Technical Leadership

WGM Cycle	2013 Technical Leadership call notes	2012 Technical Leadership call notes
T3 Sep-Jan	2013-10-04 Ken, John, Tony DAF, SDC, UDI, vMR - Lorraine noted another initiative-based project in a thread to Ken on Clinical Note Attachments, previously Additional Attachment Templates. Need to add to the US Realm Task Force radar. Ken forwards the email to John and will add to US Realm Task Force. Lorraine: moving fast enough with FHIR to keep the interest and not leave the WGs behind. Needs to find out where the BAM assignments got left. Need to set up ArB process for content review and 'sniff test'. Tony: need to insert a checkpoint in the project approval process for the content review. John will reach out to Durwin to see if Attachments has been approached. Ken will also notify Feik. Tony is one year into his FTSD term ending December 2014 - he and Woody will solicit a volunteer interim replacement. Lorraine will be participating in the AUS connectathon in October using the balloted version. Code freeze for January WGM would come in one month with DSTU content. She expresses a Process concern of setting these timelines. This would be the FGB. She will talk to him and bring back update next Friday. There will be another connectathon in NL in the spring. Tony notes a concern of the content of the ballot was not controlled and changes were not announced and Grahame fixed things on the fly. FGB needs to set a governance process and FMG needs to manage/control/implement it. Consider adding TSC Chair to FGB and chair-elect. Lorraine reports that SAIF AP has good action items coming out of it. Keith presented the ECCF matrix applied to projects in SDWG. Approach with Ken participation with ArB and using the Friday call as the communication vehicle discussed.
T1 Jan - May
T2 May-Sep	2013-09-13 Austin, Ken, Lorraine, John, Tony Invite Chuck to Saturday instead of Sunday night. Status of ONC/CDS ballots discussed. If SDC thinks they're balloting, they need a PSS immediately, a lead WG and definition of the products they intend to ballot. Getting it through in one cycle is overly optimistic. Mitigation of expectations or education discussed. Need funding to HL7 not ONC funding of their own PM. Lorraine asks Austin/Ken to join ArB Sunday Q3. 3 FMG candidates; if Josh is not a member he cannot serve on FMG. Austin will follow up. 2013-09-06 Ken, Tony, John, Ron Reassign trackers for members no longer on TSC - ORC liaison responsibilities; reassign to Freida. WGM effectiveness is now Jean. 2013-08-30 - Ken, Austin, John, Lorraine, Ron US Realm task force status update Out of crisis management mode. CDS team to get their content to Don today. Budget for funding a project manager for US Product Line manager is not likely. TRAC reviewing the CDS situation's issues. Thursday lunch will work for the WGM session for US Realm Task Force. Help desk pilot - Will be an agenda topic for Sep 9th. FAQ questions arising in CDA could be answered in RIM FAQ and need more careful vetting than answers given solely by SDWG. Austin will forward the thread to the group. User group task force TSC representative - Austin found out about time commitment, about 1 concall plus 1 hour outside call per week. TSC representation and concern discussed. Ken volunteers. S&I Structured Data Capture - Austin forwards an email - ONC needs to get SDC off the ground, and have reached out to various work groups for time on their agendas. EHR, SDWG, PHER. They need to know that if they intend to ballot, especially in the January cycle, they need a PSS in ASAP and probably too late already due to short cycle and should plan for May. They are scrambling to reverse the problems created by generating their own standards in S&I Framework not through HL7. ArB leadership - Tony volunteered. If named, he cannot hold two voting positions on TSC, need new FTSD cochair. Would also like to get Calvin, Paul Knapp on ArB. Paul might be a good FTSD cochair. Need to avoid bandwidth saturation for self-funded participants. Need to discuss on Sunday ArB meeting and have nominations for Sunday night. Ron will send a note to the ArB informing them of his intent to resign, noting Tony's name as potential chair and soliciting others to volunteer. 2013-08-23: Austin, Ron, Lorraine, Tony ArB leadership discussed. Ron's participation in question. FHIR participation will still proceed but overall product governance group would not be advisable. That leadership needs visibility/credibility to other product lines. Concern over faction fighting in ONC with CDS ballot level. Threat has been issued they will create a competitive US Realm SDO. Ken notes he needs to pull off the WGM Room assignment project from the TSC agenda. Agenda topics for Cambridge: work has been overtaken by events; not having focused on long term but on crisis management. Ron had a list of people to approach after Atlanta that he needs to follow up on. Need to look at underlying mission of ArB and make it more visible to see if it captures the interest of volunteers. Weds AM general session agenda time has been limited to 5 minutes; not enough time. Communication issues at stake; e.g. Austin would like to see sponsor and cosponsor groups emailed when a NIB is filed. Project facilitator must also facilitate the project to ensure it is approved by SD in a timely fashion, and the TSC approves and so on. Cambridge topics: ArB Sunday night. BAM would be one topic but not the only one. 2013-08-16: Austin, Tony, Lorraine, Ken CDS project issue progress discussed. Templates participation lacking, Kai's timezone problematic. Could invite Keith but risk exposing the whole discourse on his blog. He attended FMG this week as an invited guest. MU Stage 3 related standards on the hot seat HQMF an opposing camp for use in regulation than the CDS stuff Jean shouldn't ask why they're coming to HL7 at all though Woody and he don't necessarily want an HL7 label on it. Content review team needs to look beyond Datatypes issue. One alternative is to require them to choose an existing framework FHIR, V2.x, V3 to move forward in their migration plan. What about a US Affiliate WG asks Ken. Governance group for that product line might be the answer notes Lorraine. Calvin didn't think it was a product line. Paid support for US Realm coordination between 25% to 40% FTE. 2013-08-09 Austin, John, Ken, Lorraine CDS project issues continued. Need to rip the V3 label off of vMR. Jean resigned from FMG, concern with FHIR DSTU readiness may want to encourage vMR go-forward plan to work with FHIR as migration path. TRAC is also looking at precepts, mitigations for issues like CDS, ballots from old projects with broad scopes Regular review of projects by outside reviewers e.g. Steering Division. How to make it real from Project Insight management; project aging is masked by updated milestones. Vitality trigger, e.g. time based or event based. Specificity of projects for balloting is another. Receipt of the NIB prior to the PSS is another problem, which has been addressed by Dave to distribute all NIB PSS's to the Steering Divisions whether or not they are approved. Steering Division project reviews, driven by NIBs and publication requests. SDs will have to start meeting regularly. May set up a Steering Division project review board - sounds like the cross-product family governance process (for BAM) for Cambridge Monday, dealing with these issues under Management Governance - DSTU update vs reballot vMR DAM UV Realm due to AUS involvement