MAY 2011 greenCDA™ Implementation Guide

Now Available Liora Alschuler

By Liora Alschuler, Co-Chair, HL7 Structured Documents Work Group and Co-Editor, greenCDA

The HL7 greenCDA Implementation Guide has been published by the HL7 Structured Documents Work Group. The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) is at the core of the requirements for Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records. It supports continuity of care and re-use of clinical data for public health reporting, quality monitoring, patient safety and clinical trials. greenCDA maintains the utility of CDA while making it easier to implement. It is a simplified XML for CDA templates.

“Any developer with basic XML knowledge and a tool that can process simple XML sche- mas can create green instances. We flattened the hierarchy, focused on variable data ver- sus fixed structural markup, and removed complexities like xsi:type. The result is simple and intuitive,” said Rick Geimer, Lantana Group CTO and co-editor of the greenCDA Implementation Guide.

greenCDA features include: • XML schema validation • Simple business names • Tagged data elements in extensible library • Rapid path to Meaningful Use compliance • Modular XML with business names generate JAVA, .NET • Single style sheet display, as for all CDA • Extensible to physician documentation requirements and quality

The enthusiastic response to the development of greenCDA is driving rapid experimenta- tion and has raised the question of how greenCDA fits into the larger ecosystem of clini- cal information systems. This trial use and experimentation will help us understand how going green affects ease of use for data capture; management and analysis; when it might be an appropriate wire format for CDA; if there are significant limits on expressivity; and where the cost and benefits may lie. continued on next page

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greenCDA™ Implementation Guide..... 1-2

CDA®: Spirometry Test The CDC is planning a pilot project with vendors interested in using greenCDA to Standardization...... 3-4 enable use of their systems for submitting Central Line Insertion Practices (CLIP)

Software Implementation of CDA...... 5, 9 data to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

Update From Headquarters...... 6-7

Report from the HL7 International Council Meeting in Sydney...... 8-9

Post Sydney WGM Survey and First Time Attendee Survey...... 10

News from the PMO and Project Services Work Group...... 11

Healthcare Information Standards for Active Aging: State of Play for Patient Summaries...... 12

eHealth Week: “eHealth: Investing in Health Systems of the Future”...... 13

New Chair for the Joint Initiative Council...... 14

EFMI Special Topic Conference 2011: eHealth across Borders without Boundaries ...... 15 greenCDA: Transforming the Essential into the Interoperable TSC Newsletter Update...... 16-17

Upcoming International Events...... 17 “Use of greenCDA and supporting transformation tools show great promise as an

SAIF Architecture Program...... 18-19 approach for reducing the effort required to implement fully normative CDA,” said Daniel A. Pollock, MD, Surveillance Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promo- 4th Annual SOA in Healthcare Conference...... 20 tion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Certification Exam Congratulations..... 21 HL7 looks forward to a robust and informative discussion with all stakeholders leading HL7 Benefactors...... 22 to acceleration of the development and adoption of interoperable clinical information Welcome HL7 Luxembourg...... 22 systems. We encourage a broad range of experimentation across different use cases

Affiliate Contacts...... 23 and environments and welcome the trial use and the opportunity to review the oppor- tunities, costs and benefits of going green across the spectrum of implementation. Organizational Members...... 24-26

2011 Technical Steering For more information on the greenCDA, visit the greenCDA wiki at Committee Members ...... 27 http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=GreenCDA_Project. Steering Divisions...... 27

HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs...... 28-30

HL7 Facilitators...... 31-32

HL7 Staff Members...... 33

2011 Board of Directors...... 34

Educational Summits...... 35

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2 Mark McDougall, Publisher • Andrea Ribick, Managing Editor • Karen Van Hentenryck, Technical Editor Clinical Document Architechture:

Manuel Domingo Spirometry Test Standardization By M. DOMINGO and M. LIZANA, Centre de Competències d’Integració. Parc de la ciència i la innovació Tecnocampus de Mataró. 08304-Mataró. Espanya C.GALLEGO, Oficina d’Estàndards i Interoperabilitat – Fundació TicSalut. Departament de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya – Chair Of HL7 Spain

Matias Lizana Respiratory diseases, especially lated with the spirometry test, but also all the data chronic obstructive pulmonary from the test request, patient identification, and disease (COPD), lung cancer and tuberculosis, spirometer. This set of data compiled from differ- are main causes of mortality that will continue to ent sources requires applying a CDA R2 structure, increase in the coming decades. A spirometer is the oriented to ease the integration between medical medical device mandated to measure the pulmo- device and the health information system (HIS), nary volume and capacity, identifying possible and a higher interoperability among hospital infor- alterations. Commonly, all devices have a propri- mation systems. etary data format output. This is a setback for their integration in different environments because when The data model1 has been developed by a multidis- data is stored on a shared repository, it is not in- ciplinary scientific team, consisting of pulmonolo- teroperable since all of the data does not share the gists, health-tech experts and spirometer manufac- same format nor does it contain structured data. turers, thus providing different perspectives about this model. The model is thus enriched by the Driven by “Oficina d’Estàndards i Interoperabilitat diversity and vast knowledge of the team. de TICSalut” and “Pla de Digitalització de la Imatge Mèdica del Departament de Salut de la Generalitat Two versions of this data model1 exist. The first de Catalunya,” a standard has been created based version is more detailed and is clearly oriented to a on the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release subsequent execution of a data mining system. The 2 (CDA® R2). The goal of the standard is to normal- second version is more basic and takes into account ize a complete data set, including both data received that not all the centers or hospitals can provide the from spirometers as well as those that come from information required by the detailed version. the test citation provided by the electronic clinical history from a hospital or medical center. After the data model was developed, a set of nor- mative and technological articfacts was generated Consequently, this standard creates a spirometry to facilitate the standard implementation: report that contains not only the information re- continued on next page

This standard creates a spirometry report that contains not only the information related with the spirometry test, but also all the data from the test request, patient identification, and spirometer.

