The RTM tcon for Wednesday, January 14, is cancelled

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings,

The RTM tcon for Wednesday, January 14, is cancelled, due to a scheduling conflict.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

On Jan 6, 2026, at 6:37 PM, Paul Schluter <pssch...@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings!

Please join our RTM tcon tomorrow, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026, at 11:00 AM CST.

First, I trust that all of you and your families and friends had a wonderful Holiday Season!

Second, I am happy to say that the IEEE P11073-10101c Group1 set of terms have been sent to Michael Faughn for review and inclusion in RTMMS as “provisional” terms. 

The 10101c Group1 set of 210 terms include:

   1.  Several missing hemodialysis (HD) terms that were not included in 10101b,

   2.  Conox EEG monitor terms, extensively reviewed with the vendor and others,

   3.  Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) terms, extensively reviewed by the Dialysis Interoperability Consortium, and

   4.  Generic timers (Philips/Capsule and others).

We will review the development of a few of these terms as well as several “lessons learned” along the way.

Development of terms for 10101c Group2 continues, including new terms requested by Philips as well as additional hemodialysis (HD) terms will also be discussed if there’s time.

Best regards, and Happy New Year!

Paul Schluter

IHE PCD Rosetta Working Group Chair

IEEE 11073 Nomenclature SG Chair

email:  pssch...@gmail.com
cell:  (414) 702-2026

https://meet.google.com/tjw-daap-zse

tel:+1%20443-712-7953;139627090%23

More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/tjw-daap-zse?pin=8535334774365&hs=7

Learn more about Meet at: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282720

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings,

The RTM tcon for Wednesday, January 21, is cancelled.

I currently do not have any general nomenclature topics to discuss with the larger group, so the RTM tcon is cancelled this week.

I have attached a copy of the nomenclature status presentation that I gave on January 7th.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

<<11073-10101-NomenclatureStatus.3h.2026-01-07.RTM-tcon.trimmed.pdf>>

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcons for the next five Wednesdays, January 28 to February 25th, are cancelled.  

My wife (Kathy) and I will be traveling to Africa (Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania) from February 6 to March 1st.  We are really looking forward to our trip!  We will resume our discussions regarding several IEEE 11073 nomenclature topics after we return.

I am also very happy to say that the Dialysis Machine HL7 Implementation Guidelines, Rev 5.1, was released by the Dialysis Interoperability Consortium on January 16th.  This effort was led by Dan Rubery (Fresenius Medical Care) with contributions by many other individuals and vendors, and is an exemplar of how complex devices should and can be documented, along with the formal IEEE P11073-10101* nomenclature standards that support this work.  The Implementation Guidelines and supporting documentation can be freely downloaded from the Dialysis Interoperability Consortium website at dialysisinterop.org.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4th, is cancelled.

After a wonderful trip to Africa last month, I haven’t had time to fully catch up with everything after our return late last Sunday.  As a consequence, I am cancelling the RTM call for this week.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, March 11th, is cancelled.

I am cancelling the RTM call for this week, since a key person who is deeply involved in the next set of newer terms is on vacation this week.

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, March 18th, is cancelled.

I am cancelling the RTM call for this week, since a key person who has been deeply involved in the next set of new terms has just returned from vacation.

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, March 25th, is cancelled.

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, April 1st, is cancelled.

I currently do not have any general nomenclature topics to discuss with the larger group, so the RTM tcon is cancelled this week.

Have a wonderful Easter and/or Passover celebration!

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, April 8th is cancelled.

I currently do not have any general nomenclature topics to discuss with the larger group, so the RTM tcon is cancelled this week.

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15th is cancelled.

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcons for this Wednesday, April 22nd, and the following Wednesday, April 29th, are cancelled.

I currently do not have any general nomenclature topics to discuss with the larger group this week, so the RTM tcon for tomorrow is cancelled.

I will be attending the PCD F2F meeting in San Diego next week, to be held on April 28 and 29.  I plan to provide an overview of where we’re at with IHE PCD RTM and the IEEE P11073-10101c nomenclature efforts during Tuesday "Part 2”, sometime between 12:30 to 5:00 PM PDT.

The proposed PCD F2F agenda and meeting, hotel, and travel information are located at https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php?title=DEV_Domain_F2F_Apr_2026_SanDiego.

