Concall-20080602

TSC - Technical Steering Committee

Monday, June 2nd, 2008 11:00 AM (US Eastern Time, GMT -5)
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Attendance

Expected

• CTO: John Quinn
• Domain Experts: Jim Case (primary), Austin Kreisler (alternate)
• Foundation & Technology: Ioana Singureanu (primary), Woody Beeler (alternate)
• Structure & Semantic Design: Calvin Beebe (primary), Gregg Seppala (alternate)
• Technical & Support Services: Ken McCaslin (primary), Helen Stevens Love (alternate)
• Affiliate: Frank Oemig,
• ARB Chair: Charlie Mead
• HQ: Karen Van Hentenryck

invited

• Charles Jaffe (CEO); Ed Hammond (HL7 Chair); Chuck Meyer (HL7 Vice Chair)

Apologies

• John Quinn
• Woody Beeler
• Charlie Mead

Agenda

1. (5 min) Meeting Admin
   1. Roll Call -
   2. Accept Agenda -
   3. Approve Minutes from
      • concall-20080519
      • meeting-20080504
      • meeting-20080503
2. (20 min) Standing Committee Reports/Approvals
   1. CEO Report -
   2. CTO Report - Briefly, over the last two weeks I have been focused on a couple of major issues:
      • Tooling:
        • We have fallen behind by about one month now on having user requirements across all venues for peer review. I am following up on this on almost a daily basis at this point. Our latest re-commit for specifications for peer review is early this week.
        • Ed, Chuck J and I are becoming more convinced than ever that it is critical that HL7 Tooling and the Methodologies that they support are both key to the success of acceptance of our Standards by our users. As soon as we have completed user requirements I will be reaching out for ideas and support from the TSC on the development of our planning to meet our requirements.
      • ISO/CEN/HL7 Joint Initiative Work
        • The last week was spent in Gothenborg Sweden supporting:
          • Our booth/exhibit at the MIE conference
          • The ISO TC 215 meetings
        • The ISO Meeting included
          • Joint Initiatives Council – our efforts to work with CEN and ISO to joint produce standards
          • ISO TC 215 WG 6 meetings: I do believe that we have far better clarity on the work going on in the seven work streams currently in progress. HL7 is directly involved in supporting three of these work streams.
          • Any questions or issues around these three work streams and HL7’s involvement should be directed to me.
      • I will be on holiday through June 11th when I return to the US.
      • On my return I will be attending HITSP, HL7 ArB and US SDO Summit meetings during the first 10 days of my return.
   3. ArB report -
   4. Affiliates Report -
   5. Domain Experts - The Domain Experts Steering Division held a conference call on May 28th, but failed to achieve quorum. We are holding an email vote on a number of project scope statements.
      1. Request - Need clarification on process for dissolving a work group. The GOM indicates that all co-chairs need to be notified, that seems clear. It also indicates that a "conference" must be scheduled to discuss the dissolution request. Is that "conference" just for the Steering Division, or is it for all co-chairs? Also, how much time needs to be allotted to allow members to come forward to join the work group, thus rendering the dissolution of the work group moot (as indicated in the GOM)?
      2. MOTION by SD: To approve the project scope statement for Medical Product and Device Listing. This is a JIC project that should of been included in the list of projects submitted for approval by the TSC back in early March, but was somehow left out. [1]
   6. Foundation & Technology - MOTION by SD: To approve the updated JAVA work group mission/charter [2]
   7. Structure & Semantic Design - Motion by SD: That the start date for non-Pubs-db ballots be included in the HL7 ballot schedule on the web site and that the deadline for submission be only 30 prior to the close of ballot.
   8. Technical & Support Services -
3. (30 min) Discussion topics
   1. Request to publish Genotype DSTU Update 2 document as DSTU [3]
   2. TSC elections - Van Hentenryck
      • confirm that work group evoting is restricted to members [4]
      • voting on affiliate represenative to TSC will be, per the GOM, restricted to affiliate chairs. A change to the GOM has been requested to revert to original wording allowing each affiliate its size-determined number of votes [5]
   3. Establishing due dates for project clean up, 2-3 year plans, SWOT analysis, etc - McCay
   4. Developing a product list - McCay.
      • List of ANSI approved standards is available at [6]
      • List of current DSTUs is available at [7]
   5. Reaffirmation of V2 XML standard - Meyer
   6. Out-of-cycle ballot criteria