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General Meeting Agenda for 2018-11-30

Resources:

Chat: https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/healthcare-wg (you can use your LFID to login)
Github: https://github.com/hyperledger
Wiki: https://wiki.hyperledger.org
HLHC-SIG Wiki: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/groups/healthcare/healthcare-wg
Public lists: https://lists.hyperledger.org
Meetings: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/community/calendar-public-meetings
Hyperledger class: Blockchain for Business - An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies

Linux Foundation Antitrust reminder: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy

Welcome and Opening Statements

A reminder to all HLHC-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

Meeting recordings/transcript

In attendance:

Rich Bloch
Marissa Iannarone
Adrian Berg
Leonard Edwin
Jeff Stollman (Recording)
Satarupa Bose
Bryan McWhorter (Guest Speaker)
Ken Moyle (Guest Speaker)
Gerry M
Kamlesh Nagware
Linwan
Tony Hussain
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15303016746

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

Linwan - healthcare interoperability: health information exchange and working on blockchain use cases for EMR
Kamlesh - exploring Hyperledger Fabric use cases for a client (company: Diaspark located in the US)

HLHC-SIG Guest Speaker(s)

Speaking on the topic of enterprise collaboration and sensitive information sharing in an open-source business context, we have the following guests joining us:
- Ken Moyle, Technology Attorney with K6 Partners is a board member and Chair of the Public Policy Committee for the Electronic Signature & Records Association (ESRA)
- Bryan McWhorter, Partner at Knobbe Martens, Seattle, Washington, USA. Bryan focuses on patent procurement and dispute resolution, particularly for companies in the software, telecommunications, and food and beverage areas.

* Enterprise collaboration (how do we approach selective sharing IP)

Presenters:
- Ken Moyle, Chair of Public Policy Committee for Electronic Signature and Records Association
- Bryan McWhorter, IP attorney at Knobbe Martens

Copyrights vests in creator unless explicit transfer via “work for hire” contract or clause in employment agreement (in most jurisdictions)
Copyrights don't require formal registration
General Public License (“copyleft”) open-source agreements require anyone who uses and/or enhances code to make it publicly available
- Consider it like a virus: once infected, it spreads to anything that it touches
- Lesser General Public License agreement allows some ability to retain private rights of open-source software that is enhanced by private parties
  - Mozilla license – provide least ability for private licenses
  - Apache license – greater ability to patent enhancements (Hyperledger uses Apache 2.0 license)

Apache 2.0 tends to be viral – all derivative works are covered by Apache 2.0
Patent rights are automatically granted under this
If you provide code to Hyperledger, anyone can use it without copyright and you give up patent protection rights, you can still create unique derivative works and copyright them
It includes a promise not to sue people who use Apache 2.0 software for patent infringement
- MIT license – most ability for private use
- Unlicense – merely limits liability

Two issues
- What are the limitations for me to use it?
- What are the limitations for me to capitalize my IP built on top of open-source licensed code?

Patents vs copyrights
- Patents cover “ideas”
- Copyrights cover code

Questions
- What's benefit of patent vs cheaper copyright?
  - Copyright covers only code, not the concept which could be implemented using different code

Community Announcements

Feel free to share your community announcements as they relate to the Hyperledger community

Hyperledger Global Forum
- December 12-15, Basel, Switzerland
IEEE LifeTech 2019 Conference
- March 12-14, 2019, Osaka, Japan
- Emphasis on life sciences, with topics of interest to include healthcare and medical technologies
- 2-Page Short Paper Submission (All Categories) deadline is November 30, 2018
- Discussion: anyone planning or interested in attending?
HIMSS Conference 2019
- February 11-15, Orlando, Florida
- Discussion: anyone planning or interested in attending?

Discussion tabled for next meeting (time constrained)

HLHC-SIG Subgroup Updates

Patient/Member Subgroup (Marissa Iannarone, Lead)
Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)
EMR Subgroup (Rich Bloch, Acting Lead)

Discussion tabled for next meeting (time constrained)

HLHC-SIG Ad Hoc Team Updates

Wiki Redesign Team (Brian Ahier, Raveesh Dewan, and Mikhail Elias, Lead)
Academic Research Team (Mikhail Elias and Adrian Berg, Lead)
- Currently in works, draft located here
Charter Review/Revision Team (Len Edwin and Ken Allgood [writers], with Adrian Berg and Marissa Iannone [editors])
- Currently in final edit, draft located here
Subgroup Review Team (Benjamin Djidi, Mikhail Elias, Steven Elliot, Robert Coli, and Sonia Wagner, Lead)
- Kick off meeting this past Monday (11/26)
- Purpose is twofold:
  - Fundamentally to understand the future direction of the EMR Subgroup
  - To determine if a revised EMR Subgroup strategy might also apply to other subgroups

Discussion tabled for next meeting (time constrained)

Old Business

Healthcare technologies challenges (Rich)
- Upcoming opportunities: NIST Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge, KidneyX Redesign Dialysis Prize Competition
- From community feedback, plan is to pursue the KidneyX challenge, and forego the NIST challenge

A HIPAA-compliant Hyperledger (Rich)
- Discussion: not much community feedback to date… next steps?

Discussion tabled for next meeting (time constrained)

New Business

We're getting a new name (Rich)
- Sector Working Groups (non-technical, community-facing) will be renamed to Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
- HLHCWG –> HLHC-SIG
- Currently in transition, so please be patient

End of Year HLHC-SIG Survey (Rich)
- Discussion: specific areas of focus for this upcoming survey?

Onboarding slide presentation for HLHC-SIG (Rich)
- Great example presented by the Social Impact Working Group
- Ostensibly used for onboarding a new chair/officer, but could be used for new members?
- Discussion: would there be good utility/value to something like this?

Change from HLHCWG to HLCH-SIG announced. All other discussions tabled for next meeting (time constrained)

Next Meeting

Scheduled for Friday, 12/14, 0700 Pacific Time
Discussion: topics to add to agenda?