May 30, 2013 Financial Management Work Group Conference Call May 30, 2013

Conference Call Schedule

• Occurs on Thursday May 30, June 27, July 25, and Aug 29 @ 2:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
• Phone Number: +1 770-657-9270 Participant Passcode: 686300# (alternative for US if the first number doesn't work: +1 888-321-4501)

Agenda Topics

1. (10 min) Roll Call, call for agenda item, approve Atlanta WGM Minutes
2. (45 min) FHIR Reconciliation – to be posted on gforge
3. (5 min) Next call agenda, interim work

Minutes

Attendees

• Kathleen Connor Co-chair
• Paul Knapp Co-chair
• Beat Heggli Co-chair
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Presiding Chair: Paul Knapp

• RE: Approval of Atlanta WGM Minutes - After review and refinement, the WGM were approved.

Motion	Moved	Second	Affirm	Abstain	Opposed
Approval of FM WGM Atlanta Minutes	Kathleen	Beat	2	0	0

• RE: Continued work on FHIR Reconciliation

Motion	Moved	Second	Affirm	Abstain	Opposed
Approval of FHIR Reconciliation of comments 348, 349, and 350	Kathleen	Beat	2	0	0

• RE: FM Position on FHIR: WG discussed the FHIR timelines and FMG “asks” relative to major contributors’ bandwidth and FM position on the FHIR methodology. Originally, FHIR was considered a REST transport and a simplification of v.3. Then, it morphed into creation of FHIR Resources, which are not backward compatible with either v.2 or v.3. Some FM WG members expected that FHIR resources would be the result of a deterministic transform of v.2 or v.3 artifacts into FHIR. Now WGs are being told to generate mappings from new FHIR representations of, e.g., the 80% of WG business domains, to superceded v.2 and v.3 artifacts. From the perspective of some FM WG participants, complex financial management business use cases and functionality requirements gathered over 25 years and represented in FM v.2/v.3 standards have not been appropriately leveraged. Paul agreed to draft a FM position statement on this matter.
• RE: FHIR Marketing Outreach Efforts: Paul reported that he has met with and is exploring opportunities with a number of key financial management stakeholder to access their interest in FM FHIR Resources for real time Coverage and Invoice. Current Coverage Resource is a profile of a TBD “encompassing” Coverage Resource Definitions. Other profiles that probably should be developed, once a “definitional” parent resource gets defined include eligibility query/response and registration of enrollees for coverage, which already exist in v.2/v.3.

Action Items

• Kathleen to publish approved WGM minutes and minutes from this call
• Paul to queue up next round of reconciliation comments for June call and to draft FM FHIR position statement.

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