Minutes of January 7, 2011 XSPA TC Conference Call

Minutes for Friday, January 7, 2011

XSPA Conference Call

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1. Roll Call & Agenda Review

Voting Members:

John Moehrke, GE Healthcare

Anil Saldhana, Red Hat

John (Mike) Davis, Veterans Health Administration

Duane DeCouteau, Veterans Health Administration

David Staggs, Veterans Health Administration

Members:

Brynn Mow, Jericho Systems Corporation

Quorum achieved (5 of 5)

2. Minutes of December 10, 2010 unanimously approved

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xspa/email/archives/201101/msg00001.html

3. General

Discussion on NIST IDtrust 2011:

4. XSPA Reference Implementation, Test and Certification

Duane gave an update on the XSPA Reference Implementation, Test and Certification work and weekly meetings. Duane invited more participation by OASIS members.

5. Links to Articles

David Chadwick was not available to make the call but provided several links to articles:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xspa/email/archives/201012/msg00008.html

6. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) document

Mike discussed the “Report to the President Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward,” recently released by PCAST. Mike announced VA will be presenting a demonstration of NwHIN Direct at HIMSS 2011 and that Mike has been invited to demonstrate how the XSPA profiles can be used to support the capabilities described in the PCAST report. The current plan is to provide a use case involving data tagged as having “mental health” sensitivities.

John Moehrke was in favor of pushing the XSPA work forward at HIMSS 2011.

7. General discussion

Next call will be in one month (February 4).

Regards,

David

David Staggs, JD, CISSP (SAIC)
Veterans Health Administration
Chief Health Informatics Office
Standards and Interoperability
Office: 858 433 1473

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