Draft Notes from the Emergency Management Technical Committee (EM-TC) Meeting

Draft notes from the Emergency Management Technical Committee (EM-TC) Meeting Date: December 15, 2015 Next meeting: January 12, 2015 Telecon

1. Attendance Members Patti Aymond Rex Brooks Tim Grapes Elysa Jones Darrell O’Donnell A quorum was in attendance.

2. Meeting notes. Rex made and Patti seconded a motion to approve the December 1 notes as amended. All agreed. 3. Notes from the Chair: a. The EIC meeting will be tomorrow 2-4ET. All EMTC members and observers are welcome to attend. The agenda is posted. Much time will be spent discussing the US FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NRM) by both NWS and FEMA. Presentations from the November meeting have been posted in Resources. The January EIC will now have the EDXL topic as a single event. b. Our Situation Reporting Committee Draft is out for Public Review until February 13. Send it to all who may be interested. It is best to forward the note from Chet with all the details regarding how to offer comments. I have started sending follow ups to the IAEM contacts c. After some discussion we agreed not to have our meeting scheduled for December 29 due to the holiday. All agreed to start 2016 calls beginning January 12. d. There have been some changes to DHS members, Justin Stekervetz who is still shown as the DHS OASIS Voting Representative has moved to Treasury. Roger Stone has taken the place of Damon Penn at FEMA. e. The IJIS Symposium Standards Track (Jan 20) planning is ongoing. Tim reported that Kevin McGinnis will be able to present on the Health Session of that track. We are still working to get DHS S&T involvement. f. I will be attending the HL7 Working Group meeting in Orlando supported by the OASIS Emergency Member Section. There is a possibility I will be able to meet with the Cyber Threat Intelligence TC that is having their first face-to-face meeting in Tampa the end of that same week. I will explore their interest in liaising with our EMTC exploring possible interest in CAP and SitRep. This will be presented to the MS Steering Committee at the first meeting of the year. 4. Subcommittee (SC) Reports. a. EDXL Tracking of Emergency Patients (TEP). Patti reported that she has worked through the issues posed by the technical advisory board (TAB) discussed last time. One issue was to reorganize the way the data dictionary is laid out, we agreed not to make this change. A problem came up with how to make hyperlinks work in open office. She was able to make them work with “.doc” but not “.docx” versions of Word. All hyperlinks have been verified. There are still 2 links that she can’t resolve, both were bad links. She will write Chet for direction. That is the only thing outstanding, except where this version resides which is also something for Chet. The LOINC response will be required for the transformation specification and once complete will be voted forward as a Committee Note. Since we will not have another meeting this year, we agreed to keep an eye on our email where I will send a ballot to move the TEP work forward during the Holidays. Tim will need to ask previous Statement of Use (SOU) providers for TEP to update their statement. b. EDXL Reference Information Model (RIM). Rex reported that during our last meeting included discussion on the Mobile Dev Subcommittee Charter. A minor change was made by Jeff and we agreed it was ready to send out. I will write and call people to participate in a meeting for both OASIS and non-OASIS members to discuss whether a SC with this charter would be helpful and if they would participate. This will allow us to manage the agenda and reach out to a variety of device, operating systems and application providers for mobile platforms. NWS has confirmed they will be available if the call can be either Jan 25, 26 or 27. I will nail down a date once I hear back from other key partners. Follow up material will be sent to Verizon and Samsung. The draft charter and invitation to participate has been sent to Google and Microsoft. We discussed others we might want to reach out to like AT&T (who are currently observers of the EMTC). No one had a contact at Sprint. We hope to get some key big players identified then we shouldn’t have any trouble getting app and solution providers to also attend. I will be able to brief the EIC on this during my OASIS update. I will also be able to reach out to the Mobile Device Working Group at the HL7 conference to see if there is a need to liaise with them regarding the EM domain. c. EDXL Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE). Darrell reported he has hit a wall with finishing this document and is not able to bring it to conclusion given the last comments. These are not technology-centric but requires someone who knows the standard-eze to finish this up. He will also be on travel much of the next three months. Patti said that she is slammed now but after Jan/Feb she may have a few cycles to put to this work. Having been through the same sort of comments from the TAB on TEP, she is well suited to help get through these issues. Darrell agreed to drop meetings to once a month and will still plan to support the HL7 meeting in Montreal. He will not need any financial support for that meeting. I will carry the ball as required during the HL7 meeting in January. d. EDXL Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). There will be a CAP SC meeting Fri December 18 and will continue bi-weekly from that point at 1pmET. 5. Adjourn. With no other business complete early, Darrell made and Patti seconded a motion to adjourn. All agreed.

Respectfully submitted,

Elysa Jones, Chair OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee