Attendees:
- Micky Trepathi - Chair/Argonaut
- Chuck Jaffe - HL7
- Viet Nguyen.- daVinci
- Wayne Kubick - HL7
- Austin Kreisler - HL7 TSC Chair
- Carmela Couderc - Codex
- Evelyn Gallego - Gravity
Agenda
- HL7 Process updates – New pre-PSS process, September WGM, Connectathons
- Status of Program Plans
- Future Update Webinars
- Connectathon plans and planning
- Project Proposal Process
- IG issues we need to coordinate
- Coordinate on public meetings
- Vulcan Update
- New Gravity Technical Director
- Gravity May connectathon results
Meeting notes
- HL7 Process updates – New pre-PSS process, September WGM, Connectathons
- Covered most of this content at the Co-chair webinar last week
- Will be having co-chair webinars on a regular basis - are recorded
- Project Proposals - new process
- not intended to make the approval process longer
- announcement of the intent of moving forward with new work
- way to look for a sponsor
- will feed into PSS process - which will be a consensus review
- ACTION: Melva will send out the link to the PSS Proposal page and How to Documents
- Guidelines for use of tools
- Decision trees for which tools to use
- when to use Confluence vs JIRA; Communication Tools - Zulip vs List Serve
- focusing on this area over the next month
- September WGM
- There will be a virtual meeting and connectathon as well as plenary meeting
- need to figure out exactly what the meetings will look like
- Connectathon will be before the WGM
- WGM same dates as originally scheduled
- Covered most of this content at the Co-chair webinar last week
- Status of Program Plans
- Deadline - no later than the end of August for publishing
- ACTION: re-send program plan template out
- Future Update Webinars
- Co-chair meeting will be held monthly going forward
- Will include Accelerators in the invite
- Will be at 4pm Eastern - to bring in international Co-chairs
- There will be a general membership webinar - general announcements
- by the end of June
- may invite Accelerators to give updates
- Co-chair meeting will be held monthly going forward
- Connectathon plans and planning
- planning do Wednesday through Friday before WGM in line with WGM
- Are there other connectathons planned?
- FHIR Community Calendar - http://www.hl7.org/FHIRCommunityEvents/
- looking to capture events going on
- concerns that connectathons are being scheduled too close to the WGM Connectathon - which make make it so participants have to choose between this one vs the HL7 Connectathon
- FHIR Community Calendar - http://www.hl7.org/FHIRCommunityEvents/
- Lessons learned based on Virtual Connectathon
- will change the framework of how we operate these - may be beginning of August before this is ready
- Concerns if group doesn't want to collaborate in a connectathon with HL7
- Purpose for Connectathon - Viet
- would be great to coordinate with Carin and Argonaut on Patient Access API theme
- help people trying to implement and understand what is in IG
- mostly about helping people to understand rather than getting feedback
- Looking at late July/early August
- focus on what is include in final rule
- will include consumer and provider focus
- will do education as well as technical connectathon activities
- Argonaut - no Connectathons planned
- CMS will not be doing a Connectathon - daVinci was waiting for CMS to announcement of what they were planning
- HL7 Patient Access API -
- may require a request for using HL7 trademark - quick process to get approval for use of trademark
- Viet things this would be an HL7 sponsored Connectathon
- Wayne - need to consider capacity to handle this
- may not be a drain on FHIR community, but there are resource requirements that need to be considered
- minimize overlaps and conflicts
- Viet will work on defining and will provide more information
- Evelyn - could this be positioned as pre-connectathon testing?
- Viet - would provide a discussion of technical issues as part of each call
- gives time for groups to look at things (like security) that are required for a Connectathon
- focus on final rule - Gravity is not included in the final rule
- Would focus on established implementation guides - FHIR naive community
- sessions with Use Case Leads and FHIR IG Developers - talk about IGs, reference implementations, jump into pre-connectathon testing
- Revenue for HL7
- ACTION: Viet will provide additional detail to this group - without any commitment
- provide tentative dates to help determine HL7 capacity
- Viet - would provide a discussion of technical issues as part of each call
- IG issues we need to coordinate
- Viet - what IGs have cross over and need collaboration/coordination
- how to get feedback to US Core data for interoperability
- limit profile proliferation
- Evelyn
- Micky - Argonaut
- subscriptions work that overlapped with daVinci
- work this year - may not be overlap
- granular controls
- patient lists - Eric Haas and Josh Mandel
- Bulk FHIR - working on operational issues that have been identified
- some payers may be implementing
- Wayne - Boston Children's will be sending out a survey on adoption in next month or so
- originally ONC request for IG for bulk data import - was deferred
- survey will be send out to those who participated in meetings
- need to figure out who else should be involved
- Token intraspection
- in the ONC rule
- will be asking the Steering Committee to see if they want to add this as a mini project
- working to get Argonaut moved over from Wiki to Confluence
- Viet - what IGs have cross over and need collaboration/coordination
- Coordinate on public meetings
- FHIR Community Calendar
- Data Quality Summit in July - daVinci related discussions - data for quality measures
- Wayne asked Viet to provide information to Zulip stream so this event can be included in Calendar
- Vulcan Update
- Progress made on the Vulcan Accelerator
- Waiting on SOU
- Conveyor - TransCelerate
- no press release until SOU is signed by everyone
- discussion on adding additional language to SOU
- active work on Use Cases underway
- Viet is on Steering Committee
- Don't know who is going to do Program Management
- Viet will be doing a presentation on Program Management
- Will need a lot of eduction on FHIR
- Use cases are broad!
- Will need a lot of eduction on FHIR
- New Gravity Technical Director
- Bob Dieterle will be new Technical Director
- currently transitioning from Lisa Nelson
- AMA will complete FHIR IG development
- FHIR strategy might change
- Doing a lot of terminology work - not the same for new terminology in medical space - need to figure out how to scale
- need to figure out how to do this at a lower cost
- 3 use cases - tested 1st use case for screening questionnaire
- tested all of the transactions
- need to engage with rest of Accelerators
- didn't have right system actors in testing
- want for September Connectathon a large EHR
- need help to get them to table
- need HIE at the table (previously participated as observers)
- want for September Connectathon a large EHR
- how do we engage industry players?
- Viet - develop strategies for Accelerators that don't have funding base to get implementers to get up to speed
- Evelyn - spend a lot of time describing why they should be at the table
- more robust training and education
- use of FHIR beyond clinical data exchange
- Wayne - community may not need to know about FHIR
- Evelyn - don't use EHR
- it is a new world
- data model that are used - are different - not standardized or coded
- trying to harmonized across different systems
- Project Unify - project to align National Electronic Model (NEM) to FHIR
- NEM was established for law enforcement and not healthcare
- Evelyn - don't use EHR
- Bob Dieterle will be new Technical Director
- May Connectathon results
- Feedback has been provided by some Accelerators
- Care Coordination Track - had over 60 participants
- liked the ability to the connect the dots between FHIR IG
- opportunity to have a combined track across a common use case for September
- Viet - thematic days
Action Items
- Melva Petersto send out information and links to Project Proposals
- Melva Peters to send link to Program Plan template and instructions
- Viet Nguyen to send information about possible event around Patient Access API to this group
- Everyone reminded to send information on upcoming events to David Johnson (webmaster@hl7.org) to be posted in FHIR Community Calendar