PHRI+-+Data+Modeling+SWG+-+February+1,+2012+Meeting+Minutes


 * PHRI – Data Modeling / Terminology Sub-Workgroup**
 * Date: February 1, 2012**


 * __Attendees:__** Cindy Vinion, Dina Dickerson, Seth Foldy, John Stinn, Kosta Makrodimitris, Lise Stevens, Lura Daussat, Meredith Vida, Nikolay Lipskiy, Noam Artz, Peter Goldschmidt, Rita Altmore, Sondra Rently, Steve Modesitt, Sundek Ganesan, Virginia Sturmfels, Steve Wagner, Eric Pupo


 * __Meeting Minutes:__**
 * Where is information about the sub-workgroup available on the wiki?**
 * Sub-workgroup wiki page: http://wiki.siframework.org/PHRI+-+Data+%26Terminology+Harmonization+Sub-Workgroup
 * Can be accessed from the announcements on the PHRI home page, or by clicking “Workgroup Pages”, then “Vocabulary and Terminology Harmonization”, then “Data Modeling / Terminology Sub-Workgroup”

Walked through the FHA Overview document (see below). This is a group of federal government organizations who have come together under the umbrella of the federal health architecture office under HHS/ONC to work on various collaborative efforts, including the FHA Standards program. One of the goals of this program is to ensure there is a comprehensive set of standards to fully support health interoperability. They established an information modeling project to standardize at the information model and vocabulary level. The goal of the project is to produce a logical health information model that supports semantic interoperability; this harmonizes information from partner and standards organizations. The model is the Federal Health Information Model (PHIM) and its scope is all health information. This model uses UML but can be made available in other formats, including HTML. It’s in the public domain and shared on an open webpage.
 * Federal Health Architecture (FHA) presentation from Steve Wagner**

Began discussing the slide deck (see below) about the Clinical Element Data Dictionary (CEDD). This is focused on understanding the data that is exchanged across the S&I Initiative – it links together clinical and technical requirements of the data. To start, they focused on the exchange. Eric began to share an example from the Transitions of Care (ToC) Initiative.
 * Perspective on Data Modeling from other S&I Initiatives – Eric Pupo**

We ran out of time before making it through Eric’s presentation – the next meeting will start here.


 * Discussion**
 * What is the most appropriate name for the sub-workgroup? Data modeling / terminology may be misleading. Nikolay will facilitate a discussion among the co-leads to determine if there is a better title for the group.
 * What kind of data model will be developed by this group? A logical model to help guide reporting partners in building their systems or a model for the data exchange itself?
 * This is one of the key questions this workgroup will need to discuss in coming meetings.
 * One perspective - the logical model may need to be done either way – and then expanded for reporting partners. There are other perspectives that need to be discussed at future meetings.


 * Action Items**
 * Determine the best time for weekly recurring meetings (Thursday)
 * Respond to doodle poll

Eric Pupo's presentation: Steve Wagner's presentation:
 * Presentations / Documents shared during the meeting:**