Agenda Minutes 15

Agenda and Minutes for Oct 29, 2010

1PM EDT – 10 AM PDT

Members

Bold were in attendance

• President - Sam Bowen
• Vice President - Rod Roark
• Secretary - Tony McCormick - MI-Squared.com
• Treasurer - David Herman, CPA
• Michael Brody – Members at large - CMEOnline.com
• Chris Lucena - EHRLive
• John Williams - Garden
• Sena Pelanasami – Visolve.com
• Brady Miller – Member at Large
• Tina Johnson/Goodman

• Xavier Gonzalez - Guest

Minutes

Called to Order 1:05 EDT

1. Board Member Changes/Adds
   • Tina Johnson/Goodman - resigned
   • Proposal to add Daniel Messer from IPPF
   • Proposal to add Xavier Gonzalez from IPPF
     • Tony Seconds proposal, approved unanimously
2. Financial Report
   • $4467.28 Current Balance in OSMS account
   • Tax report
3. Legal Organizational report
   • Status of new non-profit called OEMR 501c3
     • IRS documents filed, IRS requested 3-5 board members be listed
     • Interim board will be:
       1. Dr. Ron Bearden, ron@rfba.cc
       2. Greg Neuman, greg@neumanlawfirm.com
       3. Tony McCormick
       4. Sena Pelanasami
       5. David Herman
   • Domain Name will be transfered from Rod to OEMR
   • Could OSMS be used for a broader opensource purpose
4. Meaningful Use
5. Certification Process
   • Implementation of registration
     1. Pricing (original)
        • $1000 certified Fee (after certification)
        • $500 pre-order rate
        • $500 bulk rate block of 5/10? (after certification)
     2. ONC says that opensource projects don't need to track or manage the certified version, users can self certified
     3. Registration Tracking Model Proposal - Tony
        • May not be needed for cert but would still be nice to have a registration
        • Could do it by 'club membership' model, produce news letters, user conferences etc.
   • Getting Certified
     1. At MGMA Conference - Verizon offered to Tony to underwrite this in exchange for connectivity to their HISP/HIE solution
     2. CPOE connectivity not needed for Stage 1, just need to enter/print and use E-Pres
6. Software Development
   • Backends
     • Drug/Drug
       1. At MGMA Conference - Tony talked to the Dir of Lexicomp and they are willing to work with us re a better solution
     • E-Prescribe - three options in the pipe
     • Lab Interface - Close to ready to deliver
     • HIE - not required for Certification in stage 1
7. Discussion
   • Work on adding an 800 # that can be accessed via Skype
   • Williams: doing cross project work with Vista, NHIN Direst and OpenEMR for connectivity
   • Bowen: Governance model related to access credentialing in the HIE network (those with repository)
     1. Direct HIE has a 'just like a fax' model, peer-to-peer
   • Brody: Need to handle Emergency Responders in HIE connectivity
   • Vendor Discussion
     • Bowen: Multiple types, Hosting, Support, Developers
     • Roark: What do we need a certified list
     • Bowen: To allow for a good way to distribute funds that OEMR may have to pay for projects
     • Roark: Suggests a bid model
     • Bowen: Bid OK, just need good vetting
     • Tony: Need a contract to offer and use for bidding, focus on letting the board decide
     • Roark: Need a permissive model for "membership"
     • Brody: Each accepted bid should be assigned as the project manager and payments should be milestone based
     • Roark: Milestones should include community peer review at every step
     • Bowen: The pool is small now, but should be more opened up
     • Brody: Used elance.com for some of the work (syndromic surveillant)
     • Roark: Review of code and QA is often more difficult that the actual code

Adjorned: 2:05 --Tony - www.mi-squared.com 18:11, 29 October 2010 (UTC)