2014-12-16 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

  Attendees 

 

Name

Organization

 YAjay Asthana 
 YJanet Campbell Epic
 John Couk LSU
 YOscar Diaz HSPC
 Julio Cesar Farcelli University of Utah
 YRick Freeman iSalus Consulting
 Mike Garcia Louisiana State University
 YRobert Greenes Arizona State University
 Stan Huff Intermountain
 David Kreda 
 Skip Mc Gaugney Open Health Tools
 YTom Oniki Intermountain
 Marc Overhage Siemens
 YCraig Parker Intermountain
  Vassil Peytchev Epic
 Jeff Rogers IBM
 Surj Ramlogan Allscripts
 Scot Post van der Burg iSalus Consulting
 Paul White Muir Equity
 Herb White Infocare Health
 Wayne Wilbright Louisiana State University
 Virginia Riehl (support) Independent Consultant

 

 

    Agenda

Item

Time

Lead

Action

Review Agenda and December Meeting Schedule  Virginia Riehl

Identify agenda changes

Confirm or adjust meeting dates in December

Priority Item – HL7 Argonaut Project   Stan Huff

Determine points of coordination including the development of leaf level models – Stan Huff

 Priority Item – Press Releases Oscar Diaz  Develop a press releases on HSPC and the Argonauts and the HSPC organization an mission – Oscar Diaz
Priority Item – Incorporation and Organization  Stan Huff

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

Develop Draft Organization Structure – Oscar/Craig

Obtain Board Member Signatures on Board Document – Oscar

Develop membership marketing materials to solicit new members – Membership Committee

Solicit Additional Benefactor Members – Oscar

Send preliminary budget to Stan – Oscar

Reach out to dbMotion re. membership – Oscar

 

 

Schedule a call to finalize membership agreement – Stan

 

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

 

Provide a copy of the membership agreement to Rick – Stan

 

Post membership agreement when it is final – Rick Freeman

 

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 
  Stan Huff

 Rick Freeman – Develop specification proposal with links to reference implementations

Stan – Resolve granularity issue

??? – Approve the enhanced model content presentation tool

Priority Item –  HSPC Meeting Plans  Stan Huff 

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

 

Set up membership committee calls – Craig

 

Identify meeting location options in New Orleans – Wayne

 

Proposed date – February 4 - 6

 

Location – New Orleans

 

Agenda

 
  • Collaborate on HIMSS planning.
  • Marketing materials
  • Member on-boarding
  • Establish committees, processes, and procedures
  • Technical agenda items
  • Terminology and FHIR profile modeling
  • Platform technical specification
  • Sandbox and data for sandboxes
  • VA Project
 

Craig  will contact Wayne Wilbright re. meeting venues

 

Schedule call to finalize agenda and length of meeting – Craig

 

Send out meeting announcement

 

Priority Item –  VA Oscar Diaz 

Oscar Diaz – Pilot funding proposal status

Coordination with other groups within VA

Priority Item –  HIMSS Meeting Rick Freeman

Oscar – Status of VA representation 

Rick – Identification of participants

Rick – Themes
Priority Item –  MedInfo  Bob Greenes Bob and Stan will begin planning for MedInfo
Outreach Stan HuffOscar – Reach out to Allscripts to identify a new representative

Bob Greenes – Regenstrief

Stan – Kaiser

Operations Work Group Craig ParkerCraig – Review proposal on the Work Groups and how they will work
Business Arm Work Group Oscar Diaz

Craig will set up meeting with Oscar

Craig/Oscar – Operating plan development

Craig/Oscar - P&L development

Project Plan Rick Freeman

Rick Freeman – Update

Sandbox Rick Freeman

Recruitment of contributors – LSU, Intermountain, Cerner, LSU

Rick Freeman – Plan for sandbox deployment

Rick Freeman – Develop requirements

Rick Freeman – Support for orchestration

Rick Freeman – Reference architecture definition

Hosted Vendor Implementations Ajay Asthana Outcome of Ajay and Paul meeting

Ajay – Documentation of process for posting to the repository

Communications and Marketing Rick Freeman 
  • Eileen – Member survey re. communication methods
  • Stan – Prepare blog post on DC meeting
  • Chuck, Eileen, Rick – Prepare thoughts on DC meeting, attendees, and links to education
  • Update marketing materials
  • Prepare executive overview of HSPC
  • Develop newsletter
  • Define announcement distribution channels
  • Develop marketing campaign
  • Develop press releases    
  • Define consistent process for committees to document their discussions and actions 
Decision rights and processes Oscar Diaz

Update

Engagement of someone with knowledge of standards approval processes

Review Action Items  Virginia RiehlConfirm accuracy and update status

   Notes

Item

Discussion

Decision/Action

 
Review Agenda and Meeting Schedule
  • December 16 – Hold meeting
  • December 23 – Cancel
  • December 30 – Cancel
  • January 6 – Hold meeting 
Confirm December Meeting Schedule 
Priority Item – HL7 Argonaut Project 

 

 Stan Huff

Determine points of coordination including the development of leaf level models – Stan Huff

 

 Priority Item — Press Releases

Oscar met with Eileen Rivera of Harris,  Chuck Appleby will be assisting with press releases.  The VA has requested a press release.  There will be a general press release regarding HSPC launch as an organization.  May also do a joint press release with the Argonaut project. 

