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This is how IHE Radiology works.  Other domains will be similar but differ in some details.
 
This is how IHE Radiology works.  Other domains will be similar but differ in some details.
  
* Congratulations! Your proposal has been selected by the [[Profile Selection Process]].
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* Congratulations! Your proposal has been selected by the [[Profile Proposal Process]].
 
:* We’re going to say “profile” a lot here but the process is essentially the same if your proposal was for a whitepaper, etc.
 
:* We’re going to say “profile” a lot here but the process is essentially the same if your proposal was for a whitepaper, etc.
 
* There’s lots of work to do before the first meeting
 
* There’s lots of work to do before the first meeting

Revision as of 12:12, 5 October 2016

This is how IHE Radiology works. Other domains will be similar but differ in some details.

  • We’re going to say “profile” a lot here but the process is essentially the same if your proposal was for a whitepaper, etc.
  • There’s lots of work to do before the first meeting
  • Good news: you can hit the ground running because your plan is in your proposal
  • Start working on the steps listed in your Breakdown of Tasks
  • Contact the people listed in your Support and Resources and listed as Contributors
  • Get them working on considering your Open Issues and proposing ideas
  • Start sketching the profile document
  • Use the template: Supplement Template V10.3
  • Practice Safe Pasting to avoid messing up your document (Paste text without formatting)
  • Lots of guidance in the template in <italic text>
  • Material from your Use Case section will get you started on Volume 1, X.4
  • Start working on an Actor/Transaction Diagram; it's a great highlevel view
  • Three meetings (and optional tcons) will get the profile from Proposal to Trial Implementation status.
  • Kickoff Meeting (Nov 1-4)
  • Arrive with a skeleton profile document
  • Bring contentious/hard issues and be prepared to walk the committee through them
  • Make your best call for less contentious issues and write that into your skeleton.
  • It gives people something tangible to consider.
  • They can still disagree but if they agree you’ve saved time for more meaty discussions.
  • Committee will critique the contents and help you work through open issues
  • Leave with a complete idea of how you’re going to draft all the text for public comment
  • PC Prep Meeting (Jan TBD soon)
  • Arrive with a draft Public Comment version of the document
  • Committee will review in detail and vote it ready for public comment if it meets the following criteria
  • All parts of the profile are written (not in stone, but the parts are all in place)
  • All questions where you want/need input/confirmation/consent from the wider community are listed in the Open Issues section
  • Issues that have been decided but you want to avoid rehashing with the email reviewers who didn’t hear the discussion are documented in Closed Issues
  • Reviewers are permitted to re-open closed issues but they had better introduce new facts/considerations beyond what’s documented in the closed issue.
  • Leave with a ready to publish for PC (possibly after some remaining tidy-up edits)
  • TI Prep Meeting (Mar/Apr TBD soon)
  • Arrive with a draft Trial Implementation version of the document, a consolidated list of the received comments, completed resolutions for most comments, proposed resolutions for some comments, and
  • Committee reviews in detail and votes it ready for trial implementation
  • All open issues must be closed, one way or another.
  • Leave with a doc ready to publish for TI (possibly with some remaining tidy-up edits)
  • General Meeting Notes
  • You get allocated a number of time slots based on the estimated effort in your proposal
  • Most meetings spread your timeslots over a couple days so you can do homework overnight after the first day to work on issues/ideas raised
  • Ideally, post a draft document to the meeting folder a week in advance of the meeting
  • While it’s understood that some domain experts may not be able to attend for the entire duration of the face to face meetings, it is strongly recommended. It’s a way to learn by watching others while you're not in the hotseat. And frankly the point of IHE is for everyone to contribute to everyone else's work. We benefit from the breadth of view.
  • That being said, if you have travel constraints, or if you have contributors who will be joining the meeting by phone from another time zone, contact the co-chairs so they can take those constraints into account when scheduling the agenda.
  • Also, it’s expected that a profile editor may set up tcons with their contributors to work on the profile between face-to-face meetings


  • Where do things go?
  • Includes links to Agenda (times, places, logistics) and Minutes
  • Post documents here. Structure of meeting folders varies randomly each year


  • Reading/Reference List