2009-10-26 TSC Call Agenda

TSC - Technical Steering Committee

Monday, October 26, 2009 11:00 AM (US Eastern Time, GMT -5)
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Agenda

Meeting Admin

Meeting Attendance - :

At	Name	Affiliation	Email Address
?	Calvin Beebe	HL7 SSD SD	cbeebe@mayo.edu
?	Woody Beeler	HL7 FTSD Alternate	woody@beelers.com
?	Kevin Coonan	invited Guest, Patient Care WG	kevin.coonan@gmail.com
?	Bob Dolin	invited Guest, HL7 Chair-elect	BobDolin@gmail.com
?	William Goossen	invited Guest, Patient Care WG	williamtfgoossen@cs.com
?	Ed Hammond	HL7 Chair	hammo001@mc.duke.edu
?	Charles Jaffe	invited Guest, HL7 CEO	cjaffe@HL7.org
?	Marc Koehn	invited Guest, HL7 EA IP PM	marc.koehn@gpinformatics.com
?	Austin Kreisler	HL7 DESD	austin.j.kreisler@saic.com
?	Lynn Laakso (scribe, non-voting)	HL7 HQ	lynn@hl7.org
?	Ken McCaslin	HL7 TSS SD	Kenneth.H.McCaslin@QuestDiagnostics.com
?	Charlie McCay (chair)	HL7 TSC Chair	charlie@ramseysystems.co.uk
?	Charlie Mead	HL7 ArB	Charlie.mead@booz.com
?	Ravi Natarajan	HL7 Affiliate	Ravi.Natarajan@nhs.net
?	Ron Parker	HL7 ArB Alternate	rparker@infoway-inforoute.ca
?	John Quinn	HL7 CTO	jquinn@hl7.org
?	Gregg Seppala	HL7 SSD SD Alternate	gregg.seppala@va.gov
?	Ioana Singureanu	HL7 FTSD	ioana@eversolve.com
?	Helen Stevens	HL7 TSS SD Alternate	helen.stevens@shaw.ca
?	Ed Tripp	HL7 DESD Alternate	Edward.tripp@estripp.com
?	Karen VanHentenryck	invited Guest, HL7 HQ	karenvan@HL7.org
?	D. Mead Walker	invited Guest, HL7 FTSD Alternate-elect	dmead@comcast.net

1. Accept Agenda –

Guest discussion:

• DCM issues, see TSC Issue # 890, on Consistency of Clinical content and overlap

Agenda continued

1. Approve Minutes from 2009-10-19_TSC_Call_Minutes –
2. Review action items –
   • Roadmap Strategic Initiatives review

     Strategic Initiatives - Current:

     • Expand, reinvigorate and streamline HL7’s production, processes and technologies
     • Evaluate HL7’s competitive environment and define HL7’s roles, positions and actions
     • Enhance communication and outreach: make HL7 more useable, useful and understandable and share the ideas worldwide
     • Embrace the Electronic Health Record (EHR)/Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S)/Personal Health Record (PHR) as the focal point of technical development of health informatics standards
     • Connect to the clinicians, an essential HL7 community

     Strategic Initiatives - Proposed:

     • Streamline the HL7 standards development process.
     • Facilitate HL7 standards adoption.
     • Define an overarching and internally consistent interoperability framework.
     • Ensure broad and encompassing stakeholder engagement in the standards development process.
     • Lead development of the technical and functional health informatics standards for electronic health records.

Standing Committee Reports/Approvals

1. CEO Report – none available
2. CTO Report
   • EA IP Update:
3. ArB Report –
4. International Council Report -
5. Domain Experts -
6. Foundation & Technology -
   • From 20091019: Project Approval: Security Domain Analysis Model scope statement at TSC Tracker # 1332.
   • For 20091026: Request for publication of DSTU for FTSD: Vocabulary - CTS R2, at TSC Tracker #1342
7. Structure & Semantic Design -
   • e-Vote review: Project Proposal - HL7 Neonatal Care Report Implementation Guide at TSC Tracker # 1329
   • e-Vote review: Project Proposal - HL7 Procedure Note Implementation Guide at TSC Tracker # 1330
   • From 20091012: Request to publish Informative Document: Clinical Genomics V2 Fully LOINC-Qualified Genetic Variation Model R1 at TSC Tracker #1335
   • From 20091019: Extension of DSTU for Clinical Statement - Request approval- see TSC Tracker #1338
   • For 20091026: Publication Request for Informative Document: CDA Public Health Case Report IG at TSC Tracker #1341
8. Technical & Support Services -

(30 min) Discussion topics

• eVote Review - TSC Chair election: motion to elect Charlie McCay as TSC Chair for 2010-2011.
• From 20091012: Project Approval: TSC Work Group Visibility Project 2009 - was approved by TSC as committee, sent to cochairs for review, now needs formal approval as a project - scope statement at TSC Tracker #997
• Board recommendation: TSC to evaluate Research and Innovations Committee, background at [TSC Tracker #1320] - current format proposed is half-day workshop at 2010JanWGM

Open Issues List

Review deferred from 20091012:

• TSC Tracker #1321: Next steps on WG not meeting at WGM
  • point of consideration - handbook specifies Work Group co-chairs are expected to attend at least every other WGM or be subject to removal; what expectation shall be made explicit for Work Groups?
• TSC Tracker 1319, HL7 IPR, Patents, and Copyright Issues

For Review 20091026:

• HQ to explore cost of providing secretarial support to the WGs TSC tracker #745
  • Allocate resources to 'priority' projects - what are the standards?
    • See also Roadmap project at Project Insight # 395, Criteria for prioritizing new projects
    1. Work Group Health -
       • help the healthy (reward productivity) or
       • help the unhealthy (foster greater productivity)
    2. Strategic Priority -
       • Set a product strategy to determine strategic priority? Currently assigned to Charlie McCay and John Quinn see Roadmap project at Project Insight #413, Develop an updated HL7 Product Strategy
         • Will the TSC take this on?
       • Use the SAEAF Alpha project engagement to establish strategic priority (short-term)
    3. Roadmap alignment?
       • TSC needs to review Roadmap (see agenda above)
       • How will you measure 'alignment'? Strategic priority weighting factors, as in the example Project Prioritization Criteria?
• Technical issues for generating JIC ballots and implementing the standard by ISO/CEN customers. TSC Tracker # 1336
• HL7 Activities with other SDOs - session at WGM TSC Tracker # 1337