MAY 2011 3 Spirometry Test Standardization continued from page 3

Figure 1. Visualization of spirometry report CDA R2 • CDA R2 Spirometry Implementation Guide2: The first implementation of the CDA R2 spirometry This guide contains the norms to follow to standard was through an open-source integration implement CDA R2 correctly, including manda- framework called EI2Med, based on Mirth Connect, tory fields and their content. Two versions of in which many tools have been developed to ease this implementation guide have been created— generation and integration between standard files and one for each version of the data model. HIS. Manufacturers and spirometry models have been • CDA R2 XML Formatted Templates: A set of integrated with the integration framework EI2Med. CDA R2 spirometry templates has been cre- ated. Templates exist for both versions, basic Public hospitals in Catalonia are currently collabo- and detailed. rating on pilot projects to validate the normaliza- • XSL Style Sheet: This is a file needed to tion and integration technology of the spirometry visualize spirometry CDA R2, which follows a tests. There are plans to start the implementation standard style sheet for CDA-HL7 presentation. in all health facilities in Catalonia.

Using spirometry CDA R2 allows for the resulting References reports to be shared through different hospital health 1 T. Salas, M. Domingo, y F. Burgos. Data model of the information systems, and executes data mining CDA R2 spirometry standard to the “Departament de services, that are very important for medical research Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya.” 2010. processes. It is also important to note that the doctor 2 M. Domingo, M. Lizana y D. Kaminker. CDA R2 can view the spirometry digitally from his worksta- spirometry implementation guide to the “Departament tion and watch the tests history for each patient. de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya.” 2010.

4 MAY 2011 Software Implementation of CDA®

Rene Spronk By Rene Spronk, Co-Chair, HL7 RIMBAA Work Group; Trainer/Consultant, Ringholm

This article is an abridged version of CDA implementation using pects associated with it, one has the a RIMBAA whitepaper created by the XML techniques option of creating a very solid map- RIMBAA Work Group. The whitepa- The standard requires that all CDA ping from CDA MIF to UML, which in per is based on actual HL7 Version 3 instances validate against a published turn allows for the use of UML based implementation experiences. A full CDA XML schema. This is the main tools. version can be found at reason why a lot of CDA implemen- http://j.mp/gDwZKm. tations are based on the CDA XML The CDA MIF (or the UML equiva- schema. The wide availability of lent thereof) can be used by class Introduction XML tools is a definite advantage; generators to create a set of classes The implementation of the CDA however, there are disadvantages as (in e.g. Java or C#). There are a few standard and the validation of CDA- well. The XML schema language is freely available class generators that conformant XML instances is based not rich enough by far to express all one could consider when imple- on two types of specifications: of the requirements that present in menting CDA: the original CDA class model. A CDA 1. The CDA class model, a refine- document instance that validates 1. MDHT (http://www.cdatools.org/), ment of the HL7 Reference against the XML schema is not guar- a CDA specific class generator. Information Model (RIM). The anteed to be a valid CDA instance This tool generates Java classes class model is expressed in MIF – to be a valid CDA instance one has based on a UML representation (Model Interchange Format), to create XML that conforms to the of the CDA class model and on HL7’s meta model format. requirements that are expressed in an OCL representation of appli- 2. Context-specific constraints the CDA class model. cable templates. (templates) of the generic 2. MARC-HI Everest CDA model, as defined in a Class generators are commonly (http://everest.marc-hi.ca/),n a CDA implementation guide for used next to other well-known HL7 Version 3 (not just CDA) specific document type and one XML techniques such as Xpath and MIF-based class generator. specific context. At this point DOM/SAX. JAXB is an example of a 3. Java SIG (http://aurora.regen- in time templates are mostly de- class generator: a tool which trans- strief.org/javasig)n, a MIF-based fined in textual form. A single forms XML schema to correspond- toolkit which generates Java CDA implementation guide may ing Java classes. classes (unfortunately not re- define hundreds of templates. cently updated). Model driven CDA An HL7 MIF definition of the CDA implementation Summary class model is provided with the HL7 In order to fulfill all requirements as The diagram on page 9 shows the Version 3 standard. The CDA MIF file expressed by the CDA class model, relationships between the various can be transformed into less “rich” the starting point for all CDA imple- artifacts discussed in this article. expressions such as UML and XML mentations would have to be the A CDA document has to conform schema. Parts of the requirements as CDA MIF. MIF, however, has the to the requirements as defined in a expressed by the MIF are lost during disadvantage that it is an HL7 spe- CDA implementation guide. It has to the transformation process. cific format that is only supported by conform to both the formal CDA class a limited number of tools. Because model as well as the templates. The CDA is essentially an information continued on page 9 model without any behavioral as-

MAY 2011 5 Aussies Hit a Home Run By Mark McDougall, Executive Director, HL7 Mark McDougall

