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Tooling WG
The Tooling Work Group supports the HL7 mission by overseeing the tools that facilitate the development, adoption and use of HL7 standards, according to the requirements of the HL7 Board and membership needs.
Standing Conference Calls
The Tooling WG will hold a Conference Call at 2 PM Eastern time, each Thursday except during scheduled face-to-face Working Group Meetings unless otherwise noted at Telecon_Agendas.
- Conference Call: Uses HL7 Conference Call Service
- Dial 770-657-9270 and enter pass code 586935#
- Dial 770-657-9270 and enter pass code 586935#
- GoToMeeting at 482-299-629
The main HL7 Tooling Work Group page has:
- the Tooling Work Group Mission and Charter
- list of Co-chairs
Agendas and Meetings
- Agendas for Teleconferences that are held every Thursday at 10:00 AM ET
- Working Agenda for the next WGM
- Tuesday_Tooling_-_Sep_2011
- Tuesday Tooling Nights lists historical agendas from Tuesday Tooling nights which are led by Andy at each WGM
- Tooling Work Group Minutes are on HL7.org
- HL7 List Services Welcome Center is the HL7 list server where you can subscribe to any of the Tooling lists
Overview
What we are responsible for
(description is Work In Process - see Tools List discussion)
Tooling Work Group’s responsibility covers tools developed by and for HL7, as well as those tools that HL7 has fostered the development of either by direct solicitation, or by collaboration with HL7-specific projects outside of the organization. It is expected that the Tooling Work Group will provide a more precise framework and guidelines for licensing future HL7 tools.
- Rene: this excludes any work done by this WG to review, categorize, or recommend the use of any public domain HL7-oriented tools that haven't been created under the (partial) responsibility of HL7 International. The group may wish to add specific wording to public domain HL7-specific tools created by third parties (e.g. HAPI, probably the most often used HL7 toolkit, or MARC-HI Everest).
How we work:
(description is Work In Process - see Update the Tooling Work Group wiki page)
Tooling Work Group Mission:
- The Tooling Work Group supports the HL7 mission by overseeing the tools that facilitate the development, adoption and use of HL7 standards, according to the requirements of the HL7 Board and membership needs.
- The Tooling Work Group supports the HL7 Board by recommending priorities for expending HL7 resources on tooling activities. Tooling activities involve both paid resources as staff or contracted individuals working on funded projects. All Tooling projects require approval of a Project Scope Statement that is approved by the Tooling Work Group, The Technology and Services Support Steering Division, the HL7 Chief Technology Officer, and for those involving HL7 budget expenditures, the HL7 Board. Contracted resources are acquired through an open process with projects announced on the contracts@lists.hl7.org listserve. Tools provided by volunteers are made available on a "as is" basis but toolsmiths are encouraged to provide appropriate user and system documentation.
HL7 is a charter member of Open Health Tools(OHT), an open source consortium and many of the emerging tools are OHT projects.
Toolsmith Ribbon Recipients
The Tooling Work Group would like to recognize the volunteer efforts of people who have worked on tools used by HL7 and it`s members to design, publish and then adopt HL7 specifications. The tools are available either on HL7`s Gforge site or as Open Health Tool projects. Please notify the co-chairs if you become aware of other volunteers and their tools. Toolsmith ribbons are being included in Working Group packets to increase awareness and recognition for their efforts.
| Toolsmith Name | Tool | Purpose |
| George 'Woody' Beeler | RoseTree & Design Repository | RIM and Vocabulary Browser, Combined Publishing/Generator Tool Suite, RMIM Designer, V3 Generator |
| Lloyd McKenzie | RMIM Designer, MIF & V3 Generator | Visio Static Model Designer, Model Interchange Format and V3 Generator |
| Dale Nelson | V3 Generator | Generates V3 Schemas |
| Michael Van der Zel | Detailed Clinical Modeling Tool | Detailed Clinical Model templates and UML Profile MDG Technology for Enterprise Architect. An extension for creating consistent DCM's conform ISO 13972 |
| EHR-S FM Profile Tooling | UML Profile MDG Technology for Enterprise Architect. An extension to Enterprise Architect for creating and validating the FM and Profiles. | |
| MAX | Implementation of the MAX idea as an EA Extension | |
| Jean Duteau | V3 Generator | Generates V3 Schemas |
| Frank Oemig | V2 Access Database | V2 Messaging structures |
| Grahame Grieve | Data Types MIF | Model Interface Format definition for Datatypes |
| Charlie McCay | Ramsey Systems' Schema Validator & V3 Generator | V3 Schema Validation Testing and tool to generate V3 schema |
| Adam Flinton | NHS V3 XML Processing Utilities | V3 XML Utilities at Open Health Tools |
| Paul Biron | HL7 V3 XML Publishing | V3 Publishing XML Transforms |
| Stacey Berger | MAX Prototype | Enterprise Architect Model Automated Extract Prototype |
| Robert Worden | V2-V3 Mapping | Maps V2 & other data structures to V3 structures |
| Dave Carlson | Model Driven Health Tools | CDA Templates Designer with UML output |
| Harold Solbrig | Vocabulary Manager | Manages HL7 V3 Vocabulary structures |
| Russ Hamm | Vocabulary Manager | Manages HL7 V3 Vocabulary structures |
| Ted Klein | OID Registry | Manages HL7 OID Registry |
| Cecil Lynch | OID Registry | Manages HL7 OID Registry |
| Austin Kreisler | Pub DB | Publication Database |
| Ewout Kramer | FHIR Pub | FHIR Publication Tool |
| Andy Stechishin | EHR-S FM Profile Tooling | UML Profile MDG Technology for Enterprise Architect. An extension to Enterprise Architect for creating and validating the FM and Profiles. |
| Matthew Graham | Messaging Work Bench (MWB) | V2 Messaging utility, Delphi-based |
| Michel Rutten | FHIR Forge | |
| Marten Smits | FHIR Profile Registry |
EST Liaisons
EST liaisons are those participants that provide communication and coordination between the EST Work Group and other Work Groups.
