Chair: Craig Newman
Scribe: Riki Merrick
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Attendees
Present | Name | Affiliation |
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| X | | Roche (member) |
| X | Rob Snelick | NIST (member) |
| X | Nick Radov | United Healthcare (member) |
| X | Riki Merrick | Vernetzt, LLC / APHL (Co-Chair) |
| Joanie Harper | Canada Infoway (guest) |
| X | Craig Newman | Altarum (Co-Chair) |
| X | Amit Popat | Epic (TSC Representative) |
| X | Michael Faughan | NIST (member) |
| Frank Oemig | Oracle (Co-Chair) |
| Tony Julian | Mayo (member) |
| Elizabeth Newton | Kaiser Permanente (member) |
| X | Lynn Laakso | HL7 Staff |
| X | Ellen Amore | RI DPH (guest) |
Minutes Approved as Presented
Agenda Topics
Agenda Outline | Agenda Item | Meeting Minutes from Discussion | Decision Link(if not child) |
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| Management | Minutes Approval |
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| Management | DAR v2.6 IG publication approval - request document | - Build off EDHI IG – referred to Diagnostic Audiology after initial fail – results from the follow up testing to PH
- National WG provided the content expertise for the follow diagnostics
- Was created in IGAMT
- Compared to quality Criteria document
- Dark green = verified criteria
- Light green = hard to verify unless you are reading in extreme detail and have domain knowledge
- Missing explicit statement about support for XML – so only use ER7 format
- We may want to create a boilerplate statement folks can insert into their IG?
- Or should we just make ER7 the default and not require that – if we want to go there, then we need to update the quality criteria document?
- This is expected for NEW IGs, not backwards to all existing ones
- If we don’t update the quality criteria document, we can create the boilerplate verbiage
- Craig to create jira ticket to provide support for this criterium
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V2-25510
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Getting issue details...
STATUS
- Examples show restarted numbering of OBX for each new ORC/OBR, but no explicit statement
- We should also create a boilerplate statement, particularly since there are inconsistencies across the use of Set-IDs in the base standard
- It is too late to impose consistency in the base – (Nick f=did analysis around all Ste IDs in this jira (https://jira.hl7.org/browse/V2-25342), but that is why we wanted the explicit statements
- It may be helpful to add this as a question in the tooling to make the IG authors that use IGAMT will get prompted for that – this may be applicable to some other criteria
- Request IG authors to make an explicit statement about restarting the Set-ID and what number to start with.
- Craig to create an Jira ticket to develop boilerplate text
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V2-25511
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Getting issue details...
STATUS
- Best practice: they did not reuse datatype flavors – this may have not been available in the IGAMT they used – the datatype flavor ballot is not published yet, so not really official
- Valueset using OIDs and include use – missing from this – best practice and matching old EDHI IG – let’s leave that alone
- This IG was written before our quality criteria were even balloted
Next Step: - Craig will work with Ellen to make those changes, then send to Lynn (after the April ballot opening)
| Motion to approve the publication request pending the addition of the text around XML and Set-ID handling – Riki Merrick, Rob Snelick, no further discussion, against: 0, abstain: 0, in favor: 5 |
| Management | US Immunization Guide r1.6 PSS \https://jira.hl7.org/browse/PSS-2179 | - PH WG approved project
- In 2014 AIRA and CDC co-published IG as non-HL7 balloted, but it is what MU cites and is implemented in every PH jurisdiction
- Errata to the MU called out IG are the starting point for this IG project (referred to as consolidated IG (unofficially called R1.5)
- There was an V2.8.2 IG balloted through HL7, still STU – that guide was never adopted – plan is to let the STU period expire and retire this standard
- While this was never adopted, but several of the best practices described in this
- CDC sponsoring this next version (they call it R1.6) – HL7 balloted update to the existing guide with clarification and additional guidance created by AIRA
- First HL7 publication is STU, but the next version should go to normative, since it has substantial implementation already
- External Content Review – is joint copyright from CDC and AIRA desired? – not expected to be a problem, but they are looking into it
- The naming convention rules have been updated recently– but the outcome may not be R1.6 as desired – they will not want to have a “younger number”, so we may have to be creatigve within the rules (maybe 2.0 would work)
| Motion to approve PSS – Rob Snelick, Amit Popat, no further discussion, against: 0, abstain: 0, in favor: 5 |
| Methodology | Gender Harmony block vote see below for list as sent to list on 2/27/2023 | Requested Pulls: V2-25412 and it's duplicate V2-25417 marked as strike-through in the table - Theses are items we have already reviewed and sent to the GH group for their review, now there are here for final vote – these are mostly items for editors / or principal decision (those were the pulls) that have no other WG owner
- No other pulls
| Motion to approve Block Vote Riki Merrick, Amit Popat, no further discussion, against: 0, abstain: 0, in favor: |
| Methodology | Gender Harmony ticket review | In preparation for the call next week, since Riki won't be on: - We have short-term guidance to send SOGI data for patients – we have already discussed.
- Do we approve use of OBX after PID only for SOGI, or allow to add Pronouns
- Not to be used for more complex concepts, since that has more attributes like document context and validity period:
- Recorded Sex or Gender
- Not for SPCU – since that needs to have the context of the order – that is already covered under AOE use (OBX under OBR), so cannot specifically restrict that
- We will check with Cooper, if FHIR supports a “default” SPCU at the patient level (without clinical context)
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| Methodology | Harmonization Chapter 2C to THO content |
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| Management | Next agenda |
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| Adjournment |
| Adjourned at 4:00 PM Eastern |
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Supporting Documents
Outline Reference | Supporting Document |
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| Minute Approval | |
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Gender Harmony Bock Vote
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