January Meeting Kudos to them for their insightful After many months of planning and UPDATE FROM pre-meeting planning and wonderfully promotions, along with the help of executed plans to produce a very suc- many dedicated individuals, HL7’s HEADQUARTERS cessful meeting in beautiful Sydney. January 2011 Working Group Meeting in Sydney was a big success. Meeting Sponsors While there are many individuals The meeting was both productive I am also pleased to recognize sev- that played key roles in planning the and enjoyable. eral organizations that sponsored key Sydney WGM, I’d like to personally components of our recent January recognize the incredible efforts made We had 310 attendees from 21 coun- Working Group meeting in wonderful by three individuals: Richard Dixon tries participate in the dozens of work Sydney, Australia. The driving force Hughes, Klaus Veil and Tina Con- group meetings and/or 40 tutorial behind the resourcing for the Sydney nell-Clark. They worked incredibly sessions. The meeting also featured meeting were provided by: hard and devoted hundreds of hours add-on educational workshops pro- working to ensure the success of this duced by HL7 Australia at the end of • Australian Government, Depart- meeting. On behalf of the HL7 Board, the WGM week ment of Health and Aging I send a sincere thank you for their • HL7 Australia efforts for which the success of this • National E-Health Transition Au- meeting relied so heavily. thority (NEHTA) • Standards Australia HL7’s meetings were spread out among three facilities during our We are very grateful for the valuable Sydney Working Group Meeting. The sponsorships also provided by the fol- general sessions convened at the lowing organizations: Amora Hotel, tutorials were held in the Standards Australia rooms in the • Beeler Consulting, LLC Exchange Centre, and most of the • DH4 work group meetings were produced • Genie at the Cliftons Meeting Facilities. The • Gordon Point Informatics logistics for planning this WGM and • HealthLink getting our attendees to their meetings • Hewlett-Packard were smoothly managed primarily • Interfaceware HL7 Director of Meetings Lillian Bigham by HL7’s Director of Meetings, Lillian • JP Systems with Cliftons meeting planner Joanne Bigham, Clifton’s Manager Joanne • Kestral McMaster at the January Working Group McMaster, and Richard Dixon Hughes. Meeting in Sydney, Australia. • Linkmed • Microsoft • Orion Health • Pen Computer Systems • Sparx Systems

The sponsorship support provided by all of the above organizations contributed heavily to the financial success of the HL7 meeting and is much appreciated. continued on next page Richard Dixon Hughes Tina Connell-Clark Klaus Veil

6 MAY 2011 of our HL7 Working Group Meetings. A special thank you is extended to the list of firms that represent our 2011 HL7 benefactors and supporters. Organizational Member Firms As listed on pages 24-26, HL7 is very proud to report that the number of HL7 organizational member companies continues to be near an all time high of 530 companies. We sincerely appreciate their ongoing support of HL7 via their organizational Sponsors for the January Working Group Meeting in Sydney, Australia membership dues. HIMSS Chuck Meyer For over 20 years, HL7 has exhibited Don Mon, PhD In Closing each year at the annual conference of Dan Pollock, MD I would like to once again thank the Healthcare Information and Man- John Quinn all of those who participated in our agement Systems Society (HIMSS). Ken Rubin January WGM in incredibly beautiful This year’s HIMSS convention con- Erin Sparnon Sydney, Australia. The participants vened in Orlando, Florida during the Sandy Stuart had many roles, such as attendee, week of February 20, 2011. HL7 once Grant Wood tutorial speaker, sponsor, and meeting again received plenty of attention at planning helper. We sincerely appreci- our HL7 exhibition booth, which was Benefactors and Supporters ate everyone who participated in the on the main aisle and at the center of We are thrilled to have attracted the Sydney Working Group Meeting and the very large HIMSS Exhibition that all time highest number of HL7 bene- would like to congratulate HL7 Aus- attracted over 31,000 people. factors and supporters, who are listed tralia, NEHTA and Standards Australia on page 22. Their support of HL7 is for their roles in hitting a home run HL7’s Director of Communications, very much needed and sincerely ap- with the January WGM. It was a huge Andrea Ribick, oversaw the redesign preciated. We are pleased to recognize success! Thank you. of the HL7 booth that resulted in a our benefactors in all of our HL7 significant upgrade to our booth in newsletters, on the HL7 website, in all ways that actually reduced HL7’s of our HL7 press releases, and at all booth costs. Andrea also oversaw the production of 27 thirty minute presen- tations on HL7 standards and relevant topics. Many of the presentations attracted crowds that filled the theater area and led to standing room only. I also wish to express our sincere thanks to the many individuals who volunteered to staff our booth and/or make presentations in our booth, including:

Woody Beeler, PhD Bob Dolin, MD Ed Hammond, PhD Chuck Jaffe, MD, PhD Lenel James Ken McCaslin HL7 Chair Dr. Bob Dolin presents at the HL7 Exhibit at HIMSS 2011 in Orlando, FL. MAY 2011 7 Report from the HL7 International Catherine Chronaki Council Meeting in Sydney By Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director, HL7 Board of Directors; Co-Chair, HL7 International Council; International Liaison, HL7 Hellas Board

Nineteen HL7 Affiliate representatives and more than 80 Robert Stegwee, chair of HL7 Germany, Co-Chair of the guests attended the first International Council meeting to HL7 International Council, and the Council’s representa- be held in Australia. The agenda was quite packed; the tive to the Joint Initiative Council (JIC) for Global Health morning sessions were devoted to regular business, reports, Informatics Standardization, announced that he will be information items, and immediate decision points. The stepping down as the Council’s representative to the JIC afternoon session was dedicated to the “HL7 around the as he has been nominated as the next CEN TC251 chair. world” session and followed fascinating developments in The Council recognized his contribution and congratulat- 30+ countries across four continents. ed Robert on this well-deserved achievement that would certainly bring HL7 even closer to the European standard- In the first quarter of the meeting, HL7’s CEO Dr. Charles ization bodies. Jaffe presented the framework developed by the Business Model Task Force to explore options and consequences of During the Council’s extended Lunch meeting on Thurs- different business models in developing and further pro- day, the importance of the Council being represented in moting the use of HL7 standards. Bernd Blobel, PhD, chair the JIC was strongly supported and there was unanimous of HL7 Germany, observed that there are three different continued on next page models, all of which are followed by HL7: a) attract audience by offering material for free; b) enforce use by law – Europe model through ISO for healthcare standards; c) sell products. Dr. Blobel felt that international input would be useful as HL7 moves forward with weight- ing these ideas in a new business model. A vibrant discussion followed and steps were taken toward exploring ways to strengthen the business model of HL7 International and its affiliates to the benefit of the world-wide eHealth community.

