Meeting Outcomes, OHF FTF 09-Sept
Outcomes for OHF meeting in Saturday Sept 09th 2:00 pm held in Boca Raton FL.
Attendees
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Skip McGaughey - Eclipse
Don Jorgenson - Inpriva
Brian Barry - Berra Associates
Russ Hamm - Mayo Clinic
Kevin Moynihan - Jiva Medical
Grahame Grieve - Jiva Medical
Scott De Deugd - IBM
Randy Carroll - IBM
Greg Clark - IBM
Sarah Knoop - IBM
Apologies:
Ken Rubin
Component Status Reports
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Framework - Don Jorgenson
There has been a lot of development with no coherent architecture,
we now need to start addressing this. Our most urgent need is for
roadmap type documentation for the components, and the component
leads are going to take responsibility for this. We will work
to provide a consistent and coherent set of documnetation spread
between the wiki, the website, and the on-line help.
Designated Leads: Don, with Skip, Grahame and Kelvin.
CTS - Russ Hamm
Mayo is using CTS internally in Mayo, and it's getting fixed.
The code is not yet in Eclipse cvs because of Eclipse IP
issues, but we are finally getting good progress on this.
As soon as all the approvals are complete, the code is
ready to commit to cvs. We need to clarify with HL7 about
IP issues with regard to distribution of the CTS API.
Mayo has an internal subversion repository for the Lexgrid
model itself, and the lexgrid tools, and plan to release
lexgrid through OHF. Mayo are concerned that changes to lexgrid
must pass architectural review, and whether this can be managed,
and the throughput of the IP process (See IP issues, below), but
it would be good to have only one source, and Eclipse provides
governance support that they need.
H3ET - Grahame Grieve
HL7 has released an RFP for open source Eclipse tools. A consortium
of OHF committers has responded, and we are waiting for a decision
on that. A quick demonstration of a V3 instance editor was shown.
XDS/IHE - Sarah Knoop
The bare essentials of XDS are released as part of the bridge. 6
companies ae working with the bridge/code for IHE support. What's
coming next is integration of changes by IHE, some enhanced ebXML
support, and CDA R2 metadata support. Sarah has some code that
needs IBM internal approval in order to migrate to a plug-in and
release for OHF. IBM Haifa wants to use this code on the registry,
which introduces a few more attributes and elements to the model,
but nothing major. Sondra's stuff on PIX/PDQ actors is going well,
and she is cleaning up for Grahame's bug fixes. Eishay is taking
over the bridge from Matt, Melih and Kelvin, and needs to work
on broadening the interface, exposing more of the API from the
IHE actors.
The IBM team is focused on making sure everything is ready for
connectathon.
Glenn Deen has been developing a UI which is hoped to release to
OHF (going through IBM release processes now). Allows for smart
use of IHE Actors. Will other folks contribute? Glenn to see if
he can distribute to committers privately prior to IBM release
processes resolution.
WADO
there is some code. Sarah to follow up and find out where this
is up to.
STEM - Dan Ford (by phone)
Dan apologised for not being here in person, but hopes to be at
the Oct meeting.
What's happening in the code
- working on visualisations - still not complete. once these
are complete, STEM will be largely complete. It's close.
- data sets. complete representation of earth at admin level 0.
244ish countries. USA to admin level 2. Some data for
Europe is missing. data is sourced from open source, some
European data is not readily available. Sources are recorded
in Dublin Core metadata, with source attribution at the
URL level.
- IBM china lab is working with Chinese CDC - they are going
to contribute to STEM
What's happening with regard to OHF
- have to refactor to regroup the code into a more modular
structure.
- Grahame to publish standards with regard to plug-in and
package naming to help (from old email)
- potential for collaboration with other parts of OHF -
* terminology work for proper identification of concepts
* HL7 messaging for collation of public health notification
messages
Interested parties
- currently have interest from Johns Hopkins (+PhD), MIT,
Israeli CDC, MECIDS, France, Northrop Grummen + UC Davis
Dan to work with Skip to determine how best to publicise
this once the code is released (likely a few months after?)
HL7 v2 - Grahame Grieve
HL7 V2 run-time is released. IBM have used the run-time in the
IHE plug-ins. There is a conformance profile editor. We would
like to have an instance editor. There have been some
discussions with IBM about resourcing this, but these have been
very preliminary.
Eclipse IP Process for OHF
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This is a problem for Eclipse OHF committers - the process is
taking too long for our business needs.
