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Chair: Caroline Macumber 

Scribe: Davera Gabriel 

Date/Time: 

Wednesday, December 1, 8:00-9:30PM UTC

Wednesday, November 17, 3:00-4:30PM USA ET

Thursday, November 18, 6:00-7:30AM AEST

Thursday, November 18, 9:00-10:30AM NZDT   

Zoom link - https://hl7-org.zoom.us/j/91305750131?pwd=UEVkMzJOV25NQ3lUVU9POUZKWi9lZz09

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Attendees

Attendee type:

M - TSMG Member

O -Observer / Guest

Attendance:

P - present

A - Apologies

X - (Apologies with Proxy)

Name

Affiliation

M (Co-Chair)P

Caroline Macumber(CM) 

Clinical Architecture
M (Co-Chair)P

Davera Gabriel (DG)

The Johns Hopkins University
M (Co-Chair)P

Reuben Daniels (RD)

Saludax
M (CTO)X(Peter Jordan)

Wayne Kubick (WK)

HL7 International
M (TSMG Rep to the TSC)X (Carol Macumber)

Rob McClure (RM) 

MD Partners, Inc.
MP (first 60 minutes only)

Bryn Rhodes (BR) 

Alphora
MP

Jessica Bota (JB) 

Apelon, Inc.
MA

Lisa R. Nelson (LN)

MaxMD
MP

Michael Faughn (MF)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
MP

Peter Jordan (PJ)

HL7 New Zealand
MP

Roel Barelds (RB)

Precipius b.v.
MX (Davera Gabriel)

Susan Matney (SM)

Intermountain Health
MP

Sylvia Thun (ST)

HL7 Germany
O

Grahame Grieve (GG)

Health Intersections
OP

Joan Harper (JH)

Canada Health Infoway
OP

Patrick McLaughlin (PM)

National Library of Medicine
O

Robert Hausam (RH)

Hausam Consulting LLC
OP

Suzy Roy (SR)

SNOMED International
OPCara Schlegel ICF 
O

Robert Hausam (RH)

MITRE


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Minutes Approved as Presented 

2021-12-08 TSMG Agenda and Minutes

This is to approve minutes via general consent. "You have received the minutes. Are there any corrections to the minutes? (pause) Hearing none, if there are no objections, the minutes are approved as printed."

Agenda Topics 

Meeting was recorded

Agenda Outline

Time allocationLead

Agenda Item

Management5CM
  • Welcome to members and guests
  • Rollcall & Proxies
  • Note that meetings are recorded
  • Need to cancel meeting on 19Jan22
    • Some members will not be available next week due to the Connectathon

Administration

15CM
  • Announcements 
    • Requirement to attend Product Management Council meeting at WGM - Q0 Thursday, Jan 20
    • Change in TSMG membership
  • Policy & Process Documentation Repository
    • Requirements
    • Disposition - library approach
    • Each TSMG Subgroup should have their own pages
    • Goals
      • Inventory of current assets
      • identify conflicts, gaps in terminology documentation & guidance
TSMG Standing Subcommittee Updates
          HL7 Terminology Authority10

CM, RD

  • HTA meeting again next week
  • Update from Rob & Bryn re: OIDs
    • New Zealand, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia do not charge for OIDs within their affiliates when requests come from members.
  • The HTA will be working on the GOM changes to formalise HTA as a subcommittee of TSMG (rather than a standalone governance body) e.g. board appointment, standalone confluence space, etc.
          Outreach10DG
  • January Connectathon planning  January 10-12, 2022
    • Terminology Services track proposal: **Deprecated** 2022-01 Terminology Services
    • Timeslot(s) for "Ask an Expert" / Office Hours Sessions
      • Rob McClure -HL7 Vocabulary Office Hour (Monday 1/10, 2p CST)
      • Peter Jordan - FHIR Terminology Server Implementation Office Hour (Tuesday 1/11, 2p CST)
      • Rob Hausam - Office Hour (Tuesday 1/11, 3p CST)
      • Carmela Couderc - Internal Code System Management Office Hour (Wednesday, 1/12, 10a CST)
    • Quality Measures joint session, Bryn Rhodes lead (Tuesday 1/11, 4p CST)  
      • Need to locate a server with the appropriate content to support the QM use case
    • Kick off meeting (Recorded)
      • Th (8a,9a,1p,6p); Fri (10, noon, after 3p) EASTERN
  • OMOP-FHIR Terminologies Subgroup New Meeting times
    • Europe / Eastern US:  Wednesdays noon (EASTERN)
    • Western US / So. Pacific: Thursdays 6pm (EASTERN)
  • Tutorial follow-up / recap - Rob Hausam
    • AI: Rob will collect and provide materials used in this last Tutorial for the education library
  • Additional test case bank development - human-readable descriptions started here
    • Outreach Subgroup meeting activity / topic
          HL7 Terminology / Unified Terminology Governance (THO/UTG)10JB, RD
  • Proposal for TSMG UTG/THO subcommittee meetings to be at 4p Eastern Weekly
    • Replaces UTG project call
  • Progress made on sprint 2 of UTG Jira development items with a focus on release tracking
    • Reviewed current implementation of release tracking on Jira Dev
    • Testing of release tracking to occur prior to pushing to Prod
  • (Deferred) Main priority for UTG/THO subcommittee should be to review and approve implementation of the UTG Task Force Recommendations to TSC
    • TSMG input required to define Oversight Group (OSG) voters for each OSG (i.e. V2, Vocab, Realm-based, etc.)
    • TSC approved, membership of oversight group must be determined
    • Wayne is requesting the TSMG schedule the next release in the February timeframe
    • THO / HTA:  FHIR R5 is coming up in May 2022 - many changes coming as a result of this activity
Technical Steering Committee (TSC) matters10RM
  • Publisher-impacting Change Process
    • Publisher-impacting Change Process
    • Action item for group:  review this document, annotate with comments and questions and invite Lloyd to an upcoming meeting on this specific topic.
    • Action Item for everyone: Scheduled for agenda & vote in next week's meeting (15Dec21)
    • TSC minutes discussing this topic are here
      • (the link above should be confirmed & updated if necessary) process document reflects edits made 29Nov21 (after the TSC meeting)  next step is for the TSMG to provide input
    • There is a TSC meeting next week (December 20)
      • Note to TSC:  please indicate whether a vote is required
      • Wayne indicating this is not an item that requires a vote, in this instance just a review is needed
Internal Code System Identifiers
CC

Workflow process for internal Code System Identifiers and Beyond

Will confer to the UTG Subgroup for stewardship:  Formalize & make part of that documentation set

At-Home Test Report PSS
CM

At-Home Test Report

Publishing terminology to the FHIR Ecosystem

10RD
  • Publishing terminology to the FHIR Ecosystem
    • Feedback from members
    • Action item for everyone:  please review this document / proposal & provide feedback by 5Jan22
    • not a request from the TSC
    • Wayne:  will impact the Implementation Division and there will be more feedback then
    • Bryn:  made some suggestions as informed by the Quality Measures work,
    • PJ: there was a good deal of feedback from the terminology service providers / technical community
      • Terminology capabilities resource 
Additional Test Cases for Terminology Services

  • Terminology Server functionality / behavior implementation comparisons
  • Comparing terminology capability statements is currently the only method to achieve this - abstract
  • Another method is required to do actual-hands on comparison(s)
    • including development of additional test cases for Connectathon
  • Peter suggests using the Aegis touchstone tool - requires a license
  • Wayne:  DaVinci has a license, might have an approach we can leverage
  • AI: Davera will create supplementary meeting series to develop . enhance this capability
 Adjournment


Supporting Documents

Outline Reference

Supporting Document

Minute Approval2021-12-08 TSMG Agenda and Minutes


Tasks

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