2014-02-04 User Group Task Force Conf Call

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Agenda

• Report on email discussions with AIRA
• Status on UG draft documents
• Discussion about UG Metrics for evaluating UG progress

Attendees

• John Hatem (Chair/Scribe), Nathan Bunker, Karen Van Hentenryck, Mark McDougall

Minutes / Discussions

• Report on email discussions with AIRA
  • On January 27th, Mary Beth K confirmed that AIRA is interested in working with HL7 and will help create an agenda and a schedule for the initial UG meting.
  • On February 4th, Rebecca Coyle responded that AIRA is working on the SOU and hopes to have an initial draft sent to HL7 by Monday, february 10th.
• Status on UG draft documents
  • UG Mission and Charter Guidelines document and Request for New UG document have both been posted to the the UG Task Force wiki.
• Discussion about UG metrics
  • UG Members
    • Counts of UG members - affiliations with HL7, AIRA, or non membership status
  • UG Meeting measures
    • Counts of UG attendance - affiliations with HL7, AIRA or non membership status
    • Measures of repeat attendance, frequency of attendance
  • UG Listserv - suggestion to make this a closed listserv, meaning only open to UG members
    • Counts of UG participation - and affiliations
    • Measures of frequency of use
  • UG Wiki - suggestion to make this a closed wiki, meaning only open to UG members
    • Counts UG access to content or pages in this wiki
  • UG Health
    • Karen will forward the WGM Heath metrics for evalution by the UG for modification and includsion in our UG metrics
  • UG Education/Training
    • Incorporate UG surveys using Survey Monkey or similar tools for evaluating any UG training sessions
    • Keep the survey instrument simple and easy to use e.g. Recommend Score (single question)
    • Count numbers of attendees and affiliatons
• Other Discussions
  • UG Pilot meetings will meet ~ once a month
  • UG Measures of Success
    • attendance on calls is at some mimum level
    • traffic on listservs is growing or stable
    • UG membership is growing
  • UG Measures of Failure
    • lack of interest as measured by poor or no attendance at meetings
    • no newe agenda topics
    • low or poor recommendation scores
  • UG clinical attendance
    • this may vary from UG to UG.
    • one focus may to solicit Use Cases that can be used by the WG standards creation body.

Next UG Meeting - February 11th, 2014

• Updates on UG pilot, SOU, metrics, etc.
• AOB