2009-10-19 TSC Call Agenda

TSC - Technical Steering Committee

Monday, October 12, 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: 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: Ravi Natarajan
• ARB: Charlie Mead (primary), Ron Parker (alternate)
• HQ: Lynn Laakso

Invited

• Charles Jaffe (CEO)
• Ed Hammond (HL7 Chair); Bob Dolin (HL7 Vice Chair)
• D. Mead Walker (incoming alternate FTSD Rep)
• Marc Koehn (EA IP)
• Karen Van Hentenryck (HQ)
• Kevin Coonan, William Goossen (Patient Care WG Co-Chairs)

Apologies

• Ken McCaslin

Agenda

Meeting Admin

1. Roll Call -
2. Accept Agenda -

Guest discussion:

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

Agenda continued

1. Approve Minutes from 2009-10-05_TSC_Call_Minutes
   • from 2009SeptWGM:

   2009-09-19_TSC_WGM_Minutes

   2009-09-20_TSC_WGM_Minutes

   2009-09-21_TSC_WGM_Minutes

   2009-09-22_TSC_WGM_Minutes

2. Review action items –
   • From 2009SeptWGM, 20090919 - Calvin and Charlie Mead to present a brief summarizing the issues of representing how the TSC interacts with the Roadmap
   • From 2009SeptWGM, Helen wordsmithing on the TSC Mission and Charter draft - Revisions noted, for approval.

(20 min) Standing Committee Reports/Approvals

1. CEO Report -
2. CTO Report -
   • JIC/JWG update:
   • OMG-HSSP Process update:
   • EA IP Update
3. ArB Report -
   • Membership clarification and confirmation: Greg Peres
4. International Council Report -
5. Domain Experts -
6. Foundation & Technology -
   • From 20091012: Project Proposal - HL7 Neonatal Care Report Implementation Guide at TSC Tracker # 1329
   • From 20091012: 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
   • For 20091019: Project Approval: Security Domain Analysis Modelscope statement at TSC Tracker # 1332.
7. Structure & Semantic Design -
   • Request approval for extension of DSTU for Clinical Statement- see TSC Tracker #1338
8. Technical & Support Services -

(30 min) Discussion topics

• TSC Chair election: motion to elect Charlie McCay as TSC Chair for 2010-2011.
• 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
• 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.
• 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

For Review 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 1119: Publication requests without responses to comments received posted on the Ballot Desktop

  no outstanding requests without responses - Closing issue

  • Clinical Genomics 2.5.1 IG - posted
  • V3 Claims & Reimbursements; Special Authorization, R1 - posted
  • V3 Care Provision; Allergy & Intolerance, R1 - posted
  • V3 Immunization, R1 - posted
• TSC Tracker 1319, HL7 IPR, Patents, and Copyright Issues