I hope you can join the discussion, or better yet, attend in person!

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, May 6th, is cancelled.

I plan to provide an overview of where we’re at with IHE PCD RTM and the IEEE P11073-10101c nomenclature efforts this Thursday, May 7th, during the all-day IEEE 11073 PoCD WG (virtual) meeting, with the RTM and 10101c updates starting around 2:15 PM EDT.

This presentation will be somewhat similar to my talk during the IHE PCD F2F last week in San Diego, so there’s little need to repeat it during the RTM tcon tomorrow.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

Please join our RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, May 13th, at 11:00 AM CDT, where we will discuss the IEEE P11073-10101c Group2 terms in greater detail.

I have enclosed a pdf of the 10101c Nomenclature Status deck that I presented at the IEEE 11073 PoCD WG meeting last Thursday, which is largely based on the presentation I gave at the San Diego face-to-face meeting. 

We will focus on the 10101c Group2 Patient Monitoring and Vital Signs terms proposed by Philips (~150 terms):

— Analytic Record: Reasons for, completion status, validation …

— ECG: additional annotation; correlation with respiratory; QT View and ΔQTc

— SpO2: relative perfusion terms; additional pleth (site) waveforms

— Respiration: Integrated Pulmonary Index™ (IPI) – Medtronic/Covidien/Oridion

— Blood Pressure: left-right sites; extracorporeal circulation; beat-to-beat (BTB) measurements

— Additional pressures: spinal cord, intra-abdominal, urinary, intracranial, …

— Additional temperatures: urinary bladder, vesical, cerebral …

Although I will only be able to display the content during tomorrow’s meeting, I plan to upload it to the IEEE-SA site later this week or early next where it can be accessed by any member of the IEEE 11073 PoCD WG for further review.

If there is sufficient consensus regarding this set of terms, I will assign “provisional” numeric codes, hopefully by the end of May.  I also plan to assign provisional numeric codes for the recently defined hemodialysis terms that are currently under review.  The goal here is to wrap up the 10101c Group2 terms by early June, with the larger goal of having a first ballot draft ready for review by September after the next set of infusion pump terms and IHE PCD Infusion Pump Change Proposals have been reviewed and approved.

I look forward to our discussion tomorrow!  The RTM tcon information is located at the end of this email.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

<<11073-10101-NomenclatureStatus.3k.2026-05-09T10.for-IEEE-11073-PoCD-WG.final.pdf>>

On Jan 6, 2026, at 6:37 PM, Paul Schluter <pssch...@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings!

Please join our RTM tcon tomorrow, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026, at 11:00 AM CST.

First, I trust that all of you and your families and friends had a wonderful Holiday Season!

Second, I am happy to say that the IEEE P11073-10101c Group1 set of terms have been sent to Michael Faughn for review and inclusion in RTMMS as “provisional” terms. 

The 10101c Group1 set of 210 terms include:

   1.  Several missing hemodialysis (HD) terms that were not included in 10101b,

   2.  Conox EEG monitor terms, extensively reviewed with the vendor and others,

   3.  Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) terms, extensively reviewed by the Dialysis Interoperability Consortium, and

   4.  Generic timers (Philips/Capsule and others).

We will review the development of a few of these terms as well as several “lessons learned” along the way.

Development of terms for 10101c Group2 continues, including new terms requested by Philips as well as additional hemodialysis (HD) terms will also be discussed if there’s time.

Best regards, and Happy New Year!

Paul Schluter

IHE PCD Rosetta Working Group Chair

IEEE 11073 Nomenclature SG Chair

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

RTM tcon information:

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20th, is cancelled.

I am currently reviewing a significant amount of material this week (just before the Memorial Day Holiday in the US) with the goal of posting the “proposed” set of IEEE P11073-10101c Group2 terms on the IEEE 11073 PoCD WG site next week to enable deeper review and achieve preliminary consensus before we assign “provisional” numeric codes.  I will also be giving a presentation regarding this material during the HL7 WGM tomorrow morning (Q4) as well.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

Please join our RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, May 27th, at 11:00 AM CDT, where we will discuss any questions you have regarding the IEEE P11073-10101c Group2 Patient Monitoring and Vital Signs terms proposed by Philips (~150 terms).  These were recently posted on the IEEE 11073 PoCD Working group site with the following notification message:

11073 PoCD Working Group / STANDARDS SGs / RTM nomenclature SG / 10101c

I am sending you the first of a series of files regarding the roughly 150+ "10101c Group2" terms that have been proposed by Philips to support hospital-based patient monitoring (HPM) capabilities and measurements.  Please review these files as you see fit and if you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please send me an email and I will set up either an RTM or IEEE-SA meeting to discuss your questions and comments, hopefully in the next few weeks.  If there's a general consensus to so, we can irrevocably assign "provisional" numeric codes to these terms at the end of our review.

