Healthcare DTF Project charter

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    Harrington, David 
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    'Nicole Glazen Rikkinen'; 
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    RE: Burlingame Technical Meeting, 
      Healthcare DTF Meeting Notes  

  

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Also, here is the Project charter we wrote and passed 
      yesterday. 

      
David 
David Harrington 
      
VP of Information Technology 
Chief Technical Officer 
MedicAlert 
      Foundation 
 
      
www.medicalert.org 
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      209.669.2490 
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-----Original Message----- 
From: 
      Nicole Glazen Rikkinen [mailto:] 
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 17:52 
To: 
       
Subject: Burlingame Technical 
      Meeting, Healthcare DTF Meeting Notes 

      
Excellent meeting of the minds this week in Burlingame, 
      CA!  From discussion 
defining the  
      relationship between OMG and HL7 and documenting our Charter 
      
to strategic project planning, we thank our participants 
      for this productive 
and important meeting. 
      

      
For your review, meeting notes are attached.  For 
      questions and comments, I 
encourage you to use 
      this electronic forum for discussion.  Otherwise, you 
      
may contact OMG's Healthcare DTF Chair, Mr. David 
      Harrington, at 
. 
      

      
Sincerely, 
Nicole 

      
Nicole Rikkinen 
VP, Business 
      Development 
Object Management Group 
      
250 First Avenue, Suite 100 
Needham, MA 02494 
www.omg.org 

      

 

Joint SDO Healthcare Services Specification Project 
Charter

 

Recognizing the need for specifications for services to support 
healthcare IT as part of national infrastructures (such as US NHII and 
Australia’s HealthConnect), Health Level Seven and the Object Management Group 
have forged this agreement to collaborate to the advantage of the health domain 
sector.  This charter outlines 
high-level distribution of responsibilities and separation of concerns 
specifically related to this services effort.  Note that this joint effort between HL7 
and OMG is not exclusive.  Either 
organization may engage in independent efforts or similar joint efforts with 
others.

This project is a collaborative effort 
between HL7 and OMG to identify and document service specifications, 
functionality, and conformance supportive and relevant to healthcare IT 
stakeholders and resulting in real-world implementations.  

 

As part of this collaborative 
effort:

HL7 and OMG shall jointly identify the 
service candidates for specification and prioritize and select candidate 
services for specification and implementation, and jointly allocate functions to 
services.  OMG members shall provide 
expertise in distributed architecture and implementation to HL7 activities to 
positively impact the selection of services and allocation of functions.  HL7 members shall engage in the OMG RFP 
process to ensure consistency with the functional 
requirements.

          
HL7 shall elaborate the business functional needs, allocate functions to 
services, and develop conformance criteria for the services specified.  HL7 shall also have responsibility for 
providing the information modeling and content in support of these 
services.  All of the 
computationally independent work shall occur within HL7, as well as the 
functional conformance criteria assuring that service implementations meet their 
specified capability.  

          
OMG shall refine the HL7 developed computationally-independent 
specifications [functional, semantics, information model, terminology, etc.] 
resulting in computationally-dependent standards and user, vendor, and reference 
implementations.  OMG shall provide 
technical expertise such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Model-driven 
Architecture (MDA), as well as leveraging multi-industry solutions.  OMG shall leverage the strength of its 
adoption process to promote rapid standards development and marketplace product 
support given that submitters are required to produce implementations of the 
standards they specify.