Minutes
20140128

Attendees: Dan Connolly(DC), Nathan Graham, Phillip Reeder, Russ Waitman(RW), 
Simon Lin, Tom Mish, Bill Sanns, Debbie Yoshihara, George Kowalski, Huber 
Hickman, Joe Finamore, Justin Dale, Lindsay Cowell, Laurel Verhagen, Jay 
Fuehrer, Joe Ellefson, Nathan Wilson(NW), Prakash Nadkarni, Michelle Coady, 
Rita Fothergill, Ashok Mudgapalli, Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, Aaron Miller, Jim 
Campbell(JRC)

Deliverables: 1) Aaron Miller to query PCORI Data Standards regarding Popmednet 
install
2) Site technical leads to report i2b2 version installed by email
3) Jay Fuehrer to forward comments on standard data model development
4) Dan Connolly: prepare KU i2b2 demo for next week; draft hackathon agenda and 
schedule for weekly discussion
5) UTSouthwestern to demo i2b2 next week

Next call will be in one week; Minnesota volunteered for 2/4/meeting minutes
Minutes of 1/21 accepted
Popmednet
DC: At least one node will be required for GPC network to be connected to 
national
Aaron Miller(AM) will ask for connectivity
Patient and fact counts
Five sites have reported fact counts; first three were MCW, UMn, Marshfield who 
will receive prizes
Scope of report is current existing i2b2 instance for each site
Technical liaison personnel roster
Current inventory of GPC site technical personnel and vendor contacts attached
Aaron Miller for Marshfield and Rita Fothergill for Childrens Mercy will be 
added; RW has meeting with Childrens shortly
GPC standard data model
JRC: i2b2 documentation reports changes in functionality by version (now 1.7).  
Will minimum version be required for data standardization?
DC: although documentation reports differently, modifiers available in v1.3
RW: Temporal querying (v1.7) probably not necessary
All sites to report current i2b2 version installed
JRC:    Provider and site identification standards may be desireable
Patient_dimension attribute added for Ethnicity or patient fact?
AM: Will sites employ semantic layering for issues like ethnicity?
RW: yes, semantic layering will be useful for early network queries but ETL 
alignment is a desireable step forward that will minimize data restructuring 
for queries across GPC
JRC:    Should i2b2 model be extended for coded value sets for observables?
DC: Current KU model postcoordinates observable and result in Concept_dimension
NW: Query answered regarding coded results discussion
Jay Fuehrer to forward review comments to mailing list
I2b2 show and tell:
KU and UTSW will demo for next week

Hackathon agenda discussion for next week



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