Minutes
Open Health Tools, Inc.

Meeting of the Board of Stewards Toronto
November 15, 2007

 

The first Board Meeting of Open Health Tools, Inc, was called to order at 9:05am, November 15, 2007.   The Chairman’s slides for the meeting are available here.

Introduction of each New Steward , including introduction to Steward, Steward’s organization, and interests and intended contribution to Open Health Tool’s activities.

 

New Board Creation  and Start up Business.

Skip McGaughey announced that preceding the meeting, the initial Board of Directors, who had played a caretaker role managing Open Health Tools, Inc. had resigned their positions in favor of the new Board of Stewards, as defined in the Bylaws.
 
Skip McGaughey proposed

  1. The following Resolution confirming the Membership and choice of Stewards for those organizations indicating an interest or desire to join – where membership becomes effective on the execution of the appropriate Membership Documents;

RESOLVED, that the following organizations, upon execution of the membership documents, be accepted as Members of Open Health Tools Inc and that the persons, listed below, having been appointed by their organizations as their representatives, be accepted as Stewards for such Members.

Member

Steward

Collabnet

Martin Doettling

Eclipse

Mike Milinkovich

Friends of eHealth

Richard Sears

HL7

Charles Jaffe

HSSP

Ken Rubin

IBM

Ciarán Dellafera

IHTSDO

Kent Spackman

Infoway

Dennis Giokas

Innoopract

Eric von der Heyden

Inpriva

Don Jorgenson

Kestral

Grahame Grieve

NEHTA

Andy Bond

NHS

Ken Lunn

Ocean Informatics

Thomas Beale

OMG

Richard Soley

Oracle

Dan Russler

Oregon State University

Curt Pederson

Ozmosis

Joel Selzer

Red Hat

Richard Li

Prospects and Guests

 

BT

Nick Booth

Mayo

Tom Johnson

National Cancer Institute

Kenneth Buetow

Veterans Heath Administration

Steve Wagner

 

Passed unanimously

Skip McGaughey proposed

  1. Resolution #2a, appointing individuals to the Board

RESOLVED, that election of the following individuals by the Initial Board be ratified, each to hold office with duties as set forth in Section III of the  Bylaws.

Chairperson

Skip McGaughey

Treasurer

Peter Tanner

Secretary

Peter Tanner


Passed unanimously

Skip McGaughey proposed

  1. Resolution #2b, appointing officers of the Corporation.

RESOLVED, that the following individuals be elected as officers of the Corporation each to hold office with duties as set forth in Section III of the Bylaws.

Executive Director

Skip McGaughey

Chief Technology Officer

Brian Barry

Parliamentarian

Jane Curry

 

Passed unanimously

In addition, the membership unanimously accepted the Vision statement as indicated in the Chairman’s slides.

The following members gave detailed reports of their proposed involvement with Open Health Tools:

  • NHS –Ken Lunn - see slides
  • Canada Health Infoway – Dennis Giokas - see slides
  • NeHTA – Andy Bond - see slides
  • IHTSDO – Kent Spackman - see slides
  • HSSP – Ken Rubin - see slides
  • Mayo – Tom Johnson - see slides
  • IBM – Ciarán DellaFera - see slides
  • National Cancer Institute – Ken Buetow - see slides
  • Eclipse – Mike Milinkovich - see slides

Technical Report (Brian Barry)

  1. Architectural Overview – see slides      
  2. Development Process Overview – see slides
  3. Approval of new technical charters
    1. Oracle Academic – see charter
      1. Board approved project in principle
    2. HL7 Tooling by NHS  see slides and charter
      1. Board approved project charter
    3. Conformance by Infoway see slides
      1. Board approved project in principle
    4. Security, Privacy by Inpriva  see notes and charter
      1. Board approved project charter

Fiscal

Richard Sears described mechanism of using grants, from foundations, to fund G&A and projects.  Project funding would be based on a percentage, with members directly supplying a portion of the required development resources, and Open Health Tools using grant money to provide complementary resources.  All projects must by open sourced,  and for the public good. 

Ken Lunn (NHS) volunteered to be on the Finance Committee, which was directed, by the Board, to create an operational budget. 

Governance, Legal and IP

Skip McGaughey proposed that the Board approve two contracts that have been entered into – one for the services of Collabnet to host the Open Health Tools repository, and the other with Rondeau Technology Inc to provide the services of Peter Tanner:

RESOLVED, that the Board approves the CollabNet Master License and Services Agreement. 

RESOLVED, that the Board approves the Rondeau Technology Services Agreement for Peter Tanner’s services, entered into by Open Health Tools under the authority of the initial Board.

Both resolutions were approved unanimously.

The Board directed the Executive Director to report on the IP Policy.      

Marketing Report (Skip McGaughey )

The following companies were suggested as potential members of Open Health Tools: IHE, Sun,, Emergis, Apelon, Misys Healthcare Systems, Intel and Continua.  A delegation of members will visit Intel, and representatives from IBM, NHS, Oracle, HL7 Eclipse and Collabnet were willing to participate.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 5:15pm.

 

Appendix 1

Motions of the meeting of the Board of Stewards
Open Health Tools
November 15, 2007

Attendees

BT

Nick Booth

Canada Health Infoway

Dennis Giokas

Canada Health Infoway

Michael Nusbaum*

Collabnet

Martin Doettling

Eclipse

Mike Milinkovich

Friends of eHealth

Richard Sears

HL7

Charles Jaffe

HL7

John Quinn*

HSSP

Ken Rubin

IBM

Ciaran Dellafera

IHTSDO

Kent Spackman

Innoopract

Eric von der Heyden

Inpriva

Don Jorgenson

Kestral

Grahame Grieve

Mayo Clinic

Tom Johnson

National Cancer Institute

Kenneth Buetow

NEHTA

Andy Bond

NHS

Ken Lunn

Ocean Informatics

Thomas Beale

Open Health Tools

Skip McGaughey

Open Health Tools

Brian Barry

Open Health Tools

Peter Tanner

Open Health Tools

Jane Curry

OMG

Richard Soley

Oracle

Dan Russler

Oregon State University

Curt Pederson

Oregon State University

Deborah Bryant**

Ozmosis

Joel Selzer

Red Hat

Richard Li

VHA

Dave Carlson (delegate, by phone)

VHA

Galen Mulrooney (delegate, by phone)

* partial attendance for technical discussion
** participation in PR capacity