2008-12-2

Meeting Information

Attending: Toby Vandemark, chair;  James Crisp, Susan Cummings, Ben Greenberg, Lorena Hitchens, Bryan Pawlak, Tarang Shah, Valerie Smothers, Leah Wang.

Agenda Items

1. Review minutes of last meeting

The minutes were accepted.

2. Point of Care learning working group update

Valerie informed the group that the integration of point of care learning data into the Activity Report schema had been approved by the Point of Care Learning Working Group. The group continues to work on implementation but approves of moving forward with submittal to the Standards Committee for comment.

3. Implementers update

Ben commented that they've made good progress. They have started using real data, performed stress tests, and successfully demonstrated the ability to communicate with real data. They did need to make some tweaks to the system, and now they are ready to deploy to production. He is corresponding with Tarang. One hurdle has been that it is an opt in process. They are beginning a marketing campaign to make users more aware of this benefit.  In the meantime, they will keep moving forward. Toby asked if tweaks were anything that would come up with anyone else's implementation. Ben replied that it wouldn't be unique to them - each organization has its own proprietary way of looking at data. For example, AOA refers to a program, they call it an activity. The proper mapping took tweaking to accommodate general terminology differences.  There was one element having to do with decimal numbers in credit units. The specification does allow for that. They needed to tweak to properly represent decimal values.

Lorena commented that she has feedback for the implementation guidelines. Everyone has their own mapping problems. She has some opinions on how often to do a report, etc. She'll submit that for the next call in January.

Bryan commented that Ben summed up their progress well. They've gone through mapping issues with any standards implementation, so this is not unique. The specification has been pretty easy to use.

4. Discuss submission to standards committee

Toby commented that she is comfortable with what we've done so far. Everyone has worked hard on refining the specification. She is comfortable with sending it to the Standards Committee. Lorena added that she thinks it's great. Even in early 2008, the specification was very stable. They've been using it in beta for over a year. Bryan and Leah agreed. The group unanimously agreed to move forward with submitting to the standards committee.

5. Open discussion

Decisions

The group unanimously agreed to move forward with submitting to the standards committee.

Action Items