Architectural Review
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Mission
The HL7 ArB seeks to define a coherent architecture for HL7 work that defines the relationships among the HL7 work products and how they relate to other standards and components of local implementations. This architecture includes the Business Architecture by which these work products are produced and managed through their life cycle, the governance that will be enacted on these work products, and the scope of the standardization effort itself.
Charter
Work Products and Contributions to HL7 Processes
The Architectural review Board (ArB) reviews, or evaluates other reviews of, work products at times established by the methodology. It provides a report that outlines any deviations from the appropriate HL7 methodology or measures of quality. Where such a work product is sent to full membership ballot, the ArB report shall be included in the ballot package.
The ArB reviews the Mission and Charter and Project Scope statements of HL7 committees prior to their consideration by the Technical Steering Committee. The ArB will consider whether projects undertaken are appropriately within HL7s mission.
The ArB will advise the Technical Steering Committee and Board of Directors on matters relating to areas of standardization that being worked on by multiple HL7 committees.
The ArB may review work products when requested to by HL7 committees.
The ArB further advises the Technical Steering Committee and Board of Directors on matters of procedure and methodology, upon request from the chair of either group. The ArB has no power, beyond its responsibility to report to the Technical Steering Committee and Board of Directors, to control any HL7 work product.
Formal Relationships With Other HL7 Groups
The membership and chair of the ArB are appointed by the HL7 Board of Directors and serve at the pleasure of the Board. The ArB derives many of the measures of quality that it applies from methodology documents authored by the Methodology and Modeling Technical Committee, and the Vocabulary Technical Committee.
Scope
The scope of the ArB's work covers:
- Defining a coherent standards architecture for HL7 to strive towards.
- Working within the organization to market and refine the architecture.
- Ongoing interaction with HL7 customers to market and refine the architecture.
- Consideration of the suitability of the organisational structures to deliver the architecture.
- Defining the procedures and compliance criteria that ensure the HL7 work products conform to the architecture to enable the achievement stated levels of interoperability.
- Tracks developments in underlying SDO's and standards and keeps HL7 appropriately informed.
Decision Making Practices
Date of Last Revision
April 22, 2008