[COAS-List] Re: COAS Submitters Meeting

[Mary Kratz <mkratz@umich.edu>]

I did not set up any further conference calls.  Please let me know if you
would like a line reserved on Tuesdays at the time specified below.

Thanks,
Mary

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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Charles Carman wrote:

> Tim,
> 
> Thanks for the summary and objectives, it helps to have the context
> repeated regularily.
> 
> About the meeting in Colorado, Philips is willing to pay part of the shared
> meeting expenses.  We may send two people (Larry and Chuck), although that
> may depend on the decisions about the Helsinki meeting.
> 
> While we (Philips) agree with you, Tim, that we would probably not go to
> the CORBAmed meetings in Helsinki if we did not have a COAS meeting there
> at the same time.  We also feel that, if Philips/MedGRiD is spending the
> time and resources to be in Europe at the time of the CORBAmed meetings,
> that Philips/MedGRiD should support and contribute to the CORBAmed meetings
> in conjunction with the COAS meeting.  In other words, we want to encourage
> having the COAS meeting at Helsinki (or possibly postponing a Europe
> meeting until later, although with the final submission deadline on August
> 24, 1998, it is hard to get much later).
> Any other ideas?
> 
> About the bi-weekly COAS teleconference calls, my recollection is that we
> had agreed to hold them on Tuesdays at 8:00 am PDT, 11:00 am EDT, 4:00 pm
> GDT (Greenwich Daylight_savings??? Time).
> 
> Chuck Carman
> 
> At 11:58 AM 6/16/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >V. Juggy Jagannathan wrote:
> >> 
> >> Tim/COAS submitters:
> >> 
> >> We talked about having COAS submitters meeting on July 21-23. I am
> trying to
> >> make
> >> reservations - so please confirm this trip! Also what hotel is appropriate
> >> for staying to attend this meeting?
> >
> >My understanding from the Orlando meeting is that we decided there WILL
> >be a COAS submitters meeting in the Denver area on 21-23 July.  Mary
> >Richards was going to check on the possibility of holding the meeting at
> >their Boulder division.  I'm sure there are plenty of other options as
> >well.  Meeting rooms in hotels probably run ~$500 per day which we could
> >all split.  Dave Forslund also talked about finding one of their
> >partners to possibly host the meeting.
> 
> 
> >
> >The Denver submitter meeting is one week before the Helsinky
> >OMG/CORBAmed meeting.  There are a number of people attending CORBAmed
> >from European projects dealing with distributed health records.  They
> >have proposed trying to get their experts involved with COAS at
> >Helsinki.  I figure this should be outside the CORBAmed meeting as it
> >involves submitter issues.
> >
> >On Friday night some of us were talking about this and the issue of cost
> >came up.  There was discussion about having a COAS submitters meeting in
> >Dublin, Amsterdam or the UK instead.  It would be easier for them to get
> >their experts to attend than if it were in Helsinki. 
> >
> >What do others think of this?  COAS is the most critical reason I would
> >be attending Helsinki anyway.  It was not clear from the agenda Peter
> >put together for Helsinki what the value is for going there.
> >
> >
> >There was also talk about reuming our conference calls every other
> >week.  The last I recall is to have them on Tuesday 8:00 am PDT (11:00
> >am EDT) so that Europeans could attend if they want.  Does that sound
> >right Chuck?  Mary, is the Umich line available for 23 June?
> >
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Tim
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