HL7 Vocabulary Technical Committee Conference Call April 5, 2002 Participants: Rob Hausam, Brian Levy, Sarah Ryan, Jim Cimino, Stan Huff, Scott Robertson, Peter MacIsaac, Ron Nath, Sandy Boyer, Pavla Fraiser, Tom Oniki, Virginia Riehl, Jerry Sable, Chris Atkins 1. Agenda Check - Jim Cimino No changes. 2. Progress on Clinical Drugs - Steve Brown, Stuart Nelson, Stephen Weitzman, Randy Levin Tabled. 3. Preferred (Short) Names for Combination Drugs - Alan Rector, Rob McClure, Joan Kapusnik, Peter MacIsaac Peter reported that a small number of these have been formalized but there is no great enthusiasm for specifying more. Stan asked for usage cases (especially for multivitamins). SNOMED-CT has a few very general classes. Stan will look at LDS. Stan and Peter will look at the specific terms used for multivitamin concepts. We will need to consider herbal products as well. 4. Centralized Terminology Services - Harold Solbrig Tabled. 5. Updates and enhancements to Good Vocabulary Practices to be posted - Ed Hammond Tabled. 6. Submissions for RIM Harmonization - Stan Huff Pavla Fraiser has been working on Native American Languages submission and reported on her progress. ISO onbly has 9 groups of languages and 27 languages; Pavla has a table of 257 names. She will attempt to get these accepted by IETF to be I-tagged. If they are unwilling to do that, then we will do X-tagging (a local extension of IETF). 7. HL7 message for updating a drug order master file - Stan Huff, Scott Robertson Tabled. 8. Participation in eHI Vocabulary Group - Virginia Riehl Virginia presented a brief overview of the eHI initiative and asked for help with vocabulary issues. Sandy Boyer volunteered to participate in the conference calls. 9. Conference call on April 26? - Jim Cimino There will be no conference call on April 26. The next call will be in 6 weeks, on May 17 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The next conference call of the Vocabulary TC will be Friday, May 17 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, 8:00 a.m. Pacific. Agenda and instructions are below. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Agenda for May 17, 2002 TBD ----------------------------------------------------------------- As a cost saving measure, HL7 is no longer using a toll free number. To participate in the call, use the following number and passcode: Dial-in#: 952-556-2822 Passcode: 5361757 If this new policy would prevent you from participating in the conference call due to the toll charge, please contact Sue Dressel sue@hl7.org and she can forward a toll free number for you to use. If you are joining from an international location and can not participate in the call due to this policy, you should use the toll number with the passcode, but then submit the call to HL7 for reimbursement.