 

The attached set of 10101c Group2 HPM terms are formatted as two equivalent tables:

   1.  Multi-table - terms are placed into their most likely table in IEEE P11073-10101c, using the master list of Tables from IEEE Std 11073-10101-2023, which in turn are an extension of the table numbering in the ISO/IEEE 11073-10101-2020 revision.

   2.  Single-table - these are listed in the original order they were provided as a single table, which you might find easier to review and/or import into your own system for deeper review.

The multi-table format is a great way to see what the new terms are about and how they would fit into the existing 10101* nomenclature standard.

Please feel free to contact Paul Schluter (pssch...@gmail.com) or Dennis Lomans (dennis...@philips.com) if you have any questions.

The files that I will be enclosing or sending shortly afterwards are:

<<10101c.Group2.HPM.3k.2026-05-22T12.multi-table.html>>

<<10101c.Group2.HPM.3k.2026-05-22T12.single-table.html>>

I have not received any comments to date, but then, it has been only four days since the terms were posted (and summer has started).  Please note that the terms are available for download from the IEEE-SA (but cannot be distributed using the RTM GoogleGroup emails).  We will have a follow-up meeting regarding these terms on Wednesday, June 10th.

I look forward to your questions and our discussion tomorrow!  The RTM tcon information is located at the end of this email.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

PS.  I plan to cancel the RTM call on June 3rd since I plan to visit the Union Pacific No. 4014 “BigBoy” steam locomotive near the west side of Chicago.  It is the largest operating steam locomotive in the world, originally built in 1941 and restored in 2019.  It weighs over 1.2 million pounds, generates 7000 horsepower, and is over 133 feet long (including the tender).

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, June 3rd, is cancelled.

I plan to visit the Union Pacific No. 4014 “BigBoy” steam locomotive near the west side of Chicago tomorrow.  It is the largest operating steam locomotive in the world, originally built in 1941 and restored in 2019.  It weighs over 1.2 million pounds, generates 7000 horsepower, and is over 133 feet long (including the tender).

We will have a follow-up meeting regarding the 10101c Group2 HPM terms we discussed last week on Wednesday, June 10th.

Best regards, and have an enjoyable summer!

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

Please join our RTM tcon for tomorrow, Wednesday, June 10th, at 11:00 AM CDT.

This will be our last discussion of the IEEE P11073-10101c Group2 Patient Monitoring and Vital Signs terms proposed by Philips (~150 terms) that were posted on the IEEE 11073 PoCD Working group site several weeks ago.

To date, I have not received any comments, corrections, or suggestions regarding the proposed terms (Steve Dain indicated he had 6+ new event terms).  If you have any, please try to bring them up during the RTM tcon tomorrow or by email no later than this Friday, June 12th.

Of course, you all will have an opportunity to propose new terms during balloting of IEEE P11073-10101c, provided that you are a member of the balloting group.

I would like to thank Matthias Kaeser, Monroe Pattillo, Gongli Wang, Javier Espina Perez, Dennis Lomans, Jeff Gaetano, Kurt Elliason, Tom Kowalczyk and Steven Dain for their participation and contributions to our meeting on May 27th.

I look forward to our discussion tomorrow!  The RTM tcon information is located at the end of this email.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, June 17, is cancelled.

We will take up the topic of “preemptive" audio pauses (and other inactivations) during our next RTM tcon to be held next week on June 24th.  I plan to post the proposed nomenclature to support this functionality on the IEEE PoCD WG site by Friday so that everyone will have a chance to review the material well before our meeting next Wednesday and possibly during the ACM call on Thursday.

