Newsletter #7 - May 1, 2000

In this issue:

• CIC Phase 0 Successfully Completed on Schedule!
• Public Review of Phase 0 Proposals Solicited
• Voting Membership Closing May 31
• CIC at Conferences and in the News
• Next CIC Meeting: July 27 - AACC, San Francisco

On April 10th, the CIC membership met in Dallas to review the work product of the Phase 0 workgroups, and to launch the CIC's Development Phase. Medical Automation Systems, a CIC Core Vendor, sponsored this meeting.

The CIC members began the meeting with a review of the Scope, Requirements and Architecture workgroups' progress. All workgroups completed their Phase 0 objectives on schedule, and many members commented that they were impressed with the quality and extent of the progress these groups made during the 5-week phase 0 timeline. In the meeting's afternoon sessions, the technical teams began work on the design, development, and prototyping of the interfaces proposed in the architecture.

If you have questions or comments about the CIC's technical approach and objectives, please contact the CIC Vice President - Chief Technical Officer, Jeff Perry.

The CIC welcomes public review of the Phase 0 workgroup proposals. To download complete documentation of CIC's scope, requirements and architecture, visit the CIC web site at the following URL:

http://med.labs.agilent.com/CIC/documents.shtml

If you would like to formally comment on any of the proposals contained in this document, please use the form contained on page 70 of the manuscript. The CIC will acknowledge receipt of your comments within 48 hours of their delivery, and will respond to any issues raised within 14 days.

The Board of Directors has decided that Wednesday, May 31, 2000 is the last day for new vendor organizations to join the CIC with full voting rights. The categories of membership open to vendors are: Core Vendor, Supporting A, and Supporting B. Membership in these categories is limited to organizations that manufacture or sell point-of-care related hardware, software of services. After May 31, 2000, vendor organizations may still join the CIC, however, they will not have voting privileges.

Provider organizations (organizations that use point-of-care devices, and do not manufacture or sell point-of-care related hardware, software of services) will be welcome to join the Consortium with full membership rights through the last day of the CIC's existence.

If you have any questions about membership, please contact the CIC President, Suzanne Cross.

Members of the CIC will be speaking about the Consortium's organization, objectives and status at the following conferences:

• May 9, 6:30-9:00PM, San Francisco Moscone Convention Center
  Dr. Dirk Boecker, Dr Jay Jones and Jeff Perry will talk about Point-of-Care-Testing Data Connectivity issues and standardization at the Joint Meeting of the AACC LISMI Division and North California Section AACC
• July 25, 7:00-9:30AM, San Francisco
  CIC Officers will speak at a public-welcome CIC update session held in conjunction with the AACC Point of Care Testing Division - Industrial Liaison Committee meeting.
• June 3, 11:15, Helsingor, Denmark
  Suzanne Cross will speak at the Critical Care Testing in the New Millennium, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and the AACC Critical Care and Point of Care Testing.
• June 15, 3:00-5:00, Alps-Adria, Croatia
  Chris Fetters will speak at the Alps-Adria Clinical Chemistry Congress, Point of Care session.

Also, look for stories and news about the CIC in current and forthcoming issues of the following publications:

• 24x7 Magazine
• CAP Today
• Clinical Laboratory News - volume 9, number 4, April 2000
• IVD Technology - volume 26, number 4, April 2000
• Laboratory Industry Report
• Medical Design World
• The Genesis Report/Dx

The next meeting of the CIC membership will be held in San Francisco on July 27 to coincide with the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) annual meeting. The location for this one-day event, as well as registration and agenda details will be published on the CIC web site in the following months. If your organization is a member of the CIC and would like to sponsor this meeting, please contact the CIC President, Suzanne Cross.

Best regards,

Jeff Perry
CIC Vice-President, Chief Technical Officer
Representing: Agilent Technologies