Implementation Conformance Working Group

Implementation Conformance Working Group Meeting – January 2011

Conformance and Guidance for Implementation/Testing Working Group

Baltimore, Maryland, USA – September 10-15, 2012

1.  Monday – Q3

CGIT Meeting Minutes
Location: Baltimore Convention Centre Rm. 322 / Date: September 10, 2012
Time: 1:45 –3 pm
Chair / Frank Oemig / Note taker(s) / Wendy Huang
Attendee / Name / Email / Affiliation
Rob Snelick / / NIST
Frank Oemig / / HL7 Germany
Wendy Huang / / Canada Health Infoway
Walter Grant / / US Veteran Affairs
Nathan Bunker / / American Immunization Registry Association
Quorum Requirements Met: (yes/No)
Yes

1.1.  Agenda Topics for Quarter

# / Key / Description / Presenter / Action Needed / Time
1 / Call to Order / 1:45
2 / Approve agenda / Frank
3 / Approve minutes (San Diego) / Frank
4 / follow-up action items / Frank
5 / Project Review / Frank
6 / V2.X Messaginge Work bBench / Rob
6 / Adjournment / 3:00

1.2.  Minutes/Conclusions Reached

Approval of agenda: Moved by R. Snelick, seconded by W. Grant. Motion passed unanimously 4-0-0.

Approval of minutes: Moved by R. Snelick, seconded by W. Huang. Motion passed unanimously 4-0-0.

V2.X Message Work Bench (MWB):

Pete Rontey, the author of the MWB toolkit, passed away some weeks ago. So there is no one anymore, who has an indepth knowledge about the functions of MWB.

1.  There is an existing tool (=MWB) that we need to place for maintenance and updating

2.  Eventually the tool needs to be retired and updated as part of MWB 2

3.  Need to determined whether or not to placed code into open source; first we need to determine if there is 3rd party IP in the tool.

Need to determine what features are in scope for the MWB and what features are out of scope for MWB. The context is the new release of the MWB. It was proposed that a “best practice” document (for how to write implementation guides) be written. This will serve as the requirements.

Actions
·  W. Huang to take RCnL R2 Reaffirmation to Foundation & Technology Steering Division (FTSD)
·  W. Huang to take RCnL R3 to FTSD for approval
·  R. Snelick to draft Project Scope Statement (PSS) for Implementation Guide best practices

1.3.  Supporting Documents

Agenda: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=CGITWG_Sept_2012_WGM_Agenda

Project review: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=ICTC_Strategic_Plan

2.  Monday – Q4

CGIT Meeting Minutes
Location: Baltimore Convention Centre Rm. 322 / Date: Sept 10, 2012
Time: 3:30 – 5 pm
Facilitator / Frank / Note taker(s) / Rob
Attendee / Name / Email / Affiliation
Rob Snelick / / NIST
Frank Oemig / / HL7 Germany
Walter Grant / / VA
Nathan Bunker / / AIRA
Quorum Requirements Met: (yes/No)
Yes

2.1.  Agenda Topics for Quarter

# / Key / Description / Presenter / Action Needed / Time
1 / Call to Order / 1:45
2 / V2.8 Ballot Reconciliation / Frank / Rob to incorporate changes into Chapter 2B
3 / Adjournment / 3:00

2.2.  Minutes/Conclusions Reached

2.3.  The V2.8 ballot reconciliation was discussed and completed—see the ballot reconciliation spreadsheet for details on the issues and resolution.

2.4.  Supporting Documents

2.5.  Ballot reconciliation spreadsheet.

3.  Tuesday – Q2

CGIT Meeting Minutes
Location: Baltimore Convention Centre Rm. 322Hyatt Regency by the Riverwalk Garden Terrace #135 / Date: Sept 11, 2012
Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm
Facilitator / Frank Oemig / Note taker(s) / Rob Snelick
Attendee / Name / Email / Affiliation
CGIT / Rob Snelick / / NIST
CGIT / Wendy Huang / / Canada Health Infoway
CGIT / Frank Oemig / / HL7 Germany
Quorum Requirements Met: (yes/No)
YesNno

3.1.  Agenda Topics for Quarter

# / Description / Presenter / Action Needed / Time
1 / Call to Order / 11:00
2 / MWB / Rob
3 / Adjournment / 12:30

3.2.  Minutes/Conclusions Reached

3.3.  Continued discussion about how to proceed with the maintenance of the MWB. Pete has given the source code (unfortunately not the very last release) to Rob in order to take care of it in case something happens. We have discussed what Pete has had in mind with this statement and what he expects Rob to do.

3.4.  We believe that we should establish a controlled environment where contributions (maintenance, bug fixing and new features) can be made.

3.5.  The problems areinclude:

3.6.  completeness

3.7.  undocumented features

3.8.  additional licensed controls

3.9.  ..

3.10.  Meeting Outcomes

This was brought up with Tooling WG on Thursday to raise awareness. The goal is to incorporate the MWB into the HL7 Tooling suite.

3.11.  Supporting Documents

4.  Tuesday – Q3 (InM hosting)

CGIT Meeting Minutes
Location: Baltimore Convention Centre Rm. 322 / Date: Sept 11, 2012
Time: 1:45pm – 3 pm
Facilitator / N/Ak / Note taker(s) / Frank Oemig
Attendee / Name / Email / Affiliation
CGIT / Rob Snelick / / NIST
CGIT / Wendy Huang / / Canada Health Infoway
Quorum Requirements Met: (yes/No)
YesNo

4.1.  Agenda Topics for Quarter

# / Key / Description / Presenter / Action Needed / Time
1 / Call to Order / 1:45 pm
2 / V2.8 Ballot items / Rob
3 / Adjournment / 3:00 pm

4.2.  Minutes/Conclusions Reached

Please refer to the InM minutes for Tuesday September 11th, 2012 Tuesday Q3.

Please refer to the InM minutes on Jan 2012 WGM Tuesday Q3:

http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=2012_01_15_inm_wgm_SanAntonio

Action Item: Rob to send v2.7.1 text on description of conditionals and text on definitions of interaction and transactions to InM. Need to harmonize use of the terms in HL7 V2.x.

4.3.  Meeting Outcomes

4.4.  Supporting Documents

5.  Wednesday – Q2

CGIT Meeting Minutes
Location: Baltimore Convention Centre Rm. 322 / Date: Sept 12, 2012
Time: 11 am – 12:30pm
Facilitator / Wendy Huang / Note taker(s) / Wendy Huang
Attendee / Name / Email / Affiliation
CGIT / Rob Snelick / / NIST
CGIT / Frank Oemig / / HL7 Germany
Quorum Requirements Met: (yes/No)
No

5.1.  Agenda Topics for Quarter

# / Key / Description / Presenter / Action Needed / Time
1 / Call to Order / 11:00
2 / RCnL: update and preparation for next ballot cycle (45 mins) / Rob
3 / Adjournment / 12:30

5.2.  Minutes/Conclusions Reached

The RCnL ballot was reviewed—only one comment was submitted. The commenter raised an issue with backwards compatibility with release 1 (of the data types). CGIT determined that the issue is not in scope of this document. Quorum was not achieved so no vote was taken.

A request for the comment to be withdrawn will be made (Frank has made this request). Note: the ballot had already received the votes necessary to be reaffirmed.

RCnL – Release 3 (next version): limited resources will slow progress. A thought was to create a wiki listing the issues and seek volunteers to help. A list of the issues can be found in the Vancouver minutes.

5.3.  Meeting Outcomes

Action item:

Create a wiki listing of the issues and seek volunteers to help with editing.

5.4.  Supporting Documents

http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=Binding_Syntax

6.  Wednesday – Q4 (Joint with Vocab)

CGIT Meeting Minutes
Location: Hyatt Regency Baltimore / Date: September 12, 2012
Time: 3:30 – 5 pm
Facilitator / Note taker(s) / Wendy Huang
WG / Name / Email / Affiliation
CGIT / Frank Oemig / / HL7 Germany
CGIT / Wendy Huang / / Canada Health Infoway
Vocab / Rob Hausaum / / Hausaum Consulting
Vocab / Heather Grain / / HL7 Australia
MnM / Lloyd McKenzie / / HL7 Canada
Vocab / Ted Klein / / Klein Consulting
Vocab / Carmela Couderc / / Siemens
Quorum Requirements Met: (yes/No)
Yes

6.1.  Agenda Topics for Quarter

# / Key / Description / Presenter / Action Needed / Time
1 / Call to Order / 3:30 pm
2 / Binding Syntax
3 / Adjournment / 5 pm

6.2.  Minutes/Conclusions Reached

Refer to vocab minutes

Binding intensity - “May”, “Should”, “Shall” will be included in Core Principles. Ballot of Core Principles will be limited to the section being added on Binding Intensity.

6.3.  Meeting Outcomes

Binding syntax was finalized.

A concept of “binding intensity” was introduced for Core Principles.

Binding intensity is the type of conformance clause to be included. The three types are:

·  MUST – absolutely need to be done or else will be not conformant

·  SHOULD – Strongly encourage to adopt/adapt, however there is no way to test if it is not conformant

·  MAY – provides a starting point of something that will work.

Currently, there is no possible machine processable differentiation testing criteria between SHOULD and MAY. MAY’s are generally ignored by vendors and SHOULD’s may raise a warning flag but will not be as critical as an Error (which would be raised if it is not conformant on a “SHALL” criteria).

Binding intensity was represented correctly into the existing syntax.

6.4.  Supporting Documents

Binding syntax: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=Binding_Syntax.

7.  Thursday – Q1 (joining FHIR)

CGIT Meeting Minutes
Location: Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, BC / Date: May 17, 2012
Time: 9 am – 10:30 am
Facilitator / Note taker(s) / Wendy Huang
WG / Name / Email / Affiliation
CGIT / Wendy Huang / / Canada Health Infoway
CGIT / Frank Oemig / / HL7 Germany
CGIT / Nathan Bunker / AIRA
See vocab attendee list
Quorum Requirements Met: (yes/No)
Yes

7.1.  Agenda Topics for Quarter

# / Key / Description / Presenter / Action Needed / Time
1 / Call to Order / 9:00 am
2 / FHIR conformance
3 / Adjournment / 10:00 am

7.2.  Minutes/Conclusions Reached

Profile is used to constraint one or more resource.

MnM would like to be involved in Profiles but should not own them.

7.3.  Meeting Outcomes

CGIT will review the conformance level on the HL7 wiki and align it with guidance provided in v2.8.

7.4.  Supporting Documents

FHIR conformance: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/conformance.htm

FHIR messaging conformance: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/messageheader.htm

(Conformance Statement)

FHIR conformance level: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=FHIR_Conformance_Levels_Issue_Page

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