2019.03.22 General Meeting Agenda

Welcome and Opening Statements

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

• Reading of the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy

  • Hyperledger Antitrust Slide

• Discussion: request for note-taking for this meeting

Introductions

• If you’re new to the group, please…

  • Introduce yourself

  • Tell us where you're geographically located

  • Share with us your interests in healthcare in general, and blockchain technologies in specific

Community Announcements

• Feel free to share your community announcements as they relate to the Hyperledger community

HC-SIG Subgroup Updates

• Patient/Member Subgroup (Benjamin Djidi, Lead)

• Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)

• Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (Steven Elliott, Lead)

HC-SIG Ad Hoc Team Updates

• Wiki Redesign Team (Brian Ahier and Raveesh Dewan, Lead)

  • Work continues on our SIG site design

• Academic Research Team (Logan Wilding and Adrian Berg, Lead)

  • Logan plans to generate a one-page summary of next steps

  • Currently in works, draft located here

Old Business

• Getting Published? (Rich)

  • We have some extraordinary talent in our membership… let's put that to good use

  • Wiki page added here

• Healthcare technologies challenges (Rich)

• KidneyX Redesign Dialysis Prize Competition

  • Aetna/CVSHealth submitted their proposal (Alan Bachmann)

New Business

• Hyperledger Quarterly SIG Report due 04/15

  • Subgroup and team leads need to generate a summary of their work over this past quarter (Q12019)
    
    

• 2019 HC-SIG Survey Results (Rich)

  • Survey results summary is located here

  • Some survey observations are summarized below:

    • HC-SIG membership works in the following top three industries: healthcare, technology, and consulting
    • Within the healthcare industry HC-SIG members worked in these top areas: software development/informaticist, software development in smart contracts, and entrepreneur
    • HC-SIG members participate in this group for: education, business networking, and social networking
    • HC-SIG members have been involved in blockchain technologies for: 3-5 years (32.3%), 1-3 years (29%), and <1 (29%)
    • The majority of HC-SIG members responding (41.9%) indicating that they have a moderate understanding of blockchain technologies
    • Top non-Hyperledger blockchain-related technologies include: Ethereum, Bitcoin, and IPFS
    • The majority of HC-SIG members polled are primarily interested in using Hyperledger to solve business problems in healthcare, next to contributing software back into the Hyperledger codebases
    • Not surprisingly, Fabric, Sawtooth, and Indy are the top three frameworks that HC-SIG members are interested in learning more about, while Composer, Explorer, and Cello are the top three tools
    • Clinical data exchange, public health data exchange, and PII are the top-ranked technology segments within healthcare HC-SIG members are most interested in exploring in future  meetings
    • Smart contracts, self-sovereign identity management, and decentralized apps (dApps) are the top-ranked blockchain technology segments within healthcare HC-SIG members are most interested in exploring in future  meetings
    • Email and telcons are the most preferred means for HC-SIG communications
    • Semi-weekly telecons were ranked highest (71%) for frequency of meeting

    
    

• HIMSS 2019 Conference Report (All)

• Discussion: for those who attended, your thoughts?

• • • Healthcare Use Cases (Rich)
      • Discussion: do we need a team/subgroup to develop healthcare use cases?

• • • Blockchain Governance (Rich)

• • • • Discussion: do we need a team/subgroup to think about the governance of healthcare blockchain technology solutions?

• Open Discussions (Rich)

  • Discussion: your thoughts on changes you'd like to see with the HC-SIG?

Next Meeting

• Scheduled for Friday, 2019.03.22, 0700 Pacific Time

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?