MnM Minutes WGM 201301 Phoenix

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Sunday Jan 13 Q3

Attendees

Woody Beeler, Doug Fridsma, Hugh Glover, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Alexander Henket, Austin Kreisler, Virginia Lorenzi, Lloyd McKenzie, Zoran Milosevic, Brian Pech, Vin Sekar, Mead Walker

Agenda

Establish Agenda for WGM from Hot Topics and FHIR Methodology Needs

Steps:

• Selected "Identifiers related to Social Media" and "Uncertainties around Procedure" for discussion in session on Q2 Thursday.
• Discussed Need for M&M Co-chairs to address the question of MnMs directions with regards to "new" Methodology Responsibilities. Will address at Lunch on Wednesday
• Verified Needs of FHIR for Methodology Sessions and Ballot Reconciliation Sessions and assigned these through the schedule.

Final Agenda was posted on Gforge and circulated by e-mail Sunday evening

Monday 1/14 Q1

Attendees

• Andy Bond (andy.bind@nehta.gov.au)
• Nat Wong (nwong@totalcare.net.au)
• Woody Beeler (woody@beeler.com)
• Rik Smithies (rik@nprogram.co.uk)
• Alexander Henket (alexanderhenket@enovation.nl)
• Ewout Kramer (ekramer@furure.com)
• Grahame Grieve (grahame@healthintersections.com.au)
• Dave Shaver (dave.shaver@corepointhealth.com)
• Yukinori Konishi (koni@kis-ihc.jp)
• Sakamu Takasaka (s.takasaka@gmail.com)
• Andrew Liu (aliu@infoway.ca)
• John Moehrkhe (john.moehrke@ge.com)
• Paolo Russian (paolo.russian@hosgroup.com)
• Saul Kravitz (skravtiz@mitre.com)
• Alex Zupan (alex.zupan@tbsgroup.com)

FHIR - Define Principles and Methodology Implications of:

Must Understand

After a discussion of the way mustUnderstand works, the following recommendations were made:

1. “mustUnderstand” should only be declared on an element whose meaning would reasonably affect the meanings of parent or peer elements. 2. It does *not* indicate any expectation that mustSupport is true for the element, nor should it be used a general purpose importance flag

The name "mustUnderstand" was discussed, and the subject was tabled on the basis that the name, definition and implications of mustUnderstand will be revisited subsequently (along with mustSupport).

Adopted: Grahame/Rik 15-0-0

Interversion Compatibility

• Let people know that we are trialing inter-version compatibility during the DSTU process
• No guarantee of consistency between DSTU versions while we work this out
• expectation of breaking changes between DSTU and Normative edition
• we will clarify the methodology implications through the DSTU process
• FHIR project team will draft working guidelines to test through that process

Adopted Grahame/Ewout 15-0-0

Default Values

• Default values are to not supported by the FHIR methodology
• if an element is labeled mustUnderstand, and the value is not explicit in the instance, or known by the context, the resource cannot be understood
• implementation guidance may need to discuss appropriate behavior in the context of absent values

Adopted: Grahame / Zoran 15-0-0

Element Naming Policies

Meeting adjourned at 10:30 with no time to consider element naming policies

Monday 1/14 Q2

Attendees

• Andy Bond (andy.bind@nehta.gov.au)
• Woody Beeler (woody@beeler.com)
• Zoran Milosevic (zoran@deontik.com)
• Rik Smithies (rik@nprogram.co.uk)
• Alexander Henket (alexanderhenket@enovation.nl)
• Grahame Grieve (grahame@healthintersections.com.au)
• Dave Shaver (dave.shaver@corepointhealth.com)
• Yukinori Konishi (koni@kis-ihc.jp)
• Sakamu Takasaka (s.takasaka@gmail.com)
• Andrew Liu (aliu@infoway.ca)
• John Moehrkhe (john.moehrke@ge.com)
• Paolo Russian (paolo.russian@hosgroup.com)
• Saul Kravitz (skravtiz@mitre.com)
• Alex Zupan (alex.zupan@tbsgroup.com)

IHE-related issues

Motion: 1. That a number of resources that are part of FHIR and owned by HL7 be identified as subject to shared management by IHE and HL7 2. These resources must enable the implementation of designated IHE profiles 3. Ballot disposition actions are not able to take actions inconsistent with this agreement 4. HL7 will publish a FHIR profile along with the resource that describes their use to implement IHE profiles 5. The resources will be balloted by HL7 using the standard process, though IHE menbers have the right to vote on these resources

This motion was referred to the FHIR management group for consideration.

