July 16, 2014 Education Telecon

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Attendees

• Melva Peters - (Chair and Scribe)
• Ken Chen
• Sharon Chaplock
• Melissa Bundy
• Mary Ann Boyle
• Virginia Lorenzi

Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Paris Tutorials - May 2015

• Need to consider if there are tutorials of interest

Action:  Mary Ann to reach out to Nicolais Canu and the organizing committee to determine if there are topics that would be of interest
Action:  Mary Ann to reach out to Diego to see if there are other ideas from International Mentoring

Tutorials

• SAIF Webinar
  • will be recorded at the WGM
  • Feb 5, 2014: Ron's day job interfered with his available time to record. He is looking to reschedule but no word yet.
  • May 21, 2014: Ron still has not had the time to engage the SAIF Webinar
  • June 4: No updates since last conference call, Melva will continue to follow up

Action: Melva will follow up with ARB who will look to find someone to record the information
Action:  Include as regular agenda item until recorded

September 2014 WGM Tutorial Grid

File:Copy of Sept 2014 preliminary tutorial grid.xlsx

• Discussion on Webinars to replace tutorials that can't be scheduled for Chicago
  • Introduction to IHE (Harry) in November
  • Snomed (Heather) - August
  • Standards for Interoperability - will reach out to Tim Benson (December)
  • Introduction to UML (Norman Daoust) - late October
  • Templated CDA (Keith Boone) - not scheduled
  • Immunization Messaging (Rob Savage) - November

Action: Sharon is still working on possible Webinars for Chicago

Discussion of Certification Exams and Ed Summits

• v2 Workshop Project
  • Melva has reached out to Patrick but no new updates.
  • Diego might take on this project depending if Patrick has the bandwidth to complete it.

Action: Melva will continue to find out more information about Patrick's commitments

Updates to the Certification exams

• Sharon has analyzed the certifications and will need to possibly revise the questions.
• Sharon would like to create a taskforce to review the questions on the exams.
  • Qualifications needed to be on the taskforce:
    • The group will be comprised of volunteers from the tutorial speaker pool to review the certification exam
    • Must have attended/audit the actual tutorial
    • Must be approved by the Education Committee
  • Sharon is working on an outline for a plan and guidelines for updates to existing and also for developing FHIR into a Certification Exam
  • Will bring back more information after meeting with Melva, Sharon and Mary Ann in August

Action: Sharon has drafted the process and will continue to work on the planning of a group to review the material.

Webinar Planning for 2015

• Discussion of proposed webinar topics for 2015
  • Melva has sent out an email to the list
  • Sharon has received a comment request for FHIR tutorials

Action: Melva to put another request to the list serve

WGM Planning

• Quarters - Monday Q3 and Q4, Thursday Q1 and Q2
  • Melva will be unable to attend WGM on Thursday Q1 and Q2

Action: Ken/Diego will lead the meetings on Thursday

Certification Exam Time

• • Sharon said HL7 Spain asked more testing time for the certification exams. Currently the testing time is 2 hours and the testers are having a difficult time with the english items

Action:  Include as agenda items for WGM Quarters

Translation of Certification Exams

• • Sharon suggested possibility of created a spanish version of the certification exams to help with comprehension.

Action:  Include as agenda items for WGM Quarters

Current resources and reading material

• Will look at the list to determine how we can use it
  • Ken is still working on a the list. As soon as it is completed, we will place it as an agenda item.
  • Still compiling list but researching a possible open source library software called Koha. www.koha.org
  • Ken Chen is still working on the resource list. Koha software may not be an option since the only modules that would be only use is Cataloging and Serials.

Action: Ken will generate the resource list first then add this to the next WGM Q1/Q2 agenda item for discussion. 

AOB

• None

Next meeting

• Next meeting - July 30, 2014 at 11am Eastern