/ HL7 Working Group Meeting
New Orleans, LA
International Council Meeting
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Wireless Network: HL7
Password: HealthLevel7

Minutes

Luncheon (12:30 – 1:00)
Opening Session (1:00 – 3:00pm)
  1. Opening Announcements & Call to Order (5 min)
•Review agenda / Melva Peters
  1. Introductions Round Table (10 min)
  • Confirm Proxies & Quorum
Proxy Held By: / For: / Affiliate:
Rik Smithies / Dunmail Hodkinson / HL7 UK
Beat Heggli / Marco Demarmels / HL7 Switzerland
Frank Ploeg / Bert Kabbes / HL7 Netherlands
Heather Grain / Jason Steen / HL7 Australia
Christof Gessner / Roman Romanski / HL7 Poland
Melva Peters / Miroslav Koncar / HL7 Croatia
Peter Jordan / Francois Macary / HL7 France
Bjorn-Erik Erlandsson / Mikael Wintell / HL7 Sweden
Ilkon Kim / Byoung-Kee Yi / HL7 Korea
  • Round table introductions
  • Current Membership = 35
  • Lapsed members:
  • Quorum for Decisions (40%=14), Directions (33%=12), Financial Decisions (51%=18)
  • 19 in attendance – quorate for financial decisions
/ Melva Peters
  1. Secretary Report (5 min)
  • Approval of Minutes from Madrid WGM
•San Diego - September 2017 - Sunday Minutes
•San Diego - September 2017 - Thursday Minutes
  • Motion to approve the minutes from September 2017 – Norway – Switzerland - 16-2-0 - CARRIED
/ Melva Peters
  1. African Project (10 min)
  • See Project scope statement
  • Consider reaching out to informatics communities and scientific communities – should add that to the PSS
  • Specific targets in Africa? - divide into 4 sections and do 4 visits
  • Need to consider relationships with specific countries
  • Need to do something different this time as we have tried this in the past. There are US based clinics that have relationships with Africa
  • Conceivable that could use money from the Woody Beeler scholarship to fund people to come to the Working Group Meeting
  • Suggest that the timelines are aggressive
  • Motion: Norway – UK to sponsor the project - 17-1-0 Carried
  • Action: find out what the process is for an IC project (complete)
/ Abdul Malik Shakir
  1. PAC Update (10 min)
/ Hans Buitendijk
  1. Affiliate Agreement (10 min)
  • Concerns raised about not being able to hold certification events as part of HL7 Affiliate event
  • Affiliates are allowed to have certifications as part of their events. Certifications are done through Kryterion using student computers
  • MOTION: Change wording in 6.7.1 to “May facilitate but not proctor…” – Norway – seconded by Spain. 19-0-0
  • Will be updated and sent out (complete)
/ Mark McDougall
  1. IC Budget and Funding Request (pHealth) (10 min)
  • Motion – Norway – US – to approve the funding request for $2500 USD for publishing of conference proceedings on the condition that they also provide it electronically 15-4-0 CARRIED
  • There was a discussion by email – concerns about low attendance at pHealth last year, but in the past there has been good attendance. Conference organizers are trying to raise attendance through better marketing
  • Concerns about printing – in the academic community this is required
  • Giorgio asked if this type of funding request is the type of funding that the IC should support. Can we think about other types of things that we should support
/ Melva Peters
  1. May 2018 WGM (15 min)
  • Mini-plenary on Monday morning – 8 – 10:30am
  • Planning committee for Plenary –
  • Struggle to get the attention of governments. Get attendance of high ranking officials
  • Agree there should be planning committee
  • Kai, Christof, Mark, Stefan, Catherine – planning committee
  • Sunday evening reception for Affiliates
  • No reception
  • Add Affiliate summary slides to morning/lunch slides
  • Meeting of Regional Affiliates
  • Advertise and summary slides
/ Kai Heitmann
Mark McDougall
  1. May 2020 WGM (15 min)
  • Discussion of criteria for hosting a WGM
  • Should we consider hosting a smaller event (education summit, for example) in “riskier” areas
  • HQ would like to have IC to have input into an international location
  • Action: Melva to send an email out to the Affiliates seeking interest
/ Melva Peters
Mark McDougall
  1. IPS PSS Update (10 min)
/ Giorgio Cangioli
Break (3 pm – 3:30 pm)
  1. HL7 Around the World Schedule (5 min)
  • Action: Melva to send out updated schedule

  1. Affiliate Presentation Schedule (5 min)
  • HL7 Australia
  • HL7 Netherlands – will discuss with Board
  • HL7 Austria - ELGA

