2015-06-30 Steering Commitee Meeting Notes

Attendees 

 

Name

 YAjay Asthana
 Janet Campbell
 YOscar Diaz off 07/13 - 27
 Julio Cesar Farcelli
 YRick Freeman
 Robert Greenes
 YLaura Heermann
 YStan Huff
 Tom Oniki
 Marc Overhage
 Y Craig Parker
 YPaul White
 YHerb White
 YWayne Wilbright
 YVirginia Riehl (support)

 

 

    Agenda

Item

Time

Lead

Review Agenda and  Meeting Schedule

 Virginia Riehl
Priority Item –  Member Recruitment Oscar Diaz/Stan Huff
Priority Item – Other Funding/Organization Relationship Activities Oscar Diaz 
Priority Item –VA Project Oscar Diaz
Priority Item – Follow-Up From Washington DC Meeting  
Priority Item – Plans for Next Meeting  
Priority Item – Committee Development Craig Parker/Oscar Diaz
Priority Item – Incorporation and Organization Stan Huff/Oscar Diaz
Priority Item – Website Craig Parker
Priority Item –   Get technical content on website or other accessible location Stan Huff/Rick Freeman
Priority Item – Press Releases Oscar Diaz 
Priority Item –  Tier 2 Messaging Craig Parker
Priority Item –  Value Proposition Ajay Asthana
2016 HIMSS Meeting Rick Freeman
Project Plan Rick Freeman
Communications and Marketing Rick Freeman
Review Action Items Virginia Riehl

   Notes

Item

Discussion 

Follow-Up Notes

Review Agenda and Meeting Schedule

 

 

 Priority Item –  Member Recruitment

 Oscar – Chris and Oscar are developing a process for member recruitment.  Sue Jiminez will be providing a meeting location.  Can join as individual members, with fewer benefits. A  number of organizations have said they will join.. Just need to get signed agreements.  

Will have plan to publish next week.

Oscar – Harris has been acquired by NantHealth.  They also bought a medical device company.  Do integration for medical devices for Epic. Do work on genomic mapping.  Harris provides a platform capability.  Want to go to SOA.   They are interested in joining HSPC.  Considering benefactor membership. 

Stan – Received a membership agreement from Care Data and Wave Access. 

Oscar – Outsanding are VA, Regenstrief, HepFund

 

Membership drive – Oscar/Chris

Partner Candidates 

  • UPMC
  • CHIME
  • Cognitive Medical
  • Oakwood
  • Vanderbilt
  • Cerner
  • Regenstrief
  • Athena Health
  • Mayo
  • TELUS
  • Ontario Ministry of Health
  • dbMotion 
  • Orion
  • Geisinger
  • Kaiser
  • Allscripts

Mayo 

  • Follow-up with Chris Ross – Stan – note sent week of 06/01
  • Develop HSPC Value Description for Mayo  

Follow-up with VA,  Regenstreif, and Harris on payments – Stan, Oscar

 Develop membership marketing materials to solicit new members – Membership Committee

Solicit Additional Benefactor Members – Oscar

Craig – Will follow-up with Mayo contact.  

 Priority Item – Other Funding/Organization Relationship Activities

  • ACOG
  • ACS
  • C4MI
  • SMART
  • Arizona Grants
  • Argonauts
  • HL7
  • Sequoia (Healtheway/Carequality)
  • Commonwell
  • OMG
  • CHIME

 Stan – Had a call with the Argonauts.  Agreed to work with HSPC.  Discussed coordination on HIMSS demos.  Recognized HSPC value for modeling activities.  Want to have a written statement about the role of each group. Stan is drafting a statement with Micki Tripathi to present to the group. 

Stan – Oscar and Stan talked with Sequoia formerly Healtheway

Oscar – VA suggested that Sequoia assist with implementing DURSAs as the care coordination and clinical pathways are deployed.

Stan – Sequoia is now interested in FHIR.  Trying to figure out how FHIR can work with their standard SOAP based methods.

Oscar – Will be a follow-up call in two weeks.  Will work with Jonathan Nebeker to get a contract in place.

