Minutes of the June 5, 2009 XSPA Conference Call

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1. Roll Call & Agenda Review

Voting Members:

John Moehrke, GE Healthcare

Clifford Thompson, Individual

Brian McClung, Jericho Systems Corporation

Anil Saldhana, Red Hat

Mike Davis, Veterans Health Administration

Duane DeCouteau, Veterans Health Administration

David Staggs, Veterans Health Administration

Members:

Steven Meyer, HIPAAT International, Inc.

Richard Franck, IBM

Observers:

John Campbell, Aetna

Steven Jarosz, Sun Microsystems

We have quorum.

Change in Status:

Lost Voting Status:

David Weitzel

Gained Voting Status:

Brian McClung, Clifford Thompson

2. Approval of the Minutes of May 8, 2009.

Minutes approved unanimously.

3. Proposal to meet Monthly

David introduced the proposal to meet monthly. The initial decision to meet monthly was reversed to accommodate additional time to harmonize the comments Richard Franck with the XSPA profiles (below). The TC will continue to meet every two weeks.

4. Status of the XSPA profile of SAML:

The SAML TC decision to approve the XSPA Profile of SAML for a second shortened (15 day) public review was discussed. Use of SNOMED CT for identifying object for which access control is required has been removed from the profile. Using SNOMED CT to identify objects is inconsistent with SNOMED CT vocabulary, since it specifies actions.

5. Status of the XSPA profile of XACML:

The XACML TC decision to approve the XSPA Profile of XACML was discussed. A vote will be called to move the profile to TC committee specification.

6. Outreach: OMG/HL7 SOA in Healthcare:

David discussed the OMG/HL7 SOA in Healthcare presentation of the HIMSS material.

7. Comments from Richard Franck

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xspa/email/archives/200906/msg00001.html

Richard Franck introduced the work of the NHIN Specifications Factory, and the Privacy sub-team that is addressing issues related to Access Consent Policy management and enforcement for the Nationwide Health Information Network.

Duane offered a design document from the NHIN Connect effort that has been adopting the XSPA profiles:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xspa/email/archives/200906/msg00004.html

Some differences were immediately identified, such as the focus on supporting the HITSP TP20 model in the XSPA profiles.

The use of 35 role codes from SNOMED CT in Table 4 v. is smaller than the ASTM 1968 set in Table 2.

The larger set of values for POU in Table 5 (25 entries) v. the smaller number in the SAML profile (8).

Mike noted a larger set of roles spanning more than clinicians is preferred in the profile. Mike also noted that a smaller set of values in purpose of use is preferred in the profiles.

The TC decided to review the materials submitted and discuss in the next meeting (6/19).

8. Issue list

Regards,

David

David Staggs, JD, CISSP (SAIC)
Veterans Health Administration
Chief Health Informatics Office
Emerging Health Technologies
Office: 858 433 1473

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