2023-10-24 - CMAG Meeting

Welcome

Cathy Richardson 

• Attendees list

• Note: Meeting will be recorded for the purpose of creating minutes. The recording will be deleted once the minutes have been approved. 

  • Recording of meeting will be available online until minutes approved. 

Administration

Cathy Richardson 

• Apologies

• Declarations of Interest  

  • For current meeting

  • CMAG members to review and update as required their DOI information. 

    • Please advise the date the review was undertaken 

• Action items

CMAG contributions in 2023

Cathy Richardson 

• Acknowledgement of CMAG 2023 contributions - as per slide deck

IHTSDO Content Tracker Update

Cathy Richardson 

• Update on work on the content trackers - as per slide deck

Content Promotion 

Maria Braithwaite 

• Review of content promotion process - as per slide deck

Meeting question on points of contact - names can't be provided but the website does provide contact details. 

Content questions and issues

Cathy Richardson 

• How to raise:

  • Modelling questions

  • A content issue that's been identified

  • Questions for other CMAG members

• How SNOMED International manages questions and issues

See slide deck - no questions or comments. 

Issue Feedback and Updates

Group

• Responses to SNOMED International from the CMAG members

  • Expectations

  • Timelines

• Updates on issue resolution

Discussion notes: 

• July-August period for Northern hemisphere

  • Issues come up month to month so can't preplan to send earlier.

  • Members need extra time due to holiday period especially when seeking input from clinicians, external groups etc. 

  • Timelines for feedback during this period will be extended to the end of September. If additional time is needed please let SNOMED International know.

• No comments on needing further updates on the outcome of issues. 

National content development discussion

Group

• Interest in sharing information on national content development activities

• Interest in sharing content resources

Discussion:

• Interest on sharing national content development activities

  • Past work that has been done as well as future work would be worth sharing information on. May: 

    • Help identify gaps in content that are relevant to more than one country

    • Content that one country has that is useful to others

    • Prevent duplication of content

  • Standing item to be added to meeting agendas to support this.

  • Discussion section on CMAG site can also be used

• Question on what is meant by resources

  • It's up to the group on what resources they would be interested in

• Copyright issues are a challenge - could use discussion pages to ask if other's know who owns an item e.g. a scale

Terms of Reference discussion

Group

• CMAG purpose: Provide an avenue for National Content Extension Managers to collaborate on content focused topics relevant to national extensions and SNOMED International

• CMAG scope:

  • Development of material that supports national and international interests in content extension management. 

  • Creation of task and finish subgroups to support progression of identified work items. 

Discussion:

• The sharing of content development activities aligns with the purpose. 

• Ethnic and racial topic - Potential for CMAG input?

• International changes impact on national extensions 

  • Implementation aspect needs to be directed to implementation support. Content perspective can be covered in the CMAG. 

  • Extension impact report is very helpful in identifying content impacted by changes. 

  • ECL queries which are present in some briefing notes are useful to identify national content that will be impacted by the changes.

  • There is some high level AL2 content that may assist here as a starting point. Will be shared with the group. 

• Cathy Richardson will add a discussion question to assist identification of a topic the group would like to explore together. 

2024 Work plan

Group

• Discussion on 2024 CMAG activities

  • Topics discussed during the meeting will looked at for potential new CMAG work items. 

Any other business

ALL

• Other business? Nil. 

Next meeting

Cathy Richardson 

• January 2024 - date and time to be confirmed

Nov 21, 2023 

Review October 2023 minutes and provide any feedback below.

Monica Harry