RIMBAA Tooling Liaison

From the San Diego WGM sept-2011

• It passed a MOTION to have a joint RIMBAA/tooling meeting in San Antonio (Michael/Peter, 11-0-0) ;
• Michael van der Zel is now the tooling liason to RIMBAA;
• It passed a MOTION for RIMBAA to co-sponsor the "HL7 Tooling Strategy and Process Revision Project" created by the tooling WG (Peter/Ewout, 11-0-0)

Discussion Topics

• Process to recommend use of certain tools
• The Tooling Work Group asks for a couple more (14-oct-2011):
  1. Process to evaluate implementation oriented tools/toolkits
  2. Discuss the possible creation of a 'reference implementation’
  3. Criteria to use to determine quality/utility of implementation oriented tools – how do we know which tools to recommend/support/facilitate development
  4. What types of tasks and roles would use tools to aid in standards adoption and implementation

• From Implementation Tools:
  • FWIW: Implementation tools that RIMBAA has identified include:
    • MIF based class/code generators (e.g. MDHT. Everest)
    • MIF based database schema generator (e.g. MGRID)
    • MIF based UI component generators
    • ISO Datatypes library (R1/RFH(FHIR)-datatypes)
    • CTS products
    • Mapping tools
    • (Not a tool: MIF documentation, currently lacking)
  • Tools that support implementation
    • Testing tools (e.g. Instance Editor, MDHT)