The press releases should clarify the mission of HSPC.  Need to clarify how HSPC complements Argonaut.

Press releases will be reviewed by the Steering Committee

 Oscar Diaz

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

 

 

 

Priority Item –     Incorporation and Organization

 Still getting legal review comments on the membership agreement.  There will be an organizational agreement for the founding members and a different agreement for other members.  The state for litigation will be determined by the member. 

Have benefactor members – LSU, Regenstreif, VA, Intermountain, Harris.  VA funds have been wired.  Intermountain and LSU are processing payments. 

The Steering Committee will probably continue as an advisory committee to the Board.

Stan Huff

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

Develop Draft Organization Structure – Oscar/Craig

Obtain Board Member Signatures on Board Document – Oscar

Develop membership marketing materials to solicit new members – Membership Committee

Solicit Additional Benefactor Members – Oscar

Send preliminary budget to Stan – Oscar

Reach out to dbMotion re. membership – Oscar 

Schedule a call to finalize membership agreement – Stan

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

Provide a copy of the membership agreement to Rick – Stan

Post membership agreement when it is final – Rick Freeman

 
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 

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

This is related to the sandbox. 

Have a place for the profiles.  Waiting for the profiles to be available.  There will be a meeting with Grahame on Thursday and should know the status of profiles at this time. 

Ajay offered to support process modeling.

Stan Huff 

Develop specification proposal with links to reference implementations – Rick Freeman

Resolve the issue of granularity

Approve the enhanced model content presentation tool

 
Priority Item –  General HSPC Meeting Plans

Oscar is in New Orleans this week.  LSU does not have a facility that is large enough.  Will select either the Sheraton or Westin.  These are close to LSU. 

February 4 - 6 is still confirmed. 

The HSPC mailing list is on Mail Chimp. 

Virginia will draft an email re. the meeting and send to Stan and Oscar Rick and Craig for review.  Rick or Craig will send

 Will work to have a decision on the venue by Friday so this can be included in the meeting announcement. 

Will need one large meeting room and have two breakouts.  Should confirm this will the agenda. 

A registration fee will not be charged for this meeting. 

For the connectathon will need power and Wi Fi.  Will need enough space for this activity.

Craig will draft an agenda today and circulate for feedback.

Stan Huff 

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

Set up membership committee calls – Craig

Identify meeting location options in New Orleans – Wayne

 

Proposed date – February 4 - 6

Location – New Orleans

Agenda

  • Collaborate on HIMSS planning.
  • Marketing materials
  • Member on-boarding
  • Establish committees, processes, and procedures
  • Technical agenda items
  • Terminology and FHIR profile modeling
  • Platform technical specification
  • Sandbox and data for sandboxes
  • VA Project

Craig  will contact Wayne Wilbright re. meeting venues

Schedule call to finalize agenda and length of meeting – Craig

Send out meeting announcement

 
 Priority Item – VA

 Met with Carolyn Clancy last week.  Meeting with Paul Tibbits this week.  LSU will be representing HSPC at that meeting.  Should be approved by January.  Name will be the "New Orleans Project"

Oscar Diaz 

Pilot funding proposal status

Obtain use case documentation from LSU – Oscar Diaz

Coordination with other groups within VA

 
Priority Item –HIMSS Meeting

Oscar will talk with Stan to get support to organize meetings and planning.

Have done work on the sand boxes and the tier 2 demos.

Need to schedule a call with Janet and Josh to discuss tier 1.  Rick will schedule this.  Have been building APIs in the sandbox for some of the demos. 

Need to determine if there will be an HSPC booth or be sponsored by other booths. 

Would be ideal to get a kiosk in the Interop showcase. 

Oscar will reach out to Eileen to find out about the options for getting space at HIMSS

Progress is being made on the sandbox.  It should be ready by 12/31.

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

The sandbox provides a place to develop, test, and see the details of the interactions.  It also provides test data for edge cases. 

