RIMBAA 201003 Minutes

On March 11 an international RIMBAA meeting will be held in Amsterdam. The meeting is co-hosted by HL7 the Netherlands and HL7 Inc.. This meeting is designated as an out-of-cycle meeting of the international HL7 RIMBAA working group. All interested persons are welcome to attend this meeting, whether a member of HL7 or not.

• Date: March 11 2010, 10:00-17:00
• Location: Hotel Ibis Amsterdam Airport. There's a regular free shuttle service (busses are marked 'Ibis' and 'Accor Hotels') from platform A9-A13 (50 meters in the direction of travel, as seen from the taxi rank).
• Registration: Please register by sending an e-mail to Rene Spronk

• Co-chairs: Rene Spronk (co-chair of the RIMBAA WG) & Michael van der Zel (co-chairs of the Dutch RIMBAA SIG)

Agenda: (draft, is still being extended)

1. Administrative (max 30 minutes)
   • Agenda Review/Additions/Changes (max 5 minutes)
   • Approval of the Minutes of the previous meeting in Phoenix: (max 5 minutes)
   • Announcements (max 10 minutes)
   • Planning of next meeting
     • Rio in May, Amsterdam in (?) September, London in November
2. Highlights from prior RIMBAA meetings on other continents (Rene, max. 30 minutes)
   • Product presentations
     • Mohawk HI-Everest, a generic MIF-based code generator for Java
     • Use of a DB2 PureXML database (Axolotl, IBM RIMon). (See ORM best practices)
   • RIM ITS and Context Conduction: see below for separate agenda item
3. RIMBAA: SAEAF vs RIMBAA (Michael van der Zel)
   • a presentation of the way in which the RIMBAA fits within the HL7 Enterprise Architecture Framework.
4. Update of new developments/changes in core v3 modeling (Ewout Kramer).
   • Context Conduction. The way in which context conduction will be supported has been radically changed during the recent meeting in Phoenix.
   • RIM ITS overview. The RIM ITS provides an alternative way of expressing RIM-based-object-trees in XML. The encoding is based on the RS-cell of the technology matrix and is well suited for the exchange of data between RIM based applications.
5. MDD and how it is used in the PHI Technology toolsuite (Davide Magni)
   • PHI Technology is the most advanced MDD toolsuite (based on RIMB based information models) we know of. ITAL TBS (the developers of PHI) have gained ample experience in applying generic MDD principles in healthcare.
6. MIF based code generation
   • (Hans Jonkers) Introduction to MIF
     • Hans will present some of the basic characteristics of MIF. He has only used those parts of the MIF he needed to build his application (see agenda item 6 of these RIMBAA minutes for a presentation of the application). He has created an object model based on the MIF schema.
   • (Rene Spronk) Overview and discussion of this draft paper: MIF based code generation.
     • By now the RIMBAA WG has received feedback from a number of MIF based code generation approaches, which allow us to create an initial description of some of the best practices.
7. Various product/concept presentations (te be added)
   • Other suggested agenda items: Ewout Kramer with an update from the Nijmegen RIMBAA implementation; Bertil Reppen with an overview of the architecture of the Apertura Opthomology solution.
8. Discussion of RIMBAA Issues

Attendees:

At	Name	Affiliation	Email Address
R	Adri Burggraaff	Slotervaartziekenhuis, NL	adri.burggraaff@slz.nl
R	Andrea Ceiner	ItalTBS, IT	andrea.ceiner@italtbs.com
E	Andy Harris	National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), UK
?	Arild Hollas	CSAM Health, NO	arild.hollas@csamhealth.com
?	Arvid Nicolaas	Philips, NL
R	Bas van Poppel	iSoft, NL	bas.vpoppel@isofthealth.com
?	Bertil Reppen	Apertura, NO
R	Davide Magni	ItalTBS, IT	davide.magni@italtbs.com
R	Ewout Kramer	Furore, NL
R	Freek Geerdink	Vrumun, NL	freek.geerdink@vrumun.nl
R	Hans Jonkers	Philips, NL	hans.jonkers@philips.com
?	Henk Enting	MGRID, NL
?	Kjetil Sanders	CSAM Health, NO	Kjetil.Sanders@csamhealth.com
R	Michael van der Zel	UMCG and Results4care, NL	m.van.der.zel@ict.umcg.nl
R	Rene Spronk	Ringholm, NL	rene.spronk@ringholm.com
?	Roelof Middeljans	UMCG, NL
R	Tessa van Steijn	Nictiz, NL	stijn@nictiz.nl
?	Tom de Jong	NovaPro, NL
?	Tommy Kristiansen	CSAM Health, NO	tommy.kristiansen@csamhealth.com
?	Willem Dijkstra	MGRID, NL
?	Yeb Havinga	MGRID, NL