Oscar – Have been working with C4MI to get a meeting set up.  They are looking for a combined charter to publish jointily

Schedule meeting with ACS – Oscar

Reach out to get ACOG use case – Laura

Determine ACOG funding.  Meet with David Hoite – Oscar

Develop agreement and project plan with SMART – Craig

Develop grant proposal for C4MI – Oscar

Develop grant proposal for Arizona – Oscar

Joint demos with HSPC and Argonauts at HIMSS - Stan

Follow-up with Marc Overhage – Stan 

 Priority Item – VA Project

 Oscar – The budget has been cut to 4.5 million.  Jonathan thinks that founds can be found to increase funding.  Will be traveling to Shreveport in the next two weeks.

Oscar – Have a sole source proposal for membership. Should have this next week.  If there are no responses will go to a sole source RFP.  This should provide funding for membership. 

 

Develop grant proposal for care coordination – Oscar

Follow-up with Jonathan Nebeker – Stan

Discussion with Aaron Drew re. bringing open source framework to HSPC

VA Pilot funding proposal status

VA security issue resolution

Obtain use case documentation from LSU – Oscar Diaz

VA stakeholder involvement in developing use cases

Coordination with other groups within VA

Register a HSPC price list on the GSA schedule – Oscar

Priority Item – Follow-Up From Washington DC Meeting

 Stan – All presentations posted

Craig – Rick and Craig are working on a message. 

 

Post presentations – Rick Freeman

Send presentations to Rick – Stan

Send out message to HSPC list letting them know that the materials are available and recapping the meeting – Craig 

 Priority Item – Plans for Next Meeting Oscar – Get email from Ken Rubin re. OMG costs.  Spoke to Wayne re. New Orleans.  Also have an invite from West Health. 

Possible Venues 

  • OMG Boston  – $120 per day per person
  • LSU
  • San Diego
  • DC – ACS, McDermott
  • Kaiser – SF

 Priority Item – Committee Development

  • Technical Steering Committee
  • Terminology and Modeling
  • Platform/Architecture
  • Testing and Certifications
  • Cross Use Case
  • Peri-Operative Use Case
  • Peri-Natal Decision Support Use Cae
  • Care Coordination Use Case

 Oscar – There have been a number of discussions.  Drafting a proposal to present to the Board.  The driver is to go beyond the SMART on FHIR to include other platforms.  Want to have this be part of HSPC.  Matt and others are meeting tomorrow to draft the charters.  The charter includes TSC and management of use cases.  Will have something to present next week.

Stan – Will state what the group wants to do and then decide the committee structure.

Oscar – Matt is having weekly calls on the peri-operative use case.  Want to publish use cases for broad comment.  Intention is to present to ACS and get funding to launch the development.  We need to have a place where work in progress can be posted.  Have an open invitation from to host HSPC collaboration site.  This would also provide access to other work groups in CHIME.  The Confluence site currently costs $1,000 per month.

Rick – Need to look at invoices and users, since the charges should be less.  Craig and Rick will review the account information to see if the charges are correct. 

Stan – ACOG use case is waiting on Steve Halsey to draft a request to ACOG to determine the use case and commit resources to the use case development.

Oscar – Will follow up with Steve.

Oscar – Care coordination use case will wait till the VA funding is in place. 

Wayne – Supports moving forward with the available funding.

Stan – We need to get more formally organized around terminology and modeling.  Need to get a broader audience and the relationship to FHIR.  The August meeting will support this. 

Oscar – We should make an announcement around this. 

Stan – We could announce beyond CIMI.  Will position as HSPC/CIMI/FHIR

Virginia – Will set up a registration form on Survey Monkey and provide a link.

 Board Appoint TSC

Craig/Oscar – Finalize committees

Craig Parker, MD to send out HSPC wide message soliciting members to join committee – by 02/27

Craig – Setting up Google groups.  Should be complete this week.

