FW: [emergency-comment] 60-day Public Review for EDXL Tracking of Emergency Patients (TEP) Version 1.0

Hi Tim,
 
This is the only comment that was received on TEP.  It has several parts.
 
Cheers,
Elysa
 
-----Original Message-----
From: David Webber [mailto:] 
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 5:19 PM
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Subject: [emergency-comment] 60-day Public Review for EDXL Tracking of Emergency Patients (TEP) Version 1.0
 
I just reviewed the draft schema from three perspectives that I believe should be important to the TC.
 
1) Adoption and use by the NIEM community - and particularly DoD - and how well do the schema align to NIEM.
 
2) HIPAA compliance and easier information policy management
 
3) Alignment with other OASIS TC work
 
Attached HTML report addresses gaps found for item 1) above
 
Particular items of concern - 
 
a) why are items limited to 1023 bytes?
b) element names should begin with capital letter and match representation terms
c) what is totalGCS ?
d) schema could use NIEM core and components from that
 
For 2) attached JPG shows the schematic of the content - notice that for policy purposes related information is not grouped under applicable parent privacy area elements - that would allow access based on need to know and context - instead they are all are the same level inside the XML structure (RED ITEMS).
 
For 3) - consider using newer versions of imported schema - such as CIQ v4 - and then newer geospatial.
 
One further note - the schema themselves contain product representations from a non-OASIS member.
 
Thanks, David Webber
 
NIEM NTAC member.