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Minutes Approved as Presented
2022-02-23 TSMG Agenda and Minutes
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Management
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Welcome to members and observers
Administration
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Announcements
Meeting times in March - with seasonal time zone changes (on March 13)
Reuben will post a doodle poll to the Zulip channel for an updated time
HIMSS in March (meeting impacted: 16th) week - Carol & Jess will not be able to attend TSMG meeting
RM Motion, Second BR. All concept identifiers should be treated as alpha-numeric for the purpose of considering case-sensitivity, And we should assume that codes are case sensitive unless specified by the Terminology Authority or further investigation has determined they are case insensitive and change when necessary. Restrict concept identifier to align with the FHIR identifiers for code and where it is not aligned, evaluate case sensitivity flag for that code system on a case by case basis. Motion passes 7-1-0
example: UCUM is case sensitive & also provide a version that is case insensitive that happens to be all upper case
Currently there was no default applied - no value was available and the publication tool requires a value & was generating hundreds of errors. The interim value should be set to "true" in order to avoid publication issues. External code systems, each should be reviewed for case insensitivity or both cases to set the flag appropriately
BR: in FHIR there are specifications as to what can be a component of a code here in the code data type
When will the V2 management be ready to switch over?
MF: currently working on porting the information out of the V2 UTG GitHub repo. Q: is this a full compliment of info - note that there is some information that appears to be missing. MF: will take responsibility to assuring the V2 information is up to date.
Terminology Curator has not been able to perform a release without assistance from Grahame due to issues popping up with tooling
THO post-release cleanup
Started discussions on cleaning up branches that have been implemented prior to older THO releases
Subcommittee is weighing pros and cons of removing old branches
Removing old branches will break Published Example links in older UTG proposals
Removing old branches is likely a manual process prone to human error
Keeping branches increases the size of the repository
Marc Duteau is investigating further to see what our options are and weigh pros/cons further
Lisa looking into CDA Value Sets missing from THO (
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Call for UTG OSG Voters
Send email draft to Management Groups forProduct Family OSGs
OR have our TSMG reps for V2, V3, CDA, and FHIR bring this to the Management Groups?
Ask Rob and Peter for help recruiting forRealm-Based OSG
Ask TSMG main call for Vocab/TSMG members for theVocab OSG
Vocab WG follow-up: Policy Requiring Identification of Stewards for HL7 (Internal) Code Systems
In Vocab WG - Motion passed: Vocab WG recommends that TSMG implement a rule stating that: Every HL7 code system in THO must have a steward WG. The steward WG has to be one of the WGs that are authorized to propose making changes to an HL7 code system in THO.