Craig – Will post committee processes to Confluence

Priority Item –     Incorporation and Organization

Wayne – The LSU legal team has moved the by laws further for review. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stan Huff/Oscar Diaz

Resigning of Bylaws

Board Evolution

 Staff recruitment

Administrative support

Send preliminary budget to Stan – Oscar

Provide Stan with contact information for participants in call to finalize membership agreement – Oscar

Provide a copy of the membership agreement to Rick – Stan

Stan will follow-up to see if the membership agreement can incorporate the click-thru license.

Post membership agreement when it is final – Rick Freeman

Schedule a board meeting – Oscar

Priority Item – Website

 Oscar – Will be working to transition to Chris.  Oscar will work with Chris to develop the website.  Rick will join their call. 

 Craig Parker

Work with Marketing person on website

Post minutes from work group

Determine consistent tooling for minutes and other content

Priority Item –   Get technical content on website or other accessible location
  • FHIR profiles that can be viewed and browsed
  • Sample programs that show how the FHIR profiles can be used 

 Rick – Prior to last meeting, focused on getting the DSTU 2 sandbox up and running.  The next iteration will focus on improving documentation.  No longer adding features to the DSTU 1 sandbox.  Wlil be adding some visual drawing of how the sandbox fits together.

Rick – Have met with Josh Mandel.  Plan to work on the Java integration framework for FHIR.  Will be brining SMART and Intermountain teams together once the architecture and project plan.  Should be about 4 weeks of work.  This is an opportunity to build the collaboration.  Josh will take the technical lead.  Kick off will be this week or next week.

 

Stan Huff/Rick Freeman

Review of technical content Stan, Craig, Tom, Alan, Paul White, Davide Sotterra, Herb White to develop a strategy for moving forward

Update for FHIR DSTU 2

Develop specification proposal with links to reference implementations – Rick Freeman

Resolve the issue of granularity

Approve the enhanced model content presentation tool

Recruitment of contributors – LSU, Intermountain, Cerner, LSU

Support for orchestration

Reference architecture definition

Work is being done on the business processes and service definitions for tier 2. 

 Need to determine with Stan what should be added that is not already there. 

Priority Item — Press Releases


 Oscar – LSU was not able to participate in a press release.  Should do a press release about relationship with other organizations and meetings in August.

 Oscar Diaz

Find resources to support press release

  • Intermountain – Stan

Develop a press release on HSPC and the Argonauts and the HSPC organization and mission – Oscar Diaz

Develop press release on VA project

Get an article in Health Data Management to promote membership.  Rick will reach out to Eileen. 

Priority Item –  Tier 2 Messaging

 Oscar – Will get Craig engaged with the Peri-operative group.  Will also include Scott and Peter. 

 

 

Craig Parker, MD to setup a meeting to discuss the Tier 2 messaging. Will set up a meeting with Davide to build out roadmap.

Determine how to integrate the knowledge platform that Bob Greenes is developing into HSPC. 

 Priority Item –  Value Proposition

 Ajay – Spoke to Evon Holiday.  She wants to connect when the solution is better defined.

 

 

 Ajay Asthana

Conduct interview with Oscar

Review draft value propostion with Evon Holiday

2016 HIMSS Meeting

 

 

 

Rick Freeman

Document HIMSS 2015 lessons learned

Talk with Grahame re. HSPC description

Reserve booth for HIMSS 2016 

Project Plan 

Rick Freeman 

Communications and Marketing

 

Rick Freeman

Survey Responses

Meeting with ONC

Meeting with CMS

Update marketing materials

Develop white paper

Develop budget for website

Prepare executive overview of HSPC

Define announcement distribution channels

Develop marketing campaign 

Review Action Items  Virginia Riehl

Area

Milestones

Technical SC

Technical Roadmap

Reference model – 1st pass

Integrate   existing pieces

Terminology and Modeling

Advance the number of HSPC approved FHIR profiles on HL7 FHIR Website

Meeting   in August with FHIR

Workplan for collaboration with VA and FHIM

Define   what HSPC approved profile means

Roadmap   for modeling and terminology – connected to use cases

Tooling   to detect differences between profiles

Prioritized   pre-coordination reshaping rules

Plan   for developing the capability to translate ADL models to AML models and   possibly examples

Revisit   the strategy of HSPC profiles with SMART applications (in conjunction with   HIMSS demo)

Translation   library/repository that is exchangeable and sharable – instances across   models and from ADL to AML

Platform/Architecture

Platform architecture – harmonize to needs and business use case

Strawman (concrete) view of the platform and architecture.  With use cases as a starting point. Draft   reference architecture.