John Quinn, HL7’s CTO, presented his report to the council. He described the new tool- ing vision of the TSC, leveraging the added value of the Static Model Designer, Terminol- ogy Manager, EHR-S Functional Model, and Published Specifications through a Standard Artifact Repository (as shown in Figure 1).

In the context of the product visibility proj- ect, a brain child of past TSC chair Charlie McCay, John Quinn presented 43 different HL7 products that have been identified and Figure 1: The tooling vision of the TSC as presented by John Quinn at the for which product briefs will be created. International Council.

8 MAY 2011 Internaltional Report cont. from pg. 8

decision to select another representative at the Orlando affiliates expressed interest in launching their own pro- meeting in May. Affiliate Chairs are encouraged to nominate grams. The topic raised a lot of discussion as education themselves or one of their members to that position. is one of the primary functions of most countries.

Diego Kaminker, chair of HL7 Argentina and pioneer of Another important item on the agenda was the revi- the HL7 eLearning program, presented relevant develop- sion of the Affiliate Agreement. The Council decided to ments focusing on the significant backlog of requests to recommend to the HL7 Board that the existing 2009/2010 participate in the program. He noted that this is mainly agreement be extended to end of 2011 and that during due to the lack of tutors and the emphasis on compre- 2011, consultation with the International Council will hensiveness and quality. HL7 India reported its positive review issues of concern, such as IP. experience with running the course, and several other In the afternoon, the “HL7 around the world session” included 24 country reports, all of which are available as part of the minutes on the HL7 Interna- tional Council. A very touching moment was when Byoung-Kee Yi shared with us the pain and sorrow of Dr. Kwak’s prema- ture death. We will all miss his warmth, kindness, and support.

For more information on the ac- tivities of the HL7 International Council and its meetings please visit: http://www.hl7.org/Spe- cial/committees/international/

In memory of Dr. Yun Sik Kwak

Software Implementation of CDA continued from page 5 CDA class model can be expressed in either MIF, or in a derived format such as UML or XML schema. Templates can be expressed in Schematron, in OCL, or in MIF with OCL anno- tations. The actual validation of CDA instances is based on the expressions of the CDA class model and the applicable templates.

A software application will have to be based on the CDA class model if one wishes to ensure that one creates valid CDA instances. Applications that are based on the CDA XML schema can’t guarantee that the documents are valid CDA instances. The MDHT tool is currently the best tool available to support the creation of CDA model based applica- tion development.

MAY 2011 9 Post Sydney WGM Survey and First-Time Attendee Survey By Karen Van Hentenryck, Associate Executive Director, HL7 Karen Van Hentenryck Post WGM Survey Thirteen of the responding work groups indicated that Thirty-nine work group and Board-appointed commit- they had attendance from local professionals. Twelve of tees attended the most recent working group meeting in the responding work groups indicated that they would Australia; 29 of those groups completed the PIC-spon- recommend using the conference facility again. Those sored post WGM survey. While PIC had hoped to im- not recommending the facility cited problems with Inter- prove the response rate from Board-appointed commit- net connectivity and the cost and lack of management tees for this survey, the response rate decreased across support for international meetings. Several respondents all groups. noted that scattering the meetings between multiple venues was not ideal. Similarly, not having communal All of the groups that responded to the survey indicated breakfast, lunches and breaks interfered with network- that they had representation at the Monday evening ing opportunities. co-chair and steering division meetings. This may be an improvement over the last meetings, where all but three First-Time Attendee Survey groups were represented. However, given that only 29 PIC also sponsors the First-Time Attendee program at of the 39 groups completed the survey, it is difficult each of the working group meetings. These meetings to quantify. Approximately one quarter of the groups typically occur on Sunday evening or Monday morning, that completed the survey indicated that they failed to but, given meeting room constraints in Australia, there achieve quorum. was a single first-time attendee meeting during Monday lunch. Approximately 60 first-time attendees participat- The stated objectives portion of the survey is always ed in the Sydney meeting and thirty-six of them provid- interesting. Consistent with the last few surveys, sta- ed valuable feedback on our program. Most notable was tus updates and information sharing related to existing that attendees feel they would benefit from a description projects topped the list of objectives with 95% of re- of the various ribbon colors and their associated roles spondents identifying this objective. Work and progress (i.e., co-chairs, mentors, Board members, etc.). Like- reporting on existing projects was a close second with wise, many of the first-time attendees responded that 90% and joint meetings and engagement with other more information on the types of work groups (i.e., work groups were identified by 80% of respondents, perhaps overviews of the groups by steering divisions) followed by networking at 60% of respondents. New would be beneficial. Finally, it is noteworthy that most project initiation and engagement with local/regional of the first-time attendees cited education as the reason projects were identified as objectives by 50% of respon- for their attendance, followed by networking. dents, and ballot resolution was identified as an objec- tive by only 20% of respondents. PIC would like to thank all of the work groups and first- time attendees who provided feedback. The post WGM Ninety percent of respondents indicated that they ac- survey is available on the website at: http://www.hl7. complished their work group meeting objectives and org/Library/Committees/pi/Post%20Sydney%20WGM% business. The 10% that did not accomplish their ob- 20SurveySummary_02072011.pdf jectives identified insufficient quorum, missing key members and venue facilities as the top three obstacles. Questions or comments about the survey or the results Technical support problems also presented a significant can be directed to PIC or to Karen Van Hentenryck barrier to achieving goals and objectives. Participation ([email protected]). by key members, pre-meeting preparedness and suf- ficient quorum were the top ranking reasons cited by work groups as enabling the achievement of objectives and goals.

