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The meeting was very successful in terms of information sharing, discussions, and proposals.
Outcomes
Overall priorities
During the opening discussion, the following priorities were particularly mentioned:
- Entry level openEHR - getting started is too hard
- Deal with licensing FUD
- Support for localisation, affiliate groups
- Restarting specifications release work
- Better tooling
Key presentations
- Thomas Beale provided a brief scene-setting introduction, based on the concept of 'investible standards' from a recent blog post
- Heather Leslie and Ian McNicoll presented the 'industry sprint', a funded archetype development activity to create 69 published archetypes on a short time frame in 2014/2015
- Ian McNicoll presented on the UK HANDI-HOPD [NEED LINK], an openEHR-based health apps demonstration and learning space backed by the NHS
- Rong and Iago presented [NEED LINK] on Guideline Definition Language (GDL), an ADL-like language for representing guidelines that Cambio has implemented
- A brainstorm on conformance specification and methods was undertaken
- Marand presented on IHE and FHIR
- A brainstorm on the openEHR web presence was undertaken
- Various people provided country updates for openEHR activity
Overall priorities
During the opening discussion, the following priorities were particularly mentioned:
- Entry level openEHR - getting started is too hard
- Deal with licensing FUD
- Support for localisation, affiliate groups
- Restarting specifications release work
- Better tooling
Agreements and actions
- The industry partners present endorsed the archetype industry sprint
- A next generation Java archetype tooling project will be commenced.
- A technical group will develop an outline architecture and project proposal in the next 3 weeks.
- The project will be open source, and be open to developers from any organisation using archetypes.
- Specifications:
- review specifications governance - Thomas Beale, Erik Sundvall, Gunnar Klein
- GDL and AQL will become formal specifications
- rename ADL 1.5 to ADL 2.0 and develop a plan for creating 'interior versions'
- all existing specifications will be converted to a new text-based form and publishing toolchain; new specifications will be developed in the new format; Asciidoc proposed as candidate - Bostjan Lah, Borut Fabjan, Thomas Beale to research and provide a proposal
- Conformance
- a technical group will get together and develop a conformance approach based on the brainstorm:
- Borut Fabjan, Bostjan Lah (Marand), DIPS, Rong (Cambio), Code24, Thomas Beale (Ocean)
- Infrastructure and website
- the industry partners will fund new hosting and related infrastructure ASAP
- a web committee self-nominated to manage the web presence, including incorporating the numerous suggestions from the brainstorm: Jon Tysdahl, Silje Ljosland Bakke, Shinji Kobayashi, Gunnar Klein, Martin van der Meer, Vebjørn Arntzen, Luis Marco, Adriana Danilakova
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