Proposed standards

Proposals for use of existing architectures

Framework for deciding how far up the stack the platform goes

Testing and Certification

Define the TDD approach (include   negative tests)

Implement   in use cases

Define   certification approach

Cross Use   Case

Identify common requirements to inform   architecture

Perioperative Use Case

Develop roadmap

Create   a brief or business plan to ACS and   obtain their approval

Obtain   funding

Identify   pilot

Peri-Natal   Decision Support

Develop Roadmap

Obtain funding

Gain commitment of ACOG

Develop specification

 Care Coordination Refine existing use case

Get all the documents together and review

Look at FHIR and determine gaps

Secure funding

Create project governance structure

Develop a project plan

Document workflow

Develop glossary

Leverage FHIM and other VA data models

 Action Items    

Item

 

Start Date

End Date

Lead

Status

 Update technical content for FHIR DSTU 2  05/05/15  Rick Freeman When server is available
 Reserve Booth Space for HIMSS 2016  04/28/15   
 Document HIMSS 2015 Lessons Learned 04/28/15  Rick Freeman  
 Develop HSPC value description for Mayo  04/28/15  Stan Huff 
 Develop agenda for June meeting 04/28/15   Craig Parker In process
 Register an HSPC price list on the GSA schedule 03/03/15  Oscar Diaz  
Discuss with Cerner the "write" pathway for the APIs  03/03/15 

 Stan Huff

Craig Parker

 
Send out HSPC wide message soliciting members to join committees  02/17/15  Craig Parker 
 Setup a meeting to discuss the Tier 2 messaging.  02/17/15  Craig Parker 
Reach out to Orion  01/27/15  Oscar Diaz 
Contact Chris Ross at Mayo   01/20/15  Stan Huff 
Contact Allscripts   01/20/15  Oscar Diaz 
Contact Alastair at Gesinger   01/20/15  Stan Huff 
Develop a press releases on HSPC and the Argonauts and the HSPC organization an mission  12/09/14  Oscar Diaz Pend till there is fuller membershipt
Determine points of coordination including the development of leaf level models  12/09/14  Stan Huff 
Obtain use case documentation from LSU 11/25/14  Oscar Diaz  
Schedule a call to finalize membership agreement  11/25/14  Stan Huff 
Provide Stan with contact information for participants in call to finalize membership agreement   11/25/14  Oscar Diaz 
Provide a copy of the membership agreement to Rick  11/25/14  Stan Huff 
Post membership agreement when it is final  11/25/14  Rick Freeman 
Get an article in Health Data Management to promote membership.    11/11/14  Rick Freeman 
 Set up membership committee calls  11/11/14  Craig Parker 
Develop membership marketing materials to solicit new members   11/11/14 Membership Committee 
Solicit Additional Benefactor Members  11/11/14  Oscar Diaz 
Reach out to dbMotion re. membership  11/11/14  Oscar Diaz 
Follow-up with VA, Intermountain, and Harris on payments 10/28/14 

 Oscar Diaz

Stan Huff

 
 Resolve issue of FHIR profile granularity 10/28/14 Stan Huff 
Develop specification proposal with links to reference implementations 10/28/14 Rick Freeman 
 Approve the enhanced model content presentation tool  10/28/14   
 Contact Allscripts re. identifying a new representative 10/07/14  Oscar Diaz  
 Develop value proposition 10/07/14  Paul White  Ajay is working on a value proposition statement for review by Steering Committee

Craig Parker is developing a presentation for Intermountain that could be used with other groups

