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Membership and activity across the listserv(healthcare-sig@lists.hyperledger.org) continue to grow. Listserv membership is currently at ~1050 members. Our chat channel, #healthcare-sig (https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/healthcare-sig), is seeing semi-regular exchanges.
Patient/Member Subgroup
!!BENJAMIN
Active since June, 2018 and led by Benjamin Djidi, 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 #DonorMilk for details). We aren't seeing a lot of engagement on Rocket.Chat or on the Wiki, but we continue to work to engage folks on those platforms.
The Patient/Member Subgroup underwent a transition in lead leadership in January which also served as a documentation effort. The main challenge currently facing our Subgroup subgroup is the loss of our main sponsor for the Donor Milk POC on upon which we were focusing our effortprimary efforts. This has left us without product guidance for the development of our blockchain POC as well as without the perspective of a pilot sign off for any MVP. As a result we are currently investing in two options 1) an :
- An active lead generation where we hope to find an industry leader able to both guide the product and commit to a pilot
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- A call for project ideas so that,
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- should our first option
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- fall through, we would have foundations to move the
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- subgroup past the Donor Milk POC
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Payer Subgroup
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The Payer Subgroup has been actively working since inception in June 2018 and is being currently led by Raveesh Dewan. The group subgroup continues to refine the use cases and to ensure the right use cases are being picked selected for POCs.
Payer Sub The subgroup is back on track with work in-progress with the paper. :
We are working on the Block Chain Decision paper that will help
Payerspayers understand and identify the need for blockchain.
Link to the work in-progress
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We are targeting release this paper by end of Q2
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POC and Prototypes
We plan to start initial discussion regarding picking up a use case and start creating a prototype
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Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup
!!STEVEN
With the recent charter approval in mid-March, the Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (HC-SIG HIS) has not yet had its first meeting, but preliminary membership interests are high. Steven Elliott serves as the HIS Lead.
The Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup has completed its charter and will begin regular meetings mid May. Initial work will be to deliver a roadmap that will culminate with a working POC that will demonstrate how a consortium of health systems and patients might store and access clinical information on a distributed ledger. This bottom-up approach will focus on the assets, transactions and policies needed to ensure clinical artifacts stored on the ledger have the same semantic meaning across members. One of the goals of the subgroup will be to complete a working system that at some level could be reused as a service by other healthcare related blockchains.
The HIS will also engage with industry and clinical SME's to solve and discuss work already done towards interoperability in the medical field. Work already done by groups at HL7, HSPC and Reginstrief will be leveraged by HIS and invitations to present will be extended to individuals from these institutions as SMEs who can help guide the processes and modeling needed to achieve our goals. Contact has been made with individuals including Stan Huff of HSPC and Claude Nanjo of HL7 for initial presentations of FHIR and alternative interoperable models.
Planned Work Products
General Group
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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
- The establishment of additional HC-SIG subgroups that appeal to membership healthcare specialties
- The development of an online HC-SIG healthcare resource for blockchain technologies. Numerous HC-SIG members have asked for academically-based educational resources to both learn about, and better communicate the value proposition of blockchain technologies in healthcare
The completion of the redesign and /migration 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 (where the real action is) from general group coordinating activities/governance
Patient/Member Subgroup
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Depending on whether our search for a new sponsor is successful, we would either resume the work on the Donor Milk POC or, if not, begin a selection progress to determine which project idea should replace it. The main intent is still to contribute to the broader Hyperledger code base through the lab. Given the current uncertainty, we do not have a defined product roadmap but we expect to engage in recruitment activities (especially around developer resources) either waysway.
Payer Subgroup
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We are looking to expand the membership to include team members. I do plan to organize a local event in Maryland and invite various payers and leaders from the industry to start helping with this group. Plan As well, we plan to finalize the POC/Prototype for a use case and kick off the that effort in this upcoming quarter.
Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup
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The HIS group team plans to deliver the following work products:
- Documentation describing the requirements for a semantically interoperable healthcare ledger including:
- Policies that guarantee interoperability
- Transactions needed to complete an episode of care
- Semantically interoperable Assets that can represent clinical artifacts whether or not the actual artifact is stored on or off chain.
- Use-cases that reflect real-life episodes of care
- POC : A functional (minimally viable) blockchain
- Multiple health systems capable of storing / retrieving assets
- Software and system design documentation (SDD)
- Git code repository
- Lessons Learned and next steps
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