Vancouver Workshop Agenda - 2018-10-13

Vancouver Workshop Agenda - 2018-10-13

When

Goals

  • Continue discussion from April meeting in London, with an aim for action items for the next meeting (if deemed appropriate) covering sharing information between NRCs themselves and the center

  • And continuing from April:

    • Consider the issues and challenges faced in meeting the content, quality and timeliness requirements for SNOMED CT

    • Propose possible solutions to solve these challenges

    • Develop a high level roadmap to achieve improvements in content, quality and speed of SNOMED CT delivery

Where

In Person: Room: Pacific Rim 2, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Conference call for remote participation: 

Attendees

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Orsolya Bali

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Brian Carlsen

  • @Jim Case

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Matt Cordell

  • @Rory Davidson

  • @Jesse Efron

  • @Yongsheng Gao

  • @Kai Kewley

  • @michael lawley

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Chris Morris

  • @Guillermo Reynoso

  • @Suzy Roy

  • @Peter Williams


  • (I know I am missing names please can you re-confirm attendance once travel plans have completed)

Agenda



The agenda for the day. The timings are approximate and topics are expected to move around as the workshop progresses.

Time

Description

Owner

Notes

Time

Description

Owner

Notes

09h00

Coffee getting, introductions and welcome

@Rory Davidson



09h15

Background, a refresher and purpose

  • Summary of problem space

  • Goals of workshop

@Rory Davidson



09h30

Interchange format & API

  • Interchange format & API - Presentation & Feedback to date

@Kai Kewley

Interchange API - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qowWGCZk4av61tjB7UXf9n5cV-PKa-Dm96SjOQYLDw4/edit?usp=sharing

Interchange Format - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lfTOvtejlIUmjTRXTM4bRuNLe__z1w2NgadN__ITDgA/edit?usp=sharing



10h30

Break - Coffee & tea provided

11h00

Interchange methods

  • Methods of exchanging,

  • The source and storage of content ‘applicable’ to be shared

  • Implementation plans/approach

    • Constraints & potential Obstacles

    • Actions and next steps

All



12h30

Lunch - Lunch is not provided but instructions on where to get it will be given on the day

13h30

Global sharing, promotion & distributed authoring

  1. How do we reduce work effort for duplication in translating SNOMED CT?

  2. How do we prioritize the Global Used Content from NRC’s

  3. How do we deal with overlap areas?

    1. Can organizations provide a gap analysis of what is not in SNOMED CT?

    2. How big is the problem of frequently used missing content?

  4. Can we forecast the amount of content that potentially could be included per year?

  5. How do we manage the potential chaos of many inputs to a small SI team?

  6. Discuss use cases for, and practicality of a "Universal Edition" (discussed by SNOMED on FHIR Group)

All



15h00

Break - Coffee & tea provided

15h30

Continuation of previous topic

All



16h45

Next steps & actions

@Rory Davidson



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