In addition, a number of FHIR ballot comments were resolved: 661-664, and 670

Tuesday 1/15 Q1

Attendees

Tentative List - Use or Delete: Woody Beeler, Doug Fridsma, Hugh Glover, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Alexander Henket, Austin Kreisler, Virginia Lorenzi, Lloyd McKenzie, Zoran Milosevic, Brian Pech, Vin Sekar, Mead Walker

Tuesday 1/14 Q4

SAIF Artifact Definition Project

Deferred to SAIF Project Meeting Wednesday Q4. Session Cancelled

Wednesday 1/16 Q1

Attendees

Achilles, Tanya

Beeler Jr, George (Woody) (Beeler Consulting LLC)

Besho, Ornela (American Dental Association)

Cannady, Patrick (American Dental Association)

Case, James (National Library of Medicine)

Couderc, Carmela (Siemens Healthcare)

Grain, Heather (Standards Australia, eHealth Education)

Hamm, Russell

Hausam, Robert (Hausam Consulting)

Huang, Wendy (Canada Health Infoway Inc.)

Klein, William Ted (Klein Consulting, Inc.)

Liu, Andrew (HL7 Canada)

Macumber, Caroline (Apelon, Inc.)

Scichilone, Rita (American Health Information Management Association)

Smith, Daniel (Apelon, Inc.)

Host Joint with Vocabulary - Agenda

• Harmonization
• IHTSDO Terminology Authority
• Core Principles Binding IDs for Code Systems & Value Sets (Discussion deferred for lack of time)

Agenda Approved, Klein/Huang Unanimous

Harmonization

Discussion

Practice of simplified proposals acceptance with subsequent (to the harmonization Meeting) clean-up really posed problems for one set of proposals. (All from single source and included complex hierarchies and concept content.)

The Technical Review might have been used to set this aside. Attempted after the review to help, but this was not possible.

Related question could be raised in Technical Review. Such as, where/how should proposals be split? Might the structure be reviewed first? Should the scope be reduced?

Recommend:

• Provide the Technical Review earlier in order to have advance time to respond
• If Technical Review finds significant problems, add a way to authorize M&M and/or Vocab Co-chairs individually to declare the final submissions "Not ready for Review". (Could be appealed at the Harmonization Meeting.)
• Allow Technical Review to require splitting of proposals along lines that Technical Review determines.
• From recent ANSI audit, need to better document approvals and administrative data that document actions of proponents, Technical Review, and the Harmonization Meeting.
• Authorize M&M and Vocabulary Co-chairs (at least three co-chairs and at least one from each Work Group) to approve and undertake "Technical Corrections". (A "Technical Correction" is undertaken to assure that the final representation is the same as that which was originally approved.)

Motion from Klein to have the recommendations above documented and implemented in Harmonization. Second: Hamm. 13-0-0

Discussion - Might we improve this by providing support to the Work Group in advance? Response: Has been done, and can be done, but constraints include availability of time to assist and communications. Discussion of process and check lists.

IHTSDO Terminology Authority

Revised the draft ITA. Case moved, Klein to approve those changes. 13-0-0

Wednesday 1/16 Q2

Attendees

Beeler Jr, George (Woody) (Beeler Consulting LLC)

Besho, Ornela (American Dental Association)

Cannady, Patrick (American Dental Association)

Case, James (National Library of Medicine)

Couderc, Carmela (Siemens Healthcare)

Coyle, Joey

Glover, Hugh (Blue Wave Informatics)

Grain, Heather (Standards Australia, eHealth Education)

Hamm, Russell

Hausam, Robert (Hausam Consulting)

Henderson, Mike (Eastern Informatics, Inc.)

