2015-09-10 Steering Commitee Meeting Notes

Attendees 

 

Name

 YAjay Asthana
 Y Matt Burton

 

 

Janet Campbell

Sean Moore

 YOscar Diaz
 Julio Cesar Farcelli
 YRick Freeman
 YRobert Greenes
 YLaura Heermann
 NStan Huff
 Tom Oniki
 Marc Overhage
 NCraig Parker
 YChris Sadvary
 YDavide Sottara
 Paul White
 Herb White
 Wayne Wilbright
 YVirginia Riehl (support)

 

 

    Agenda

Item

Time

Lead

Review Agenda and  Meeting Schedule

 Virginia Riehl
Priority Item – Plans for Next Meeting  Stan Huff/Oscar Diaz
Priority Item –VA Project Oscar Diaz
 Priority Item –Roadmap Stan Huff 
 Priority Item –Mission Statement Davide Sottara 
Priority Item –  Member Recruitment Oscar Diaz/Stan Huff
Priority Item – Other Funding/Organization Relationship Activities Oscar Diaz 
Priority Item – Committee Development Craig Parker/Oscar Diaz
Priority Item – Website Craig Parker
 Priority Item — Reference Implementation Rick Freeman 
Priority Item – Press Releases and Communications Oscar Diaz 
Priority Item – Incorporation and Organization Stan Huff/Oscar Diaz
Priority Item –  Value Proposition Ajay Asthana
2016 HIMSS Meeting 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 – Plans for Next Meeting

September week of 28th - 30th

11 working days/16 calendar days till this meeting

Timeline for action items – notices, agenda.....

 

Laura – Do not have the merchant payment set up on the registration site.

Chris – Should put up the registration site today.  Will be deciding the best option for payment today.  May be at the registration desk. 

Oscar – May need to move away from Mail Chimp, since these are not reaching people.  Suggested that we use Sales Force. 

Oscar – Agenda is set.  Still finalizing the key note speaker. 

Chris – Waiting for ONC to clear David Hunt.  Will follow up with David. 

Bob – Suggested that we send more reminder emails. 

Chris – Not everyone can pay by credit card or check.  Will include wording in the email regarding reaching out of an alternate payment method is needed. 

Oscar – Can get a PO in lieu of check or credit card. 

Bob – Will check into whether ASU can provide polycom microphones.

 

September Meeting

Coordinate Registration Site developed by Patrick Langford.  Include a place to indicate what the person wants from the meeting– Craig Parker/Chris Sadvary

Follow-up email – Chris Sadvary

Corporate credit card – Oscar Diaz

Keynote speaker

Agenda Topics:

  • HSPC coordination with other organizations – HL7 FHIR, SMART, C4MI, Argonauts, Commonwell
  • Update from August meeting
  • Follow-up on the implementation of FHIR profiles – technical
  • Update on applications under development – Rick will solicit speakers from the HIMSS group
  • App Store planning
  • R&D collaboration opportunities
  • Use case committee updates and plans – Have collaborative review of one or two work cases.. Follow-up on the use cases from the Washington meeting.  Want to move these forward
  • Have a half-day breakout on the use cases
  • Connectathon – profiles and eventing.  Should make the goals and scope clear
  • Vendor presentation on their policy and strategy on FHIR.  Capabilities that they have and are planning. Rick will discuss on the HIMSS call
  • Invite DoD representative to discuss their strategy around FHIR
  • Consider having panels – app developers, DoD on FHIR, other related organizations
  • Anticipated interoperability between the VA and DoD – ask Jonathan Nebeker to assist
  • Operational Plan
  • Reference architecture
 Priority Item – VA Project

 Oscar – Budget has been approved with expanded scope.  Will go to contracting in early October.  Will be a CREDA vehicle directed to LSU.  Will be developing the business case.  Dues are expected by the 27th.  VA New Orleans wants to participate.

 

Develop grant proposal for care coordination – Oscar

VA Challenge Grant Status – Bob Greenes

Schedule a call with Laura and Jonathan – Oscar

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

VA security issue resolution – Oscar

Obtain use case documentation from LSU – Oscar Diaz

VA stakeholder involvement in developing use cases  Oscar

Coordination with other groups within VA – Oscar

Register a HSPC price list on the GSA schedule – Oscar

 Priority Item – Roadmap/Operational Plan

 Oscar – Meeting will be scheduled in Salt Lake.  Craig is taking the lead. 

Laura  – Will follow-up to get the meeting scheduled. 

Oscar – Should include Doug Martin and Emory Frye. 

Oscar – Purpose is to operationalize the committees and finalize the architecture.

Bob – Interested in participating. Will provide additional names.

Oscar – Dave Walton from the VA should be invited.  Want to have the meeting before the September meeting.

Oscar – We are doing both the operational plan and the architecture. 

Bob – This should be a strategic discussion.

Oscar – Should have LSU representative. 

Stan Huff

Matt Burton participation in the group

Clarify the desired end product

  1. Organization
    1. Hold monthly board meetings
    2. Appoint a COO
    3. Confirm tax exempt status
    4. Reorganize the advisory council
    5. Restructure membership dues
    6. Written MOUs with external organizations
      1.  SMART
      2. Argonauts
      3. HL7
    7. C4MI relationship and funding
  2. Meetings
    1. September 28-30, Phoenix
  3. Technical
    1. Terminology and modeling
    2. Development environment
  4. Application development
    1. Pediatric growth chart
  5. Grants and contracts
    1. VA-LSU
 Priority Item – Mission Statement

 Rick – Has circulated a draft.  

