Open Health Tools
Board Meeting Minutes: 01.22.2010
Start Time: 8:40 AM (Mountain Standard Time)
End Time: 4:30 PM (Mountain Standard Time)
Present:
Alesha Adamson – Misys Open Source Solutions
Brian Barry – Bedarra Corp.
Andy Bond - National eHealth Transition Authority
John Bozada - Bozada P.C.
David Carlson - Veterans Affairs
Hugh Creedon - DSS, Inc
Jane Curry - Health Information Strategies, Inc.
David Aitken – Stratpar
Tim Elwell - Misys Open Source Solutions
Graham Grieve - Kestral Computing
Nathan Hess – CollabNet
Barry Hieb - VUHID (GPII)
Nelson Hsing - Veterans Affairs
Steve Hufnagel - Military Health System, DoD
Charles Jaffe – HL7
Don Jorgensen – Inpriva
Ken Kawamoto - Duke University
Hugh Leslie - Ocean Informatics Pty Ltd
Stefano Lotti – Invitalia
Kevin Loughry - Global Meeting Solutions
Ken Lunn - NHS Connecting for Health
Roger Maduro – LXIS
Billy Maynard – Infinitek
Skip McGaughey – Open Health Tools
Craig Miller – Vangent
Galen Mulrooney - J.P. Systems
Ravi Natarajan - NHS Connecting for Health
Lyssa Neel – Infoway
Larry Reis – Consultant
David Rowed - Ocean Informatics Pty Ltd
Ken Rubin - HP (HSSP)
Dan Russler – Oracle
David Shepherd - NEXJ SYSTEMS INC.
Annon Shabo – IBM
Barbara Stewart - Patterson & Associates
John Timm – IBM
Alan Uhl - Sage Software
Brandon Ulrich - B2 International
Robert Worden - Charteris
Call to Order
Skip McGaughey called the meeting to order at 8:40 am Mountain Standard Time and Jane Curry
recorded the minutes. A quorum of members was present, and the meeting, having been duly
convened, was ready to proceed with business.
CEO Report
Skip McGaughey reviewed the agenda and welcomed everyone to the meeting. Next, he discussed the
current status of the company and its progress.
Old Business
Skip asked and received agreement to change the name of a new member that had previously been
named OHT Services to Carnac in order to respect the principle that OHT would not compete with
members nor show favoritism to any specific member. Carnac will provide services but is independent
of Open Health Tools.
Receiving New Members
Skip McGaughey sought and received agreement to accept the proposed members as new members.
The new members include:
BXI Health Systems
Brett Hackleman
Charteris
Robert Worden
Clinica
Ken Kawamoto & Michael Jongkind
OpenMRS Open Source Project Paul Biondich
Florida International Univ
Tom M. Gomez
Ga Tech
Mark Braunstein
INVITALIA
Lotti Stefano
Sage
Alan Uhl
Stratpar
David Aitken
Multi-Nationals Report
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Roadmap = OHT International e-Health Architecture Roadmap Update Presentation
o Roadmap will be an ongoing communication from the Multi-National group
Data Sharing H1N1= avanti –OHT Jan 2010 Board Meeting-Population Health Toolkit Options
Presentation
Decisions proposed:
1. Skip described the opportunity that the participation of Georgia Tech will provide to OHT. Skip
sought and received approval to pursue working out the details being able to take advantage of
the willingness of Georgia State to provide infrastructure, experimental labs and support.
2. Collabnet will work with the OHT Executive to determine how to get usage statistics of the
various projects and make those available to the users.
3. Rob Kolodner presented the OHT Strategic Plan and Skip talked about the next steps with Tim
Elwell to evolve the principles and goals and bring them back to the Board at the next meeting.
This will then be used as the basis for marketing and communications.
4. Misys proposed that their project become a Charter Project instead of a Forge Project, even
though they are independent from the IBM Profiles project. This brought up the issue that the
Misys project was based on the Apache license instead of the EPL. This was not perceived to be
an issue as both licenses are “commercial friendly”. The project was approved as a Charter
Project.
5. A request was made to make it easier to identify what the license is used for each project –
Alesha Adamson and Tim Elwell will be looking at improving the documentation for projects and
will identify how licenses can be more prominent in the charter.
