2009-10-26 TSC Call Agenda

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TSC - Technical Steering Committee 

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

Apologies

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
  3. ArB Report –
  4. International Council Report -
  5. Domain Experts -
  6. Foundation & Technology -
  7. Structure & Semantic Design -
  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?
      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

Future Agenda item list

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