 

 

Rick Freeman

Status of VA representation 

Identification of participants

Themes and stories definitions

Demo application definitions

Rick and Oscar will develop a budget for HIMSS

Process for signing up members at HIMSS

Stan will send info on his presentation schedule to Rick

HSPC HIMSS 2015 Planning Notes

HIMSS 2015 Roadmap

 
 Priority Item – MedInfo

 Due date for the panel is January 15th.  Bob is reaching out to determine who can participate, particularly the VA. 

 Bob and Stan will begin planning for MedInfo

Identify who will be attending MedInfo and could be part of a panel – Bob Greenes

 
 Outreach

 Regenstrief plans to be a member

Stan and Oscar will talk with Kaiser and Mayo.

 Reach out to Allscripts – Jeff Franks  to identify a new representativeRick

Regenstrief – Bob Greenes

Kaiser – Stan Huff

 
Operations Work Group

 No updates

Will address policies for making decisions and day to day activities.

Need a working Board to launch this activity.  Probably in January

Craig Parker 
Business Arm Work Group 

Oscar Diaz

Craig will set up meeting with Oscar

Operating plan development

P&L development

 
Project Plan Have a project plan on the JIRA site.  Rick has been working with Tom Oniki and his team to migrate their plans to JIRA.

Rick Freeman

 

 
Sandbox

 See above

Rick Freeman

Recruitment of contributors – LSU, Intermountain, Cerner, LSU

Plan for sandbox deployment

Develop requirements

Support for orchestration

Reference architecture definition

There are three elements

  • EHR
  • Set of middleware services – level 1 capability – pt id, authorization, data access
  • Test data
 
 Hosted Vendor Implementations

 Ajay will reach out to Paul to discuss

Ajay Asthana

Outcome of Ajay and Paul meeting

Documentation of process for posting to the repository

 
Communications and Marketing

 Eileen will continue to volunteer. 

The website has been fleshed out with the structure.  Craig has created a logo.

Rick Freeman

Survey Responses

HIMSS promotion discussions with Alex Lippitt

Meeting with ONC

Meeting with CMS

Create mailing list

Update marketing materials

Develop white paper

Develop budget for website

Prepare executive overview of HSPC

Define announcement distribution channels

Develop marketing campaign

Develop press releases

 
Decision rights and processes Oscar Diaz 
Review Action Items  Virginia Riehl 

 

 

 Action Items    

Item

 

Start Date

End Date

Lead

Status

Develop plan for MedInfo  12/09/14 

 Bob Greenes

Stan Huff

 
 Identify who will be attending MedInfo and could be part of a panel – Bob Greenes  12/09/14  Bob Greenes 
 Schedule call to finalize agenda and length of meeting  12/09/14  Craig Parker 
 Send out meeting announcement  12/09/14   
 Develop a press releases on HSPC and the Argonauts and the HSPC organization an mission  12/09/14  Oscar Diaz 
 Determine points of coordination including the development of leaf level models  12/09/14  Stan Huff 
 Send information on HIMSS presentation schedule to Rick Freeman 11/25/14  Stan Huff  
 Contact Wayne Wilbright re. New Orleans meeting venue  11/25/14 Craig Parker 
 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.  Rick will reach out to Eileen  11/11/14  Rick Freeman 
 Set up membership committee calls  11/11/14  Craig Parker 

Identify meeting location options in New Orleans

  11/11/14  Wayne Wilbright 
Develop membership marketing materials to solicit new members   11/11/14 Membership Committee 
Solicit Additional Benefactor Members  11/11/14  Oscar Diaz 
Send preliminary budget to Stan  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

 
Develop Draft Organization Structure 10/28/14 

Oscar Diaz

Craig Parker

 
Obtain Board Member signatures on Board Document 10/28/14 Oscar Diaz 
 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  
 Set up sand box meeting 10/07/14  Rick Freeman  
 Set up HIMSS coordination meeting 10/07/14  Rick Freeman  
 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 Regenstrief 10/01/14 Bob Greenes 
 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    
 Process for Signing Up Members at HIMSS 09/23/14   
 HIMSS Budget Development 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  
 Notify HSPC group of incorporation 09/02/14  Stan Huff  
Finalize By Laws and Membership Agreement 09/12/14 Temporary Board 
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 
Prepare blog post on DC meeting 09/02/14 Stan Huff 
Conduct survey on communications 08/26/14 Eileen RiveraSurvey fielded
Create Mailing List 09/02/14 Eileen Rivera

Email group created

Will distribute email to request people to register for the list

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

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 

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

 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 Rick Freeman 

Need to develop a theme

Need to recruit participants 

 HSPC Meeting

  • When
  • Where
  • Host 
  08/26/14   

COMPLETED ITEMS     

 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 
 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