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==Attendees==
* Melva Peters (Chair) - HL7 Canada
* Ken Chen (Scribe) - CHI
* Mary Ann Boyle (HQ) - HL7 International
* Damian Francois - Mount Sinai NY
* Melissa Bundy - Lantana
* Robert Campbell - East Carolina University
* Ginny Virginia - NY Presbyterian

==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.

===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

===Tutorial Planning===
* 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
** [http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=HL7_Education_Offering_Dashboard 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)

===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.

* October 15, 2014:  Deferred to next meeting

====MLM Certification====
*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.

==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
**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==
*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===
* 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

===AOB===

===Next meeting===
*Next meeting - October 29, 2014 at 11 am Eastern