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A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS International
Health Continuum (IHC) Technical Committee has been proposed by the
following members of OASIS: DeLeys Brandman, CommerceNet; Ian Jones,
British Telecommunications; Torsten Kirchner, National Insurance
Administration of Norway; Naren Nagpal, ReadiMinds; Manoj Saxena, Webify
Solutions; Kumar Sivaraman, SeeBeyond Technology Corporation; and the
following Individual members: Ed Dodds, Dr. Peter Elkin, and Dan Pattyn.
The proposal for a new TC meets the requirements of the OASIS TC Process
(see http://oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml), and is appended to
this message. The TC name, statement of purpose, scope, list of
deliverables, audience, and language specified in the proposal will
constitute the TC's charter. The TC Process allows these items to be
clarified (revised); such clarifications (revisions), as well as
submissions of technology for consideration by the TC and the beginning
of technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC's first meeting.
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Further information about the topic of this TC may be found on the Cover
Pages under XML in Clinical Research and Healthcare Industries at
http://xml.coverpages.org/healthcare.html
-Karl
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Karl F. Best
Vice President, OASIS
office +1 978.667.5115 x206 mobile +1 978.761.1648
karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org
Name of the TC
OASIS International Health Continuum (IHC) Technical Committee
Statement of Purpose
Healthcare mistakes claim numerous lives around the world every year,
including up to 100,000 in the United States alone. Costs have increased
globally at double digit rates over the last three years. While there
are many standards organizations that work to standardize transactions
in the healthcare “vertical” space (e.g. clinical, administrative,
pharmaceutical, supplies and devices, insurance, government etc.) there
is little attention being paid to the continuum of health; defined for
our purposes as the “horizontal” standards allowing all related
verticals to interoperate through the use of web services tools and
technologies.
As a secondary goal, competing international standards (in the
verticals) are beginning to appear. This is evident in the standards by
CEN and HL7 in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). While each is a
worthy effort, international healthcare standards may diverge toward
regional preferences. A goal of the committee will be to promote
international healthcare standards interoperability regardless of
geographic location. This is particularly important to OASIS membership
since many are global organizations who will not want standards to be
regional or “national.”
Accordingly, the purpose of the new OASIS International Health Continuum
TC will be as follows:
* To provide a forum for companies on the Healthcare continuum
internationally to voice their needs and requirements with respect to
XML and Web Services based standards which can be handed off to relevant
OASIS TCs (if they exist) or cause the formation of TCs for needs that
are not currently being addressed.
* To provide a mechanism for the creation of best practice documents
relative to the adoption of OASIS specs/standards within Healthcare
systems internationally and across vertical standards organizations
* To promote the adoption of OASIS specs/standards within Healthcare
(including all bi-directional forms: P2G, P2B, P2C, P2P), which could
include the creation of implementation-oriented pilot projects to
involve software vendors and participating healthcare professionals to
demonstrate the use of OASIS specs/standards.
* tTo work with other OASIS channels (e.g. XML.org for schema registry
and/or information portal, e-Gov, EPR – Electronic processes), act as a
clearinghouse of information related to applicable specs/standards as
well as activities and projects being conducted in Healthcare around the
adoption of XML-based systems and standards.
Because of the very wide range of topics encompassed by the term
“e-Health” it is expected that several sub-committees of the TC will be
formed to address specific issues. These subcommittees might include
(but not be limited to) “healthcare banking”, “healthcare networks”,
“healthcare ontologies”, “population health evaluations”, “health care
process”, and “health epidemiology alert and response” just to name a few.
Scope of work
The scope of the committee's work will include the use of OASIS and
other standards (both healthcare and non-healthcare related) for
interoperability utilizing web services as practical. For example, there
is a clear use case for many of the HL7 standards which are clearly
healthcare related, but there are also compelling reasons to adopt and
recommend RosettaNet PIPs for the standardization of administrative, and
potentially clinical, processes.
The proposers do not anticipate the development of standards in the
committee unless it becomes clear that there are deficiencies in the
existing vertical standards or clear voids in required interoperability
across the horizontal interoperability channels. Therefore, the initial
scope of the TC is only to assess the state of Web Services within the
healthcare industry, gather requirements for work needed to be done, and
only in exceptional cases develop standards.
List of Deliverables
First 12 months
* Create liaisons with each of the major health continuum standards
organizations
* Produce a healthcare interoperability report including:
- Process map of healthcare processes (internal and external)
- List and discussion of existing standards for addressing the processes
- Gap analysis
- Recommendations to fill gaps, including the formation of new TCs at
OASIS, and guidance to existing OASIS TCs or to other organizations
Ongoing TC work
* Monitoring and promotion of healthcare interoperability
* Promotion of OASIS Standards within
- Governments
- Companies
- Vendors
- Health continuum members identified in the process map
* Determine need for technical work, and develop proposals for new OASIS
TCs to develop specifications to fill gaps
* Continue liaison activities
The TC will know that its work is completed when there are complete and
standard solutions for healthcare interoperability.
Audience
The audience of the TC work is anticipated to be:
* “Upstream/Downstream” focused employees of all companies in the health
continuum.
* IT vendors desirous of interoperability along the continuum.
* IT vendors presently focused on a vertical market, desirous of
expanding their focus.
* Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) attempting to coordinate
their efforts with strategic partners outside their immediate vertical.
* Government entities focused on improving the performance of the entire
health continuum.
Language
The TC will conduct business in English.
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Other Information not part of the TC's charter
Identification of similar or applicable work
The proposers anticipate that the TC will establish liaison with other
organizations doing similar or related work, including the following:
- RosettaNet
- DISA
- EPR Forum
- HL7
- HIMSS
- IHE
- OASIS eGov TC
- OASIS BCM TC
- OMG
- UN/CEFACT Healthcare Committee
- WEDI
- HR-XML Consortium
- OAG
- ANSI X12
- ISO SG 215
- W3C
- ACORD
Date and time of the first meeting
The first meeting of the TC will be held as a teleconference on 2
September 2004 at 9:00 a.m. ET, hosted by CommerceNet.
The first face-to-face meeting will be held in Brussels in conjunction
with the OASIS Fall conference the week of 4 October 2004, hosted by OASIS.
The projected on-going meeting schedule
Monthly conference calls on the third Thursday (Friday in Asia and
Australia) of each month, except for September and October of 2004.
Times will rotate to accommodate different time zones. Calls will be
hosted by CommerceNet.
The names, electronic mail addresses, and membership affiliations of
Eligible Persons
- DeLeys Brandman, dbrandman@commerce.net, CommerceNet
- Ed Dodds, dodds@e-dodds.com, Individual member
- Dr. Peter Elkin, elkin.peter@mayo.edu, Individual Member
- Ian Jones, ian.c.jones@bt.com, British Telecommunications
- Torsten Kirchner, torsten.kirschner@trygdeetaten.no, National
Insurance Administration of Norway
- Naren Nagpal, naren.nagpal@readiMinds.com, ReadiMinds
- Dan Pattyn, danpattyn@austin.rr.com, Individual Member
- Manoj Saxena, manoj.saxena@webifysolutions.com, Webify Solutions
- Kumar Sivaraman, Kumarsivaraman@Seebeyond.com, SeeBeyond Technology
Corporation
The name and email address of the TC Convener
DeLeys Brandman
CommerceNet Consortium
dbrandman@commerce.net
Proposed Chair
DeLeys Brandman
CommerceNet Consortium
dbrandman@commerce.net
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