I am happy to say that no other comments have been expressed nor received regarding the IEEE P11073-10101c Group2 Patient Monitoring and Vital Signs terms proposed by Philips (~150 terms).  I would like to thank Monroe Pattillo, Deba Ghosh, Eldon Metz, Gongli Wang, Javier Espina Perez, Matthias Kaeser, Jeff Gaetano, Kurt Elliason, Tom Kowalczyk, Steven Nichols, Kosta Makrodimitris, and Michael Faughn for their participation and contributions to our meeting on June 10th.

It is likely that the final review of 40+ new hemodialysis terms will be completed by the end of this month, and at that time we will be able to assign “provisional” numeric codes for both sets of terms!

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

Please join our RTM tcon this Wednesday, June 24th, at 11:00 AM CDT, where we will discuss proposed terms to support Preemptive Audio Pause and other Alarm Inactivations for PCD-04.

The proposed Preemptive Alarm Inactivation terms are intended to report additional information regarding the duration of and reasons for an alarm AUDIO PAUSE or other inactivation at the beginning of an alarm.  This can provide additional processing time before enabling the alarm audio, with the goal of reducing the likelihood of false-positive or nuisance audio alerts. In other cases, it can indicate that the audio should be un-paused (i.e. reenabled) due to the absence of a timely clinician or network response. 

The proposed terms will be sent as optional evidentiary information in an IHE PCD Alert Communication Management (ACM) PCD-04 message.  [In a future implementation profile, it is likely that one or more of the proposed terms could be classified as mandatory to achieve specific preemptive alarm inactivation functionality.]

The Preemptive Alarm Inactivation proposal was originally proposed by Shiva Ammanna at GE Healthcare and was further refined based on discussions with Monroe Pattillo, Rob Wilder, Jeff Gaetano and others.

Please review this material as you see fit and if you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please send me an email and/or join the IHE PCD RTM tcon this Wednesday, June 24th, at 11:00 AM CDT.  If there's a general consensus to so, we can irrevocably assign "provisional" numeric codes to these terms later next month.

I look forward to our discussion tomorrow!  The RTM tcon information is located at the end of this email.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

<<10101c.Group3.PreemptivePause.2e.2026-06-21T15.xlsx>>

The <Terms> worksheet lists the four REFIDs, Descriptions and other information as they will appear in the first ballot draft of IEEE P11073-10101c (pending subsequent discussion and the addition of provisional numeric codes).

The <Reasons> worksheet lists the enumerated Reasons.  This information will be included in a companion Enumeration Value table in IEEE P11073-10101c, similar to tables used in IEEE Std 11073-10101b-2023.  Examples are included.

This information was also posted on 11073 PoCD Working Group / STANDARDS SGs / RTM nomenclature SG / 10101c

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

I am sending you the updated and largely final proposal regarding the 10101c Group3 Preemptive Alarm Inactivation terms that we discuss during our RTM meeting two days ago, on June 24th.  Although there were no major changes to the proposal, we identified several improvements and a correction regarding timestamps.

I’ve attached a copy of the updated Excel file and an Excel/HTML rendering that illustrates how an informative Table NOTE will be used to convey a more precise yet flexible statement regarding the timestamp for an ACM PCD-04 <start> or other initial transition/phase for the event.

I’d like to thank everyone who joined our RTM call last Wednesday, including Monroe Pattillo, Al Engelbert, Deba Ghosh, Dennis Lomans, Gongli Wang, Jeff Gaetano, Kurt Elliason, and Tim Chant.

If you have any other questions, comments or suggestions, please send me an email by Tuesday, June 30th.  At the present time I plan to assign irrevocable “provisional” numeric codes for the observation identifiers for the 10101c Group2 (patient monitoring terms, additional hemodialysis terms) and Group3 (preemptive audio pause and other alarm inactivations) during the second week of July.  [We can always revisit this material later, including during the formal balloting phase for IEEE P11073-10101c.]

The RTM call for next Wednesday, July 1st, will be cancelled due to the July 4th Independence Day celebration in the United States.  It is likely that the call on July 8th will be cancelled as well.

Thanks again for all your contributions and advice, and have a very safe, effective and enjoyable Fourth of July!

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

<<PreemptivePause.2g.2026-06-25T15.xslx>>  Excel source file

<<AllTogetherNow.2g.x3o.2026-06-25T15.PreemptiveInactivation.xslx>>   Excel/HTML rendering illustrating how Table NOTE will be rendered

On Jun 22, 2026, at 10:50 AM, Paul Schluter <pssch...@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings!

