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Connectathon Manager Responsibilities and Skill Set
Connectathon Manager TrainingSteve Moore
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
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You Are in Charge
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One of Many Duties
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You Are the Public Face
• Courteous and attentive• Understand the medical domain• You represent– Your sponsors– IHE– Yourself
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Responsibility 1
• Manage a well-planned Connectathon• Provide written instructions in advance• Do not assume they can read your mind
• This is new to them• Participants are wary because they have
never been elbow to elbow with competitors
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You Are a Mediator
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Responsibility 2
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Responsibility 3
• Registration• Communication / Documentation• Configuration, including network• Code Sets / Data Sets / Digital Certificates• Test interpretation / grading• Monitor training / leadership• Final results publication
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Responsibility 3.1
• Use only existing tests?• Write your own tests (IHE-RO)• Some combination?
• Provide feedback to test authors to improve the tests
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Responsibility 4
• You are the go-to person for interpreting the Technical Framework
• You need to understand all of the profiles tested, or– Have one or more secondary Project Managers
• You need to have documentation ready– Profiles– Referenced standards
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Process
• You are responsible for following the existing IHE process
• You need to be fair and unbiased• You need to help participants succeed
without giving them a free pass
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Skills: Technical Understanding• Understand the Integration Profiles• Debugging Skills– Able to examine log files to see results or look for
bugs– Able to examine log files to check for correctness
of implementation– Help participants who only know that it does not
work
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Network
• Work with a network engineer to design the test network
• Understand routers, firewalls• Understand network software– Participants will invariably say: My application
does not work– They really mean: I cannot connect to a peer– But, they connected and failed to get a response
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Network Examples
• “I cannot connect to port 2600 on the ACME workstation”– How do you verify with just your laptop?
• “Someone stole the IP address you gave me”– What do you do?
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Process Revisited
• This is a hands-on position• Do not delegate tasks to participants that are
needed by you or other participants• You do not need to know how to do
everything– How do I configure a router using NAT?
• You do need to identify adequate support