6. Unique Virtual Identifiers – VUHID received approval in principle as an OHT Charter Project.
Technical Report Status of existing projects
The following projects will provide an update on the quarterly activities using Boca/Arrow Charts.
Decisions arising from the presentations are in the above section.
Project
Academic Outreach
Canadian EHRS
CollabNet CDE
Conformance Tools
Deployment MERGE ACADEMIC OUTREACH
Healthcare Standard UIs
HL7 Tooling & Static Model Designer
IHE Profiles
IHE Server Components
Modeling MDT …ModelDrivenHealthTools
OHT Platform
OHT Platform Architecture
OpenPASS
Packaging and Distribution
Publishing Tools
Stepstone - Connected Device Interoperability
Supply Chain Tooling
Terminology Snomed CT Tooling
Unique ID – VUHID
VxVista Tooling
Sponsor/Lead
Oracle
Mohawk
CollabNet
Infoway
OHT
NHS
NHS
IBM
Misys
VA/IBM
NexJ/Ocean
NCI
Inpriva
Carnac
OHT
IBM
ITG
IHTSDO
VUHID
DSS
Presentation
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New Projects and Initiatives
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Packaging and Distribution
Standard User Interface
Platform for UI --- Major Vendors and specialized skills
Next Generation of Collaboration tooling – Multi Nationals – Universities and major Vendors
Expanded version of Academic Outreach
OHT Strategic Plan - Rob Kolodner
Member Presentations and Discussions
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ITG - Supply Chain ITGHealth DATA Genomics
Clinica - Ken Kawamoto & Michael Jongkind
Stratpar - David Aitken - Health IT over the air: anytime, anywhere. Integration across technology
protocols for across open air instead of wired or online access – undeveloped countries, emergency
response, remote access, first responders
Vigent - Jain (PJ) Praduman
Sage - Alan Uhl - EMR potential integration
Phi Technology - Davide Magni
Scalability
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Business Planning and Strategy – Billy Maynard
o Significant conversation about the potential of putting the business plan foundation in
place to be able to seek significant funding to support OHT to be sustainable.
o There is also a short term funding need of about $150,000 sponsorship. The Board has
charged Richard Soley with leading the proposal development and bringing it back to
the Board for approval within 4 weeks.
o Put in place the management structure to implement the necessary processes to move
forward in phase 2.
o Governance (self-organized TOR, decision making processes) will be led by Craig Miller
and Ken Rubin. They will start with the OHT governance documents
Council Structure
o Architecture Council – led by Charlie Mead & Open co-chair
 Objectives = self definition – charter, roles, members, deliverables
 Picture of what fits into the grand strategy as well as what’s missing
 What does the open source platform look like over all?
 What are the pieces and how are they bolted together?
o Health Council – led by Rob Kolodner & Open co-chair
o Requirements Council – led by Ken Rubin & Open co-chair
Committee Structure
o Communications Committee – led by Alesha Adamson, Barbara Steward and Ken Lunn
o Strategic Planning – led by Rod Kolodner and Ken Rubin
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Finance / Compensation Committee – led by Ken Lunn
Legal committee – led by Roger Maduro
 Web Terms and Conditions
Marketing Committee – led by Tim Elwell and Alesha Adamson
Membership Committee – led by Alesha Adamson
Project Review Committee – led by Ken Rubin
Executive Committee – led by Richard Soley
Need to recruit an individual to look at collaboration
Need to recruit individual to look into the area of innovation
Fiscal Report Presentation
Skip reviewed the current financial situation of Open Health Tools.
Action: If anyone would like to volunteer for an existing committee, please send the chair an e-mail.
Volunteers for an Innovation coordinator or Collaboration coordinator should send an e-mail to Skip.
Communication Plan Presentation
Alesha Adamson reviewed the communication plan with the members.
Next Board Meeting
The next board meeting will be scheduled as a 2-way video. The date is yet to be determined.
Adjournment
There being no further business to come before the meeting, the meeting was adjourned at 4:30 pm
Mountain Standard Time.
Respectfully submitted,
_Jane Curry__________
Jane Curry, Recording Secretary