10 MAY 2011 News from the PMO and Project Services Work Group Dave Hamill By Dave Hamill, Director, HL7 Project Management Office Rick Haddorff and Freida Hall, Co-Chairs, Project Services Work Group

Project Health Report contributions from all those involved The HL7 PMO has been working Additionally, a GForge Tracker area in the Composite Orders project and with the Technical Steering Commit- has been created within the TSC’s this accompanying project. tee (TSC) and Project Services Work Tracker tab to capture suggestions for Group to create the Project Health future project health metrics. Feel free Guidance for Projects Report. This report reflects various to enter your suggestions at: http:// and Ballots metrics of a work group’s project port- gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/tsc/tracker/ As a reminder, Project Services, work- folio and is based on data gathered ?action=TrackerItemBrowse&tracker_ ing in conjunction with Don Lloyd, from Project Insight, such as status id=628 or send them to the PMO Director of Technical Publications, has updates, milestone deliverable dates ([email protected]). and balloting information. published the HL7 Electronic Bal- lot Charts. These ballot charts were Leveraging the Orders and The Project Health Report metrics are developed as a supplement to the reported by work group and include: Observations Composite HL7 Co-Chair Handbook in order to • Total number of projects, broken Order Project to Provide provide a quick reference to informa- down by projects that are Active Examples for a SAIF tion related to each of the four levels (pre-ballot), On Hold, In a ‘Bal- Implementation Guide of HL7 electronic balloting: lot Status,’ or Three Year Plan • Review Ballot – Comment Only items. Under a project sponsored by the • Review Ballot – Informative • “Red” / “Yellow” / “Green” Technical Steering Committee, Project Document counts of Active (pre-ballot) Services is working on the Orders and • Review Ballot – Draft Standard projects, Three Year Plan items Observations’ Composite Order project for Trial Use (DSTU) and ‘in a Ballot Status’ proj- to create concrete examples of artifacts • Normative Ballot ects. The colors depict project that can be used in a future version of counts that are on target (green), an HL7 SAIF Implementation Guide. For each ballot type, the ballot charts behind <120 days (yellow) or list the Intent, Recommended Use, behind >120 days (red). This is an opportunity to approach an Project Approval Levels, and Ballot • Number of projects missing a Milestones. If you have questions, steering division approval date HL7 SAIF Implementation Guide from a “bottom-up” strategy. It is intended please feel free to contact Project or a TSC approval date. Services. • Number of DSTU expired test to provide recommendations and period projects. examples from an HL7 standards de- velopment project that relies on work HL7 Project Tracking Tools All of HL7’s project tools, includ- The metrics above will be the basis for products from multiple work groups. a Project Report Card that will grade ing the Searchable Project Database, each work group’s project health. Ulti- These documented recommendations GForge and Project Insight, are avail- mately these grades will be incorporat- and examples will then be available to able on www.HL7.org via Participate ed into the project approval process. be incorporated into a future HL7 SAIF > Tools & Resources > Project Track- Implementation Guide. ing Tools. The Project Health Report is available via GForge, under the TSC’s File tab Project Services is happy to be work- (http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/tsc/ ing on this effort to help move HL7 frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_ toward adoption of the SAIF architec- package_id=98). ture. We appreciate and welcome the

MAY 2011 11 Healthcare Information Standards for Active Aging: State of Play Anne Mohen for Patient Summaries By Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director HL7 Board of Directors, International Council Co-Chair; Christian Hay, GS1 Senior Consultant Healthcare, Chair IHE Suisse and Board Member Swiss Medical Informatics Association; and Anne Moen, RN, PhD, Chair Norwegian Society of Medical Informatics, MIE2011 SPC Co-Chair and LOC Co-Chair

This year’s European health infor- need to address matics conference MIE2011 will be to contribute to Christian Hay held in Oslo, Norway on August, an integrated, 28-31, 2011. The theme is User Cen- holistic service tred, Networked Healthcare. For this approach in an conference, HL7 International, an aging person’s Institutional member of the Euro- health-illness pean Federation for Medical Infor- trajectory? matics (EFMI) through its European • What could be women hampered by chronic-disease Brussels Office, joins forces with the strategic with an acute episode will frame the GS1 (another Institutional Member and operational discussion of technological, organiza- of EFMI) and the Norwegian Society initiatives, by Catherine Chronaki tional and professional challenges to for Medical Informatics, to organize HL7, GS1, EFMI support health and active aging. Spe- an invited session in the invitational and others; to augment integration cifically, the user story takes an acute track “Partnerships in Innovation” across technological, professional episode requiring emergency admis- and discuss significant interoperabil- and organizational strands to sion as a starting point, and then ity challenges related to patient sum- ensure meaningful use of patient focuses on critical aspects in the user maries. The invitational track brings summaries? story where information sharing is together Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, CEO necessary. In particular, the potential of HL7 International; Bob Dolin, MD, Specific wider issues that will be of current and future interoperability Chair, HL7 International; and leading touched upon in the discussion standards and emerging solutions to eHealth and standardization experts include: 1) ensuring sustainability of enable innovative systems to deliver in Europe to reflect on the synergies healthcare systems; 2) delivering qual- patient summaries linking organi- needed for health informatics and ity of care and contributing to desired zations, professional strands, and standardization internationally to patient outcomes; 3) unlocking the required services will be addressed effectively support patient summaries market for innovative interoperable by the following questions: in an integrated care environment. solutions based on standards; thus • Where are we and where do we supporting the EU digital agenda key wish to be in the future? The goal of this conference is to dis- actions on standards and innovation. • What do current tools and ap- cuss challenges for interoperability, proaches to standards do to sup- technology and standards related to More information is available at: port information flow in an aging patient summaries. An unfolding user www.mie2011.org. person’s health-illness trajectory? story envisioning the health-illness • What are the problems/ chal- trajectory of an elderly, vulnerable lenges that technology solutions

