/ HL7 Working Group Meeting
Baltimore, MD
International Council Meeting
Sunday,September 18, 2016
Wireless Network: HL7SEP2016
Password: healthlevel7

Minutes

Opening Session (9:00 am – 10:30am) / Melva Peters
  1. Opening Announcements & Call to Order (5 min)
  • International Council Co-Chair election results – Congratulations!
  • Diego Kaminker
  • Line Saele
  • Melva Peters
/ Melva Peters
  1. Introductions Round Table (10 min)
  • Confirm Proxies & Quorum
Proxy Held By: / For: / Affiliate:
RoelBarelds / Bert Kabbes / HL7 Netherlands
Diego Kaminker / Fernando Campos
MarivanAbrahao / HL7 Argentina
HL7 Brazil
Alexander Mense / Stefan Sabutsch / HL7 Austria
Beat Heggli / Marco Demarmels / HL7 Switzerland
Catherine Chronaki / Alexander Berler
Sergey Shvyrev / HL7 Greece
HL7 Russia
Line Saele / LeneAlsbæk Nielsen / HL7 Denmark
Peter Jordan / David Hay
Nat Wong / HL7 New Zealand
HL7 Australia
Melva Peters / Byoung-Kee Yi / HL7 Korea
  • Round table introductions
  • Statement of Quorum –
  • Current Membership = 31
  • Lapsed members: Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Romania, Slovenia
  • Quorum for Decisions (40%=13), Directions (33%=11), Financial Decisions (51%=16)
Count: 22 in attendance with proxies – Quorate for financial decisions / Melva Peters
  1. Secretary Report (5 min)
  • Review Agenda
  • Reminder to put Affiliate presentation in Dropbox or email
/ Melva Peters
  1. HL7 International Board Report & Welcome (10 min)
Went to HL7 Asia / Taiwan – fabulous experience. Wonderful perspectives from the Min. Health and programs /projects /applications from Korea-Taiwan. International task force continued meeting and analyzing organizational models. The Board continues to become more strategic. Doing a better job as a Board for HL7. Keep the organization as one meeting its needs and being strong as a global level
Philip: Time scope for the Internationalization task force ending
Pat: End of the year. / Pat van Dyke
  1. CEO Report to the IC (10 min)
Continuous progress of the Argonaut projects. Phase III: sprint processes (2/3 weeks). Focused IG for MU. Support of FHIR foundation (incorporated as non-profit, Board of Directors, Funding Sources, Membership Model, Project Framework). Outreach to external stakeholders. FHIR Foundation is a means for providing assistance to implementors, not for developing standards. FHIR.ORG implementation and best practices registries, reference implementations. Partners on Interoperability: coalition of stakeholders, exchange data for use and reuse among communities. Supported by technologies defined by the needs of the users.
HL7 FHIR Roundtable: FHIR Apps showcase, July 27-28 ’16 Harvard, March 8-9 ’17 Duke.
FHIR Copyright: HL7 FHIR Spec (Common License: FREE to use). FHIR Name / flame logo: Licensed to HL7 – request a license for use of name/logo from HL7 for promotional material and web citation.
ONC Grant: 500K grant/5 years. Implementation-a-thon (3). Focus: updating the companion guide.
Rendering the C-CDA Tool Challenge: C-CDA Viewer (winning tool)
ONC Grant for FHIR: funding not established. Support for FHIR Foundation. FHIR Infrastructure (seed money for registry/repository)
International Marketing: Revive Health – project for marketing moving ahead
Looking Ahead: collaboration with other SDOs.
Catherine: is the winning tool available?
Chuck: will be available from the web site, it’s open source.
Philip: will FHIR.org be competing with current organizations?
Chuck: it will be collaborative. Will not compete. It’s a simple place where everyone can go and see opportunities to meet the implementation community / Chuck Jaffe
  1. CTO Report specific to Affiliates (20 min)
Vision for HL7 2020, Improve Tooling, BioPharma, FHIR support Simplify structure and product portfolio
Roadmap: best of FHIR / V2/ CDA /V3. Single vocabulary management process. Migration path from V2, V3, CDA. Simpler tooling. Essentialism and simplicity in practice. HL7 tool inventory: hl7-tools.herokuapp.com
Tooling: Evaluating conferencing tools: cheaper, screen sharing. Piloting Atlassian (review, discussion) and Jira (ballot, track). Looking for open source. Fhir.org registry and repository.
Guidelines for Affiliate FHIR IGs: agree to IP agreements. Backup and continuity plans, responsibilities of a committer, ensure commit control, clear publication © license. Voluntary if published through hl7.org or
Diego: Are you considering also some quality requirements for FHIR IGs
Wayne: The FHIR taskforce is doing that. They will seek how to include some tags for that.
Question: how we will migrate V2 infrastructure in hospitals and patient portals
Wayne: There will some way to, but V2 works, we cannot mandate to change.
Frank: we are working in V2+, which will be mappable and more modern. We invite everyone to collaborate in Publishing WG.
Gora: no vision statement on mHealth, social media and patient engagement?
Wayne: we have to create that vision. That is a good point, to accommodate those things in the future. / Wayne Kubrick
  1. Technical Steering Committee Report (10 min)
TSC Discussion: Essentialism, Tool Inventory, Review TSC Organizational structure
How does someone bring stuff to HL7 to make it work here? How to make HL7 essential to other people. No changes immediately. Who is our customer? Is our voluntary force, or people who uses standard but never shows up or participate?
Catherine: what should be the structure?
Ken: Great question. How do we make the TSC and WG more efficient? Groups make the same thing across different steering divisions. There are a lot of barriers to begin a process. We are in the discovery phase, and brainstorming. / Ken McCaslin
  1. International Mentoring (20 minutes)
See presentation / John Ritter
Diego Kaminker
Break (10:30am-11am)
Q2 (11:00am – 12:30pm)
  1. FHIR Update (5 min)
Biggest connectathon ever. Happy to accommodate IGs from affiliates. Happy to assist any affiliate. How FHIR can be used and constrained? Presentation in Q4 for co-chairs on IGs: constellation (this room) / Lloyd McKenzie
  1. IHTSDO (30 min)
See presentation
Needs clarification on the ‘free set of codes for international use’.
Board will accept the proposal for the development use of SNOMED CT for Affiliates. / Jane Millar
  1. Thursday Agenda Topics (5 min)
Any agenda items will be taken into account for Thursday / Melva Peters
  1. International Patient Summary Project Update (10 min)
Beginning real work in the project.
Coordination with things happening around the world. HL7 Intl’ project launched.
As many affiliates participating as possible, for sharing cross borders summary.
Melva: please send the last version of the PSS so the IC members can review. / Rob Hausam
  1. V2 Table Clean Up Project
Started June 2011.
Conference call every other week.
How we can publish these tables? Concepts/Code System/Value Sets everything is fully documented. So anyone can map V2 contents to CDA / FHIR. Moving to a unified vocabulary concept model for HL7. / Ted Klein
  1. Regional Reports
  • HL7 Europe (10 min)
See presentation
  • HL7 Asia (10 min)
See presentation
  • HL7 Latam (10 min)
Only 3 active HL7 Affiliates in LATAM: Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
You will see HL7 Arg report later. Uruguay is advancing on having a national project using CDA R2 IGs / PIX PDQ for Shared EHR implemented by 2018. Brazil had advanced in their SUS project. Based on openEHR, IHE XDS, PIX/PDQ.
  1. Reports from HL7 Affiliates

