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1. A request for a new workitem inside HL7 Belgium is launched by the government or by the industry and their users.

Goal: The requester(s) of a new standardisation or a change request need to pitch their idea to the HL7 Board in order to obtain clearance for the development of a new standard or a change request.

Actors:

• Government,
• Industry,
• Users,
• HL7 Belgium Board.

Preconditions: There needs to be clear use cases for a new standardisation request or a change request

Post conditions:

• A new working group has been approved by the HL7 Belgium board (see balloting process)
• A new working group has not been approved by the HL7 board (see balloting process)
• A change request has been added to an existing working group

22a. New HL7 Belgium workgroup has been established

Goal: Inside HL7 Belgium a new working group is established with some clear use cases and needs for standardisation. The goal of this working group is to:

• identify as many as possible use cases for the new standard,
• invite and involve as many parties (industry, government and users) as necessary to reach consensus for the proposal for standard.
• develop the new proposal for standard within the usual HL7 methodology and the timeframe of maximum 18 months

Participants:

• HL7 Belgium
• Industry
• Users
• Government

Preconditions: There is need for new standardisation that has been accepted by the HL7 Belgium board

Post conditions:

• Consensus on a proposal for standardisation has been reached
• No consensus on a proposal for standardisation has been reached.

32b. A change request has been added to an existing working group

Goal: A request for change of a standardisation topic for which already a working group exists will be transmitted, if in the correct request format, to the existing working group. It will be up to the working group to lead an ample discussion about the request for change and to adopt or not adopt the proposed change. 

Participants: 

• requester 
• participants of the existing working group 
• (optional) new participants to the working group

PreConditions: 

A working group on the topic already exists. 

The change request has enough quality to be passed onto the WG. 

PostConditions: 

The change request has been adopted

The change request has not been adopted. 

43. Presentation to working group 'structuring of elements

Goal: Only when the HL7 Belgium board did a quality check and voted on the proposal of a new request for standardisation or request for change, this request will be proposed to the working group structuring of elements at the eHealth Platform. They will then have the only authority to validate a new standard as a national implementation for Belgium.

Participants:

• participants of the current working group structuring of elements
• HL7 Board

Preconditions:

HL7 Belgium Board accepted the result of the working group upon a new request for standardisation.

Post Conditions:

• eHealth Platform validated the new standard and will publish all relevant documentation on its website
• eHealth platform rejected the new standard proposal

4. Publication of new standard

Goal: Once a request for new standard has been validated by the eHealth Platform this new standard can be published on the eHealth Website or others.

Participants:

• HL7 Belgium
• eHealth Platform

Preconditions: A request for new standard has been validated

Postconditions: A new standard has been published on the eHealth Platform website or others.