HL7 International Announcement of Consensus Groups for January 2019 Ballot Cycle

The linked PDF documents below contain announcements relevant to the upcoming regular-schedule January 2019 ballot cycle being held by HL7 International, before the upcoming January 2019 WGM running January 12-18 in San Antonio TX USA. This is in addition to the two specifications announced for an early 2019 January cycle, which is a closed pool.

Deadline for Consensus Group and Review Groups signup
Consensus Group Sign-Up Open Date: Monday, November 5, 2018
Consensus Group Sign-Up Close Date: Thursday, December 6, 2018

HL7 members and others interested in signing up for a consensus or review group in the January 2019 Ballot Cycle should be aware of the deadline for ballot pool sign up. For this cycle, the consensus or review group signup deadline is Thursday, December 6, 2018. This deadline also applies to non-members who wish to sign up for non-member participation in a ballot cycle.


Ballot signup is now available on the HL7 Ballot Desktop at:
www.hl7.org/ctl.cfm?action=ballots.home


1 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FORMATION OF CONSENSUS GROUPS FOR THE HL7 JANUARY 2019 BALLOT CYCLE
HL7 is pleased to announce the consensus groups and dates for ballot openings for the 2019 January Ballot Cycle. The candidate standards and other documents in the announcement are associated with the following standard classifications:

• Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®)
• HL7 Cross-Product Family Specifications, Domain Analysis Models and Implementation Guides
• Electronic Health Records (EHR)
• Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®)
• Version 2 Messaging
• Version 3 Messaging

Ballot Open Date: Friday, December 7, 2018
Ballot Close Date: Monday, January 7, 2019

For the full announcement, please download the PDF from the following link:
www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/ballots/2019JAN/Announcements/Formation%20of%20Consensus%20Groups%20for%202019%20January%20Ballot%20Cycle.pdf

Please note that several of the document pools listed are contingent upon the completion of related reconciliation activities, in accordance with HL7 policy. In addition, the final names and/or ballot levels of several pools are contingent upon Technical Steering Committee approval.

2 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FORMATION OF REVIEW GROUPS FOR REAFFIRMATION OF EXPIRING HL7 AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS
HL7 is pleased to announce the formation of review groups for the reaffirmation ballots of HL7 American National Standards (ANS):
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System, Release 1
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Service-Aware Interoperability Framework: Canonical Definition Specification, Release 2
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval Application (Infobutton), Release 4
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Identification Service (IS), Release 1
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Registry, Release 1
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Personnel Management, Release 1
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacy CMETs, Release 1
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacy; Medication CMET, Release 1
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacy; Medication Dispense and Supply Event, Release 2
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacy; Medication Order, Release 2
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Privacy, Access and Security Services; Security Labeling Service, Release 1
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Retrieve, Locate, and Update Service (RLUS), Release 1
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Scheduling, Release 2
• Reaffirmation of HL7 Version 3 Standard: Security and Privacy Ontology, Release 1
• Reaffirmation of V3: Context-Aware Retrieval Application (Infobutton); Knowledge Request, Release 2

Per ANSI rules, any ANS subject to periodic maintenance should be revised, reaffirmed or withdrawn five years after its designation as an ANS. Accordingly, HL7 is seeking interested individuals to take part in the Reaffirmation ballots described in the linked document.

Review Group Ballot Open Date: Friday, December 7, 2018
Review Group Ballot Close Date: Monday, January 7, 2019

For the full announcement, please download the PDF from the following link:
www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/ballots/2019JAN/Announcements/Formation%20of%20Reaffirmation%20Review%20Groups%20for%202019%20January%20Ballot%20Cycle.pdf

3 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FORMATION OF REVIEW GROUPS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF EXPIRING HL7 AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS
HL7 is pleased to announce the formation of review groups for the withdrawal ballots of HL7 American National Standards (ANS):
• Withdrawal of HL7 Version 3 Standard: hData Record Format, Release 1
• Withdrawal of IDMP - Dose Forms, Units of Presentation and Routes of Administration, Release 1
• Withdrawal of IDMP - Pharmaceutical Product Information, Release 1
• Withdrawal of IDMP - Regulated Medicinal Product Information, Release 1
• Withdrawal of IDMP - Substances, Release 1
• Withdrawal of IDMP - Units of Measure, Release 1

Per ANSI rules, any ANS subject to periodic maintenance should be revised, reaffirmed or withdrawn five years after its designation as an ANS. Accordingly, HL7 is seeking interested individuals to take part in the Withdrawal ballots described in the linked document.

Withdrawal Review Group Ballot Open Date: Friday, December 7, 2018
Withdrawal Review Group Ballot Close Date: Monday, January 7, 2019

For the full announcement, please download the PDF from the following link:
www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/ballots/2019JAN/Announcements/Formation%20of%20Withdrawal%20Review%20Groups%20for%202019%20January%20Ballot%20Cycle.pdf