Relaying an input from Brand that should be of interest of this
group. ... Thank you, Brand. (01)
I understand some of you on the list are tracking this. Do keep
us posted on things that are pertinent here. (02)
Thanks. =ppy
-- (03)
Niemann.Brand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:55:40 -0400:
> Peter, A suggestion for your Ontolog Forum, namely see Announcement
> below and http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/NHIN_Forum1.html, especially
>
> http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/documents/FunctReqAggregation.xls and work
> on building an ontology for the NHIN.
>
>
>
> Brand (04)
> Announcement
>
> The 1st Nationwide Health Information Forum: Functional Requirements
> will be held on June 28-29, 2006. This goal of this forum is to gain
>
> input on the functional requirements necessary to achieve a foundation
> for interoperable, standards-based network for the secure exchange of
>
> health care information and the input will inform next steps of NHIN
> process, CCHIT, HITSP and other ONC activities. A draft agenda for the
>
> Forum can be accessed at http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/NHIN_Forum1.html (05)
> Functional requirements are an expression of something a system must be
> able to do to support identified activites. This spreadsheet provides
>
> the initial set of 1139 functional requirements that have been submitted
> to the Office of the National Coordinator from the 4 NHIN consortia
> (Accenture, CSC, IBM, and Northrup Grumman). Requirements responded to
> general NHIN infrastructure needs, and in a more detailed
>
> way, to the Use Cases (Harmonized Use Cases are posted at
> http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/NHIN_Forum1.html). Requirements were
>
> submitted in a controlled format and with defined vocabulary (see NHIN
> Requirements Approach document provided as additonal background
>
> material at http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/NHIN_Forum1.html) (06)
> In addition, with an initial review a few additional columns were added
> to this spreadsheet:
> 1) Closely resembles ? identifies other requirements that are related or
> possible duplicative
>
> 2) Associated Requirement 1-5 ? these columns provide the text of the
> requirements that are cited in the ?closely resembles? column (the ID
>
> number, entity, entity-property relation, and property
> 3) Initial Review Comments ? in some cases, comments are provided on the
> requirements such as duplicate, policy related, feature, too broad,
> etc.
>
> 4) Tentative Breakout Session No. (3 columns ? Entity, Functional
> Categories, Use Cases)
>
>
>
> There are two sheets provided in this file that contain requirements ?
> the first contains 977 functional system requirements and the second
>
> contains 162 requirements that appear to be duplicates or policy related. (07)
> At the conclusion of the Forum, the requirements and the input that is
> received at the Forum will be handed off to a Working group of the
>
> National Committee of Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS). NCVHS will
> work to refine the list and produce an initial set of requirements by
>
> September 2006. These requirements will detail common requirements among
> the different suggested approaches and help describe the
>
> architectural alternatives that will be worked though in follow-up
> activities.
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