Vocabulary Quality Assurance Project

Project to clarify expected practices and process for WG when using coded vocabulary

Overview

Scope

Define and communicate consistent set of QA processes for decentralized development of terminology artifacts used across all HL7 product families, coupled with a centralized governance structure. This process would be followed by all HL7 groups, I.E.: all HL7 standards that reference terminology.

Need

It has become apparent that the terminology published in HL7 artifacts does not demonstrate the quality and consistency generally required for interoperability among modern HIT systems. In addition, HL7 internal consistency and harmonization has become increasingly difficult due to a lack of standardized quality processes applied to terminology artifacts. This problem has resulted in excessive effort and resource use across HL7 projects.

Project Processes

This project will use DropBox as a collaborative document sharing process during the formative draft development process. If you are interested in viewing the current draft please attend the meetings. If you are interested in participating in the editing and review of the drafts, please send a request to get access to the dropbox folder to Rob McClure ( rmcclure AT mdpartners.com ).

Conference Call Schedule and Minutes

Calls occur every-other Thursday 1:30 - 3pm ET beginning March 5, 2015

Call Info: Standard Vocabulary phone line: Phone: +1 770-657-9270, Participant Code: 598745

Webmeeting Info: Please click on the link below to join the Mikogo session https://go.mikogo.com/?sp=&sid=503395699

If the above link does not work, you can follow these steps instead to join a session:

1. Go to http://go.mikogo.com
2. Enter the Session ID: 503-395-699
3. Enter your name
4. Click "Join Session"

Agenda for next meeting April 4

1. Continue work on creating the PSS content
   1. Plan is to use a Peer Review Process deliverable
   2. Need to clarify deliverables and timing

Core Documents

1. Project Scope Statement HERE
2. Draft project goals HERE
3. HL7 Peer-review Process approach HERE

Minutes documents

2015-02-05_Minutes
2015-02-12_Minutes
2015-03-05_Minutes
2015-03-19_Minutes