HIA WG Concall 2011-02-03 Minutes

Date and Time

Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Time: 10 am PDT | 1 pm EDT | 5 pm UTC | 7 pm CEST

Attendees

Dan Combs
John Fraser
Bob Pinheiro
Bill Braithwaite
Rick Moore
Dazza Greenwood
Daniel Bennett
Chris Miles
Laurie Tull
Tony Goulding
Myisha Frazier-McElveen
Pete Palmer
David Minch
Tim Reiniger
Lara Zimberoff
Anna Ticktin

Apologies

Barry Hieb

Agenda

Roll Call
Approval of Minutes
Patient ID Portal Project
1. Funding in Transit
2. Fundraising Vital
3. Timeline - TBD when funding arrives
4. Preview of Field Survey
5. Project Kickoff Planning
Other Business
Adjourn

Minutes

1. Roll Call (see above)

2. Approval of Minutes

Bill Braithwaite motioned to correct the date of the minutes as well as some grammatical errors. Otherwise, minutes approved without objection.

3. Patient ID Portal Project

Announcement from Dazza – have received the first installment of funds.

John introduces chairs of Kantara WG for benefit of new participants and summarizes that WG of Kantara Initiative has entered into a contract with eCitizen Foundation to help us build the first deliverable in our work plan, which is a patient portal for patient’s to be able to log in to the emerging US NHIN Network. What we’ve just learned from Dazza is that initial funding has been wired. Now we can move from planning to kicking off the project.

Rick: I think it’s important to state that we’re making this a service so that it’s more broadly available for the technologies that want to connect. It’s been a long time coming and I’m very proud of our status and about having received the funds.

3a.
Dazza: Funding is coming in 2 chunks from OpenID in Japan. The first chunk was received today, the second chunk is in process and everything seems to be in order. According to our agreement, as of now, we’ve begun the project. The first step in the project is finalizing the project plan. As you all know, there will be a requirement-setting phase, a field survey (Daniel Bennett will be taking the lead on that), and of course everyone will have the opportunity to contribute to the various drafts leading to our final presentation. We are gathering names and people and companies that may be interested in participating in funding. Questions?

Question regarding source of funding?

Dazza: OpenID in Japan – I believe part of the delay was due to international transfer issue.

3b.

Dan: As we have seen with fundraising, it does take organizations quite a while to find the funds within their budgets, so it seems this is one of the biggest risk factors for the project moving forward. We’ve got enough to reach an agreed upon design, but if there’s another lengthy lag in funding, there’s a good chance the project will die. This is a key piece that will determine the success of the project. I’m going to hit this issue repeatedly to emphasize the need for fundraising and resources to be available.

3c.

Dazza: once the project plan is finalized, there will be a set of interviews and a field survey. In the interview, we will speak to many of you as well as vendors, government reps, patient advocacy groups, etc. in the field. That will culminate with a requirements and constraints diagram which will be delivered to Kantara to establish the design and specs for the project. We will have a rigorous mid-course review process after which we will come up with a final design and pilot plan for phase 2. Those are some of the major milestones and deliverables for the project.

3d.

Dazza: One of the first things we want you to think about are what the important documents are to be aware of.

Daniel: The idea is to do a comprehensive survey of all of the relevant acknowledges and uses that we should be aware of as we move forward. I will set something up that will allow people in and outside of the WG to be able to help us do that field survey, to send the information that is relevant, and that I will be putting together in an organized fashion. The types of things I’ll want are links, documents, etc. I’ll send a message to the WG probably within the next week so everyone knows how to participate.

JF: I know there will be a lot of opinions around the technology we review, so I believe it’s important to be communicating with the WG and I would prefer you use the list serve. Get people’s input on particular topics one by one.

Daniel: I would like to clarify that this is a survey of what is out there, which is separate from the requirement-gathering. I will be sure to use the list serve to organize the communications and topics

Dave Minch: I don’t believe we’ve created the use case for the requirements gathering?

JF: We have the use case pretty well articulated on the plan on our website. It’s a fairly generally but indicative of what an average person might encounter.

Daniel: We’re talking now about the field survey and then later doing the requirements.

JF: To summarize, we are referring to the Patient Identity Service and we would like to design it around plugging patients into NHIN. I suggest you all review the use case on the website, I think the use case is pretty simple in regards to transporting records between states with the patient driving the exchange. I don’t think we want to re-architect our use case, and if people have questions about the use case, they should re-read what’s on the website.

Dazza: Again, there will be an opportunity to review the use case.

3e.

Dazza: I think we’ve covered the major points, Dan or Daniel, is there anything else?

(No repsonse)

4. Other Business

No other business discussed

5. Adjourn

Next Meeting

Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011
Time: 10 am PDT | 1 pm EDT | 5 pm UTC | 7 pm CEST (Time Chart)
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