Meeting Report RIMBAA – 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, 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 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