2009-08-24 TSC Call Agenda

TSC - Technical Steering Committee

Monday, August 24, 2009 11:00 AM (US Eastern Daylight Time, GMT -5)
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Attendance

Expected

• Chair: Charlie McCay
• CTO: John Quinn
• Domain Experts: Austin Kreisler (primary), Ed Tripp (alternate)
• Foundation & Technology: Woody Beeler (alternate)
• Structure & Semantic Design: Calvin Beebe (primary), Gregg Seppala (alternate)
• Technical & Support Services: Ken McCaslin (primary), Helen Stevens Love (alternate)
• Affiliate: Ravi Natarajan
• ARB: Charlie Mead (primary), John Koisch (alternate)
• Ad-Hoc: Jim Case
• HQ: Lynn Laakso

Invited

• Charles Jaffe (CEO)
• Ed Hammond (HL7 Chair); Bob Dolin (HL7 Vice Chair)
• Marc Koehn (EA IP)
• Karen Van Hentenryck (HQ)

Apologies

• Gregg Seppala
• Ioana Singureanu

Agenda

Meeting Admin

1. Roll Call -
2. Accept Agenda -
3. Approve Minutes from 2009-08-10 TSC Call Minutes
4. Review action items –
   • DAM as normative document; how to claim conformance: Report from ArB after OOC meeting.

(20 min) Standing Committee Reports/Approvals

1. CEO Report -
2. CTO Report -
   • EA IP Update:
     • Project Approval: EA IP Alpha project - PASS draft charter, at TSC Tracker # 1116
3. ArB Report -
4. Affiliates Report -
5. Domain Experts -
   • Please note that recently DSTU and Informative document publication requests have been submitted to the TSC when this requirement (responses to comments received for both Informative and DSTU ballots be posted on the Ballot Desktop) has not been met. Going forward, Don Lloyd advises the TSC that these requests should not be approved until this requirement has been met. Austin proposes (listserv thread) that the relevant work groups be given a few days to get the reconciliation package posted, and if they don't then the TSC instruct HQ to close down the ballots.
   • For TSC approval: withdrawal of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Notifiable Condition Report, R1 by Patient Safety; aka ANSI/HL7 V3 RRNCR, R1-2004; HL7 Version 3 Standard: Public Health Reporting: Case Investigation Topic, Release 1 11/3/2004; TSC Tracker #1100, to be followed by a Normative ballot, based on recent feedback from ANSI (GOM update forthcoming).
6. Foundation & Technology -
7. Structure & Semantic Design -
   • Project Approval: OO - Blood Center System to System Messaging Project Proposal; PSS at TSC Tracker #1113
8. Technical & Support Services -
   • Education's SWOT and three year plans

     Reviewed and provided feedback to the co-chair of Education regarding their SWOT and three year plans. Updated SWOT and three plan to follow the September WGM in Atlanta.

   • Project Approved - for consideration by the TSC ED

     New Product Consideration and proposal - The Technical and Support Services Steering Division recommends that the TSC consider the develop of a new product category that will support the work that Education is doing.

     • The motion: Create a new product category called Education Services. Courses developed to provide additional delivery methods for delivering education outside of education summits and Work Group Meetings will be included in this category. This will include many formats for eLearning including Computer Based Learning, Pod Casts and partnership with organizations that have already exploited alternative learning methods and delivery processes.
   • Technical and Support Services Steering Division has approved the following project scope statement and makes a motion that the TSC approve the project scope statement called E-Learning Course Program Administration (see TSC Tracker # 1112)
   • The Steering Division meets every other week. Some attendees have problems with the on week overlapping with another every other week meeting. The Steering Division met this week and will meet next week to change the off week.
   • Project Services' Project Insight Review and Cleanup team requests the TSC's cooperation to ask the Work Groups to allocate time at the WGM to review their projects and three year plans. Recommendations for format and structure guidelines draft per TSC Tracker # 1082Specifically, to remind them: when they submit their agendas to include agenda time for project review and planning, to each Steering Division listserv prior to the WGM, at the co-chairs dinner/meeting, and again at the Steering Division breakout session.

(30 min) Discussion topics

Product Visibility Project

• Update on TSC Tracker 999: TSC Product Visibility Project Proposal
• Request the TSC approve HL7 Wiki Draft Product List in order to send the Product Brief templates to the appropriate work groups to fill out.
• Feedback on draft matrix on domains.

Open Issues List

• TSC Tracker 1082:provide a structure and format guideline for three year plans to the WGs, now tied to PS WG project to clean up Project Insight. See example
• TSC Tracker 745: HQ to explore cost of providing secretarial support to the WGs
• PSS at TSC Tracker 998: TSC Project Visibility Proposal
• PSSat TSC Tracker 997: TSC Work Group Visibility project proposal