[ohf-dev] Draft Eclipse OHF Plan for 2006

[Grahame Grieve <grahame@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have pasted the Draft Eclipse OHF Plan for 2006 below.
This is the committers review stage, cc: some interested
parties for comment also. 

Committers: please review this. Have I been too specific
or to unspecific in any point? 

Am I the only one who thinks that this work effort is 
unrealistic? As committers, if we think this is unrealistic,
we better scale this back a bit. Note the milestone comments
at the end.

I'm seeking comment for 48 hours from now. At this point I
will release this as a draft on the newsgroup for wider
discussion. (Brian, I think, will miss comment in this 
period - gone fishing or something)

Grahame


Draft Eclipse OHF Plan for 2006


Overview

The 2006 OHF plan represents a first step towards the 
goals outlined in the 2006 Eclipse Roadmap, which says:

 a future growth area for Eclipse is to extend our
 projects to provide open source application 
 frameworks and exemplary tools targeted at standards

The long term goal of the OHF project is to meet these goals. For
the year 2006, the OHF project will be focusing on selected low 
hanging fruit. Generally, the selection of the work
we propose to complete this year is based on one or 
more of 3 factors:
* availability of resources (both technical and business)
* identification of a need in the industry
* readiness of the appropriate standards

In the future, higher priority will be given to focusing
on a coherent and complete framework to support the 
development of healthcare applications.

The 2006 plan is divided up by the project, generally following 
the projects proposed at the face to face meeting in Washington,
October 2005. 

This document is a draft; it will be finalised at the OHF FTF
meeting at Eclipse Con 2006 (Thurs afternoon).


IHE Profiles

OHF will begin publishing a exemplary implementation of a number
of IHE profiles. Theis year, we will release preliminary 
implementations of the following IHE profiles:
* IHE XDS Source & Consumer Actors
* PIX client
* Consistent Time
* Document Digitial Signature
* ATNA (client side)
* Document Availability Notification
* Cross Enterprise User Authentication

We will work towards providing a coherent infrastructure and 
framework for these IHE profiles which will be contributed 
by several different members.


H3ET (HL7 V3 Eclipse Tools)

During 2006, we plan to release underlying V3 infrastructure, 
specifically java class representations of HL7's MIF and 
message formats along with the supporting code for persistence
and validation. In addition, we will formalise our relationship 
with HL7, and investigate involvement in the HL7 HIMSS demo 
for 2007.

In addition, as an adjunct to the V3 tools, we will also release 
a set of V2 tools, that will support:
* a run-time framework for handling HL7 V2 messages and models.
* editing V2 Conformance profiles in Eclipse
* code generation from the conformance profiles to use the run-time
 framework.


CTS project

We will commit all the code that Mayo Clinic is donating 
for CTS, LexGrid and the LexGrid editor to the Eclipse cvs.
We will create an Eclipse package for CTS consumers (i.e. 
clients) to allow CTS consumers to delegate CTS provision to
run-time configuration. We will investigate CTS involvement 
in the HL7 HIMSS demo for 2007, and we will publish a plan
for the longer term development of CTS.


Security

During the year 2006 we will hold regular teleconferences, along
with supporting email discussion. These telecons will lead to the 
publication of an architecture for an integrated security framework
for helathcare applications, which will be a focus for OHF 
development in future plans. The architecture will be integrated
with other Eclipse initiatives on security.


OSGi/Server

A preliminary implementation of OSGi on the geronimo server 
architecture will be released in partnership with the equinox
project, and a test case implementation of CTS will be released.


DiCOM

A plugin representing a simple WADO client will be released, and will
serve as a basis for preparing an extensible architecture for a
standard WADO client.


Organisational

We will hold at least 3 FTF (face-to-face) meetings. The meetings will
be held in conjunction with healthcare standards meetings or industry 
conferences. Ongoing discussion for the time and place of these meetings
will be held on news:ohf.eclipse.org

In addition, we will update the web site, and thereafter keep it current.
We will keep records of OHF FTF meetings on the OHF web site.

Finally, we will define our Milestone releases for this year, in accordance
with this plan, at the FTF meeting on Mar 23 and publish these on our website
and newsgroup.