 Outreach to Kaiser 10/01/14 Stan Huff 
 Event Policies – Develop process and policies for attending events on behalf of HSPC  10/01/14   
 Define Plans for VA Project With LSU 09/23/14    
 Develop Orchestration Demonstration 09/23/14    
 Policy on Member Recruitment Bonus 09/23/14  Oscar Diaz  
 Evaluate JIRA for Managing the Project Plan 09/09/14  Rick Freeman  
Enroll Members  10/14/14   
Define Operating Processes 08/26/14 Craig ParkerNeed to appoint Work Group and proposals on how they will work
Define Decision Rights and Processes 08/26/14 

Oscar Diaz

Mike Hederson

Sue Jimenez

Rick Freeman

Tom Oniki

 
Business Arm Work Group 08/26/14 Oscar Diaz 
External Communications Work Group 08/26/14 Eileen Rivera 
Conduct survey on communications 08/26/14 Eileen RiveraSurvey fielded
Update Marketing Materials 08/26/14   
 Develop Budget for Website 09/23/14   Rick Freeman 
Prepare Executive Overview of HSPC 08/26/14  

 

Define Announcement Distribution Channels 08/26/14   
Develop Marketing Campaign 08/26/14   
Develop Press Releases 08/26/14  Draft developed by PR staff from Harris
Define Consistent Processes for Committees to Document Their Discussion and Actions 08/26/14  Need to recruit someone with experience with standards approval processes
Create a Project Plan and Road Map (release schedule) for the Technical Specification Development 08/26/14 Rick FreemanTesting JIRA to maintain the plan

COMPLETED ITEMS     

 Send out "save the date" for next HSPC meeting 03/17/15  05/08/15Craig Parker  
Coordinate HSPC demo in Harris booth  03/31/15 04/13/15 Oscar/Eileen 
HSPC cards with demo time and locations  03/31/15 04/13/15  
Develop write-ups on each of the apps   03/31/15 04/13/15 Rick/Oscar 
Post the HSPC schedule on an accessible location  03/17/15  04/13/15  
 Develop a one-pager on HSPC  03/17/15  04/13/15  
 Arrange HSPC dinner or reception  03/17/15 04/13/15   
Develop a master list of demo locations and the demos that will be done at HIMSS  03/03/15 04/13/15 Craig Parker 
 Determine the signage that will be allowed in each booth   03/03/15 04/13/15 Craig Parker 
 Set up a call between Stan and Janet  03/03/15 04/13/15 Rick Freeman 
 Create a calendar of events at HIMSS   03/03/15 04/13/15 Craig Parker 
Set up a meeting with Rick, Eileen, Oscar re. messaging.   03/03/15 04/13/15 Craig Parker 
Reach out to Regenstrief to see if they can participate  03/03/15 04/13/15 Stan Huff 
 Work with Eileen on what is required for marketing at HIMSS  01/20/15 04/13/15 Rick Freeman 
 Send information on HIMSS presentation schedule to Rick Freeman 11/25/14  04/13/15Stan Huff  
Send preliminary budget to Stan  11/11/14 04/13/15 Oscar Diaz 
Develop Draft Organization Structure 10/28/14 04/13/15

Oscar Diaz

Craig Parker

 
 Process for Signing Up Members at HIMSS 09/23/14 04/13/15  
 HIMSS Budget Development 09/23/14  04/13/15  

 HIMSS

  • Have some applications in production use
  • EASE from Mayo
  • Meducation by Polyglot
  • VisualDX
  • Intermountain Bilirubin
  • Multiple vendors

Apps from multiple developers

  08/26/14 04/13/15Rick Freeman 

Need to develop a theme

Need to recruit participants 

 Notify HSPC group of incorporation 09/02/14  CompleteStan Huff  
 Follow-up with Reggie re. getting access to the VA booth.   03/03/15 03/31/15 Rick Freeman 
 Follow-up with ONC re. Interoperabilty showcase   03/03/15 03/31/15  
 Contact the VA re. meeting facilities for HSPC May Meeting 03/24/15  03/31/15 Stan Huff 
 

