2019-10-09-Board.md

title	date	status	author
OpenEMR Foundation Board Meeting Minutes	2019-10-09	Approved at 2019-11-13 Board Meeting	Brady Miller

Minutes of OpenEMR Foundation

A board meeting of OpenEMR Foundation, was held virtually, on October 9, 2019. The meeting convened at 22:05 Eastern Daylight Time, Stephen Waite, presiding, and Brady Miller, secretary. A quorum of members was present to conduct business.

1. Call to Order. Roll call.

• Chawla, Jit - present
• Densmore-Lynn, Asher - present
• Down, Robert - absent
• Ehrlich, Daniel - present
• Gaddis, Sherwin - absent
• Miller, Brady; Executive Director - present
• Nielson, Stephen - present
• Vasquez, Roberto - present
• Vita, Matthew - absent
• Waite, Stephen; Treasurer - present

2. Approval of prior meeting minutes.

• MOTION brought by Stephen Waite, seconded by Brady Miller, to approve September 11, 2019 Board Meeting minutes, carried.

3. Financial Report.

• Reviewed by Stephen Waite. Bank account has been opened with Heritage Family Credit Union. Looking into tax forms and requirements.
• Have paypal account, open collective account, and traditional bank account.

4. Unfinished Business.

• Organization structuring

  • Working on strategic plan.
  • Working on centralizing vital OpenEMR Foundation documents.
  • Working on OpenEMR Foundation infrastructure and website (https://www.open-emr.org/foundation/).
  • Currently using a public wiki page to track/organize the organization (https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Foundation_wiki_page).

• Cloud.

  • Reviewed by Brady Miller and Asher Densmore-Lynn.

• Marketing.

  • Working on marketing projects related to the recent 5.0.2 release.
  • Discussed and decided that should combine any marketing requests to the user registration list with new release, patch, and security announcements.
  • Discussed migrating user registration feature on AWS to lambda/dynamoDB architecture which would drastically decrease costs. Issue has been placed on github and awaiting volunteer.

• Fundraising.

  • Discussed. There continues to be increased interest by outside entities to pursue grants.

• Outreach.

  • Discussed. Planning VCU healthhacks early November.

• Recruitment.

  • Discussed.

• Security.

  • Brady Miller discussed OpenEMR codebase security for recent 5.0.2 release, which is considered very robust at this time.

• Meaningful use (ie. 2015 edition).

  • Discussed ongoing plan to pursue ONC 2015 certification.

5. New Business

• Dan Ehrlich retired from the board.

• Research and discuss liability at next board meeting.

6. Public and Community Concerns

• None

7. Next Meeting and Adjournment

• The next Monthly OpenEMR Foundation Board meeting will be held on November 13, 2019.
• Meeting adjourned at 22:55 Eastern Daylight Time by Stephen Waite.