Please join our RTM tcon this Wednesday, June 24th, at 11:00 AM CDT, where we will discuss proposed terms to support Preemptive Audio Pause and other Alarm Inactivations for PCD-04.

The proposed Preemptive Alarm Inactivation terms are intended to report additional information regarding the duration of and reasons for an alarm AUDIO PAUSE or other inactivation at the beginning of an alarm.  This can provide additional processing time before enabling the alarm audio, with the goal of reducing the likelihood of false-positive or nuisance audio alerts. In other cases, it can indicate that the audio should be un-paused (i.e. reenabled) due to the absence of a timely clinician or network response. 

The proposed terms will be sent as optional evidentiary information in an IHE PCD Alert Communication Management (ACM) PCD-04 message.  [In a future implementation profile, it is likely that one or more of the proposed terms could be classified as mandatory to achieve specific preemptive alarm inactivation functionality.]

The Preemptive Alarm Inactivation proposal was originally proposed by Shiva Ammanna at GE Healthcare and was further refined based on discussions with Monroe Pattillo, Rob Wilder, Jeff Gaetano and others.

Please review this material as you see fit and if you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please send me an email and/or join the IHE PCD RTM tcon this Wednesday, June 24th, at 11:00 AM CDT.  If there's a general consensus to so, we can irrevocably assign "provisional" numeric codes to these terms later next month.

I look forward to our discussion tomorrow!  The RTM tcon information is located at the end of this email.

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

<<10101c.Group3.PreemptivePause.2e.2026-06-21T15.xlsx>>

The <Terms> worksheet lists the four REFIDs, Descriptions and other information as they will appear in the first ballot draft of IEEE P11073-10101c (pending subsequent discussion and the addition of provisional numeric codes).

The <Reasons> worksheet lists the enumerated Reasons.  This information will be included in a companion Enumeration Value table in IEEE P11073-10101c, similar to tables used in IEEE Std 11073-10101b-2023.  Examples are included.

This information was also posted on 11073 PoCD Working Group / STANDARDS SGs / RTM nomenclature SG / 10101c

On Jun 16, 2026, at 7:17 PM, Paul Schluter <pssch...@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings!

The RTM tcon for tomorrow, June 17, is cancelled.

We will take up the topic of “preemptive" audio pauses (and other inactivations) during our next RTM tcon to be held next week on June 24th.  I plan to post the proposed nomenclature to support this functionality on the IEEE PoCD WG site by Friday so that everyone will have a chance to review the material well before our meeting next Wednesday and possibly during the ACM call on Thursday.

I am happy to say that no other comments have been expressed nor received regarding the IEEE P11073-10101c Group2 Patient Monitoring and Vital Signs terms proposed by Philips (~150 terms).  I would like to thank Monroe Pattillo, Deba Ghosh, Eldon Metz, Gongli Wang, Javier Espina Perez, Matthias Kaeser, Jeff Gaetano, Kurt Elliason, Tom Kowalczyk, Steven Nichols, Kosta Makrodimitris, and Michael Faughn for their participation and contributions to our meeting on June 10th.

It is likely that the final review of 40+ new hemodialysis terms will be completed by the end of this month, and at that time we will be able to assign “provisional” numeric codes for both sets of terms!

Best regards,

Paul Schluter

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026

[Paul Schluter]

Greetings!

The RTM tcons for Wednesday, July 15th and Wednesday, July 22nd, are cancelled.  I currently do not have any new topics to discuss.  

Provisional numeric codes have been assigned to all the new hemodialysis terms and Daniel Rubery is currently updating the Dialysis Machine Implementation Guide with the numeric codes.

The provisional numeric code assignments for the advanced patient monitoring terms proposed by Philips should start within the next few days.

The terms that comprise IEEE P11073-10101c Groups 1, 2 and 3 will be posted in their entirety on the IEEE 11073 PoCD site by the end of this month at 11073 PoCD Working Group / STANDARDS SGs / RTM nomenclature SG / 10101c

Thanks to everyone for your contributions and advice, and stay cool this summer!

Best regards,

email:  pssch...@gmail.com

cell:  (414) 702-2026