2013-05-05 TSC WGM SDO Activities Minutes

TSC Sunday Q4 Agenda - 2013 May WGM, Atlanta GA USA

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TSC HL7 activities with other SDOs Meeting Location: Capitol North		Date: 2013-05-05 Time: Sunday Q4
Facilitator	Austin Kreisler	Note taker(s)	Lynn Laakso
Opportunity for HL7 WGM attendees to review activities in collaboration with other SDOs such as IHE, OMG, and the JWG and JIC, and provide comment.
Attendee list

Agenda

Welcome and Introduction - Austin

1. Panel discussion: Communication Strategies
   • “Improving HL7 Communications: What can we learn from other organizations.”
     • HL7 communication is a particularly challenging area. Given the vast number of workgroups that we have, and the multitude of activities, keeping the membership and the public informed without drowning people in detail is a serious challenge. Add to that the multinational representation of HL7 and the activities that are happening within our Affiliates, and the challenge is compounded.
     • Why Have this Session? Communication challenges are not unique to HL7, and we believe that this is a perfect opportunity to learn from the HL7 community some best-practices, techniques, or approaches that have proven themselves to be useful in other settings. The hope is that some of those “gems” will be a nice fit for HL7, and could help us improve our communications strategy and activities.
     • What about the Cross-SDO Session? As many of you may be aware, this timeslot has been used in the past for “cross-SDO” discussion. This topic is an extension of that agenda, bringing to bear NOT ONLY experiences from other SDO’s but from any other organization that has done well with effective communication strategies.
     • So what comes out of this? Our aim is to identify a “short list” of ideas that we believe might positively affect communications in HL7. Achieving a consensus position within an hour or so may not be possible. The goal is to narrow the universe of ideas into a short list of strong contenders. With this actionable list, we have the potential to improve communications for the whole of HL7.
   • Panelists
     • Richard Soley, OMG
     • Elysa Jones, OASIS

Time permitting, attendees can present liaison reports verbally

Links to SDO liaison reports

Attached reports:

• HL7 activities with AHIP: John Quinn
• HL7 activities with ADA: Pat Van Dyke
• HL7 activities with CDISC: Becky Kush
• HL7 activities with CEN TC 251: Mark Shafarman
• HL7 activities with Continua: Chuck Jaffe
• HL7 activities with DICOM: Helmut Koenig
• HL7 activities with DSMO: Durwin Day
• HL7 activities with GS1: Chuck Jaffe
• HL7 activities with IEEE (11073): Todd Cooper
• HL7 activities with IHE: Chuck Jaffe, Keith Boone
• HL7 activities with IHTSDO: Russ Hamm provides this report -
  • IHTSDO Workbench Activities
    • The Vocabulary and Tooling Workgroups are developing the evaluation criteria and SOW for the approved project to load a subset of content from the vocabulary MIF and represent it in the Workbench. This content representation will be used as pilot content to verify the functional capabilities of the Workbench in performing HL7 Vocabulary Harmonization update operations and the ability of the Workbench to represent all of HL7 vocabulary entities. It is anticipated that this would need to be a funded project effort.
  • U.S. SNOMED CT® Content Request System (USCRS)
    • The IHTSDO has begun to use the USCRS that was produced by the NLM. The USCRS provides users the ability to request basic changes to SNOMED CT via a web interface and allows for those requests to be analyzed and triaged by the vocabulary maintenance team. USCRS has potential to streamline the HL7 Vocabulary Harmonization process by providing an interface to manage HL7 Vocabulary Harmonization requests and move away from the current MS Word Harmonization submission format. The Vocabulary WG has a project underway to obtain the software for USCRS vial the NLM, establish an instance of the USCRS tool and analyze the capabilities of the USCRS tool to determine what functional gaps exist in the USCRS tool that would need to be addressed for the tool to be integrated into the HL7 Vocabulary Harmonization process. This project would serve to align HL7 vocabulary tooling with that of the IHTSDO and the NLM.
• HL7 activities with IRISS: Ed Tripp
• HL7 activities with NCPDP- Margaret Weiker
• HL7 activities with NQF: Chuck Jaffe
• HL7 activities with NUCC: Nancy Wilson-Ramon
• HL7 activities with OMG: Ken Rubin
• HL7 activities with Regenstrief/LOINC: Ted Klein offers this report
• HL7 activities with SCO: John Quinn or Chuck Jaffe
• Hl7 Activities with The Health Story Project: Joy Kuhl
• HL7 Activities with TIGER: Pat Van Dyke
• HL7 activities with W3C: John Quinn
• HL7 Activities with WEDI: John Quinn
• HL7 Activities with X12: John Quinn

Review of each JIC-sponsored event having HL7 engagement

Latest JIC report

• BRIDG: Ed Tripp -
• IDMP: Tim Buxton
• CTRR: Ed Helton
• DataTypes: Grahame Grieve
• EHR-S FM:
• PHR-S FM: