Terminology Services Management Group
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Chair:    Reuben Daniels 

Scribe:  Caroline Macumber 

Date/Time: 

Tuesday, November 8, 8:30-10:00PM UTC

Tuesday, November 8,  3:30-5:00 PM USA ET

Wednesday, November 9, 7:30-9:00AM (next day) AEST

Wednesday, November 9, 9:30-11:00AM NZDT   



Attendees

Attendee type:

M - TSMG Member

O -Observer / Guest

Attendance:

P - present

A - Apologies

X - (Apologies with Proxy)

Name

Affiliation

M (Co-Chair)x-Reuben

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 (CSDO)

Daniel Vreeman  (DV)

HL7 International
M (TSMG Rep to the TSC)

Rob McClure (RM) 

MD Partners, Inc.
M


Bryn Rhodes (BR) 

Alphora
M

Jessica Bota (JB) 

Apelon, Inc.
MP

Lisa R. Nelson (LN)

MaxMD
MP

Michael Faughn (MF)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
M

Peter Jordan (PJ)

HL7 New Zealand
MX - proxy to Reuben

Roel Barelds (RB)

Precipius b.v.
M

Sylvia Thun (ST)

HL7 Germany
O

Grahame Grieve (GG)

Health Intersections
O

Joan Harper (JH)

Canada Health Infoway
OP

Patrick McLaughlin (PM)

National Library of Medicine
O

Robert Hausam (RH)

Hausam Consulting LLC
O

Suzy Roy (SR)

SNOMED International
O

Cara Schlegel (CS)

ICF 
OP

Robert Hausam (RH)

MITRE
O
Joe FlackJohns Hopkins BIDS
O

Carmela A. Couderc (CC)

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
O
John SnyderNational Library of Medicine (US)
O
Ted KleinTK Consulting
O
Lloyd MackenzieAccenture
O
Ravi KafleWashington State Department of Health
O
Doug DeShazoLexisNexis
O
MaryKay McDanielFM/Markam
O
Corey SpearsMITRE
O
John SpinosaLantana
O
Harold SolbrigMayo
O
Joe AmlungReginstrief
O
Martha JonesHL7 Intern
O
Riki MerrickVernetzt, LLC
O
Gaurav Vaidya
O
Emily PfaffUNC
O
Eric PrudhommeauxJaneiro Digital
O
David BoothYosemite Project
O
Jim BalhoffUNC
O
Christian ReichOHDSI
O
Harold Solbrig
OPMarc Duteau


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Administration

10RD
  • Announcements
  • New time for this meeting
    • New day/time for Weekly TSMG Meeting: 3.30-5pm Eastern USA on Tuesdays commencing Tuesday, 8 November 2022.
      • THO/UTG Subcommittee Calls will move to Thursdays at 3.30-5pm Eastern on alternative Thursdays (alternating with the Vocabulary WG Main Call).
PSS Needing External Review
All

PSS-2131 - Getting issue details... STATUS

  • Reply in the ticket indicates a list of terminologies planned to be used.  Each have HTA records.  A commonly indicating should terminologies that are not registered with the HTA be needed, then it will be required to re-engage with the TSMG.  Ticket approved  6-0-0
TSMG Standing Subcommittee Updates


 HL7 Terminology / Unified Terminology Governance (THO/UTG)As neededJB/RM/CC
  • Terminology expectations for IG developers
    • Terminology Expectations for IG Developers (Simplified)
    • JB and RM have attempted to simply the policy. Group reviewed the policy discussion summarized below
      • Policy applies to any HL7 Implementation Guide
      • Input from FMG and TSC has been included, CMG has not commented. Policy should be applicable across product lines.
        • For this to work, everything in THO will need to have an OID to support CDA
      • Open Action Items:
        • Validate that the first few steps are the same as those in Validating and Requesting Identifiers for External Code Systems and Identifier Systems
        • Review Reuben Daniels drafted list of the consolidated Tooling requirements for IG Publisher and duplicate URI handing that call
        • Update from CMG
          • Was added to their agenda last Wednesday
        • If recommendation is that this should be a JIRA-based process then there would need to be a ticket-type of TSMG added.  Review of these tickets would then be a standing agenda item on the TSMG main calls (this one)
    • 20221031 Next steps:
      • Look into "library IG" term
      • CM and RM to look into inclusion of terminology artifacts being hosted in terminology servers like VSAC
    • 8Nov22 TSMG:  no further comments.  Deferred 
  HL7 Terminology / Unified Terminology Governance (THO/UTG)10RD/JB
  • Next release of THO (5.0.0) occurred.
    • Next release is scheduled in Feb 26, freeze on Feb 12
  • Workflow for THO releases (moving content approved in ballot to THO AND how to handle missed THO deadline)
    • Requires discussion - priority item to resolve
    • This is a key component of the IG Developer tutorial
    • This item is blocked without the expectations for IG developers policy being developed.
    • 8Nov22 TSMG meeting: deferred
  • Versioning policy for UTG/THO
    • Finished proposal for HL7 Code System elements
    • There are a few higher level considerations before moving over to Value Sets
    • Progressing to finish HL7 Value Sets and moving to External Identifier System Metadata Records
  • Many CodeSystems use terminology.hl7.org urls when they should be hl7.org/fhir FHIR-37440 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • UTG/THO subcommittee working through differences across elements for duplicates to determine what is consequential 
    • Need a follow-up with Grahame Grieve. Will invite him to this week's THO/UTG Subcommittee call.
HL7 Terminology Authority (HTA)

    • Next meeting on Thursday 10 November 2022
Outreach & Education

LN: Race & Ethnicity utilization (CDCREC code system) across standards would benefit from some additional training, messaging and socialization of information about the Race & Ethnicity.  Is this the remit of the TSMG.  LN will work with DG to develop education material and seek communication channels for this information 
Technical Steering Committee (TSC) matters10RM

TSC Membership - (deferred: RM not available today)

  • RM will take to the TSC: 4 year terms, then one year off and establishing 2 alternate members as outlined above 
  •   RM: update re: proposal from TSMG?
    • in TSC meeting: other management groups had not yet discussed this topic.  This will be reviewed in today's (this week's) TSS meeting. Update next week
    • Bryn will bring back this update if RM is not available
Parking Lot 

  • Terminology Server (Implementation Requirement)
    • Follow-up from WGM - next steps re: terminology server (service) requirements (1-page description)
  • UTG / THO Subcommittee work in progress
    • Vocab WG follow-up: Policy Requiring Identification of Stewards for HL7 (Internal) Code Systems
Adjournment


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