GDC Minutes 2023-03-01
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Welcome
- Participants
- Jürgen Brandstätter
- Roger Wallhouse
- Stephane Spahni
- Tie Tjee
- Derek Ritz
- Yasunari Shiwokawa
- Juha Muinonen
- Charles Parisot
- Vince McCauley
- Robin Breslin
- Peter MacIsaac
- Agenda Approval
- Approved
- Permission to record this session
- Approved
National Deployment Committees
Rescheduling of Jun 7th Meeting
- Decision: Because of HIMSS -> re-scheduling on Jun 14th, 2023 (same time)
Future Special Presentations and tentative schedule 2023
- May 3, US/EU: Canada's Projectathon Results 2023 and expcted implications on procurement (Derek)
- Jun 14, EU/Asia: European EEHRxF and EHDS and its implications on the EU member states (Jürgen)
- Jul 5, Asia/US: tbd
- Aug 2, US/EU: tbd
- Sep 6, EU/Asia: XpanDH Project in Europe (Jürgen)
- Oct 4, Asia/US: tbd
- Nov 1, US/EU: tbd
- Dec 6, EU/Asia: Netherland's setting up of a National Test and Validation Center (Tie)
Special Topic: Connectathons / Projectathons and potential revenue streams
- Continue discussion of last call
- Key points of last call
- Projectathons are great, but there is a risk that this becomes a place where "propriety standardization happens"
- -> Feedback from projects/Projectathons back to standards development is needed (close loop)
- Several projects had this feedback loop (Austria, Swiss, ...)
- Coupling of IHE Catalyst with IHE Development Domains?
- Discussion
- Derek: Feedback loop is definitely required
- QRPH has strong relations to US, but tries to divide this feedback into what's "international" and what's US-specific
- General consensus: We need more "connection" of agencies/projects to IHE
- Derek: IHE should create processes which allow such a funding if it comes
- Jürgen: Projects should be encouraged to co-create their specifications with IHE. Has happened in the past, but not too often. Needs personal engagement of us to get them to (Deployment Committees)
- Derek: the bilateral meetings last year in Montreux have really influenced Infoway's thinking (especially including the ones with NL and Swiss!)
- Tie: Same for the Dutch delegation in Montreux
- Stephane: One problem is that "making it with IHE [or others]" is often considered as slowing down the realization
- Robin: IHE needs to look relevant (and be relevant) and our portfolio of specs looks like yesterday's news to an outside
- Roger: It's (still) not well known outside what IHE brings to the table -> this is a problem on government level
- Vince: In AUS in the Pathology area, currently not much drive to replace HL7v2 with FHIR, because it's simply working. Use of IHE needs to get much "easier"
- Tie: I think IHE has to think of another (additional) process in development of IHE profiles eg Sprint sessions of several days. Not having defined already a new IHE profile, but just start...18 months feels to the IHE outside world as 'slowing down vs FHIR process'. But they dont understand the difference between a FHIR profile and an IHE profile.
- Jürgen: The difference between countries seems to be huge. In some IHE has no standing, in others a very good one. Mostly an "impressive event" was the starting point for IHE being turned towards in those countries (such as a Connectathon visit, etc.)
- Stephane: IHE needs to become a bit more agile in evolving its profiles
Global Consortium for eHealth Interoperability Update
- Status
- New work-item on "Alignment on communication regarding IPS" between IHE/HL7/HIMSS
Open Forum (informal information sharing)
- None
Other business
- label2enable.eu (Derek)
- Label2Enable project
- An effort to provide objective results in support of the "interoperability" and "efficacy" axes of the proposed label
- Significant opportunity for IHE to play a role
- Special interest group for Pathology founded in UK (Robin)
- DICOM and Imaging is coming up!
Next meeting
- Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 06:00-07:00pm CTT (Asia/US friendly time)