Scope

Goals

The HC-SIG Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup has the following goals:

• Identify and document current interoperable models and semantic terminologies in the clinical domain appropriate for the digital exchange of healthcare information.
• Document the policies (e.g. Proof of Interoperability), knowledge artifacts/assets and transactions needed to build and retrieve healthcare information to and from the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain.
• Build several proof-of-concept use-cases in a bottom-up manner to test and understand how clinical artifacts and episodes of care can be represented in an interoperable manner on the blockchain.
• Collaborate with medical SME(s) (aka medical informatics) to validate and guide best practices for interoperable clinical artifacts.
• Deliver working code that demonstrates access to episode of care transactions.
• Identify areas where additional work from other subgroups can be leveraged (e.g. identity, membership, consent management, etc.).
• Deliver published research about real-world applications; payer, patient and provider where an interoperable clinical blockchain can provide benefit (e.g. Smart-on-FHIR (SoF) dApps, population health research, social determinants of health, IOT data gathering, etc.)

Work Products

Work products of the Interoperable Healthcare subgroup include, but are not limited to:

• A working Hyperledger Fabric architecture that allows a consortium of health systems to participate in a shared, distributed and interoperable blockchain.
• Real-world use-cases from episodes of care that have clinical validation and can be used as legitimate proof-of-concept trials.
• Working code that executes the building and retrieval of clinical artifacts representing episodes of care to and from the blockchain.

• Documentation that clearly describes the specifications and requirements of the software developed
• Findings that document lessons-learned and best practices so knowledge can be shared with other working groups.
• Other media/material tasks, artifacts (e.g., whitepapers, research/academic papers, videos, webinars), and demos (including POC/POV deliverables), that are deemed necessary by Hyperledger leadership which serve to showcase and promote the Hyperledger brand

Meetings

HIS-SIG Meetings are scheduled twice monthly for one hour.  Meetings will discuss progress on tasks assigned in the previous meeting and any impediments or findings.  General discussion to focus on topics posted in the agenda will follow.  Agenda items can be proposed by individual members in advance of the meeting.  Time will be given for new member introductions and open floor topics.  Finally, discussion of work proposed for upcoming meetings, task creation and task assignment.  All Hyperledger meetings are run covered by the following Antitrust Policy.

Meeting Agendas

Welcome and Opening Statements - Monday Sept. 30  9:00AM PT (16:00 UTC)

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• A reminder to all HC-SIG members that this meeting is being recorded

• Reading of the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy

  • Hyperledger Antitrust Slide

• Welcome statement - brief introduction to HIS

New Member Introductions : 10 minutes

• If you’re new to the group, please…

  • Introduce yourself, your background and interest in the group

  • Your anticipated level of participation/commitment
    (active, infrequent, capable of taking on a role and/or task)

  • Tell us where you're geographically located

  • What days, times you prefer or can work with

  • Respond to queries and comments from the group

  • Consider posting your contact information in our HC-SIG Membership Directory

Review of last meeting agenda: Goals, Means : 10 minutes

• General review of HIS mission statement and goals

• Member participation and expectations

• Feel free to make an announcement here, on our Rocket.Chat channel, or via our email listserv

General discussion : 30 minutes

• Open floor

Next Meeting

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?

• Scheduled for Monday, 2019.10.14, 09:00 Pacific Time

Meeting Notes