2012-05-13 TSC WGM SDO Activities Minutes

TSC Sunday Q4 Agenda - 2012 May WGM Vancouver BC CAN

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TSC HL7 activities with other SDOs Meeting Location: TBD		Date: 2012-05-13 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.
Attendees:

Agenda

Welcome and Introduction - Austin Kreisler

Panel discussion: (1 hour)

Streamlining current cross SDO processes - project perspective

• CDA Consolidation project: Liora Alschuler, Lantana/Health Story perspective; Keith Boone, IHE PCC perspective
• Diagnostic Imaging Report IGs and DICOM part 20: Harry Solomon and Helmut Koenig
• epSOS: Giorgio Cangioli
• CTS2 - Russ Hamm
• others TBD

SDO liaison activities and review of each JIC-sponsored event having HL7 engagement (25 mins)

Attached reports:

• HL7 activities with AHIP: Maria Ward
• HL7 activities with ADA: Pat Van Dyke reports the ADA Standards Committee for Dental Informatics (SCDI) continues to develop their ADA Spec. 1067 using the EHR-FM R1.1 as a reference. The project to develop a joint ADA/HL7 profile based off of the Electronic Health Record Functional Model has been delayed. The ADA may bring that project forward in 2013 (as of a February discussion with Mark Diehl who is leading that project.)

There will be renewed interest in the Periodontal Attachment from the Attachments Work Group. We hope to find joint resources to update and complete that attachment.

• HL7 activities with CDISC: Becky Kush
• HL7 activities with CLSI:
• HL7 activities with CEN TC 251: Mark Shafarman
• HL7 activities with DICOM: Helmut Koenig
  • Relevant DICOM Activities - Web Access to DICOM Persistent Objects (DICOM WG27)
    • DICOM approved Suppl. 148 Web Access to DICOM Persistent Objects (WADO) by means of Web Services final text in August 2011. This supplement deals with retrieval of persistent DICOM objects such as images and reports, corresponding to the evolution of the existing HTTP-based WADO to Web Services. Both native DICOM and rendered images can be retrieved as well as total or partial metadata of the object without the image pixels. DICOM WG27 is working on further WS*-based and RESTful WADO services.
• HL7 activities with DSMO: Maria Ward or Mary Lynn Bushman
• HL7 activities with GS1: Chuck Jaffe
• HL7 activities with IEEE (11073): Todd Cooper
• HL7 activities with IHE: Keith Boone submits the attached report
• HL7 activities with IHTSDO: Russ Hamm reports the following activities have been ongoing between HL7 and IHTSDO.
  • Technical Architecture of the IHTSDO Workbench

    IHTSDO recently completed a review of the technical architecture of the IHTSDO Workbench. HL7 participated in interviews towards this effort, providing feedback on both architectural and usability aspects of the Workbench. Recommendation from the technical architecture review includes:

    • Refactor existing code to create a core terminology data model API
    • Develop a new terminology-specific data model API
    • Refactor existing code to create a discrete data access layer

  • Mapping of H7 Vocabulary to the IHTSDO Workbench

    HL7 is currently investigating use of the IHTSDO Workbench to manage the HL7 vocabulary artifacts, and is progressing on a project to map the HL7 vocabulary to the IHTSDO Workbench data model. In addition, HL7 is investigating the feasibility of setting up their own extension namespace of SNOMED CT to maintain SNOMED CT content specific to HL7 structures. It is likely that HL7 would use the IHTSDO Workbench to maintain their SNOMED CT extension

  • Availability of the IHTSDO Workbench to HL7 Members
    • The “Member’s Release” of the IHTSDO Workbench has been released and is available on the IHTSDO hosted Collabnet site. The Member’s release is based off the Migration Release, which is the version that IHTSDO has been using for developing the latest version of SNOMED-CT. This version should be considered by HL7 as the “starting point” for Workbench development activity and is available to HL7 members through the IHTSDO.
• HL7 activities with NCPDP: Margaret Weiker submits the Attached report
• HL7 activities with NQF: Chuck Jaffe
• HL7 activities with NUCC: Maria Ward or Nancy Wilson-Ramon
• HL7 activities with OMG: Ken Rubin
• HL7 activities with Regenstrief/LOINC: Ted Klein submitted the attached report
• HL7 activities with SCO: John Quinn or Chuck Jaffe
• Hl7 Activities with The Health Story Project: Joy Kuhl reports since our previous board report, Health Story engaged in the following additional activities, bringing value to HL7.
  • Hosted a well-attended Health Story demonstration at the HIMSS12 Interoperability Showcase. Twelve Health Story vendor members worked together to apply HL7 CDA in a transition of care use case that was provided to Health Story by the American College of Physicians.
  • Hosted a well-attended press release briefing at HIMSS12 with HL7, IHE and the ONC S&I Framework to promote the work of the Consolidation Project and the Health Story HIMSS12 demonstration. Several follow-up articles in national publications featured the work of Health Story and HL7.
  • Provided education about Health Story and Consolidated CDA during three industry webinars promoting the use of HL7 CDA.
  • Supported IHE in exploring options for HL7 CDA testing in the next Connectathon.
  • Recruited Health Story vendor members to participate in another demonstration of HL7 CDA at the HIMSS Government HIT Conference this June in Washington DC.
  • Coordinated a response to the call for public comments on the proposed ruling for Stage 2 meaningful use requirements, commenting on references to clinical documentation and the use of Consolidated CDA.
  • Began recruiting participation in Health Story from the consumer engagement community – enriching Health Story by enabling patients to contribute to their own health stories.
  • Health Story members are encouraged to become early adopters of HL7 CDA, and members are directed to participate in training at HL7 Working Group Meetings and Education Summits.
  • We look forward to further collaboration, including, most immediately, completion of and advocacy for adoption of the HL7 IG for CDA Release 2: IHE Health Story Consolidation, Release 1.
• HL7 Activities with TIGER: Pat Van Dyke reports that this group initially started by Linda Fischetti and sponsored by Ed Hammond, continues to meet for a Tuesday morning breakfast at each Working Group Meeting. We will focus on Nursing Education opportunities during this meeting. Several of the attendees currently teach informatics and have a desire to create and offer nursing informatics classes for HL7. We will also continue to explore methods of introducing HL7 into the curriculums of nursing schools and nursing organizations.
• HL7 activities with W3C: John Quinn
• HL7 Activities with WEDI: Maria Ward
• HL7 Activities with X12: Maria Ward