HL7AU - FHIR WG : 2018-02-14 Minutes

Date

14 Feb 2018

Attendees

Expected

• Brian Postlethwaite (Telstra Health) - chair
• Brett Esler (Oridashi)
• Rob Eastwood (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• David McKillop (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• Jaco Olivier (HealthDirect)
• Faraz Ahmed

 Apologies 

• Satya Yelisetti (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• Uday Chandrupalta (Australia Digital Health Agency)
• Stephen Royce
• Jared Davison (Medical Objects)
• Angus Millar (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• Eric Browne (Montage)
• Vikas Mittal (Australian Digital Health Agency)

Agenda

• Review change to URLs for IHI status/record status - incorrect values noted by agency; to be advised - informed NCTS happy to host these agency definitions; URLs to be sorted 1-2weeks.
• Proposal to move Identifiers URLs from nselectronichealth to hl7.org.au due to policy issues for identifiers - summary
  • confirm medicare-number, medicare-provider-number, dva okay and will be registered
  • propose: prescriber-number → medicare-prescriber-number ; this needs to get done for acceptance (agency)
  • propose: crn → medicare-customer-reference-number; this needs to get done for acceptance (agency)
  • propose: ahpra → move into hl7.org.au (agency does not want to host)
  • propose: NPIO → move into hl7.org.au (agency does not want to host)
• Provider Directory project affected
• Some query on usage of business numbers http://business.gov.au
• HL7 International Update
• Terminology discussions agency:
  • Proposal for HL7 AU to host Onto-server instance for all terminologies produced/referenced
  • NCTS has noted an issue with METEOR referencing and versioning; they are investigating a general solution  (i.e. URL changes)
  • NCTS to host ANZIC and ANZSCO references; URL changes 
  • NCTS has agreed in principle to support distribution of other terminologies created from HL7 AU
  • Specialty roles additions to SNOMED-CT AU as needed accepted and assessed by NCTS to be published in release cycle; need a process to generate these; submission request form already exists
• Request to look at Child Health related FHIR modelling as a project (Tim Blake + NSW Health) - birth records + observations + immunisation record; part in scope for PA
• Argonaut Australia to kick off - note external annoucement in Pulse IT - much new interest already from jurisdictions + others
• HL7 Event dates/locations tentatively organised; 4 main events for the year. Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide
• Plans for publications depending on Base AU
  • Static build for end of Feb; propose putting to ballot with HL7 AU formal feedback; for AU Base 1.0 release
  • Dependency of Agency Medicare Immunization + Consent project 
  • Dependency of Argonaut Kickoff project
  • Dependence SM TWG Provider Directory Service Implementation Guide

Minutes

• Rob: CI drafting ns.electronic.health narrative for id URLs
• Jared: domains need to be maintained (at least continued ownership); HL7 AU uses the content and can manage a definition publication
• Reviewed identifier URL discussion with agency. 
• Moved by Brett; 2nd Jared:  use ns.electronic.health  → medicare-number, medicare-provider-number, dva ,medicare-prescriber-number,  medicare-customer-reference-number; use hl7,org.au → ahpra-registration-number, npio, abn, acn, arbn.  For-6, Against-0, Abstain-0
• Moved by Brett; 2nd Jaco;  for future namespace cannonical URI systems shall be allocated in hl7.org.au unless ns.electronic.health domain owners are willing to list on request; identifier assigner/codesystem maintainer will be notified by WG. For-6, Against-0, Abstain-0
• NCTS looking at MeTEOR referencing and versioning; need to complete the discussion by next meeting we should make a decision then
• Jared: we could do a MeTEOR reference with a well known name and redirect.

Action items

• Rob: make comment on minutes with a list of core extensions that would be good to identify for use in AU
• Rob : ask Phil Wilford to come to PA WG
• Brian: follow up Tz database CodeSystem allocation with PA WG hl7.org
• Brett: talk to Grahame Grieve about sytem url allocation
• Jaco + Brian + Jared: look at timezone extension for HealthcareService.availabilityTime