Work Groups with interest in tooling should appoint a liaison with the expectation the liaison should provide a liaison update once per month. The intent is to make sure EST is aware of other groups' tooling requirements.
Current liaisons, their represented Groups, and the areas of interest are:
| Group | Liaison Name | Area of interest |
| AID/RIMBAA | Michael Van der Zel | Tooling for implementers. See RIMBAA_Tooling_Liaison and Implementation Tools for details & status updates. |
| CGIT | Rob Snelick | CGIT interest is any tools involving conformance and best practices for writing IGs |
| CIC | Abdul-Malik Shakir | MAX Project |
| CS (Clinical Statement) | Rik Smithies | Ontology |
| EHR | John Ritter | EHR-S FM Profile Designer (PI 1040) and R3 preparation |
| Education | Diego Kaminker | Tooling Education planning |
| FHIR/FMG | Lloyd McKenzie | FHIR Tooling |
| Mobile Health | Matt Graham | tbd |
| Patient Care | Michael Van der Zel | See Patient Care Tooling Liaison for details & status updates. |
| Publishing | Brian Pech | Tooling for publishing. |
| Structured Documents | Andrew Statler | Template definition tool |
| Templates | vacant | Primarily interested in a Templates registry, a subset of type of artifacts for the Shared Artifact registry/repository. |
| HL7 Board | David Burgess | Overview of the state of HL7 tooling, proposed and current projects and feedback from users on tool requirements and utility. |
| Open Health "group" | Ken Rubin | Monitoring status of Open Health Tools projects of interest to HL7 and participating in the OHT Architecture Council representing HL7's interests. |
| Vocabulary | vacant | Vocabulary tooling is the highest priority for funded tools if we had funding. |
| CIMI | Michael van der Zel | NEW |
Named individuals are expected to provide two-way communication to their respective groups and help the Tooling Work Group keep up with the varying schedules, priorities, interests and issues so that recommendations made to the HL7 Board are consensus recommendations of the entire HL7 community.
- liaison responsibilities with OHT, SMD, MDHT, IHTSDO WB
How you can participate:
(description is Work In Process)
Requests for new tools should come from a Work Group's Tooling Liaison, if they have one, or from a Work Group's co-chair (if no liaison has been named).
Requests for new tools should be added to the Tooling Requests wiki page
Requests for enhancements to an existing tool should be added to that tool's GForge tracker. The standard GForge project for each tool should have "Bugs", "Support Requests", and "Feature Requests" trackers.
Hot Topics
- Tools List discussion - action item assigned to Andy - what the Tooling WG is responsible for, a list of HL7 Tools and links to their documentation,
- Update the Tooling Work Group wiki page
Current Projects/Work
- HL7 - Tooling & Electronic Services alignment Andy to do a draft proposal for review in San Diego
- Static Model Designer:
- OHT - NHS sponsored Static Model Designer
- Implementing OHT Static Model Designer in HL7 - essential enhancements needed - on hold pending funding
- Preparation for Tooling related Tutorials - part of a plan for rolling out the new SMD
- MAX - Model Automated eXchange - current project
- OHT - IHTSDO Workbench - OHT related project that is part of the strategic plan
- OHT - HL7 UML Modeling Tools need a statement of when MDHT tool should be used compared to the new Trifolia tool - invite Bob Dolin to a call and discuss - the Trifolia tool is a short term stop-gap for US template designing specs for ONC - MDHT generates code too
- Templates Registry Pilot - pilot suspended for lack of funding - current focus is revise the business requirements as informative document
Products/Documents
Overview
- A variety of tooling documents, including an excellent overview of HL7 tools are maintained as file releases under the Tooling Documentation Project on the HL7 GForge site.
- HL7 Tooling FAQs
- To be evaluated as part of the acceptance of Wilfred's new Tooling documentation - Woody maintains the FAQs
- Migrate RIM Maintenance to OTS UML Modeling Tool
- Model Interchange Format (MIF) informative publication
- Project to migrate "Domain" Publishing to MIF2 foundation
- Subversion FAQs
- HL7 - CDA Template requirements package File:NLM - CDA Template tools requirements.zip
Acquisition and Installation
- Installing and Configuring HL7 Tools
- Eclipse Tools Installation Instructions (for tools users)
Tool for Publishing and Static Model Design
- RMIM_Designer_(Visio)_Documentation
- Using the Combined Publishing and Generator Tools (for Facilitators)
Other Documentation
- Source Code for most HL7 Tools is maintained in project-specific Subversion Repositories. These can be located through the SVN tab on the left side of each project page on the HL7 Gforge site.
- GForge Site Administration
- Creating and Using a Document Tab Control on HL7 Wiki
Historical Links
links to old project wiki pages (no longer active)
- Tooling Tactical Steps (2010)
- Tactical Action Items
- Tuesday Tooling Nights lists historical agendas from Tuesday Tooling nights which are led by Andy at each WGM
- HL7 Project Homebase reorg
- Historical info re the HL7 Tooling Collaborative - now superseded by Open Health Tools
- HTC Tools Roadmap
- Requirements for the MIF, Repository and Processes HTC Requirements
- OHT Architecture Project Value Proposition Survey
- Structured Document Template Design Pilot
- Vocabulary Harmonization Tool
