HL7AU - FHIR WG : 2016-07-07 Meeting Minutes

Date

07 Jul 2016

Attendees

• Brian Postlethwaite (Telstra Health) Chair/Scribe

• Jason Steen (eHealth NSW)
• Nichol Hill (eHealth NSW)
• Sheetal Ram (eHealth NSW)
• Jane Gilbert
• Russell McDonell (Telstra Health)
• Iurie Brinister (eHealth NSW)
• David McKillop(Australian Digital Health Agency)
• Brett Esler (Oridashi)
• Peter Sergent (NZ Ministry of Health)
• Heather Grain (eHealth Education)

Goals

• What is PA for Australia?

• What is happening in the international space with FHIR, In the PA space?
• What are the tools/processes that we have for managing HL7 AU stuff?
• What has already been happening in profiling FHIR in Australia?
• What process should we use to move things forward?
• Next meetings / Conference calls?

Notes

Developing/verifying profiles and implementation guides on how to use the HL7 International standards - Localization.

The scope of the content will be the same as the international context.

Lobbying and supporting the Australian community to use and support the localized content.

Lobbying HL7 International for changes to the core specifications where needed.

The current "dev" build of the FHIR spec is here: http://hl7-fhir.github.io/patient.html

Heather Grain introduced the AS4846 identification spec for consideration into the Australian FHIR Profile

Brian Postlethwaite gave an overview of where the HL7 International Patient Admin group and FHIR in general is up to.

What are the levels of profiling for the FHIR specification (and others)

1. Core resources - international
2. Standard extensions - international
3. Australian Extensions - Australia wide <- This is HL7 Australia Patient Administration
4. Regional/Jurisdicational Extensions
5. Organization/Vendor Extensions

When should we meet?

Fortnightly would be a reasonable start, from 20 July 2016 from 11:00 - 12:00

What is there now?

Australian Profiles - extensions, operations and behaviours

Russell pointed out that HL7 Australia will require to get permissions from external organizations when using their namespaces,

Brett indicated that for the IHI, we have approached NEHTA (at the time) and gained their permission
(before this will be published then we will require permission in writing?) 

How do people "report" issues that we should be covering in Australia, and what is the process?

Agenda for next call

1. Ideas for how we can get more engagement from other stakeholders
2. Progress/thoughts on patient/practitioner profile
3. When should we ballot?

Action items

• Brian Postlethwaite to upload into confluence the approved scope and charter from the previous WGM

• Brian Postlethwaite to check the scope and charter for this supporting notes, and add to next meeting Agenda
• All attendees to review the PA resources e.g. http://hl7-fhir.github.io/patient.html
• Brett Esler to retrieve AS4846 to be referred to a source of information for consideration of the Australian Patient Profile for Identification
• Brian Postlethwaite to document on the PA homepage how someone can get involved, and what the process is - probably noted to the TSC.
• Brett Esler to consider if the issue reporting can include what level the reporter thinks the issue should be represented at.
• Brett Esler to collect email details and send the meeting request (with the webex details)