RIMBAA 201205 Minutes Vancouver

This is the RIMBAA agenda for the May 2012 WGM in Vancouver, CA

Note: MnM will organise educational sessions on FHIR on Sunday Q2 and Sunday Q4 (Q4 being a repeat of Q2). Those sessions are primarily aimed at the MnM facilitators, other interested parties are also welcome.

Monday Q2 (RIMBAA)

1. Administrative agenda items
   • Agenda Review/Additions/Changes
     • Plans for the week. Interesting meetings held by other WGs, e.g. FHIR
   • Approval of the minutes of the meeting in San Antonio
     • MOTION To approve the minutes of the January 2012 WGM as available here: http://www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/wg/java/minutes/201201_RIMBAA_SanAntonio.zip
   • Announcements
   • Tooling liason update (Michael)
2. A RIM and SNOMED based Web Service for Active Problem List (Michael Rossman ,Kaiser Permamente)
3. CIMI and FHIR, how are they similar and dissimilar (Michael van de Zel, UMCG)
4. The EHR functional information mapping project and relevance to RIMBAA (Stephen Huffnagel)

Monday Q3 (Tooling / RIMBAA)

• Joint meeting with Tooling, hosted by Tooling
• Main topic: Tools for RIM based software development

Tuesday Q6 (Tooling / RIMBAA)

• Joint meeting with Tooling, hosted by Tooling

Thursday Q1

1. MongoDB / NoSQL based implementation of FHIR (Ewout and Lloyd)
   • Ewout: Storing FHIR resources, indeed just like SMIRFs, seems like a natural fit for this kind of databases. Of course, XML databases like eXist, are an equally good match for the same reasons. Some of my SMIRF experimentation used eXist. For now, I used MongoDb because it is offered by AppHarbor (the Cloud platform I am deploying to).
2. using the FHIR data types as a persistence model for ISO data types (Grahame)