2019-07-10-Board.md

title	date	status	author
OpenEMR Foundation Board Meeting Minutes	2019-07-10	Approved at 2019-08-14 Board Meeting	Brady Miller

Minutes of OpenEMR Foundation

A board meeting of OpenEMR Foundation, was held virtually, on July 10, 2019. The meeting convened at 22:22 Eastern Daylight Time, Brady Miller presiding, and Brady Miller, secretary. A quorum of members was present to conduct business.

1. Call to Order. Roll call.

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

2. Approval of prior meeting minutes.

• MOTION brought by Brady Miller, seconded by Matthew Vita, to approve June 12, 2019 Board Meeting minutes, carried.

3. Financial Report.

• Reviewed by Stephen Waite.

4. Unfinished Business.

• Organization structuring

  • 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).
  • Bank account (have paypal and open collective; plan also to have a traditional bank account).

• Cloud Partnerships

  • Reviewed by Brady Miller and Asher Densmore-Lynn.

• Marketing.

  • 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. Morgan McNamara may be interested in working on this.

• Fundraising.

  • Discussed that there has been increased interest by outside entities to pursue grants.

• Outreach.

  • Discussed.

• Recruitment.

  • Discussed.

• Security.

  • Daniel Ehrlich discussed OpenEMR Foundation infrastructure security improvements.
  • Brady Miller discussed OpenEMR codebase security, which is considered very robust at this time. Recently added support for samesite Strict cookies, which is supported in PHP 7.3.

• Meaningful use (ie. 2015 edition).

  • Discussed ongoing plan to pursue ONC 2015 certification.

5. New Business

• MOTION brought by Brady Miller, seconded by Matthew Vita, to confirm Sherwin Gaddis as a board member, carried.

6. Public and Community Concerns

• None

7. Next Meeting and Adjournment

• The next Monthly OpenEMR Foundation Board meeting will be held on August 14, 2019.
• Meeting adjourned at 22:11 Eastern Daylight Time by Brady Miller.