October 1, 2014 Education Telecon

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Attendees

• Melva Peters (Chair)

Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Recap from WGM

• Continue discussion of how we can transform Education WG

HL7 Learning Partner Proposal

• Waiting for proposal from Rene Spronk.
• Rene (Sept. 30) draft ready, pending review by potential educational partners. Will be submitted to Education after final tweaks.

Paris Tutorials - May 2015

• Need to consider if there are tutorials of interest
• Rene Spronk: may wish to ask the European affiliates. Countries that are likely to participate in greater numbers should be able to express their wishes - a session which explains the French DMP and their use of CDA is certainly called for.

Action:  Mary Ann to reach out to Diego/John Ritter to see if there are other ideas from International Mentoring
Action item: Mary Ann will follow up with Nicolais today about Paris Tutorials
Action item: Mary Ann will reach out to the May 2015 WGM Planning Committee

Tutorials

• SAIF Webinar
  • will be recorded at the WGM
  • Feb 5, 2014: Ron's day job interfered with his available time to record. He is looking to reschedule but no word yet.
  • May 21, 2014: Ron still has not had the time to engage the SAIF Webinar
  • June 4: No updates since last conference call, Melva will continue to follow up

Action item: Melva follow up with Lorraine again about SAIF Webinar

Tutorial Planning

• Core tutorials on HL7 Standards, and have specialized tutorials alternated between WGM
• Start with the January WGM tutorials
• Rene Spronk has some draft stats on Education events that will be discussed in Chicago
• Continue discussion of stats that would be useful
  • Education Offering Dashboard

Discussion of Certification Exams and Ed Summits

• v2 Workshop Project - no discussion
  • Patrick will join an Education teleconference to discuss further

Action item: Melva will follow up with Patrick on this project

Updates to the Certification exams

• Sharon has analyzed the certifications and will need to possibly revise the questions.
• Sharon would like to create a taskforce to review the questions on the exams.
  • Qualifications needed to be on the taskforce:
    • The group will be comprised of volunteers from the tutorial speaker pool to review the certification exam
    • Must have attended/audit the actual tutorial
    • Must be approved by the Education Committee
  • Sharon is working on an outline for a plan and guidelines for updates to existing and also for developing FHIR into a Certification Exam
  • Will bring back more information after meeting with Melva, Sharon and Mary Ann in August

Action: Sharon has drafted the process and will continue to work on the planning of a group to review the material.
Action: Sharon will send new draft to the listserv.

• Suggestion from Virginia for a certification test for "Medical Logic Modules" - Its very stable, self-contained, and people are hired as MLM developers. Several large EHR vendors use MLM as the way of programming custom CDS into their systems. We use it at NYP. A certification in this might look good on a resume

Webinar Planning for 2015

• Discussion of proposed webinar topics for 2015
  • Melva has sent out an email to the list
  • Sharon has received a comment request for FHIR tutorials
  • Melva created a wiki page for Webinars topics and would like ideas for next year.
  • Karen comments based on case studies as topics
  • Sharon needs items/brainstorming on ideas.

Action item: Sharon will ask International Council for webinar ideas
Action item: Melanie will reach out to the affiliates as well to determine if they might be willing to advertise webinars

Current resources and reading material

• Will look at the list to determine how we can use it
  • Ken is still working on a the list. As soon as it is completed, we will place it as an agenda item.
  • Still compiling list but researching a possible open source library software called Koha. www.koha-community.org
  • Ken Chen is still working on the resource list. Koha software has become an option with the latest version.

Next meeting

• Next meeting - October 15, 2014 at 11am Eastern