2015-08-27 Steering Commitee Meeting Notes

Attendees 

 

Name

 YAjay Asthana

 

 Y

Janet Campbell

Sean Moore

 YOscar Diaz
 Julio Cesar Farcelli
 YRick Freeman
 YRobert Greenes
 YLaura Heermann
 NStan Huff
 YTom Oniki
 YMarc Overhage
 YCraig Parker
 YChris Sadvary
 YDavide Sottara
 Paul White
 NHerb White
 YWayne 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 –  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 – 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
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

Change meeting time to Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. ET/10:00 a.m. CT/9:00 a.m. MT/8:00 a.m. PT

Start next week

 Bob Greenes asked if the meeting time could be moved forward 30 minutes. 

 Priority Item – Plans for Next Meeting

September week of 28th - 30th

20 working days/31 calendar days till this meeting

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

 

Oscar – Scottsdale Center confirmed.  Costs will be $6,000 per day. 

Chris – Waiting for final approval of the contract

Oscar – Fees will be $600 for non-members, and $300 for members.  This will cover costs. 

Rick – Maybe this should be the last meeting where we will not charge. 

Oscar – Room rates for attendees will be $129 per night.  This may offset the registration fee.

Oscar – Will send out communication once the agenda is decided

Craig – Presented the proposed agenda for the meeting.  Decided that a full day was not needed for the use cases.

Oscar – David Hunt has been asked to be the keynote speaker. 

Craig – Hope that the keynote will draw press attention

Rick – We should have a session on HIMSS planning

Craig – Can add to Wednesday afternoon.

Rick – Topics:

  • Use case features for HIMSS demo
  • Overview of what is planned and organize marketing and messaging.  This was a lesson learned from last year.

Craig – Want to use the registration site that Patrick set up and add question re. what they want from the meeting.

Rick – Could try to set up a capability to collect fees. 

Craig – Can set up a square account and take cards over the phone.

Oscar – Chris can do this.   

Oscar – Will send out the email today.  Will include a link to the agenda.  Email will include information on the fees. 

Chris – If we charged a flat fee of $350 per person we would cover our costs.

Rick – Could we subsidize this meeting? 

Craig – $350 is not too high a fee. 

Oscar – We will set the fee at $300

Oscar – Add an agenda item for the membership drive. 

Craig – This is scheduled for 10:30 on Tuesday. 

Craig – Need to have the invitees, session objectives organized.  He will stay on point for organizing the meeting. 

Craig will contact Patrick to get the site up.

September Meeting

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

Send out save the date - Chris Sadvary

 

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 – Money has been allocated out of the 2015 budget.  Contracting may not be done by September 30th.  Will be speaking with Jonathan Nebeker to review the proposal.  Will accept assistance with the writing.  Need additional narrative on:

  • Implementation of FHIR for RESTful web services
  • Benefits of the project
  • Care coordination – elaborate
  • Back end analytics

Jonathan presented to the new Under Secretary who approved.

Will be a sole source contract to a HIT. 

Budget is about 9.8 million.

Bob – Willing to provide support for proposal.

Oscar – Will be using the IBM SOA.

Oscar – The proposal needs to be done in the next few days in order to get funding by September 30th. 

Oscar – Did a response to become a sole source agent on behalf of the VA.  VA needs to post another time.  This will allow the VA to become a member.  The legal hurdles have been cleared.

Oscar – Challenge Grant debriefing  has been scheduled.  Peter Haug has agreed to provide staff support.

Davide – Requested a separate call about the Challenge Grant.

Oscar – Would like to schedule this tomorrow.

Schedule a call with Laura and Jonathan – Oscar

Develop grant proposal for care coordination – Oscar

VA Pilot funding proposal status – Oscar

VA Challenge Grant Status – Bob Greenes

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 – Need to bring a team together to develop the operational plan.  We will have objectives for each of the initiatives and a plan for accomplishing them.  HSPC needs additional funding.  Getting additional membership is critical.   In addition, Intermountain and LSU have made contributions of staff time. 

Development Group

  • Craig
  • Rick
  • Tom
  • Davide
  • Chris
  • Bob
  • Matt Burton ?  – Oscar will invite him
  • Virginia
  • Stan (invitee)

Stan Huff

  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.                                                     i.     SMART
      2.                                                   ii.     Argonauts
      3.                                                  iii.     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 –  Member Recruitment

 Oscar – Working on a membership fees.

Oscar –

ACS – requested a meeting in the next two weeks

UPMC – met with them re. membership

Mayo – scheduling a time to present to them

ACS – wants HSPC to collaborate with them on the agenda for the Hill. 

 

Membership drive – Oscar/Chris

Outcomes of Oscar/Chris meeting

Partner Candidates 

  • HepFund
  • 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 Mayo contact – Craig Parker

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

 Priority Item – Other Funding/Organization Relationship Activities

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

 Oscar – C4MI is an opportunity.  Bob Greenes has offered to write a grant proposal.  This needs to be done in the next week. 

Bob – Would be good to have a call with Stan, Oscar, Todd, and Scott

Oscar – Will sent materials to Bob.  Need to have a draft proposal before the call.

Bob – Need to decide if we should apply for an NIH transformation grant. Bob will resend the solicitation.

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

C4MI-- Develop combined charter

 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

 

 

Mission and vision statement for HSPC.  To be circulated by 30th – Davide

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 – Have been talking with a firm to set up the website.

Chris – Have been speaking with a firm.  The cost will be $22,000.  Will include a payment function.  They will train the staff on how to managed the content.  Want to have a new presence by mid-September.  They have been good to work with.

Oscar – They provide a 2 - 3 year program to evolve the messaging.

Chris/Oscar

Implement a solution that Chris can manage – Rick/Craig

Develop website requirements

Develop budget for website

Post minutes from work groups

Determine consistent tooling for minutes and other content

Priority Item — Press Releases and Communications


 Meeting notes and presentations were posted.

Oscar – Would like to have Chris, Rick , and Craig prepare a summary to send out.  Want to bill this as an HSPC collaborative effort. 

Virginia will send the notes form the CIMI meeting.

Rick will take the lead on the notes.

Oscar – Would like to have a newsletter that goes out every two weeks.

 Oscar Diaz

 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

2016 HIMSS Meeting

 

 

 

Rick Freeman

Document HIMSS 2015 lessons learned

Talk with Grahame re. HSPC description

Project Plan 

Rick Freeman 

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