Approved notes from the Emergency Management Technical Committee (EM-TC) Meeting

Date: March 7, 2017 Next meeting: March 21, 2017

1.  Attendance

Members
Elysa Jones
Rex Brooks
Karen Legrand
Gary Ham
Scott Robertson
Al Kenyon

A quorum was in attendance.

2.  Meeting notes. Meeting notes for February 21, 2017 were reviewed. Karen made and Rex seconded a motion to approve as amended. All were in favor with none abstaining.

3.  Notes from Chair

  1. I provided the background for the EMTC HAVE work and the consideration of a joint specification with HL7. We paused on this topic last fall wanting to make sure we had the bandwidth and HL7 had the interest to move it forward. Rex made and Karen seconded a motion to pursue a joint work with HL7 for Hospital Availability. During discussion, Scott agreed May not be a good time to pursue since the meeting will be in Spain. The September HL7 meeting will be better with working conference call meetings before. That meeting will be in CA and close for Rex and Scott. Karen added that she has confirmed travel funds available for the meeting. Scott will help draft the Project Scope Statement (PSS) and other Work Groups may want to be involved as interested parties. Rex expressed his gratitude for Scotts’ help on this. I will work the SDO issues regarding any change to our annual MOA regarding this effort. With no more discussion the vote was taken. All agreed with none opposed or abstaining. The next step will be to join the PA Work Group telecom to let them know the EMTC would like to pursue this joint work. Scott will draft an email to the co-chairs asking for some time on the March 14 or next agenda. Elysa will review and send.

b.  The EIC meeting will be March 15 2-4ET. The details will be posted when available. I will present the work I’ve been doing for the Government of the Republic of Mauritius regarding an Early Warning Emergency Alert System (EWEAS). I invited FEMA to attend and will make sure Al gets the invite.

  1. This is a year we are working to promote EDXL through various means. We look forward to planning an EDXL workshop the day following the CAP workshop in Sept in Rome. We discussed other ways to promote. Suggestions included developing a webinar with the framework and toolkit the RIM has been working on. This can also be presented to the EIC. Karen suggested looking at the hospital preparedness program which encourages States to have regional healthcare coalitions. She will send links to the goals and objectives as they might relate to the EDXL work.
  2. CAP workshop. The call for participation has gone out and anyone is welcomed to respond. It is free to attend and any implementers can have a speaking engagement. IAEM will be a co-sponsor this year and hopefully will stay over for the EDXL day. I encouraged Al to make FEMA aware of this and hopefully they will participate.
  3. Emergency Member Section (MS) Steering Committee will support my attendance at the Standards Coordinating Council 3/23 in Reston, VA. I will have a few minutes to talk about the CAP workshop, the EDXL promotion and bring up the work of OASIS and HL7 last fall. I will also look for any engagement with the cyber threat intelligence efforts and HHS.

4.  Subcommittee (SC) Reports.

  1. EDXL Reference Information Model (RIM) SC: Rex reported that he is working on a framework/toolkit to help people develop applications using EDXL. JSON will be included. He and Jeff are working on developing libraries, protocol buffers, etc. to make the EDXL family easier to use. He is also going over all EDXL specs making sure they all have the same file structures, examples are implemented in the same way, they validate, etc. The Emergency MS agreed to purchase a tool to help with this effort. Rex noted they are looking at demonstrating how the EDXL framework toolkit can work using CAP as an example. Work is highlighting some small adjustments that need to be done to our standards. De 2.0 should be the first.
  2. Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) SC: meeting this Fri March 10 at 1ET. The international event list method of documenting and structure will be finalized.
  3. EDXL- Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE) SC: This SC will resume when the PA WG path forward is established.

5.  Adoption. Main news is EDXL promotion. Rex encouraged everyone to get in touch with as many vendors as possible to let them know this toolkit is being developed and gather any input.

6.  Adjourn. With our business complete, Karen made and Rex seconded a motion to adjourn. All agreed.

Respectfully submitted,

Elysa Jones Chair OASIS EM TC

Emergency Management Technical Committee