20091203 arb minutes

Architecture Board

December 3, 2009

Attendance

Name	Present	With	Affiliation	E-mail address
Aneja, Paul	?	Guest
Bond, Andy	Yes	ArB
Curry, Jane	Yes	ArB	Health Information Strategies	janecurry@healthinfostrategies.com
Grieve, Grahame	?	ArB	Kestral Computing	grahame@kestral.com.au
Hufnagle, Steve	?	Guest
Julian, Tony	?	ArB	Mayo Clinic	ajulian@mayo.edu
Koehn, Marc	?	Guest
Koisch, John	Yes	ArB	NCI	koisch_john@bah.com
Loyd, Patrick	?	ARB	Gordon point Informatics LTD.	patrick.loyd@gpinformatics.com
Lynch, Cecil	Yes	ArB	ontoreason LLC	clynch@ontoreason.com
Mead, Charlie	Yes	ArB	Booz Allen Hamilton	charlie.mead@booz.com
Nelson, Dale	Yes	Arb	II4SM	dale@zed-logic.com
Ocasio, Wendell	?	ArB	Agilex Technologies	wendell.ocasio@agilex.com
Parker, Ron	Yes	ArB	CA Infoway	rparker@eastlink.ca
Peres, Greg	?	Guest
Platt, Joe	?	Guest	Ekagra Software Technologies	jplatt@ekagrasoft.com
Quinn, John	?	ArB	Health Level Seven, Inc.	jquinn@HL7.org
Robertson, Scott	?	Guest	Kaiser Permanente
Shakir, Abdul-Malik	?	ArB	Shakir Consulting	ShakirConsulting@cs.com
Smith, Karen	Yes	Guest	Technical Editor	karen@smithspot.com
Thompson, Cliff	Yes	Guest	OntoSolutions LLC	cliff@ontosolutions.com
VanArsdall, Eddie	?	Guest

Agenda

• Call to Order
• Approval of Agenda
• Approval of Minutes
• Karen Smith - Dita update
• Alpha Projects Update
• Alignment of SAEAF ECCF with ISO – name change and slight rewriting necessary. (Per Charlie Mead).
• Review of qualifications for ARB Membership
• BF document timeline
• Other business and planning for next meeting
• Adjournment

Minutes

• Agenda approved with addition
• Cecil moved and John seconded approval of Nov 19th Minutes
• Karen Smith is working on ECCF refinment and a finalized draft is anticipated for this weekend
• Cecil will work with the SAEAF editing crew to identify software to manage Topics
• Alpha Projects Update -
  • John K reporting on NCI's EHR Functional Model for ambulatory oncology - charter for Sept 2010, including alignment with interoperability specfication, 2 service specifications; request & fulfillment pattern (and specimen management
  • Charlie reported on NCI's SAEAF support
    • 2-day course for developers implementers focusing on ECCF & BF for Services design development - using current scope of caBIG on data discovery and data query (light-weight BF) - to be ready by Feb.
    • Longer-term initiative to produce a SAEAF Book extended documentation and training with more in depth using a DITA environment
    • Even longer term is an objective to do Model Management with a repository and corresponding processes over time and all the related artifacts probably using OWL because of the semantic cross-dependencies at a model element level, not just a model (artifact) level
  • Cecil reported on CDA R3 - using SAEAF Specification stacks to allocate artifacts and roles for CDA R3 specification - all requirements are in; understanding why you use SAEAF only gradually evolving
  • Dale reported on New ITS - governance process to define requirements to develop ITSs - no progress on this initiative because the ITS group has been working on other ITS initiatives - expected to start work on a project scope statement Dec 16
• Charlie addressed the requirement to align with ISO standard comformity assessment & certifaction = Charlie to include in the updated ECCF document
• Charlie reported that the TSC has asked the ArB for qualifications for memberships - Charlie drafted and sent to John Quinn to review and sent to the ArB - defer review until John reviews
• John & Charlie to have an updated BF document to vote on by Dec. 18th to send out for ArB approval via e-mail
• Next meeting Dec 10th at 10amE - agenda items to be added to the wiki Tony Julian