Henket, Alexander (HL7 Netherlands)

Huang, Wendy (Canada Health Infoway Inc.)

James, Julie (Blue Wave Informatics)

Klein, William Ted (Klein Consulting, Inc.)

Langford, Patrick

Liu, Andrew (HL7 Canada)

McKenzie, Lloyd (HL7 Canada)

Milosevic, Zoran (Deontik Pty Ltd)

Peytchev, Vasil (Epic)

Stechishin, Andy (CANA Software & Services Ltd.)

Wang, Lijun

Host Joint with FHIR and Vocabulary

Methodology Issue

When is it appropriate for FHIR to assert "UV" bindings to terminologies? In FHIR coding can be done three ways:

• Code (CS)
• Coding (CV constrained)
• Codable Concept (CD).

For these, can bind to either

• Code list - flat list implicit definition of code system and concepts
• Concept Domain -
• Value Set

Binding may be a binding to UV bindings, and Code list is implicitly a UV binding. Thus may wish to constrain use of CodeList and binding to a specific ValueSet.

Recommendations

1. The “code” data type (equivalent to CS) should only be used when the data element forms an essential part of interpreting the meaning of the resource, such that safe processing would be impossible without it. I.e. the element must be “mustUnderstand” or the element is a part of the FHIR infrastructure and has no clinical or business meaning
2. Value set bindings will not be marked as “required” for CodableConcept elements at the Resource level unless a context binding in the universal realm already exists in v3 terminology
   1. We can’t make implementers non-conformant just because for jurisdictional policy or legacy reasons they’re unable to express data in a particular code system
   2. Profiles are the solution to tighter terminology
3. If a Concept Domain is context bound in the universal realm at HL7, the equivalently RIM-mapped FHIR elements should be bound to the same value set (within the constraints of backward compatibility rules, approval cycles, etc.)

Motion: Vocabulary and MnM endorse this as part of FHIR Methodology: McKenzie/Henderson 14/0/3

Ballot Reconciliation

FHIR Item 152 - Klein/McKenzie 17-0-0

FHIR Item 491 - Couderc/Milosovic 18-0-0

FHIR Item 506 -

Discussion on allowing to use URI

as an identifier for Code Systems and Value Sets.

Rambled a bit but...

Motion: Begin another ballot process to update Core Principles to identify URIs as an allowed mechanism to identify Code Systems and Value Sets

Klein/McKenzie 18/0/0

Wednesday 1/16 Q3

Attendees

Tentative List - Use or Delete: Woody Beeler, Doug Fridsma, Hugh Glover, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Alexander Henket, Austin Kreisler, Virginia Lorenzi, Lloyd McKenzie, Zoran Milosevic, Brian Pech, Vin Sekar, Mead Walker

Thursday 1/17 Q1

Attendees

Tentative List - Use or Delete: Woody Beeler, Doug Fridsma, Hugh Glover, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Alexander Henket, Austin Kreisler, Virginia Lorenzi, Lloyd McKenzie, Zoran Milosevic, Brian Pech, Vin Sekar, Mead Walker

Thursday 1/17 Q2

Attendees

Tentative List - Use or Delete: Woody Beeler, Doug Fridsma, Hugh Glover, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Alexander Henket, Austin Kreisler, Virginia Lorenzi, Lloyd McKenzie, Zoran Milosevic, Brian Pech, Vin Sekar, Mead Walker

Thursday 1/17 Q5

Attendees

Tentative List - Use or Delete: Woody Beeler, Doug Fridsma, Hugh Glover, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Alexander Henket, Austin Kreisler, Virginia Lorenzi, Lloyd McKenzie, Zoran Milosevic, Brian Pech, Vin Sekar, Mead Walker

Friday 1/18 Q2

Attendees

Tentative List - Use or Delete: Woody Beeler, Doug Fridsma, Hugh Glover, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Alexander Henket, Austin Kreisler, Virginia Lorenzi, Lloyd McKenzie, Zoran Milosevic, Brian Pech, Vin Sekar, Mead Walker