Welcome and Opening Statements

• A reminder to all HC-SIG members that this meeting is being recorded
  • Videoconferencing/teleconferencing connect details are available here

• Reading of the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy

  • Hyperledger Antitrust Slide

Introductions

• If you’re new to the group, please…

  • Introduce yourself

  • Tell us where you're geographically located

  • Share with us your interests in healthcare in general, and blockchain technologies in specific

  • Consider posting your contact information in our HC-SIG Membership Directory

Community Announcements

• Hyperledger Global Forum 2020

  • The deadline has been extended to submit a talk for Hyperledger Global Forum 2020

    • You now have until today, Friday, 10/4 to submit your proposal

    • Submit your presentation proposal here

• Blockchain Health Summit, happening October 15-17 in New York, USA (New York City)
  
  • Anyone from membership planning to attend?

• Global Blockchain Summit, happening in Westminster, CO on OCT 03/04
  • Wendy Charles, HC-SIG Vice-Chair, will be speaking at this conference event

• Converge2Xcelerate Conference, happening in Boston, MA on OCT 15
  • Tory Cenaj, conference coordinator, will be presenting at an upcoming HC-SIG guest speaker

• Do you have any announcements that you'd like to share with the HC-SIG community?
  • Feel free to make an announcement here, on our Rocket.Chat channel, or via our email listserv

HC-SIG Subgroup Updates

• Patient/Member Subgroup (Deniz Coskun, Lead)

• Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)

• Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (Steven Elliott, Lead)

HC-SIG Ad Hoc Team Updates

• Wiki Redesign Team (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)

  • Work continues on our SIG site design

  • Discussion: are you a Confluence expert... interested in joining this team?

• Academic Research Team (Logan Wilding, Wendy Charles, Nisarg Amin, and Adrian Berg, Lead)

• HC-SIG Use Case Development Team (Wendy Charles, Lead)

Old Business

• Healthcare Funding Opportunities
  

  • Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

  • National Institute of Health (NIH)
  • UNICEF Innovation Fund

New Business

• We're coming to the close of 2019... time to update our HC-SIG Membership Survey
  • Discussion: are you interested in helping with starting an Ad Hoc Survey Team with the goal of updating our annual membership survey? If so, let us know!

• Open Discussions (Rich)

  • Discussion: your thoughts on changes you'd like to see with the HC-SIG?

Next Meeting

• Scheduled for Friday, 2019.10.18, 0700 Pacific Time

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?