Members
The Architecture Review Board (ARB) is lead by the Chief Architect. ARB members are community representatives who are committed to the Architecture Governance and Principles.
Responsibilities
Champion the OHIE community's "Adaptable" / "implementable" principle.
HOW: Map the workflow priorities to real-world implementation needs. Make decisions based upon expressed needs. Implementation-Driven.
Champion the OHIE community's "Standards-based" principle.
HOW: Ensure the OHIE community is engaging in IHE and other interoperability specification development processes to meet implementer needs.
HOW: Develop workflows that appropriately leverage IHE and other standard processes
HOW: Where standards don’t exist, advocate for the development of future solutions.
HOW: Advocate for standards-based interfaces.
HOW: Track emerging standards development processes and evaluate their usefulness to the OpenHIE community.
Champion the OHIE community "Interchangeability" / "Swappable" principle
HOW: Enable plurality of architecture components.
Establish and curate the OHIE Architecture Diagram.
Routinely review the architecture diagram and evaluate and make decision on changes needed.
HOW - when changes or updates are requested, the ARB and the Community will discuss them and come to consensus.
HOW - solicit feedback from implementers and other OHIE community members
Facilitate curation of the OHIE Workflows and Approve the OHIE workflows.
HOW - Evaluate workflow additions or changes to assess the feasibility of incorporating into the OHIE framework; including determining whether the proposed workflow can be incorporated into an existing workflow with or without modification.
HOW - Ensure each workflow has a sponsor
HOW - Make architectural decisions based on implementer’s expressed needs
HOW - Choose standards that best support the HIE user's needs.
HOW - Have a process for developing workflows
Determine and curate and communicate Maturity Model updates
HOW - Have a regular release schedule and process for reviewing and updating maturity of OHIE workflows
HOW - Review sponsor assessments and work with the sponsor(s) to come to consensus on the assessment.
Determine OHIE IHE Connectathon and other standards testing plans