HL7 Terminology Authority Meeting
Thursday, March 31st, 2016
5pmEST USA
GoToMeeting: 128 - 447 - 717
Dial in: United States +1 (571) 317-3117 United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 3713 5010, Australia 61 2 8355 1030

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Members Present: Heather Grain, Julie James, Rob McClure, Ted Klein, Jean Narcisi, Sandy Stuart

Additional Invitees Present: Wayne Kubrick,

Additional Invitees: Jim Case, Shelley Lipon, Jane Millar, Russ Hamm, Rob Hausam, Karen Van Hentenryck, Paul Knapp, Harold Soldbrig

Minutes

1Minutes of Previous Meeting

Action: Ted requested that the correct US call in number and those for other relevant countries be added to the call notice as well as details of how to find your local phone call in.

Minutes of previous meeting.

Moved Sandy, Seconded Jean that the minutes of the meeting on march 3rd be accepted.

In favour - 5 no abstentions no against.

1.1Standards Governance Board

HG to invite Paul Knapp to attend again

1.2CIMI

Cimi discussion has still not occurred - revise invitation to Harold - Action for HG.

2IHTSDO

2.1Licensing and Currency (prevalence)

Currency of content policy document and Licensing documents - accepted with slight modifications by IHTSDO.

Rob M moved that these documents be accepted and published, seconded by Julie.

In favour 5 (unanimous), Abstain 0 Against: 0

Discussion: These two documents should be published for HL7 broadly. These documents need to be available readily and published through the general HL7 web site.

Actions: Publish the documents in the Policy area of the HTA wiki - Ted

Heather - Request announcement from HQ regarding these policies requesting that work groups familiarize themselves with these policy documents and provide information on the link to them.

Heather will inform FHIR and assist them to update their web information.

May working group - do we want to put something on the powerpoint slides - make a slide for this (HG)

2.2Free SubSet

Discussed the background and questions raised by HTA with Wayne. Wayne will review and discuss further with HTA on how this is to progress.

2.3FAQs

What action required on security comments points 7 and 11

Item 7 is resolved now that policy documents are accepted. Rob talked to security and no definitive answer has been received. Art Décor is being extended to include FHIR services. Leave on the list but wait for the moment. When a terminology owner reports a problem we will address this issue.

2.4New content Submission

Form and process to be written HG / JC

2.5Presentation at IHTSDO yearly conference

What topic is suggested - policies established.

3Tooling

HTA to review requirements documents and determine next step - make sure Wayne has a copy of the document - for next call.

4Value Set Content Specification

Documentation on value set specification improvement and harmonization (Vocabulary WG)

Facilitator webinars in development (Vocabulary WG)

5Publishing

Publication mechanism from single source of terminology (TK)

Inclusion of maps in publications

Ted reported that V2 vocabulary content publishing format has been largely finished. There is some missing content but this is very close. The objective is to have all details in the database so that presentation of V2 material in the publishable v3 MIFF based model is achievable.

6Communication

7Policies

8Other Business

Note: next call in 2 week at this time and Go To Meeting number 128-447-717