  1. Affiliate Support and International Mentoring Work Group (15 min)
  • Discussion of whether International Mentoring should be a sub-committee of IC rather than a WG – with the purpose of supporting affiliates as well as finding new affiliates
  • Perhaps part of the IC budget could be used for this
  • Action: Melva to discuss with Wayne
/ Melva Peters
  1. International Rep to GOC (5 min)
  • Peter volunteered
  • Action: Melva to notify Karen (complete)
/ Melva Peters
  1. FHIR Foundation
  • Discussion at the Board – are there any concerns from the IC?
  • Many members of Affiliates are mostly concerned with the implementation of the standards. Cost of membership is cheaper – may join Foundation instead of Affiliate. No relationship between the Affiliates and the Foundation
  • Invite Foundation Board to discuss
  • Action: Ed will ask Stan Huff to join for discussion
  • Membership dues in the Affiliate could influence whether someone joins the Affiliate or Foundation
  • Education is key to the viability of the Affiliates
  • Possible that must be a member of HL7 International (or an Affiliate)
  • Kai, Rik and Melva to work on a statement to send to the FHIR Foundation and HL7 Board
/ Line Saele
  1. Closing Remarks (5 min)
/ Melva Peters
Meeting Adjourned @ 5:00 pm
Thank you for attending the meeting.
Have a successful week.
Members of the Council / HL7 Around the World Schedule
  1. HL7 China
/ Baoluo Li / May 2018
  1. HL7 Croatia
/ Miroslav Koncar / May 2018
  1. HL7 Finland
/ Juha Mykkanen / May 2018
  1. HL7 Hong Kong
/ Chung Ping Ho / May 2018
  1. HL7 India
/ Naresh Yallapragada / May 2018
  1. HL7 Korea
/ Byoung-Kee Yi / May 2018
  1. HL7 New Zealand
/ Peter Jordan / May 2018
  1. HL7 Philippines
/ Michael HussinMuin / May 2018
  1. HL7 Romania
/ FloricaMoldoveanu / May 2018
  1. HL7 Russia
/ Sergey Shvyrev / May 2018
  1. HL7 Singapore
/ Adam Chee / May 2018
  1. HL7 Switzerland
/ Marco Demarmels / May 2018
  1. HL7 Taiwan
/ Yu-Ting Yeh / May 2018
  1. HL7 Uruguay
/ Ana Mara Marfut / January 2018 – complete
  1. USA
/ Ed Hammond / January 2018
  1. HL7 Australia
/ Jason Steen / January 2018 – complete
  1. HL7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
/ Samir Dedovic / January 2018
  1. HL7 Denmark
/ Sofia Stokholm / January 2018
  1. HL7 Germany
/ Christof Gessner / January 2018 – complete
  1. HL7 Greece
/ Alexander Berler / January 2018 – complete
  1. HL7 Italy
/ Giorgio Cangioli / January 2018 – complete
  1. HL7 Netherlands
/ Bert Kabbes / January 2018 – complete
  1. HL7 Poland
/ Roman Radomski / January 2018
  1. HL7 Spain
/ Francisco Perez / January 2018 – complete
  1. HL7 Brazil
/ Marivan Abrahão / September 2017
  1. HL7 UAE
/ Mohamed AlRedha / September 2017
  1. HL7 UK
/ Dunmail Hodkinson / September 2017 – complete
  1. HL7 Argentina
/ Fernando Campos / September 2017 – complete
  1. HL7 Austria
/ Stefan Sabutsch / September 2017 – complete
  1. HL7 Canada
/ Melva Peters / September 2017 – complete
  1. HL7 Czech Republic
/ Libor Seidl / September 2017
  1. HL7 France
/ Francois Macary / September 2017 – complete
  1. HL7 Japan
/ Michio Kimura / September 2017 – complete
  1. HL7 Norway
/ Line Saele / September 2017 – complete
  1. HL7 Sweden
/ Mikael Wintell / September 2017

Affiliates Council Members:

Affiliate / Role / Name / Attendance Record
Co-Chair / Melva Peters / Yes
Co-Chair / Diego Kaminker / Yes
Co-Chair / Line Saele / Yes
HL7 Board of Directors
IC Representatives / Line Saele / Yes
Frank Oemig / Yes
Members of the Council
HL7 Argentina / Fernando Campos / Yes
HL7 Australia / Jason Steen / Yes by proxy
HL7 Austria / Stefan Sabutsch / Yes
HL7 Bosnia and Herzegovina / Samir Dedovic
HL7 Brazil / Marivan Abrahão
HL7 Canada / Melva Peters / Yes
HL7 China / Baoluo Li
HL7 Croatia / Miroslav Koncar / Yes by proxy
HL7 Czech Republic / Libor Seidl
HL7 Denmark / Sofia Stokholm
HL7 Finland / Juha Mykkanen
HL7 France / Francois Macary / Yes by proxy
HL7 Germany / Christof Gessner / Yes
HL7 Greece / Alexander Berler
HL7 Hong Kong / Chung Ping Ho
HL7 India / Naresh Yallapragada
HL7 Italy / Giorgio Cangioli / Yes
HL7 Japan / Michio Kimura / Yes
HL7 Korea / Byoung-Kee Yi / Yes by proxy
HL7 Netherlands / Bert Kabbes / Yes by proxy
HL7 New Zealand / Peter Jordan / Yes
HL7 Norway / Line Saele / Yes
HL7 Philippines / Michael HussinMuin
HL7 Poland / Roman Radomski / Yes by proxy
HL7 Romania / FloricaMoldoveanu
HL7 Russia / Sergey Shvyrev
HL7 Singapore / Adam Chee
HL7 Spain / Francisco Perez / Yes
HL7 Sweden / Mikael Wintell / Yes by proxy
HL7 Switzerland / Marco Demarmels / Yes by proxy
HL7 Taiwan / Yu-Ting Yeh
HL7 UAE / Mohamed AlRedha
HL7 UK / Dunmail Hodkinson / Yes by proxy
HL7 Uruguay / Ana Mara Marfut
USA / Ed Hammond / Yes
Lapsed or Unpaid Affiliates

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