12 MAY 2011 HL7 Educational Session at the eHealth Week 2011: “eHealth: Investing in Health Systems of the Future” By Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director, HL7 International and Co-Chair, HL7 International Council

eHealth Week 2011 is a co-location of the Eu- ropean Commission’s FREE EVENT! High Level Ministerial Conference and the Catherine Chronaki World of Health IT eHealth Week: Health Level Seven Conference & Exhibi- tion and is organized by the European International – Educational Session: Commission (EC), the Healthcare Infor- mation and Management Systems Society Unlocking the Power of Health Information Europe (HIMSS Europe), and the Hungarian through Collaborative Use of Health Presidency of the Council of the European Information Technology Standards Union. eHealth Week will be held in Buda- pest, Hungary on May 10-12, 2011. Budapest, Monday May 10, 4:45-6:00 pm eHealth Week 2011 brings together key Co-chairs: Catherine Chronaki, HL7 International & stakeholders from Europe’s healthcare com- FORTH-Institute of Computer Science munity, including policy makers, providers, Miroslav Koncar, HL7 Croatia & Oracle Corporation insurers, research facilities, vendors and patient associations. It will host the eHealth • The Business Case for HL7: Charles Jaffe, CEO, HL7 Government Initiative (eHGI), a formal International body of healthcare state secretaries and oth- • Trust in Interoperability: Robert Stegwee, HL7 Ambassador; Chair, er stakeholders aimed at aligning national HL7 The Netherlands; Co-Chair, HL7 International Council eHealth systems in Europe. The European • Investing in the Secondary Use of Health Data: Pier-Yves Lastic, HL7 Ambassador, Chair CDISC European Coordination Committee Office of HL7, established in Brussels in • Collaborative Use of Standards for X-Border ePrescription and 2010, is a member of the eHGI initiative. Patient Summaries: Fredrik Linden, epSOS Coordinator • HL7 Never Sleeps: Snapshots around the Globe: Catherine Chro- This will be the ninth edition of the high- naki, Affiliate Director, HL7 International Board of Directors level eHealth conference, which has a legacy of leading progress in eHealth across the For more information on the eHealth Week 2011, please visit www. European Union, through a series of Min- ehealthweek.org or the twitter page at isterial Declarations. This year, thanks to http://twitter.com/EU_ehealthweek. Oracle’s significant support, Health Level Seven will be participating at eHealth Week To register, please go to the following link: with an educational event targeted at govern- http://www.worldofhealthit.org/registration/ ment officials, national and regional eHealth project leaders, and decision makers who The High Level eHealth Conference and Declarations: http:// ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/policy/ehealth_ wish to promote sustainable eHealth innova- conf tion, through safe, trusted, and interoperable eHealth services and infrastructures.

MAY 2011 13 New Chair for the Joint Initiative Council By Bron Kisler and Kees Molenaar, Chair and Immediate Past Chair, Joint Initiative Council Bron Kisler

The Joint Initiative on SDO Global Health Informatics and cooperation between the Standardization is a collaborative initiative to help the leaders of the participating SDOs; end users of standards by addressing issues of gaps and monthly teleconferences and have overlaps across key global standards: one topic, one 2-3 face-to-face meetings annu- standard. CDISC, CEN/TC251, GS1, HL7, IHTSDO and ally. We still have much to gain in ISO/TC215 are members of the Joint Initiative Council cross SDO procedures like simul- (JIC). In 2010, the JIC was chaired by Kees Molenaar, taneous balloting and in further chair of CEN/TC2511; as of January 2011 Bron Kisler from supporting project leads to get Kees Molenaar CDISC is now chairing the JIC. their joint work done. Looking forward in 2011, we will continue working hard to progress in these areas. In 2010, the Joint Initiative Council expanded to six member organizations, added a number of work items, In 2010, the JIC also started a task force to investigate and worked hard to become more transparent and sup- how we can help emerging and developing countries by portive of the broader health standards community. We improving access to meetings and SDO materials. In col- launched the Joint Initiative’s website2 – hosted by HL7 laboration with SDO global leadership, the donor com- – that provides access to all available JIC documents: munity, and other key global stakeholders, the JIC will charter, policy and procedures, work item proposals, continue to push this important work forward in 2011. presentation slides and meeting minutes. The website We plan to explore further the usability of standards, and also includes the JIC work item registry, where all joint educational opportunities, as well as projects particularly work items can be found. The JIC began a project on au- relevant to emerging and developing countries such as tomatic identification and data capture standard patient tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. ID and care giver ID as well as a Standards Knowledge Management Tool (SKMT). The JIC also decided to adopt The JIC will be exhibiting at the upcoming European the ISO work item Business requirements for a syntax eHealth Week in Budapest, Hungary on May 10-12, to exchange structured dose information for medicinal 2011. Please stop by if you would like more information products as a Joint Initiative work item. Other key ongo- regarding Joint Initiative projects or future activities. ing JIC projects include: the BRIDG model, Clinical Trials Registration (CTR), Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) and Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR). 1 Kees has resigned as chair of CEN/TC251; Robert Stegwee is nominated as the new chairman The 2010 successes are foremost successes in leadership 2 www.jointinitiativecouncil.org collaboration. The JIC has achieved close collaboration

14 MAY 2011 EFMI Special Topic Conference 2011: eHealth across Borders Bernd Blobel, PhD without Boundaries By Professor Bernd Blobel, PhD, Chair HL7 Germany and Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director, HL7 Board of Directors; Co-Chair, HL7 International

The International Council of HL7 International sponsored the 11th European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) Special Topic Conference (STC). It was held in the Catherine Chronaki picturesque Laško, Slovenia on April 14-15, 2011 and was organized by the Slovenian Society of Medical Informatics.

