Facilitator: Durwin Day     

Scribe: Robin Isgett  

Attendees


Antitrust Statement

Professional Associations, such as HL7, which bring together competing entities are subject to strict 
scrutiny under applicable antitrust laws. HL7 recognizes that the antitrust laws were enacted to promote 
fairness in competition and, as such, supports laws against monopoly and restraints of trade and their 
enforcement. Each individual participating in HL7 meetings and conferences, regardless of venue, is 
responsible for knowing the contents of and adhering to the HL7 Antitrust Policy as stated in §05.01 of 
the Governance and Operations Manual (GOM).

Agenda Topics

Agenda Outline

Agenda Item

Meeting Minutes from Discussion

Decision Link

Management

HL7 ANSI Anti-Trust Policy

HL7 adheres to the ANSI Anti-Trust policy.  We should avoid sharing any information on this call that could be interpreted as anti-competitive.  If there are topics that you don’t normally speak about in other public settings, such as conferences or trade shows, then it’s probably best to save those topics for another time as this is a public call. If you have any questions you can refer to the GOM section 05.01 or consult your companies legal division.

Durwin read Anti-Trust statement.
ManagementChris made a motion to approve minutes, Alix  seconded the motion.  Minutes approved by consent.
LOINC

Eza Hafeza

Director of Terminology Services and Operations

LOINC® and Health Data Standards  -   Demo of  Terminology Service for Attachments - value sets

Eza demonstrated the new web site that mimics/mirrors Relma in the browser to look at the HIPAA tab.  See presentation.
Management

New Proposals and PSS for review - PIE comments of interest

  1. Project Proposals:  


  2. Project Scope Statements
    1. PSS-2157 - Getting issue details... STATUS

PSS 2153 - Person-centric FHIR.  Already commented that we needed more information.  New comment was that PIE is an interested party.


Reminders

2023 May Announcement of Formation of Consensus Group

  • Health Level Seven International® invites you to take part in the formation of consensus groups for balloting HL7 candidate standards and documents prior to the upcoming May 2023 ballot cycle. 
  • Recent changes to ANSI’s Essential Requirements eliminate Affiliates as well as Associations as an interest type for balloting (this does not affect membership type). Beginning with the September 2022 ballot cycle, if your organization falls under the Government/Professional Associations/Universities membership category, it will display as General Interest type for purposes of balloting. With the 2023 May ballot cycle, Affiliate voting members will also fall into this category.

  • Consensus Group Sign-Up Open Date: Monday, February 27, 2023
  • Consensus Group Sign-Up Close Date: Thursday, March 30, 2023

Important Note: Consensus group signup closes when ballot voting begins. 

Consensus group enrollment will be available from a date at least four weeks preceding the ballot vote opening date and will continue until the opening of voting.  While the exact dates are dependent upon individual ballot open and close dates, in general the consensus group signup period dates are as follows:

Reviewed announcements.


Update

Hot of the presses.  We have a few more weeks to submit comments to HHS on the Attachments proposed rule. 

Today HHS indicated the deadline for comments was extended a month, to April 21 at 5 pm Eastern.

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-06034.pdf?utm_source=federalregister.gov&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pi+subscription+mailing+list

Time period extended for any additional comments.
Management

HL7 May Connectathon and WGM schedule and attendee

Review WGM+ agenda with PIE agenda

Blocked off first quarters for general sessions.  Christol will schedule rooms for the rest of the quarters.2023-03-28 PIE WG Meeting Agenda/Minutes
Management

Normative ANSI Standards approaching expiration

https://confluence.hl7.org/display/HL7/ANSI+Standards+approaching+expiration

STUs Expiring in the Next 6 Months

https://confluence.hl7.org/display/HL7/STUs+Expiring+in+Next+6+Months

Lastly, view the following items that may need your Work Group’s attention via  https://confluence.hl7.org/display/TSC/PBS+Reports:

Rollover until next week.
Completed Prior Authorization Comments

Both the PIE WG Interop 3 Prior Auth and the Attachments NPRM comments have been shared with HL7 leadership.

However, we now can still add any new comments for Attachments with the extension on comment date of April 15th



Rollover until next week.


Update CDex

Viet Nguyen socialization of Questionnaire

looking for examples and use cases for Prior Auth and Care Management top requests and data elements

Here are United Healthcare Guidelines for DME and more:

https://www.uhcprovider.com/content/dam/provider/docs/public/policies/medadv-coverage-sum/dme-prosthetics-appliances-nutritional-supplies-grid.pdf

CDex Examples process for questionnaire build out:

1.Identify the clinical/administrative scenarios (Examples: -  Oxygen Therapy, - Joint replacements)

2. Get and example "form" – Template

- what documents are needed to support placing a member on Oxygen?

3. List the data elements from a clinical/administrative process 

4. Map to FHIR resources, US Core profiles and elements

5. Create the task resource

6. Create example data

7. Test

8. Create Questionnaire

9. Create CQL with Data to match

10. Test


Rollover until next week.
Open Floor
No open floor items to discuss.
Management Next agenda

WGM schedule and agenda items.


 Adjournment
Adjourned at 3:30PM EST

  Supporting Documents

Outline Reference

Supporting Document

Minute Approval


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