussed at F2F. can be risky, as many wiki/web links go straight to ftp files. may be best to archive historical files/folder to start. Nov 19, 2014: Change due date to Dec 17, 2014. Dec 17, 2014: Change date to January. Jan 7, 2015: Move to February. April 22, 2015: Jeff Mc has made progress, to be discussed a F2F. June 10, 2015: Move to June 17. July 1, 2015: Tom will ping Jeff on this and other items. Set date to Aug 5. Aug 5, 2015: Tom to meet with Jeff this month. Change date to Sep 2 TC. Sep 2, 2015: Change date to F2F. Oct 22, 2015: Make Cochairs owners. Change date to Dec 31.
189	Identify unique identifiers before the Connectathon	John Garguilo		Nov 4, 2015	OPEN	Related to EUI-64 issue. John will work on identifying unique IDs before the Connectathon. Set Due Date to October 22, 2014. October 15, 2014: Can use demographics for pre-connectathon. No errors or warning if EUI-64 not used yet. Can't use until all register and obtain an EUI-64. If provided, NIST can validate. Mention at the F2F for group preference. Could this be a Gazelle option? Brief F2F item (15 minutes). John G: Will have pre-conn link available to enter info. Not currently in gazelle. Change Due date to Dec 17, 2014. Have validation in pre-conn tool. Will ask for EUI or DNS for registration, prefer 1st 24 bits of EUI (OUI). Will pre-populate as much as possible. Do large organizations, are the 1st 24 bits across whole organization? It depends – patient monitors yes, but mass produced have different. Different business units can have different OUIs, depending on history. Each user will need to enter their info. Change date to January. Jan 7, 2015: Built into Pre Conn configuration page. Mostly done, could use some enhancements. Look at EUI-64, validating 24 bit now. Epic – don't look at EUI-64 specifically; it's used, but not required. Supposed to serve as a stable device ID. Discussion of topic and need for this specificity. Move to PC/TC call. Jan 21, 2015: Change date to February. April 22, 2015: Didn't get there this time. Can discuss at F2F, could go through last round's data. Very useful to have unique ID. Move to F2F. June 10, 2015: Move to June 17. July 1, 2015: Most likely to happen around Pre-connectathon. Cost is reasonable ($1000) Move to September. Sep 2, 2015: This is a pre-connectathon issue. All is OK with a local identifier table. F2F likely best forum. John G will outline the changes and bring to F2F. Paul Schluter – How to ID vendor created private codes/terms? Extensive discussion on this issue – need implementation rules. Set date to F2F. Oct 22, 2015: Discussion on how to proceed. Could have the vendors provide, NIST loads the info, then it can tie back during Connectathon registration. John G will assemble a spreadsheet to go to CN and PC members asking them to load their info. Will try to have ready for Pre-Connectathon. Paul Sc suggests including a private company identifier. Set up for warning if not in the table, error if different than in table. Stay with OBX-18 for now. Need extra data and analysis. John will send a notice on what's needed for this Connectathon. Paul Sh set date to Nov 4.

Items 190-199

No.	Action Item	Owner	Participants	Due	Open/Closed	Description/Update
191	Liaise with IDCO on Waveform communication	Paul Sc	Paul Sc, Chris C	Dec 31, 2015	OPEN	June 17, 2015: IDCO is working mostly on waveform and annotating. The sooner we get something nailed down, the better. Paul Sc and Chris working with this group, will keep TC updated. July 1, 2015: IDCO is joining WCM calls, making progress. July 15, 2015: IDCO doesn't plan on changes for 2016 CN, will be ready for 2017. Aug 5, 2015: Will likely make changes next cycle. Change date to F2F. Oct 22, 2015: Liaised, unsure what IDCO will do. Change to Dec 31.
192	FHIR	Todd C		Dec 31, 2015	OPEN	PCD is staying in touch with FHIR group. Will also share of C4MI work in this area. July 1, 2015: Addressing comments, on track for next review in August.. Aug 5, 2015: Change date to Sep 2 TC. Sep 2, 2015: Change date to F2F. Oct 22, 2015: Change date to Dec 31.
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