Bob – This version captures the current direction.

Oscar – Have a draft to present to the Board.

Bob – Should change wording to "app store and other mechanisms.

Rick presented the mission statement that was developed in January.

 

Mission and vision statement for HSPC.  To be circulated by 30th – Davide
 Priority Item –  Member Recruitment

 Oscar – Memberships are coming in. 

Chris – John Farmer, Care Data Systems.  Dr. William Smith.  Getting primarily individual members.  Will be working with the Board to promote associate and corporate membership. 

Bob – Could the organizational model be scaled to a department of a university?

Oscar – This is under discussion.   Will be taken to the Board.

 

Membership drive – Oscar/Chris

Outcomes of Oscar/Chris meeting

Partner Candidates 

  • ACS – meeting requested
  • Care Data Systems – associate membership
  • HepFund
  • UPMC – follow-up to meeting
  • CHIME
  • Cognitive Medical
  • Oakwood
  • Vanderbilt
  • Cerner
  • Regenstrief – Payment status
  • Athena Health
  • Mayo – status of scheduling a meeting
    • Follow-up with Chris Ross – Stan – note sent week of 06/01
    • Develop HSPC Value Description for Mayo  
    • Follow-up with Mayo contact – Craig Parker
  • TELUS
  • Ontario Ministry of Health
  • dbMotion 
  • Orion
  • Geisinger
  • Kaiser
  • Allscripts
  • VA – Payment anticipated in September
  • Harris – Payment status

Develop membership marketing materials to solicit new members – Membership Committee

Group membership for departments within universities – suggested by Bob Greenes

Solicit Additional Benefactor Members – Oscar

 Priority Item – Other Funding/Organization Relationship Activities

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

Oscar – C4MI will be assisting in late September.  Will be providing an FTE.

Oscar – Mayo is supporting moving forward.  Hope to meet with Mayo in next two weeks. 

Matt – Mayo is working on platforms.  HSPC is a good opportunity in this context.

Bob – Will be an IPA for the VA and will be bringing on an architect under this project.  Should have a call on staffing across LSU, challenge grant, and other efforts. 

Davide will set up a call to discuss the challenge grant.

C4MI Proposal Status

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 

Sequoia/Healtheway – support for DURSAs

ACS – Meeting sponsorship

 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 – Committees are getting revamped.  Will be presented to the Board.

 

Outreach on peri-operative use case

Set up a meeting with Oscar, Laura, Davide, and Craig to discuss use cases

Determine roles of the Architectural /Platform Committee and the Technical Committee

Committee Charters – Oscar

ACOG use case – Oscar

Collaboration Platform

Board Appointment of TSC

Finalize committees – Craig/Oscar –

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

Will post committee processes to Confluence – Craig

Priority Item – Website

 Oscar – Got approval to move ahead on the Amendola contract.  They will be reaching out to conduct interviews. 

Chris/Oscar

Contract with Amendola – Chris Sadvary

Implement a solution that Chris can manage – Rick/Craig

  • Discussions with website development firm
  • Develop website requirements
  • New presence by mid-September 
  • Develop budget for website

Minutes on website

  • Post minutes from work groups
  • Determine consistent tooling for minutes and other content
 Priority Item — Reference Implementation

Rick  – Provided an overview of the reference implementation content on the HPSC site.  Working with Davide on the roadmap. Will provide a weekly update. 

Davide – Need to define the overlap between HSPC and CBSS meeting in Boston on September 30th. 

Rick – There will be an Intermountain person at the CBSS meeting.  The meeting is Josh Mandel, Grahame, Claude. 

Bob – HL7 CDS Work Group is meeting  in September.  This includes some of the same people.

Davide – HSPC may want to have input to the CBSS decisions. 

Rick – Will send a link on what will be proposed at CBSS meeting. 

Bob – This overlaps with HL7 CDS Work Group. 

Oscar - Scott can represent HSPC.

Add agenda topic for technical roadmap to be presented by Davide

 Rick Freeman

Priority Item — Press Releases and Communications


 Oscar – Intermountain has requested a press release on Intermountain's contribution to HSPC.  This should go out in the next week. 

Bob – Will be an IPA for the VA and will be bringing on an architect under this project.  Should have a call on staffing across LSU, challenge grant, and other efforts. 

Davide will set up a call to discuss the challenge grant.

Chris Sadvary

Prepare notes summarizing the meeting in August – Rick Freeman 

Prepare press release summarizing meeting – Chris Sadvary

Send out bi-weekly newsletter – Chris Sadvary

Develop press release with Scottsdale Institute – Chris

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. 

Priority Item –     Incorporation and Organization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stan Huff/Oscar Diaz

Resigning of Bylaws

Board Evolution

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 –  Value Proposition

 

 

 

 Ajay Asthana

Conduct interview with Oscar

Call to discuss value proposition – Ajay/Marc

2016 HIMSS Meeting

 

 

Rick Freeman

Document HIMSS 2015 lessons learned

Talk with Grahame re. HSPC description

Discuss FHIR alignment – Rick/Marc

Communications and Marketing

 

Rick Freeman

Meeting with ONC

Meeting with CMS

Update marketing materials

Develop white paper

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