Meeting-20080913

TSC - Technical Steering Committee

Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:00 AM (US Pacific Time)
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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); Ed Tripp (newly elected TSC member to take office Jan. 2009); Ravi Natarajan (newly elected TSC member to take office Jan. 2009)

Agenda

1. (5 min) Meeting Admin
   1. Roll Call - The following individuals were present: Charlie McCay, John Koisch, Jim Case, Woody Beeler, Gregg Seppala, Austin Kreisler, Ken McCaslin, John Quinn, Jane Curry, Chuck Meyer, Karen Van Hentenryck Calvin Beebe, Frank Oemig, Ed Hammond, Freida Hall, Dave Hamill (Q4).
   2. How well is the TSC functioning – Charlie McCay asked the TSC members for feedback on how they feel the TSC is functioning. He feels that the group been good with the reactive and day-to-day issues, but less effective with planning issues. He noted there is good attendance at conference calls but observed that not much work is being done via the listserv between calls. Several methods were discussed for increasing the effectiveness of the TSC. ACTION ITEM: The TSC members decided to do more routine voting online voting and use the calls for planning/strategic issues. The process will be worked out off-line.
   3. Agenda review:
      • Getting new TSC members up to speed - There were questions on how the new TSC members will be brought up to speed. Van Hentenryck noted that they were invited to join the TSC meetings in Vancouver. They will also be added to the TSC list and encouraged to participate in the weekly calls to be brought up to speed.
      • Laboratory Work Group – Austin Kreisler indicated that the Lab group is challenged and they are discussing what needs to be done. Co-chairs being laid off and/or re-directed and not able to do their work. The Work Group members are also unable to participate as needed. There is a dissolution of WG volunteers and this needs discussion.
      • Dissolution of volunteer resources - Singurenau would like a brief discussion regarding the possibility of WGs being supported by administrative staff.
2. Q1 – Review Issues Log/HDF
   • Issues log
   1. • 319 – This is still an issue. We are about to violate our principles RE backwards compatibility. Will keep this as a TSC issue. Need task force to deal with this. ACTION ITEM: Quinn will lead the task force. Hot Topic scheduling for MnM will occur on Sunday,Q3. Quinn feels this should be resolved by next meeting. INM, MNM, ITS, pubs need to be involved in the solution. Identifry issues and potential solutions this week.
      • 321 – keep as open. Will expire the item if not resolved by Jan 2009.
      • 322 – Ballot issue that is still open.
      • 323 – Jane Curry is working on tooling proposal. Implications will be considered when dealing with this. Once this is in place T3SD will develop some policy. This is WG collaboration type of tools, not RMIM designers. ACTION ITEM: Electronic Svcs will make a recommendation by January 2009 meeting. Now that wiki is HL7, the mandate to move things to web site. Once we have the p
      • Closed
      • 329 – Close
      • 332 – This is still an open issue. HL7 completed work goes to ISO, This is outside JIC work. If work needs to be modified to be an international standard, then it needs to go to JIC. Hammond will provide the template. ACTION ITEM: Quinn will update the document that is available online and then we’ll close this item
      • 339 – Closed
      • 382 – Will close with PIC releases its generic updated DMPs
      • 383-Close – INM has a task force dealing with this. whether fields length should be normative
      • 388 – Wilfred is working on updating Grorge. When that upgrade is completed, Wilfred will turn his attention to these changes
      • 400 – Closed and referred to Affiliate council
      • 401 – Closed. This is being dealt with by a Board task force. Another issue has bubbled up RE vocabulary. Currently there is no method for binding vocab. HITSP Foundation work group is thinking of becoming a WG and balloting these as informative docs. This is related to how US deals with its vocabulary.
      • 405 – Closed – HQ will create an DB similar to the V2 and CDA databases
      • 410 – This is being dealt with, short term, by the contract with Ted Klein and Russ Hamm. The chronic problem remains. Short term we may wish to have a contract with Ted/Russ to address this. Long term, this will be solved by the appropriate tooling. This will be rsolved when the chronic problem is addressed.
      • 457 – Still open and will be discussed in Q4
      • 586 - Need check box or text bxs on the project form
      • 587 – Still opened but should be closed when Don does this.
      • 588 – Still open
      • 589 – Wilfred will do this
      • 590 – Still open
      • 591 – still open
      • 592 – Closed
      • 593 – Open
      • 596 – Still open. Beebe to make recommendation
      • 597 – Open
      • 611 – closed.
   • HDF
3. Q2 – Roadmap Review
4. Q3 – Tooling/ArB Work
   • Update on tooling initiative/next steps
   • Discussion around governance around enterprise architecture and SOA
5. Q4 – Project/Work Group Management
   • Work Group health metrics
   • 3 year plans
   • SWOTs