HL7 Europe, the HL7 International Foundation established in Brussels in 2010, and the European HL7 Affiliates are committed to moving forward with eHealth across borders and without barriers as they join forces with the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Initiative in an educational workshop that is part of the conference. Laško, Slovenia

The HL7/IHE program was chaired by Professor Bernd • HL7 Test Implementations in the Czech Republic pre- Blobel and was held on the afternoon of Thursday, April 14. sented by Libor Seidl, Chair, HL7 Czech Republic The workshop’s program included: • CTS II for Enabling Multi-lingual Communications pre- • HL7 Developments in Europe and Worldwide pre- sented by Frank Oemig, Board Member, HL7 Germany sented by Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director, HL7 • Domain Analysis Models as Reference for National International Board of Directors and Board Member, Profiles presented by Professor Bernd Blobel, Chair, HL7 Hellas HL7 Germany • IHE Infrastructure Specifications for Cross-Border In- teroperability presented by Lisa Spellman, IHE Senior In addition, a unique poster presented recent developments Director, Informatics, HIMSS in HL7 International, its organization and standards. • eHealth Enabling Continuity of Care within and Across National Borders presented by Lacramioara Stoicu-Ti- For more information please visit: http://www.stc2011.si vadar, Board Member, HL7 Romania

MAY 2011 15 Newsletter TSC Updates By Lynn Laakso, HL7 TSC Project Manager Lynn Laasko

The TSC is conducting projects on tation of new concepts and a The TSC acknowledged updates to product visibility, product quality, brief status update on current work group documents (M&C, DMP) communication strategy, and in- innovations initiatives. as approved by the work groups’ novations, as well as new projects • The TSC developed, circulated, respective steering divisions: for the SAIF Architecture Program and approved two new projects • Domain Experts Steering and T3F Review. More information this cycle, for the SAIF Archi- Division (DESD) approved an is available on each of these efforts tecture Program (PI #751), updated M&C for the Child from the TSC web page under “Proj- and a TSC Retrospective Self- Health WG, Community Based ects,” at http://www.hl7.org/Spe- Assessment Based on T3F Collaborative Care (CBCC) WG cial/committees/tsc/projects.cfm. Recommendations (PI #749). and Imaging Integration WG In addition, the TSC continues main- • The Product Quality project • The Foundation and Technol- tenance of Work Group Visibility, as (PI #647) will be moving for- ogy Steering Division (FTSD) well as Work Group Health. ward under the umbrella of the approved the updated M&C for SAIF Architecture Program as the Implementable Technology • By the 2011 May WGM, 13 that evolves. Specifications (ITS) WG work groups will need to re- • The Structure and Semantic De- view their Mission and Charter The TSC also approved a number sign Steering Division (SSD SD) (M&C) statements which have of new projects. You can always see approved an update to the M&C not been reviewed for two the most recent list of new projects of both the Arden Syntax Work years for the Work Group Vis- from the Project Insight Searchable Group and the Clinical State- ibility Maintenance project Database. You can sort the search- ment WG at Project Insight (PI #631) able database. To show the projects • The TSC approved an update to Please review your Mission most recently approved by the TSC, its M&C and its DMP and Charter statements to keep select “TSC Approval” from among them current! In addition, the the different date fields and then The TSC has approved several DSTU new metric on Decision Mak- click “Filter Projects.” By entering a publications since the last working ing Practices (DMP) will affect date range you can see just the proj- group meeting. Interested par- 17 work groups (WG) that ects approved since the last working ties are invited to download these need to update their DMPs in group meeting, or click the column DSTUs and provide comments and accord with the latest template. heading over “TSC Approval Date” feedback on the standards and their For the 2011 May WGM, the to bring the most recent TSC approv- implementation at http://www.hl7. TSC will also recognize the als to the top of the list. org/dstucomments/. “healthiest” work groups. • Implementation Guide for • New innovative concepts can The TSC welcomed back Ravi Nata- CDA® Release 2.0 Progress be submitted for presentation rajan, who was elected by the Inter- Note, for the Structured Docu- and review at the 2011 May national Council to fill the Affiliate ments Work Group of SSD SD, WGM, where the Innovations Representative position vacated by at Project Insight ID (PI #679), Project (PI #701) will again Charlie McCay. for 24 months host an opportunity for presen- continued on next page

16 MAY 2011 • Consent Directive CDA Imple- (PI #205), for 24 months each The TSC also approved a special mentation Guide: for the • Context-Aware Knowledge meeting request for the Pharmacy Community Based Collabora- Retrieval (Infobutton), Work Group, which met in the tive Care Work Group (CBCC) Service-Oriented Architec- United Kingdom from February of DESD, at (PI #553), for 18 ture Implementation Guide: 14-16, 2011. In addition, the TSC ap- months for Clinical Decision Support proved an out-of-cycle special meet- • HL7 Version 3 Standard: of SSD SD at (PI #507) for 24 ing for the RIMBAA Work Group on Transmission Infrastructure, months November 15, 2011 in Amsterdam, Release 2: for the Infrastruc- • SDWG requested a 1 year the Netherlands. ture and Messaging (InM) Work extension to each of the below Group of FTSD, at (PI #619), for DSTUs, which were balloted 2 For any additions, updates or sug- 24 months years ago gestions on any of these TSC pro- • Implementation Guide for • HL7 Implementation moted initiatives please contact Lynn NHSN Healthcare Associated Guide for CDA Release Laakso ([email protected]). Infection (HAI) Reports, Re- 2: Quality Reporting lease 6: for Structured Docu- Document Architecture How to find TSC information ments WG (SDWG), at (QRDA), Release 1: at The TSC wiki site houses its min- (PI #319), for 24 months (PI #210). utes, process documents, templates, • HL7 Version 3 Standard: • HL7 Implementation links to the ArB wiki and the TSC Regulated Studies: CDISC Guide for CDA Release Issue Tracker, a list of current Content to Message – Study 2: CDA Framework for projects, and more. You can access Design, Release 1: and Questionnaire Assess- the TSC wiki at: http://www.hl7. • HL7 Version 3 Standard: ments, Release 1: at org/permalink/?TSCWiki. See the Regulated Studies: CDISC (PI #381). links below for instructions on how Content to Message – Study to view the list of projects and ac- Participation, Release 1: for • HL7 Implementation cess the TSC Issue Tracker. the Regulated Clinical Research Guide for CDA Release 2: • TSC Tracker: link to http://gforge. Information Management Work Operative Notes, Release 1: at hl7.org/gf/project/tsc/tracker/ Group (RCRIM) of DESD, at (PI #728)

