Clinical Quality Information Co-chairs

Page Purpose

This wiki page is designed by the CQI co-chairs to assist them in the management of the CQI Workgroup activities.

The Process Improvement (PIC) Workgroup maintains the HL7 Co-Chair Handbook. The Handbook wiki page maintains the current links to items like the:

HL7 Bylaws
HL7 Governance and Operations Manual (GOM)
HL7 Organization and Process documentation (includes organization chart with explanation of Steering Divisions (SD), WGs, and Board appointed committees)
Ballot Management, Project Management, Publishing, Workgroup Management, Working Group Meeting (WGM) Management, and Other documents; including:
Project Scope Statement (PSS), Notice of Intent to Ballot (NIB), and Publication Requests
Cycle deadlines for PSS, NIBs, Balloting, etc.
See the Co-chair Utility Page/Procedures for more useful links

The HL7 Technical Steering Committee (TSC) oversees and coordinates the technical efforts contributed by the HL7 participants to ensure that the efforts of the Working Group (WG) are focused on the overall HL7 mission. TSC will provide input and operationalize the strategic initiatives.. The TSC also reviews and provides oversight to projects during the approval process. This allows the TSC to identify gaps and overlaps between projects of the Working Group and the strategic initiatives.
- TSC Minutes and Agendas

CQI is a member of the Domain Experts Steering Division
- Co-chairs take turns managing DESD Voting requirements - see below for this year's schedule.

The US Realm Steering Committee (USR-SC) provides US Realm technical direction achieve the vision of creating the best and most widely used standards in US healthcare. The USR-SC reviews and provides oversight to US Realm projects during the approval process. This allows the USR-SC to identify gaps and overlaps between projects of the Working Group and the US Realm requirements.

CQI ITEM	Last Update	Frequency	Approvals Required	Comment
Mission and Charter (M&C)	May 2016	Minimum every 2 years	CQI, DESD* *Notify DESD and HQ if ratified without changes	Send to Anne@HL7 dot org for publication
3-Year Plan	Sept. 2016	?	CQI	Consider including Strategic items in M&C Include Maintenance items in 3-year Plan Send to PMO (Dave Hamill) - he will enter into Project Insights
Product Briefs	?	Review Annually	CQI	Send corrections to HL7 (?)
Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Matrix (SWOT)	May 2016	Minimum every 3 years	CQI	Send to Anne@HL7 dot org for publication
Decision Making Practices (DMP)	Jan. 2017	Minimum every 3 years or as required by PIC	CQI	Submit to PIC for review and Anne@HL7 dot org for publication

See the HL7 Co-Chair Handbook for current documentation and forms

HL7 ITEM	Frequency	Approvals Required	Comment
Harmonization	Submit proposals as needed Attend or vote to approve every meeting	CQI	Vocabulary and RIM Harmonization Process Harmonization Meetings
Project Scope Statement (PSS)	Once Review and reapproval every 5 years	CQI, DESD, TSC US Realm-related: Review with US Realm before CQI approval **FHIR-related: send to FMG same time as DESD	FHIR projects have a different version of the PSS.
PSS update for DSTU going Normative	Once	CQI, TSC	Triggers notification to ANSI; starts 18-month clock to ballot
Notice of Intent to Ballot (NIB)	Each ballot cycle	CQI
Publication request	Once	CQI, TSC
Errata publication Use Publication request form	Once	CQI	Submit to the CTO (Wayne Kubick) and Director of Technical Publications (Lynn Laakso)
Withdrawal of balloted project	Once	CQI, TSC
Close of project never balloted	Once	CQI	Notify PMO (Dave Hamill) to close project

DESD Voting Management