20161011 US Realm SC Call

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US Realm Steering Committee Call Agenda/Minutes Location: call 770-657-9270 using code 156896# 929-752-237		Date: 2016-10-11 Time: 1 PM Eastern
Co-Chairs	Ed/Brett	Note taker(s)	Anne

Attendee / Name
x	Calvin Beebe		Keith Boone	x	Hans Buitendijk
	Lorraine Constable		Johnathan Coleman	x	Ed Hammond
Regrets	Tony Julian	x	Paul Knapp	x	Austin Kreisler
x	Brett Marquard		Ken McCaslin		Nancy Orvis
	Brian Pech	Regrets	Wayne Kubick		Mark Roche
Regrets	Sandra Stuart	.	Pat Van Dyke	x	Anne Wizauer
	Danielle Friend	x	Eric Haas	x	Jenni Syed
	Steve Posnak	x	David Susanto	.	Craig Parker	Visitor / Name
x	John Roberts	x	Lenel James
no quorum definition

Agenda

Administrivia

• Agenda review
• Review notes from 20161004_US_Realm_SC_Call
• Action Items
• Review Items:
  • Laboratory Results Interface Implementation Guide

Discussion:

• Review of any outstanding issues

Minutes

*Agenda review

• Review notes from 20161004_US_Realm_SC_Call
• Action Items
• Review Items:
  • Laboratory Results Interface Implementation Guide
    • Hans presents the project.
    • Ed asks if all of the owners of the guides being consolidated are on board? Hans responds that they are.
    • Hans notes that implementers have yet to be declared, but they're working on it.
    • Ed: Will it be separated into sections? Hans: It's a core set of capabilities, datatypes, message structures; then we use two profiles to adjust to content or context.
    • Ed: Part of this should be international. Have you considered inviting others involved to make it international? Hans: Public health is very US specific. Not quite ready for universal.
    • Austin: Might need joint copyright with NAACR? Hans: we don't think it will be separate.
    • Austin: For lineage, you're looking at a release of something new - R3 will be confusing and not conformant to the naming convention. Hans: We'll adjust it if necessary.
      • MOTION to approve: Hans/Austin
      • VOTE: All in favor

Discussion:

• Ed: What is the group's opinion as to other US drivers that we should establish contact with and look at things that might need to be addressed or resolved? FDA? CDC? Others? A lot of activities are happening outside our range of vision.
  • Would like to have this group think about is that although HL7 is fine now, we're looking at a loss next year. We depend on membership as a result of free IP. Are there any creative ideas of where we look for financial resources to keep HL7 moving forward?
  • John: USDA should get involved with a number of programs including WIC. Largest public health program in Tennessee and many other states. They are standards-free. Ed: I would be glad to make contact with them.
    • ACTION: John will send Ed contact info
  • Paul: No pay to play on FHIR side. No need for membership to have a voice in FHIR like there is in V2 and other standards. An individual can't go and create change requests other than through the ballot process for other standards. In the case of FHIR, you don't need to submit comment through a ballot; you could simply submit a change request. Ed: The agreement to bringing FHIR into HL7 was that it would be free access.
  • What is motivation to join? People who control budgets don't even know who HL7 is
  • Paul: Opportunities are grants, memberships, meetings/education participation. One thing suggested is that we have great participation in Connectathons but those people leave. We could look at how we keep those people on into the week.
  • Calvin: Should we look at our tradition of not allowing corporate members to exhibit? Ed: We could try it but there's not a lot of time for people to visit vendors. We are looking at inviting some to Madrid to try it out. Austin: Conducting a pilot is worthwhile. Lenel: Opposed to having vendors just set up a table, but supportive of the kind of thing that is done at the payer summit where vendors present on a thought-leadership type topic so people can learn from them and become interested in talking with them more.
  • Lenel: Social determinants of health - Lenel will forward some information
  • David Susanto: With the optic of FHIR and the pull of skills that HL7 members have, perhaps we should think about the professional services model, where HL7 is the source of training, implementation and pilots.
    • ACTION: All to share any other ideas with Ed offline.

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