November 12, 2014 Education Telecon

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Attendees

• Melva Peters (Chair and Scribe)
• Ted Klein
• Diego Kaminker
• Damian Francois
• Melissa Bundy
• Ken Chen

Meeting Agenda/Minutes

HL7 Learning Partner Proposal

• Waiting for proposal from Rene Spronk.
• Rene (Sept. 30) draft ready, pending review by potential educational partners. Will be submitted to Education after final tweaks.
• October 1: no discussion - waiting for proposal from Rene
• No information from Rene for this proposal
• October 15: Issue will be deferred until information is received from Rene.
• November 12: Deferred

Action:  Melva to reach out to Rene to get a status

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
  • October 1, 2014: No update

Action item: Melva follow up with Lorraine again about SAIF Webinar - email sent November 10 - Will be reviewed on ARB next week

Tutorial Planning-DEFERRED

• Core tutorials on HL7 Standards, and have specialized tutorials alternated between WGM
• Start with the January WGM tutorials
• Rene Spronk has some draft stats on Education events that will be discussed in Chicago
• Continue discussion of stats that would be useful
  • Education Offering Dashboard
    • This was an action item allocated to me during the WGM in Chicago. The usefulness of the various metrics probably merits additional discussion. Once there is agreement on a 'starter set of metrics' we'll have to create a mechanism to actually get hold of them.
  • Rene has created the statistics wiki page.
  • Number that Rene has on the wiki is not consistent to the actual numbers
• Focus on HL7 HQ stats first and quality measures.
• Location included in the statistic as may impact attendance/participation

Action: Education WG Members to review Wiki page for next teleconference
Action:  Education WG Members are asked to send suggestions for other stats or types of stat to capture

Discussion of Certification Exams and Ed Summits

• v2 Workshop Project - no discussion
  • Patrick will join an Education teleconference to discuss further
  • October 1, 2014 - no discussion as Patrick not on call
  • October 15, 2014 - Melva has reached out to Patrick without response.
    • Diego has volunteers to take this on via email.
    • Damian would be interested in participate.

Action: Ginny to following up with Damien to help with wiki setup.
Action item: Melva will follow up with Patrick on this project - will suggest that we will either close the project or transfer the project to Diego (as Project Facilitator) - Melva to reach out to Patrick to have him join the call on November 26

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
  • Discussion of planning item back writing session during January 2015 WGM
    • Difficult to pull in the resourses (SME) to find time to collaborate and focus on questions during WGM.

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

Strategy for HL7 V2 Exam Updates

• Ted Klein presented on strategy for updating Control Specialist exam to V2.8
• will look at the statistics on the performance of the questions on the 2.7 exam and look at the non-performing questions and fix these ones
• Questions from Ted:
  • update to V2.8, v2.8.1 or v2.8.2 -
    • 2.8.1 has been balloted as normative
    • will update to V2.8 - will avoid changes specific to 2.8.1 or 2.8.2 - Education WG agrees with this approach
    • need to determine if in the future we want to want to certify to major releases or minor releases.
  • Approach for updating the test
    • 6 questions identified that could be added to the test (means 6 questions would be removed)
    • 2 things to change/update
    • 2 items to verify in existing questions
    • update questions with incorrect answer rates > 66% and < 5%
    • it was suggested that Ted is much more familiar with the exam and the standard and that if he believes these need to be changed, then do so
    • it was suggested that the changes be vetted with Hans, Tony and Patrick
    • suggested that the exam be reviewed with Sharon
  • Total number of changes will be between 25-30 questions
  • draft of changes to be done by the end of December 2014
  • asked Ted to
  • requests for certification tests for specific versions - need to discuss whether we should offer these or whether we should test only the latest version

Action:  Melva to post a question to the Education List

MLM Certification - DEFERRED

• Suggestion from Virginia for a certification test for "Medical Logic Modules"====
  • Its very stable, self-contained, and people are hired as MLM developers. Several large EHR vendors use MLM as the way of programming custom CDS into their systems. We use it at NYP. A certification in this might look good on a resume
  • Discussion: need more details and consider how it fits with Arden Syntax WG

Action item: Ginny will reach out to the Arden Syntax WG Chair to collaborate with this certification test.
Action item: Ginny will try to invite them to the call.

• Peter Haig to join call to discuss

Webinar Planning for 2015- DEFERRED

• 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
  • Melva created a wiki page for Webinars topics and would like ideas for next year.
  • Karen comments based on case studies as topics
  • Sharon needs items/brainstorming on ideas.
• Creation of policy webinars in development for 2015
  • Possibly having case studies
  • Implementation case studies
    • Taking this to the Co-chairs for feedback and looking for ideas
• FHIR webinar are being developed currently.
• Melva has sent an email to the Co-chairs for case studies and Sharon will include article/request in HL7 eNews

Action item: Sharon will ask International Council for webinar ideas
Action item: Melanie will reach out to the affiliates as well to determine if they might be willing to advertise webinars

Current resources and reading material - DEFFERRED

• 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-community.org
  • Ken Chen is still working on the resource list. Koha software has become an option with the latest version.
  • Damian will be intested in helping.

Action: Ken will create the PSS for this resource list and present it to the WG

Transformation of Education WG - DEFERRED

• Continue discussion of how we can transform Education WG
  • Could consider transforming the Education WG to a Advisory Board.
• Trend over many years has been Up and down with the collaboration between HQ and Education Committee.
• Possible dissolve the Education WG and transform to a new entity.
• No board appointed co-chairs for WG anymore.
• Special topics for the WGM Luncheon to get more involvement.
• Slide deck for special topic for the WGM and advertise ahead for more interest.

Action: Continue discussion with Education WG transformation.
Action:  Add agenda item to work on a slide deck for WGM to attract new members
Action:  Consider special topics for teleconference and invite via eNews, etc

Next meeting

• Next meeting - November 26, 2014 at 11 am Eastern