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

In attendance:

• Rich Bloch
• Alan Bachmann
• Bilal Saleh
• Logan Wilding (recording)
• Raveesh Dewan
• Robert coli, MD
• Vipin Bharathan
• Wendy Charles
• Steven Elliott
• nisarg
• Jim
• Laura Crady
• Kamlesh Nagware
• Mahesh Reddy
• John Riley III
  
  

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

New to the group:

• Wendy Charles - Denver Health
  • Clinical research interest
• Vipin Bharathan
  • Consulting company
  • Chair of the identity working group
  • Security & privacy working group

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)

• Work continues to seek a new customer/subject matter expert (SME) for the Donor Milk Project

• Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)

• Raveesh reported out on the continuing work of the Payer Subgroup, indicating that they have renewed momentum and are planning next actions for the subgroup

• Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (Steven Elliott, Lead)

• Steven introduced himself to the group, and the plans for this subgroup
• Born of EMR/EHR & PHR questions
• Discussed immunization use case
• Developing charter, meeting in early March

Relatedly, Rich mentioned that the government has issued an RFI for healthcare interoperability (details here)

HC-SIG Ad Hoc Team Updates

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

  • Work continues on our SIG site design (thanks Raveesh and Marissa)

• Confluence transition continues
• Raveesh gave an update on the move from Wiki

• 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

• Rich and Logan updated membership on the work being done through this team
• Logan will have a one-page summary available soon, and will go to membership to engage additional resources

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)

• Upcoming opportunities: KidneyX Redesign Dialysis Prize Competition

• From community feedback, plan is to pursue the KidneyX Competition, with a proposal due date of 2019.02.28

• Rich statused on his recent meeting with the CMO of Northwest Kidney Centers (NKC)
• Alan Bachmann indicated that he has a draft submission ready for next week's competition deadline

• 2019 HC-SIG Survey (Rich)

  • Released (2019.01.18)

  • Some early results…

  • If you haven't yet participated, please do so

New Business

• 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?

• There is a need to develop specific healthcare use cases
  • Logan indicated his interest in working on this
  • Vipin added that there may be value in working with other WGs and to parse some of the work done at the Global Forum

• • • 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, 2019.03.08, 0700 Pacific Time

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?