2015-08-03 Rx Conf Call

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Attendees

• John Hatem (Chair)
• Marla Albitz (Scribe)
• Melva Peters
• Scott Robertson
• Rik Smithies
• Jose Costa Teixeira

FHIR Ballot Reconciliation

• Medication Examples discussion
  • John led group through various scenarios with the goal to answer questions to inform example creation.

• Modelling changes - Discussion

• Medication.Coding
  • Completed Action: Tom de Jong will author explanation for medication.coding for group to vote for inclusion.

Action: Marla to ask Tom to finalize the wording based on responses to allow group to vote at next meeting.

• Medication Name - is name attribute needed when the code attribute has a display text? Tom circulated this question to the group.
  • Completed Action: Tom de Jong to circulate a proposal that will suggest explanation for use of medication name attribute in addition to Medication codeable code and display text.

 Action: Group to draw conclusions from email exchanges, discuss and vote at next meeting. There is debate as to whether medication name should be removed or not. 

• Group reviewed and discussed proposed status' for medication administration.
• Will continue this discussion to next week's meeting.

Action: 8/3 still outstanding - John to send out status' changes to allow for a vote next week on 8/3.

ListServ

• New request (7/20): Modify medication prescription from Michelle Miller
  • Need to determine how FHIR versioning is handled to help understand how a prescription is updated over time - Rik explained on the call that FHIR provides the ability to have an old version and a new version of the resource, but whether the resources persist over time as it changes, it a non-FHIR issue and is handled by the systems and data stores exchanging resources.

Action: 8/3 - still outstanding - John to respond to Michelle to get more information about the types of resource updates she is referring to for this issue.

• Medication.code.coding from Michelle Miller - see Medication.code actions in FHIR section for details.

• Medication frequency question from Christina - John forwarded to Tom to ask him to answer this question.

 Action: Scott will look at our hot topics list to see if we have this issue listed.

NCPDP Implementation Guidance - Ballot Reconciliation

• what is the status of this? All comments resolutions will be accepted per the ballot reconciliation spreadsheet. Moved John H, Seconded Jean Duteau Vote:5:0:0

Completed Action Item: Scott will post ballot reconciliation spreadsheet
Completed Action item: Scott to send a note to Karen re: publication Update - Scott sending email 7/6, today
Action:  8/3 update - Karen has not responded, Scott will try calling Karen **** can close project once completed - still needs to be done, will be done once scott confirms that Karen responded, close to being done

ARB Project

• update from meeting from John - last week's meeting did not include Pharmacy items.
• Link to ARB meeting minutes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14RFfP4ehHz_WOwS0G6VH0ibE1aDjuUWXC4flDKcfp4w/edit

Next meeting

• August 10, 2015

• Agenda
  • Final review of medication status's and vote