<p> Government Projects SIG Meeting Minutes</p><p>September 12, 2006</p><p>Attendees:</p><p>Name Affiliation E-mail Address Steve Wagner VA [email protected] Elizabeth Smith FDA-CDER [email protected] Galen Mulrooney VA [email protected] Nancy Orvis DoD [email protected] Tetsuvo Kiyotani HL7 Japan [email protected] Kenneth Gerlach CDC [email protected] Nancy McQuillen California DHS (PHIN) [email protected] Freida Hall VA [email protected] Jim McCain VA [email protected] Heidi Mabatid DoD [email protected] Jared Ashman Stryker [email protected] Todd Cooper ISO/IEEE/IHE [email protected] Helga Rippen HHS [email protected] Tim Morris CDC-NCPHI [email protected]</p><p>I. Agenda Items</p><p>Q3. Agenda Items</p><p>-Reviewed Agenda -Approved May 2006 Government Projects SIG Minutes</p><p>IEEE11073/HL7 Health Care Devices SIG New Activities Todd Cooper provided overview and presentation regarding new activities and health care device standards being developed by IEEE11073, HL7 Health Care Devices SIG, and the IHE Patient Care Device Work Group.</p><p>Major new initiative is related to development of Personal Health Care Device standards development activities in association with the Continua Consortium and the Blue Tooth SIG. These standards will cover personal or consumer </p><p>0340cd975cef9fa1d348f947f6192a21.doc healthcare devices such as glucometers, blood pressure monitors, oximeters, etc. all of which are used widely in home telehealth programs. Representation from the American Telehealth Association is being provided towards the standards developed.</p><p>Presentation provided and will be posted to Government Projects SIG website.</p><p>Briefing regarding HL7 Templates SIG New Activities Galen Mulrooney gave a briefing regarding new HL7 Templates SIG New Activities. </p><p> Detailed Clinical Models (DCM) – initiated by Intermountain Health (received first email on 5/9). First Face-to-Face meeting was held last week (Sept 8&9). o The idea is to cut loose from implementation considerations and consider the clinical information that we’re trying to capture. In other words, to store what some people would call “templates” o It will have a repository of canonical models – in a single formalism (perhaps openEHR archetypes). o The models in the repository can be transformed to other formalisms (e.g. HL7 Templates, OWL) with reasonable ease. o Currently want to be open and transparent, but will not be open to everyone. For now they want a small group in order to be nimble. o Models will not necessarily be seen as authoritative or normative o In Europe there will be a certification process for (13606) archetypes. This is in process and should be in place within two years. (European Research Project). o A DCM is a generic term for clinical information models</p><p> Gave overview of constraint language and tools proposals that are being put forth by HL7 Modeling and Methodology TC.</p><p>Q4 Agenda Items</p><p>Information Sharing Discussion Participants shared information about current HL7 initiatives and potential upcoming new activities. </p><p>The primary potential new area of work is in the area of Emergency Response. It was determined that the Government Projects SIG should conduct a joint meeting with the Public Health and Emergency Response (PHER) SIG to discuss Emergency Response work items.</p><p>0340cd975cef9fa1d348f947f6192a21.doc</p>