  • HL7 Argentina
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Australia

  • HL7 Austria
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • HL7 Brazil

  • HL7 Canada
/ See presentation
  • HL7 China

  • HL7 Croatia

  • HL7 Czech Republic

  • HL7 Denmark
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Finland
/ See presentation
  • HL7 France
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Germany
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Greece
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Hong Kong

  • HL7 India

  • HL7 Italy
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Japan
/ See presentation
  • Hl7 Korea
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Netherlands
/ See presentation
  • HL7 New Zealand
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Norway

  • HL7 Russia

  • HL7 Serbia

  • HL7 Singapore

  • HL7 Spain
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Sweden
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Switzerland
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Taiwan
/ See presentation
  • HL7 UK
/ See presentation
  • HL7 Uruguay

  • HL7 USA
/ See presentation
Lunch (12:30 – 1:30pm)
Q3 (1:30 – 3:00pm)
  1. Report from the ONC (30 minutes)
See Presentation / Steve Posnack
  1. Reports from HL7 Affiliates (continued)

  1. Closing Remarks
/ Melva Peters
Meeting Adjourned @ 15:00
Thank you for attending the meeting.
Have a successful week.

Affiliates Council Members:

Affiliate / Role / Name / Attendance Record
Co-Chair / Melva Peters / Yes
Co-Chair / Diego Kaminker / Yes
Co-Chair / Francisco Perez / Yes
HL7 Board of Directors
IC Representatives / Beat Heggli / Yes
Frank Oemig / Yes
Members of the Council
HL7 Argentina / Fernando Campos / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 Australia / Nat Wong / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 Austria / Stefan Sabutsch / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 Bosnia and Herzegovina / Samir Dedovic
HL7 Brazil / MarivanAbrahão / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 Canada / Melva Peters / Yes
HL7 China / Li Baoluo
HL7 Croatia / Miroslav Koncar
HL7 Czech Republic / LiborSeidl
HL7 Denmark / LeneAlsbæk Nielsen / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 Finland / JuhaMykkanen / Yes
HL7 France / Francois Macary / Yes
HL7 Germany / Sylvia Thun / Yes
HL7 Greece / Alexander Berler / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 Hong Kong / Chung Ping Ho
HL7 India / Dr. Chandil Kumar Gunashekara
HL7 Italy / Giorgio Cangioli / Yes
HL7 Japan / Michio Kimura / Yes
Hl7 Korea / Byoung-Kee Yi / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 Netherlands / Bert Kabbes / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 New Zealand / David Hay / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 Norway / Line Saele / Yes
HL7 Russia / Sergey Shvyrev / Yes
HL7 Serbia / Filip Toskovic
HL7 Singapore / Adam Chee
HL7 Spain / Francisco Perez / Yes
HL7 Sweden / Mikael Wintell / Yes
HL7 Switzerland / Marco Demarmels / Yes (by proxy)
HL7 UK / Philip Scott / Yes
HL7 Uruguay / Julio Leivas
HL7 USA / Ed Hammond / Yes
Lapsed or Unpaid Affiliates
HL7 Malaysia
HL7 Pakistan
HL7 Philippines
HL7 Puerto Rico
HL7 Romania
HL7 Slovenia

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