Report From Board Retreat

• July 9-10, 2014 at RSNA Headquarters• Agenda & Minutes:

– IHE International Board Strategic Planning Meeting Minutes July 9-10, 2014

• Goals– Regular monthly business meeting– Update the Board Strategy from July 2012

Monthly Business Meeting

• Approve new IHE member organizations - 8• Board Operations Committee: Board Action Items, Elections, Member lists• Domain Reports and Applications

– Eye Care, Patient Care Devices, Radiology• Deployment Reports and Applications

– IHE Canada– Formation of IHE Americas

• Global Deployment Coordination Work Group– 2014 World Summit 9/11-13

• Testing and Tools – Reports on past connectathons– Approval of future connectathons

• Conformity Assessment Workgroup• Collaboration with other organizations

– IHE-HL7 committee approved– MOU with IHTSDO, EU-ONC, MOU with Continua

Strategic Plan

• Review of Goals from 2012 Strategic Plan– Goal 1: Deployment Activities: Ensure that IHE profiles,

processes, tools, and services are adopted and used effectively throughout the world.

– Goal 2: Development Activities: Ensure that IHE addresses users’ real needs through a unified strategic view and consistent implementation of standards and quality across domains.

– Goal 3: Reputation/Leadership: Build the IHE brand to be well recognized and accepted as the best approach for achieving interoperability

– Goal 4: Organizational Effectiveness: Ensure that IHE has a sound organizational structure with communication channels, financial procedures, and governance that support achievement of the organization’s goals.

Brainstorming

Listed 30-40 initiatives felt to be critical to IHE strategy• Addressing Innovation• Relationships with other SDOs internationally• Patient safety initiatives• Engagement of consumers of standards • Engage consumers of healthcare services• Professional training certification• Re-engineering process for profile development• Marketing to recruit participant involvement• Show demonstrated value• Support wellness initiatives • Vibrant, committed GDC• Fast track implementation process for high priority items• How to guides• Implementation tool kits• Public domain open source reference implementations of IHE profiles

Prioritizing

• Each voting board member was given 10 votes to select their top priorities. Some put 10 on one item, other spread the votes around.

Votes Description (bottom 12 dropped)

20 Public domain open source reference implementations of IHE profiles

19 Addressing Innovation

13 Re-engineering process for profile development

10 Communication with national deployment committees on their strategic priorities and input on IHE processes to establish stronger partnerships

10 Quality of Technical Framework documents

10 Outreach and education, defining and projecting the IHE brand

9 Show demonstrated value

7 Vibrant, committed GDC

7 Engagement of consumers of standards

7 Patient safety initiatives

7 Organizational Dashboard including metrics

6 Relationships with national/regional projects

Financial Discussion

Motion: Introduce an incremental financial model. • The base incremental plan would be a 3 tiered

membership structure ($100, $1000, and $5000) and 3% tax on connectathon. – $100 governmental/non-profit– $1000 small to mid-sized business– $5000 large business

• Establish committee to formalize the details into a business plan and pro-forma model within the next 90 days.