March 21st Education Telecon

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Agenda

• • Approve Prior Minutes
  • September WGM tutorial grid
  • Website Value Proposition discussion
  • Others

Attendees

Sadhana Alangar, Caroline Bennett, Gora Datta, John Ritter, Diego Kaminker, Virginia Lorenzi (scribe).

Approve Prior Minutes

Unanimously approved

Homework Discussion

As suggested on the prior call, Sadhana assigned homework to various committee participants. Most people had submitted their homework.

September WGM tutorial grid

Sadhana noted our first priority is to finalize WGM grids for this year. There was some talk that the SMART on FHIR and CDS Hooks tutorial slated for May is still lacking a tutorial description. Mandel and Shekelton are the teachers. There was some concern over their interest in teaching. Virginia noted that if they needed an alternative teacher for September or beyond, she would be motivated to teach. Sadhana presented ideas for the September meeting and the group reviewed and provided suggestions. The first topic for the FHIR track. We worked on making sure we had the right course names. We also noted that all tutorials that were scheduled at the same time as intro to FHIR were canceled - concluded that its a hard class to compete with. We also noted that there are severals Intro to FHIR classes for different audiences and recommended that three different FHIR intros occur at the same time - Intro to FHIR, Intro to FHIR for Software Developers, and Intro to FHIR for Clinicians. Sadhana suggested that Standards for Interoperability, which is even more introductory, be held prior to the FHIR introductions and others agreed. Since September is a plenary conference, all tutorials are delayed by a half day. This would mean that Standards for Interoperability would be held on Monday night and the three FHIR intros would take place Tuesday. We also agreed that all the FHIR courses Sadhana had on her list should be held. She questioned whether SMART on FHIR should be held due to lack of interaction with teachers for May but the group felt that it is a good topic and should be held. She said that she did not list the FHIR Proficiency Review Course, noting that she had another idea but did not clarify. We then moved on the CDA. We agreed that Intro to CDA and CCDA should be held. Advanced CDA which has had low numbers should not be held. We discussed changing the name of CCDA perhaps to Health Information Exchange and Patient Electronic Access and the HL7 CCDA Standard. CDA Template Design will be tried out again in Germany - we will wait to see how it does. We then moved onto the miscellaneous track. Gora noted the importance of running the two classes that relate to US federal regulation (Gora and Hans/Virginia classes since we will be in Baltimore. We also discussed CQL but need to identify a teacher -this is also applicable to US since US electronic quality measures are written using it. Virginia had suggested potentially Keith Boone or Julia Skipak. Another name was mentioned as well. Gora would like to teach International Mobile Health Standards (HL7, IEEE,ISO/TC2015) and thought it would be a nice class to be held at the same times as Standards for Interoperability. We also thought we could run the CDA Template Design class at the same time. Gora also suggested that we offer some popular courses towards the end of the week since that is when attendance is lower. It was noted that intros still need to occur early in the week so that more advanced courses can be offered later in the week that build on them. Also we are trying to entice FHIR Connectathon participants to stay and take tutorials so some tutorials to entice them would need to be at the beginning of the week. Virginia asked if a Payor Summit is occurring in September because that may also have an impact of the September grid. Last time the summit was at the beginning of the week.

Website Value Proposition discussion

This topic was not discussed.

Course Prioritization

Sadhana created a collaborative document with course ideas and Diego had sent course ideas. Virginia sent the committee list from January 2017. Since there is overlap between the various documents and there is a need to prioritize and develop ideas which is hard to do in a meeting, Virginia created a spreadsheet format that would allow all course ideas to be listed and then provide a process in which participants can prioritize, identify overlap, and comment offline. Diego liked the format and recommended we put all of the course ideas within the spreadsheet. Sadhana noted they are working on a calendar of Member Advantage Webinars. Virginia asked if the committee could see it. John Ritter recommended a class or Member Advantage webinar which consists of a report out from the policy committee to help keep the membership informed of new policy developments as they relate to HL7. Gora suggested one on Cybersecurity. He also offered to try it at an event as a free class.