Welcome and Opening Statements

• A reminder to all HC-SIG members that this meeting is being recorded

• Reading of the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy

  • Hyperledger Antitrust Slide

• Discussion: request for note-taking for this meeting

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

Community Announcements

• HIMSS 2020 Planning Has Begun
  • The Hyperledger marketing team is seeking proposal ideas, themes, and potential speakers to serve on next year's proposed HIMSS Conference panel on blockchain technologies in healthcare
  • Planned deadline for proposals is 2019.07.15
  • Contact Rich for details

• NOW CLOSED: Academic research engagement request for anyone with active production-level blockchain technologies solutions

  • Michel Rauchs and colleague Apolline Blandin at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), an academic research centre at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, are developing the second edition of their Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study, an empirical study analysing the enterprise blockchain ecosystem. 

  • If you and your company have live enterprise blockchain networks that have already been deployed into production, please contact Michel or Apolline for possible inclusion in this important study

  • Michel and team are now in the process of writing up their report, and hope to share with HC-SIG membership in the near future

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)

  • Logan's updated proposal to the team posted on 04/23, draft located here 

  • Original team whitepaper, currently in works, draft located here

  • Open team discussions remain:
    • Identify a succinct and comprehensive mission statement
    • Decide whether to remain an ad hoc team or consider forming an HC-SIG subgroup

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

Old Business

New Business

• HIMSS Conference Helsinki Report

  • Deniz Coskun reports on the recent HIMSS Conference in Finland

• Are you familiar with Hyperledger Grid?
  • This is a fairly new project (still in incubation status) that kicked off at the beginning of this year, with the intent of accelerating supply chain solutions using blockchain technologies (particularly DLT)
  • A great opportunity to leverage this project into our healthcare solutions

• Open Discussions (Rich)

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

Next Meeting

• Scheduled for Friday, 2019.07.12, 0700 Pacific Time

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?