2023-10-24 - CMAG Meeting

• Apologies
• Declarations of Interest  
  • For current meeting
  • CMAG members to review and update as required their DOI information. 
    • Please advise the date the review was undertaken 
• Action items

• Acknowledgement of CMAG 2023 contributions - as per slide deck

• Update on work on the content trackers - as per slide deck

• Review of content promotion process - as per slide deck

Meeting question on points of contact - names can't be provided but the website does provide contact details. 

• How to raise:
  • Modelling questions
  • A content issue that's been identified
  • Questions for other CMAG members
• How SNOMED International manages questions and issues

See slide deck - no questions or comments. 

• Responses to SNOMED International from the CMAG members
  • Expectations
  • Timelines
• Updates on issue resolution

Discussion notes: 

• July-August period for Northern hemisphere
  • Issues come up month to month so can't preplan to send earlier.
  • Members need extra time due to holiday period especially when seeking input from clinicians, external groups etc. 
  • Timelines for feedback during this period will be extended to the end of September. If additional time is needed please let SNOMED International know.
• No comments on needing further updates on the outcome of issues. 

• Interest in sharing information on national content development activities
• Interest in sharing content resources

Discussion:

• Interest on sharing national content development activities
  • Past work that has been done as well as future work would be worth sharing information on. May: 
    • Help identify gaps in content that are relevant to more than one country
    • Content that one country has that is useful to others
    • Prevent duplication of content
  • Standing item to be added to meeting agendas to support this.
  • Discussion section on CMAG site can also be used
• Question on what is meant by resources
  • It's up to the group on what resources they would be interested in
• Copyright issues are a challenge - could use discussion pages to ask if other's know who owns an item e.g. a scale

Discussion:

• The sharing of content development activities aligns with the purpose. 
• Ethnic and racial topic - Potential for CMAG input?
• International changes impact on national extensions 
  • Implementation aspect needs to be directed to implementation support. Content perspective can be covered in the CMAG. 
  • Extension impact report is very helpful in identifying content impacted by changes. 
  • ECL queries which are present in some briefing notes are useful to identify national content that will be impacted by the changes.
  • There is some high level AL2 content that may assist here as a starting point. Will be shared with the group. 
• Cathy Richardson will add a discussion question to assist identification of a topic the group would like to explore together. 

• Discussion on 2024 CMAG activities
  • Topics discussed during the meeting will looked at for potential new CMAG work items. 

• Other business? Nil. 

• January 2024 - date and time to be confirmed