Skip reports that Gene Jorgenson is going to pick up the
responsibility of interfacing between Eclipse HQ and the
Eclipse OHF committers. He is going to work with the IP
people to consolidate a list of what is approved, and he
is going to create a consolidated list of all the
components - individual and composite components. He will
also be able to provide status and update information.
Committers should talk to Gene for progres reports.
Skip provides a commitment to have 30 day turnaround on
Eclipse IP process submissions. Not every request will be
resolved within 30 days, but there will be substantiative
progress reports. + progess check at 20 days.
We highly appreciate Gene's contribution.
The process itself remains very important, this is an important
part of the Eclipse IP process. But there is scope for Eclipse
OHF to have same space for OHF to have a lighter requirement - different
licenses or incubation. This code can't be referenced from full
epl code, but can exist under much lower IP requirements. Skip
to pursue, and resolve the exact shape of a solution that will
allow for this to happen.
Review of plan for this year
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We reviewed the plan for this year, checking how we are progressing.
The biggest single issue is that we haven't met our first milestone
because of the eclipse IP issues.
Profiles - on track except for the ATNA actor - discussed below
IHE/HL7 demo - on track
H3ET - on track
HL7 v2 - on track
CTS - on track. Lexgrid still subject to review
Core Framework - no progress yet. This is now important
OSGi/Server - for discussion next call
DiCOM - no info?
We will review the plan - particularly the milestones - and post
an updated version in the next few weeks.
SODA - Service Orientated Device Architecture
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This is an IBM initiative to provide a holistic integration
framework for a variety of small devices, many of interest
to healthcare. The idea is to present devices as services
in an SOA type framework, and to develop standard interfaces
for these devices.
Will work on advancing this concept to HL7/HIMSS/IOM for
inclusion of devices in the scenario for HIMSS 2008. (Skip/Greg
to follow up)
Don to make sure Randy gets the appropriate introductions to
the HSSP team to discuss the SODA concept.
The group believes that this work is within the scope of the
OHF and in principle is a good component. IBM will bring
a component proposal forward - it will be sent to the
email list and posted to the newsgroup, and will be followed
by a committers vote.
Planning for next meeting
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The next meeting will be held in Stuttgart on Oct 13.
We expect to spend some time in the meeting presenting
an overview of the progress of OHF, and we will use this
to drive the wiki content both before hand and after.
A proposal for an OpenEHR/CEN component will be presented
at this meeting.
Relationships
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Eclipse OHF needs to document and publish it's overall directions,
visions, and approaches. The lack of this documentation is harming
our ability to maintain the relationships we would like to have.
Eclipse OHF need to identify it's constituents and identify
which Eclipse OHF person maintains the interface with the
constituents. This table is a summary of the relationships
that we propose - this will be tidied up and posted to the
website:
Constituent Person
IHE Sarah+Don
HL7 Grahame
HSSP Russ+Don+Ken
CEN ? tba
OpenEHR ? tba
IBM Eishay + Randy
Mayo Russ Hamm
Jiva Grahame Grieve
Inpriva Don
NHS Kevin Moynihan
Infoway Brian Barry
VHA/DoD Ken Rubin
HSSP Services
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We are interested in the HSSP services, and regard these as an
integral part of our plan. We will at least implement client
presentation layers for the specifications, and are also
interested in implementations of the services, either partial
or complete. Service implementations may be based on a variety
of approaches, including J2EE, but need to fully run on an
open source platform. In addition, we are interested in
collaborating with appropriate partners for the OMG RFP
response process.
ATNA - security and extensibility
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We had a lengthy and inconclusive discussion about a series
of issues raised by the IHE ATNA actor implementation. The
issue also relates to other architectural issues. Unfortunately
we ran out of time.
We considered a proposal for a "model store". This is a proposal
from Glenn Deen to introduce a light extensibility framework for
use within the OHF plug-ins. OHF needs it's own extensibility
framework because our code is deployed in environments where
OSGi may not be available (this is currently true. There was
and is some contention regarding this matter, and this will be
discussed further on the OHF committers telecon). Glenn's
proposal is simple - very simple - and would work, but is
not a greatly scalable solution (also, it needs a new name).
Further discussion on the telecon
The existing IHE implementations use hardcoded transport
providers. We need to use an extensibility framework for
this, in order to allow run time choice of transport providers.
Don to discuss with ECF regarding who should own what in
the transport area.
The discussion was incomplete, and we will have to continue
this on the telecons.
Note: the next face to face meeting will be for a whole day.
