FHIR WG Meeting - January 25, 12-1 PM Eastern

Hi Everyone,

I've posted the slidedeck that Rod walked through during the last call. It contains the workstream topics, an overview of the work package template and agenda items for the next couple of meetings.
FHIR WG Workstream planning - slidedeck

currently, the February meeting agenda items are:
1) Review combined work package timelines/ Updates from each workstream (co-chairs)
2) Presentation topic: Infoway tooling to support FHIR implementers (Attila)
3) action item updates (see the assigned action items in my previous post to this thread) (Yaron)

I'd encourage the co-chairs for each workstream to have at least one discussion ahead of the next meeting to begin to formulate the scope and approach to your workstream deliverables. Ideally, one co-chair will provide an update from each workstream. the work package template that Rod walked through is available from the URL below to assist in this planning:
template for planning WG deliverables

ATTENDEES: Joginder Madra, Aandrade, Attila Farkas, Finnie Flores, Gavin Tong, Igor Sirkovich, Jean Duteau, John Wills, Ken Sinn, Kris Lewis, PDomingues, Rita Pyle, Rod Thurber, Shamil Nizamov, Susan Anderson, Alan Leung, Claudiu, Lloyd McKenzie, Anil Patel, Natalya Pogrebetsky, Frederic Laroche

Call for addition agenda items:

Seeking updates from the San Antonio HL7 meeting and connectathon

ACTION: Gavin: reach out to Canadian attendees to ask if they could provide an update to the WG

Workplan overview

The InfoCentral Forum is the current collaboration tool platform. This works well for items that are within the Canadian realm. The question was raised whether some of the work we will be developing should be in a more accessible forum where there is international interest. We will start for now with InfoCentral and discuss/decide if/when there is a need to make it more readily accessible.

Leads:

Solution Architecture co-chairs: Kris Lewis and Igor Sirkovich

eReferral - (confirm if Tim Berezny is interested) and Borna Jafarpour

ACTION: Gavin - ping contacts to ask if they would get involved
ACTION: John Wills to reach out to CognisantMD to get involved
ACTION: Rod Thurber to reach out to RelayHealth,
ACTION: Susan Anderson: find out if someone from Orion who might be involved

Tooling co-chairs: Attila Farkas, Frederic Laroche

Business case development co-chairs: Attila Farkas, Shamil Nizamov

PR/CR co-chairs: Kris Lewis, Natalya Pogrebetsky


ACTION: Joginder will set up the various topics in the InfoCentral

You can join a sub-group by expressing interest through 'replying' to the new threads for each topic.

Another topic that may be launched as a sub-group is to Canadianize SMART on FHIR. Lloyd suggested that the goal could be to progress towards creating an equivalent to the DAF profiles in the United States . Items that will require a Canadian consideration include:
· Terminology choices (code systems for medications, diagnosis)
· extensions e.g. healthcare version #, remove race/ethnicity)
· Get a sense of demand - are there Canadian vendors that are implementing SMART
For now, this will be a topic within the Solution Architecture group until there is a better sense of what work is already underway in Canada.
Another topic that may lead to a new sub-group is to work on defining a pan-Canadian approach to the patient resource

ACTION: Gavin - reach out to Ken Stevens to ask if there is interest in this topic from ITAC Health and to ask the Apps for Health conference leadership if any of their participants may be in this space
ACTION: Shamil - use the forum to seek participants for working on a pan-Canadian approach to the Patient resource

There was a discussion regarding whether this work will be officially 'pan-Canadian'. The operating approach at this time is to see if there is broad support and interest in our work and then seek avenues for acknowledging it as pan-Canadian due to its value rather than formalizing it as such up-front (i.e.it won't have the same authority as the DAF profile in the United States or the previous v3 profiles).

Rod proposed the agenda for the next two months to enable the WGs to begin organizing and reporting in, as well as a template for reporting of work packages. Yaron proposed a brief agenda item in subsequent meetings for members to share news about projects they are aware of

ACTION: Rod: place the work package in Google Docs and a central copy in the InfoCentral forum

Additional items/wrap-up

Updates FHIR North: 3rd FHIR North connectathon and education event will be held on April 26th at Mohawk College in Hamilton, ON. (it is the day before the day Apps for Health conference.) This year, there will be more emphasis on the connectathon component . One objective is to make available Canadianized EHR assets to enable testing/demos. For instance, Ontario's lab (OLIS) for query, Ontario DHDR, Infoway tooling,
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ACTION: All WG participants: any other assets that you could contribute in time for April 26 (and attending) so that FHIR North attendees could test against?

Please post today's slides. Thank you.

Hello all,

The FHIR WG Call is set for Wednesday, Jan 25 from 12 - 1 PM Eastern.
Zoom info and dial in numbers are below and can also be found in the recurring calendar item under "events". Draft agenda below - Yaron and Rod, hope you don't mind the name assignments, happy to adjust if you want.

Draft Agenda:
1) Welcome, agenda review and call for additional topics (5 mins - Gavin / All)
2) Work plan overview - processes and starting list of topics (30 mins - Rod / All)
3) Additional items if raised / Request for topics for next meeting (20 mins - Yaron / All)
4) Closure and next steps (5 mins - Yaron)

Web/TC Details:
Zoom URL: zoom.us/j/730955888
Audio:
Toll free:
+1 855 880 1246
+1 877 369 0926
Meeting ID:
730 955 888
Toll:
Dial:
+1 408 638 0968
+1 646 558 8656

Tim,

Notes are published and shared after the meeting, minutes from the previous meeting can be found here