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Subject: Re: [ihc] Call for co-chair election, and nomination(s)
Excellent, Jamie, Brett, Everyone, I am sharing this with the Ontolog Forum's health-ont list, and I look forward to sharing our recent panel-discussion on healthcare informatics landscape with our TC. Since we have a follow-up panel discussion to carry the topics forward in more depth, perhaps we can look into inviting a broader audience, and perhaps including a longer session for audience participation. For those who are interested, the panel discussion description page includes a link for the recorded session at the bottom of the page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_25 Regards, Rex Brooks At 4:33 PM -0700 9/23/05, James Bryce Clark wrote: >Members of the OASIS International Health Continuum TC: > > I am pleased to report that Dr. DeLeys Brandman has confirmed >that she will be able to continue serving as chair of this >committee. We appreciate the leadership she has provided to the >important work of this committee, especially as tremendous demand >builds for practical, robust methods to use standardized data >structures to address a variety of core health informatics needs. > The IHC TC defined some early work plans for progress towards >standardized approaches to EHRs and several other key use cases, but >has deferred meeting for the past few months. Now OASIS is being >approached to provide substantial assistance by applying and >specifying combination of its existing and developing data >standards, along with other suitable open standards, to fully solve >these needs. My colleague Dr. Brett Trusko, this TC's OASIS staff >contact, has been in close contact with multiple other national an >international health informatics standards bodies, who are quite >interested in working closely with OASIS -- and our considerable >stable of existing, useful work in XML, access control, messaging, >registries, structured data, knowledge management and other relevant >functions. We would like to have the IHC TC act as a focal point >for this input and assistance. > To rise to this challenge will require significant investment of >leadership time. In order to supplement the time available from >Dr. Brandman and Dr. Trusko, Dr. Brandman asked me to open a ballot >for the election of a co-chair for this committee. I declare >nominations open for that role, and am pleased to report that Peter >L. Elkin, MD, a member of this committee, has indicated that he will >accept Dr. Brandman's nomination. > Dr Elkin is Professor of Medicine, and the Director of the >Laboratory of Biomedical Informatics, at the Mayo Clinic College of >Medicine, in Rochester, Minnesota. We appreciate the willingness of >Dr. Elkin and the Mayo Clinic to make his time available to help >lead this effort. OASIS staff have made inquiries about other >potential candidates as well. > Of course, election of a co-chair is a matter for the committee >to decide. TC members are welcome to nominate or suggest others, >and should do so to me directly or to this list. However, if I am >aware of no other nominees, then I will plan to conduct an election >ballot. Accordingly, failing objections, I plan to open a ballot >next week, for a duration of one week, which will list each declared >candidate as well as permit write-in nominations. In the interim, I >will review the TC records to confirm that the voting status of each >member is properly reflected in the roster. > This timing would allow a conference call meeting in >mid-October for future planning, in time to respond to some specific >opportunities in November and December. It may also be helpful for >the TC to hear a report on the currently-forming US Health >Information Technology Standards Panel, whose imminent first meeting >will produce key timelines for additional standards-scoping >opportunities. While this is a matter for the TC to decide, we will >suggest that in October you also consider a face-to-face meeting >during the 4th quarter 2005, to cement and articulate the TC's >workplan for its specific deliverables. > As always, we deeply appreciate your contributions to our >e-health work as well as your support for open standardization. We >look forward to talking with you at the TC's next meeting. > Best regards Jamie Clark > >~ James Bryce Clark >~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS >~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org -- Rex Brooks President, CEO Starbourne Communications Design GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel: 510-849-2309
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