Finalize the list of initial committees

  02/17/15 02/24/15

Oscar Diaz

Craig Parker

 
Create google groups for each committee  02/17/15 02/24/15 Craig Parker 
 Determine Google Drive permissions 01/20/15 02/24/15  
 Set up sand box meeting 10/07/14  02/24/15Rick Freeman  
 Set up HIMSS coordination meeting 10/07/14 02/24/15 Rick Freeman  

Establish Sandbox

  • Where & How?
  • Set standards
  • ASU Mayo, LSU
  • What is in the sandbox?
  • Identify the essential minimum set of capabilities
  • Core services - patient identification, security, data access services
  • Expansive dataset
  • Access to profiles
  • Sample apps
  • Reference implementation
  • Target EHRs?
  • Certification level sandbox
  • One or more app dev SDKs.

Encourage hosted vendor implementations

  08/26/14 02/24/15

Rick Freeman

Robert Greenes 

Herb White

Aziz Boxwala

Scott Whyte

Oscar Diaz

Julio Facelli

Ajay Asthana

 

Bob Greenes suggested that someone from the VA should participate in this group

Rick Freeman will reach out to Darren Drew to identify a VA representatives

      
 Outreach to Regenstrief 10/01/14 01/27/15Stan Huff 
Schedule a time to review the agenda and membership agreement and benefits.    01/20/15 01/27/15 Rick Freeman 
Identify a set of committees that will be formed at the meeting.    01/20/15 01/27/15

 Craig Parker

Rick Freeman

 
Follow up with Oscar to get information on the organization structure.   01/20/15 01/27/15 Rick Freeman 
 

Contact Oscar re. getting the committee structure approved.

  01/20/15 01/27/15 Rick Freeman 
 Schedule call to finalize agenda and length of meeting  12/09/14 01/27/15 Craig Parker 
Develop plan for MedInfo  12/09/14 01/20/15

 Bob Greenes

Stan Huff

 
Contact Cerner and Marc Overhage.   01/20/15 01/27/15 Stan Huff 
 Reach out to Bo Dagnall at HP   01/20/15 01/27/15 Craig Parker 
Contact Oracle.     01/20/15 01/27/15 Stan Huff 
 Contact IBM   01/20/15 01/27/15 Oscar Diaz 
 Contact Kevin and Jamie at Kaiser   01/20/15 01/27/15 Stan Huff 
 Identify who will be attending MedInfo and could be part of a panel – Bob Greenes  12/09/14 01/20/15 Bob Greenes 
Obtain Board Member signatures on Board Document 10/28/14 01/20/15Oscar Diaz 

 HSPC Meeting

  • When
  • Where
  • Host 
  08/26/14 01/06/15  

Identify meeting location options in New Orleans

  11/11/14 01/06/15

 Wayne Wilbright

Oscar Diaz

 
Finalize By Laws and Membership Agreement 09/12/14 12/31/14Temporary Board 
Draft an email re. the meeting and send to Stan and Oscar Rick and Craig for review.  Rick or Craig will send  12/16/14 12/19/14 Virginia Riehl 
 Send out meeting announcement  12/09/14 12/19/14  
 Coordinate AMIA speakers 10/14/14 11/11/14Bob Greenes 
 Determine if a meeting on the sandbox can be held at AMIA 10/14/14 11/11/14Bob Greenes 
 Set up call to plan for next HSPC general meeting 10/07/14  11/11/14Oscar Diaz  
 Finalize Membership Agreement 10/28/14 11/11/14 Oscar Diaz 
 Follow-up with Mike Garcia re. Board participation 10/28/14 11/11/14Oscar Diaz 
Prepare blog post on DC meeting 09/02/14 09/30/14Stan Huff 
Create Mailing List 09/02/14 09/30/14Eileen Rivera

Email group created

Will distribute email to request people to register for the list

 Appoint Temporary Board 08/28/14 09/12/14 Stan Huff  
 Prepare Thoughts on DC Meeting 08/26/14 09/22/14 Eileen Rivera  
 Develop Newsletter 08/26/14 09/22/14  Eileen Rivera