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HC-SIG General Meetings are held regularly and are generally well-attended. It is 's clear that meeting topic and/or special guest speaker typically drives attendance numbers.

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• The Patient/Member Subgroup
• The Payer Subgroup
• The Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (new)

Both the Patient/Member Subgroup and the Payer Subgroup are meeting regularly and seeing repeat member participation. Patient/Member Subgroup leadership changed hands in June, and so, we expect the with cadence of this subgroup to slow temporarily before it picks up again with renewed momentum and leadershipincreasing as the team develops and grows. The Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup--the newest HC-SIG subgroup--has been delayed in its initial planned debut (leadership had unexpected professional obligations), but is due to come online in mid-to-late Julysubgroup–debuted earlier this quarter, and continues to establish itself within the HC-SIG community.

HC-SIG Ad Hoc Teams

HC-SIG Ad Hoc Teams are developed around a specific need or use case, generally of a fixed duration. Ad hoc team leadership, if necessary, may determine that through their investigations, the team should become more regularly established for the sake of membership, and request to become a subgroup. HC-SIG Ad Hoc Teams include:

• Active
  • Academic Research Team: developing a white paper to identify how best to engage the academic/healthcare community as the topic relates to blockchain technologies. This team was temporarily on hold as leadership stepped away on sabbatical.Wiki Redesign Team: initially convened to redesign the HC-SIG wiki, now working to manage wiki page conversion to Confluence, and sync with other SIG design efforts, but had again begun working to re-establish a regular cadence.
  • Use Case Development Team: charged with the discussion and development of use cases as applicable in the context of the healthcare industry. This is a new HC-SIG ad hoc team for 2019-Q2team held a very productive first meeting, but with a recent change in leadership, has been paused, and will likely resume with new team leadership in place.
    
  • Survey Review Team: our annual review team has again begun preliminary work on the annual HC-SIG membership survey.

• Inactive
  • Charter Review Team: charged with reviewing, rewriting, and maintaining the HC-SIG Charter (. Currently in recess )until a charter review is required.
  • Subgroup Review Team: convened to review the status of the EMR Subgroup, and to consider how other subgroup models may influence future HC-SIG subgroup designs (disbanded after making recommendations to leadership team)
  • Wiki Redesign Team: initially convened to redesign the HC-SIG wiki, now working to manage wiki page conversion to Confluence, and sync with other SIG design efforts. Currently in recess until needed for any future design/redesign efforts.

Of Merit

• Special recognition to HC-SIG member Wendy Charles, for:
• Developing and maintaining a very useful 100+ page academic resource for HC-SIG membership: blockchain article citations
Kicking off the HC-SIG Use Case Team, Steven Elliott for kicking off the long-awaited HC-SIG Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (HIS) with the goal of developing and publishing healthcare use cases implementing blockchain technologies best practicesinvestigating and developing a blockchain architecture that's able to correctly manage syntactic/semantic interoperability within an existing healthcare system.
• Special thanks to Deniz Coskun for the successful transition of a languishing HC-SIG Patient/Member Subgroup to an extremely vibrant and productive team. Deniz's team has requested development access to Hyperledger Labs to move forward with their work efforts in this domain space.

•  HCHC-SIG General Meetings hosted the following guest speakers to present on topics relevant to the blockchain technologies in healthcare community:
  • Raveesh Dewan, CEO of Joget, Inc.
  • Walter Montes, CEO of WorldSibu
  • Brian Bentow, Head of Innovation at InstaMed
  • Alex Zhovnuvaty, CTO of RideChain, and the creator of Sawtooth Healthcare (managed through Hyperledger Labs)
  • Tory Cenaj, Founder and Publisher of Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY)
  • Spiritus CEO Susan Ramonat shared her companies views about the problems faced by health systems, device manufacturers and 3rd party service providersDavid Houlding, CISSP, CIPP and Principal Healthcare Lead at Microsoft Corporation

• Engaged HC-SIG membership with relevant professional opportunities to:
  • Participate in the Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study, an empirical study analysing the enterprise blockchain ecosystem, offered through the University of Cambridge
  •  Work Work with Joe Guagliardo, Partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, who is interested in developing and teaching has developed an online Blockchain in Healthcare Certification through Jefferson University’s Digital Health Institute of Emerging Health Professionals

Issues

• • . Members of the HC-SIG were interviewed as part of this certification program.
• HC-SIG Chair interview on the Hyperledger.org blog, served to help engage new potential members

Issues

Ongoing difficulties in assessing the value of work efforts exercised by HC-SIG leadership and membership attempting to broaden the overall appeal of the HC-SIG to new members. Engagement metrics would be greatly appreciated in helping to assess the overall success of such effortsNone to date.

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

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Membership and activity across the listserv(healthcare-sig@lists.hyperledger.org) appears to be stable. Listserv membership is currently at ~1050 members. Our chat channel, #healthcare-sig (https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/healthcare-sig), is seeing semi-regular exchangesonly periodic exchanges.

New this quarter has been the deliberate attempt to extend HC-SIG General Meeting invitations through various social media channels, particularly for HC-SIG guest presentations. It's currently unclear if new membership signups are correlated to these efforts.

Patient/Member Subgroup

Active since June, 2018 and led by Deniz Coskun, the Patient/Member Subgroup continues to work towards a build effort leveraging Hyperledger tools in the healthcare space. We have meetings every other week and we are active in the healthcare Special Interest Group mailing list (see #patient-member-subgroup and for details).

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The Payer Subgroup continues to work on the white paper and refine the use cases and to ensure the right use cases are being selected for POCs.

• We are working on the BlockChain Blockchain Decision paper that will help payers understand and identify the need for blockchain.

  • Link to the work-in-progress white paper - Link to White Paper - IN-PROGRESS. Due to the lack of consistent members joining the meeting, this has slowed down. We are still continuing slowly to keep the momentum

• Hyperledger Meetup group had really good engagement and we are planning for the next meet up in December. More details will be worked out in next meetings. 
• Group has also started talking about how to engage more additional volunteers. 

Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup

The Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup began meetings in August and despite low turnouts for the three meetings continues to be optimistic members will begin to coalesce around the goals of the group.   Currently the group is working to:

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• The establishment of regular speaker presentations from across the healthcare community to provide “real world” experiences in the design, implementation and establishment of a Hyperledger Project solution within their enterprise context. To date, our HC-SIG Guest Speaker presentations have been very successful at driving new HC-SIG membership interests

• The establishment of additional HC-SIG subgroups or ad hoc teams that appeal to membership healthcare specialties

• The ongoing design/redesign of the HC-SIG Wiki in order to:

  • Provide a more meaningful “front door” experience for new members to quickly discover HC-SIG resources and subgroups

  • For established members, serve as a dashboard of activities and accomplishments

  • Better separate (and highlight) our subgroups and ad hoc teams (where the real action is) from general group coordinating coordination activities and governance

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• The use case for the Informed Patient Consent process is fixed
• Two high level preliminary solution architectures are already in place.
• Regulatory compliance is already discussed and compliance governance is defined
• GitHub Repo`s are repositories have been proposed
• Proposals to two conferences were sent. A lessons learned paper is to be prepared

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