Meeting ReportRIMBAA –

Washington March 30, 2011

Amsterdam – february 2011(Dutch Realm RIMBAA Meeting)

• MGRID about to finalize their RIMBAA toolkit (native v3 R2 datatypes + distributed rel. DB).

• Research project (“Lifelines”), capture data for 30 years, 3 generations, 165000 persons.– Store data as-is, transform to RIM (for querying) when

needed. Risky strategy: avoid having to define a mapping until data is needed.

• AORTA (Dutch NHIN) v3 messages– Software development/support for these non-MIF

message specifications• String-of-Pearls project– Management of chronic diseases; research database,

project by all Dutch university hospitals. Uses a RIM-like model.

Sydney – January 2011

• Canada Health Infoway fall partnership conference, 2010, report.

• Presentation by Abdul-Malik Shakir on his RIMBAA projects in the last 12 years (e.g. CDC, LA County, the California statewide Immunization Registry, CoH).

• RIMBAA may enlarge its scope to ‘software implementation of any HL7 standard’ (discussion)

Sydney – January 2011 / joint with OpenEHR implementers

• Representatives from 1 openEHR implementation (Ocean Informatics)

• Thomas Beale and Grahame have decided to create a "Systems implementation guide for ISO 21090" (a systems implementation view of the 21090 datatypes) to mainly address the datatype denormalization issue.

• Other topics: Persistence, UI generation, model repositories, query techniques

London – November 2010

• UI generation: Microsoft/NHS CUI project• New RIMBAA development at (UK) National

Institute for Health Research– Metamodel repository; lots of “forms”

• Dealing with “Context” in an IP agnostic manner – methodology issue, has impact on persistence

• Information Decomposition at NCI – Dealing with “context” in a SOA / v3 architecture