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[Status: Approved at 2017-11-08 Board Meeting]

Minutes of OEMR

A board meeting of OEMR, was held virtually, on October 11, 2017. The meeting convened at 21:10 Eastern Daylight Time, Stephen Waite presiding, and Brady Miller recording minutes. A quorum of members was present to conduct business.

1. Call to Order. Roll call.

  1. Chawla, Jit, present
  2. Down, Robert, absent (excused)
  3. Gaddis, Sherwin, present
  4. Galterio, Lou, present
  5. Hameed, Shameem C, absent
  6. Miller, Brady, present
  7. Palanisami, Sena, absent (excused)
  8. Vasquez, Roberto, present
  9. Vita, Matthew, present
  10. Waite, Stephen, present
  11. Wakefield, Scott, absent
  12. Daniel Ehrlich (guest), present
  13. John Williams (guest), present

2. Approval of prior meeting minutes.

  • MOTION brought by Lou Galterio, seconded by Brady Miller to approve August 9, 2017 Board Meeting minutes.
  • MOTION brought by Brady Miller, seconded by Lou Galterio to approve September 13, 2017 Board Meeting minutes.

3. Financial Report

4. Unfinished Business

  • Revocation status.
    • Call with IRS scheduled this Friday.
  • VCU Hackathon.
    • OEMR is a sponsor of this event and Robert Down will be participating in this event, which is on 11/4-11/5.
  • Marketing.
    • Discussed.
    • Will work on a Press Kit.
  • Conference outreach.
    • Discussed.
    • Considering contacting HIMSS to give presentation on OpenEMR.
  • Raising funds.
    • Discussed.
    • Lou Galterio and Matthew Vita will research use of Kickstarter and related web services.
    • As discussed in New Business below, will open accounts at websites that are focused on collecting donations for open source projects.
  • Conflict of interest policy.
    • Deferred discussion to next board meeting.
  • Trademarking.
    • Deferred discussion to next board meeting.
  • Join OSI.
    • Deferred discussion to next board meeting.

5. New Business

  • Organization restructuring.
    • Discussed potential plans for OEMR restructuring and plan to further discuss with Mark on a conference call next week.
    • Will await outome of the IRS call.
  • AWS Partnership.
    • Started a “Cloud Support” committee to define process, plans, organization for OpenEMR Cloud support.
  • MOTION brought by Stephen Waite, seconded by Brady Miller, to sponsor Matthew Vita $1500 to travel and present at the WONCA South Asia Region Conference.
  • Daniel Ehrlich was voted in to Board of Directors and Member. There were no objections and position was confirmed.
  • John Williams was voted in to Board of Directors and Member. There were no objections and position was confirmed.
  • Matthew Vita was voted into Officer Role of Vice Chair. There were no objections and position was confirmed.
  • Discussed the assignment of several volunteer staff positions for OEMR, which can be found at http://www.oemr.org/about/staff/
  • MOTION brought by Mathew Vita to open accounts at websites that are focused on collecting donations for open source projects. There were no objections and motion was confirmed.

6. Public and Community Concerns

  • None

7. Adjourn Board Meeting

  • Next Board Meeting on November 8, 2017.
  • Meeting adjourned at 22:50 Eastern Daylight Time.