Harmonization Process Change

Status of This Page

This page is being drafted to hold a set of updates to the existing Vocabulary and RIM Harmonization Process page, based on experiences and concerns that were raised in July 2013. There are no fundamental changes in the process and rules, but many points have been clarified or extended.

The intended changes will be announced to the Co-Chairs on Monday evening, September 23, 2013, with a request that they be reviewed, and there will be a discussion on this at the Facilitator's Round Table. Ultimately, this page will replace the Vocabulary and RIM Harmonization Process page.

The amended sections are highlighted in yellow below.

Approval Process

Submission Process and Schedule

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Initial Proposal Deadline

Initial Proposal Rules

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Final Proposal Deadline

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Followup Review

Appeals

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Harmonization Meeting

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Amendment During Meeting

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Proponent Presence Required During Item Discussion

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Ratification of Universal Value Set Bindings by HL7 International Council

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Adoption and Publication

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"Membership" - Representation, Voting, Quorum

Representation of Work Groups and Stewards

Designation of Representatives

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Quorum Requirements

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Voting - Simple- and Super-Majority

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Harmonization vis-a-vis Balloting

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Ballot "Scope" for RIM and Vocabulary elements

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Supporting Wiki Pages

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Prior Page Content and History

This Page was initiated by Russ Hamm May 17, 2010

I moved two prior Harmonization-related sub-items (that had been listed under MnM on the "Main page") here, because as this page is completed, this is where those links belong. GWBeeler

• Harmonization Wiki Template

  This template came into being in 2006, but has never been formally used as a harmonization source path. I (GWBeeler) suggest this be dropped for the following reason(s):

  • The current proposal management process is highly dependent upon being able to extract specific data fields from the Word document, and the Wiki template has no facilities that lend themselves to reliable automated parsing.
  • We should focus current improvements on the updating of the Word "template"

• Vocabulary Harmonization Tool

  The Vocabulary Maintenance Language remains a main-stay of vocabulary harmonization processing, but the specific tool linked from here has no active users, and therefore, I (GWBeeler) suggest this link be dropped.