Three year plan of the Template Work Group

2014

Complete the Templates DSTU Ballot reconciliation and publish the DSTU
Extend the DSTU proof of concept templates ITS to demonstrate import and export of templates between other template creation and management tools.(Current reference implementation is from Trifolia into ART-DECOR)
Grow the size of the team
Establish a Templates facilitator
Facilitate best practice in creating and maintaining templates for all governance groups, within HL7 (e.g. Care Provision, Pharmacy, vMR) and outside HL7 (e.g. projects)
Governance sharing, licensing etc.
Continue to explore the use of Hing-X as a Templates Repository for all HL7 Version 3 artifacts

updates to the Templates Ballot to keep it current with implementation learnings and evolution of the understanding and function of Templates, more insight on Governance Issues related to maintaining and sharing templates

The three year plan has been approved on Jan 20, 2014 at the WGM by the Templates Working Group