Jan 2, 2013 Education Telecon

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Attendees

• Melva Peters (Chair)
• John Ritter
• Diego Kaminker
• Virginia Lorenzi
• Mary Ann Boyle (HQ Resource)
• Sharon Chaplock (HQ Resource)

Agenda

V2.7 Sample Certification Sample Questions

• Discussion of updates as proposed in email thread
  • Patrick had sent out changes for sample questions
  • Is it okay to update?

Action: Mary Ann will followup with Mary Ann to see if okay to update and publish

HL7 Education Schedule

• updates

Project Review

• RIM Certification Test Update Project (PSS 886) (Virginia)
  • update from Ginnie
  • draft was published yesterday - expect to have test early next week
  • decision of when to publish and offer
  • Should we have a RIM certification prep class - need to update AMS's class so it is a prep class
  • What is the venue?
    • When and how?
  • will announce in January meeting and post sample questions
  • offer in May
  • have cancelled previous prep classes due to lack of interest
  • could we offer as a self paced online course rather than as a venue
    • could be a webinar or 2 - with presentation
    • samples
    • exercises
  • we will be doing the same for all of the other certification exams
  • we could use this as a pilot
  • Ginnie could have time to do this as long as we don't need it in the next couple of months
    • would work with Sharon
    • Sharon can draft a schedule - launch by March
    • develop to deliver as a webinar initially
• Need to look at policy about access to the course

Action:  Sharon and Ginnie will put together a plan

• Electronic Certification Testing (PSS 882)
  • update provided by Sharon
  • 1 clear front runner for a vendor - checking references
  • on schedule for this project
• Education Webinars (PSS 871)
  • V2 Webinar was moved to March
  • moved out schedule by 1 month
  • MU series is scheduled to go Feb 20th

Tutorials

• UML - Patrick
  • updates - none
• V3 Project Manager - Marc Koehn
  • updates
    • Melva will work with Marc to update
    • this tutorial is not being offered in January
• Receipt of Tutorial Specifications for January 2013 Tutorials
  • updates - still missing about 5 tutorial specifications

Action: Mary Ann to forward list to Melva
Action:  Melva will send email to tutorial speakers who have not submitted specification
Action:  discuss in Phoenix

Policy/Procedure

• Auditing - Patrick
  • updates - none

Review of Agenda for WGM

Education WGM Agenda

• Monday Q4 - Melva to reach out to Marketing and International Mentoring
  • Africa - Diego and John Ritter - 4:30pm - 5pm
• Tuesday Q1 - have cancelled this quarter and moved agenda items around - due to Board Meeting being held all day and commitments of co-chairs
• Thursday Q2 - we will now meet as a WG rather than jointly with Electronic Services

Any other business

How are we addressing MU Needs

• Melva forwarded discussion to Austin for TSC discussion
  • apparently this is already under discussion at the Board, but Austin was not able to share

Discussion with Chuck Jaffee

• Chuck with try to joint for some time in Phoenix
• need to coordinate/be aware of education plans related to Membership Model

Next meeting

• WGM - Monday Q3
• next teleconference - January 30, 2013