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MAY 2011 17 Service-Aware Interoperability Austin Kreisler Framework (SAIF) Architecture Program By Austin Kreisler, Chair, HL7 Technical Steering Committee

If you were at the January 2011 several peer reviews, but it has not out SAIF specifically for use within Working Group Meeting in Sydney, been balloted. Balloting SAIF and the HL7 organization. We actually you probably heard me talking a lot turning it into an HL7 Standard have a term for taking a standard about the SAIF Architecture Program. (capital “S”) is one of the first things and defining how it should be used If you are like a lot of people, you are we would like to accomplish under for a particular use case—it’s called probably wondering why this is an the SAIF Architecture Program. De- developing an implementation guide. important program and what does it velopment of the SAIF standard has In addition to balloting the SAIF stan- mean for the work you are currently primarily been the responsibility of dard, one of the top goals of the SAIF doing developing HL7 standards. the HL7 Architectural review Board Architecture Program is to develop I’ll try to describe the reasons why (ArB). The ArB has created a project HL7’s SAIF Implementation Guide. this is important and what short and to ballot the SAIF standard. The SAIF Implementation Guide will long term impact it will have on your ultimately describe how SAIF is used standards development work, within the HL7 organization. and ultimately on the stan- On the surface, the SAIF Archi- Developing this implemen- dards HL7 produces. tation guide is going to be tecture Program’s purpose is to a second project, this time On the surface, the SAIF Ar- roll out, within the HL7 organi- sponsored by the Technical chitecture Program’s purpose zation, the framework standards Steering Committee. Why the is to roll out, within the HL7 TSC? The reason is that the organization, the framework interoperability described by the TSC is the one group in HL7 standards interoperability SAIF standard. that spans all the groups nec- described by the SAIF stan- essary to develop and deploy dard. I’ve deliberately used a all the aspects of SAIF within small “s” in SAIF standard because SAIF describes a framework within HL7. Many existing work groups will at this point, SAIF is not formally an which an organization can develop have input into developing the SAIF HL7 Standard of any sort. For more interoperability specifications. SAIF Implementation Guide. information on SAIF, see the HL7 was designed to be general enough to wiki at http://wiki.hl7.org/index. be adapted by many different organi- Thus far, we have identified two php?title=SAIF_main_page and the zations to meet their interoperability projects for the SAIF Architecture SAIF Executive Summary at http:// needs. HL7 is obviously one such or- Program: a project to ballot the SAIF wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=SAIF_ ganization, and the SAIF Architecture standard and a project to develop ExecutiveSummary. SAIF has received Program’s primary goal is to flesh continued on next page

18 MAY 2011 HL7’s SAIF Implementation Guide. projects associated with the SAIF Pro- and processes described in the SAIF In fact, there will be a number of gram will have accountability back to Implementation Guide. It is my hope projects involved in deploying SAIF the Program, not just accountability that in the long run, the advantages of within HL7. We will be piloting the to the sponsoring work groups. developing a standard under the SAIF use of the SAIF Implementation brand will far outweigh any disad- Guide with at least one standards de- Now you are probably wondering vantages. We may identify processes velopment project and we will need what this means for the standards within the SAIF brand which bring to manage changes to tooling and development work you are currently major benefits while having minimal processes for publishing SAIF based performing through HL7. For the or no cost for implementing in the standards as well as other projects majority of existing HL7 standards broader HL7 organization. The TSC that will be identified as we proceed projects, there is little or no immedi- will look at moving these sorts of down the path of implementing SAIF ate impact. Unless I have already benefits outside of the SAIF brand at HL7. That brings us to the word talked to your work group about your and into the broader HL7 organization “Program” in the SAIF Architecture specific project, then it is very likely more quickly than described above. Program. Over the past few years, there is no immediate impact on your HL7 has been implementing a project project. In the long term, there will In conclusion, the SAIF Architecture management approach to the devel- certainly be an impact on how all HL7 Program is something everyone par- opment of standards. The complexity standards are developed, but our plan ticipating in HL7 should keep their of developing standards has contin- for rolling out SAIF to the broader eyes on. The short term impact on ued to evolve within HL7, reflecting HL7 organization should make this as what you are doing today is prob- the complexity of the interoperability painless as possible. ably minimal, but in the long term it space our standards address. Rolling will have significant impact on how out SAIF across the HL7 organization Currently, we envision the creation of HL7 develops standards. The goal is going to require multiple projects, a “brand” called “HL7 SAIF Architect- is for SAIF to provide HL7 a way of and those projects need to be coor- ed” standard. The first standards un- developing improved interoperability dinated. That is the primary reason der this brand are the limited number standards in a quicker fashion. for the SAIF Architecture Program. It of standards that are piloting the SAIF will be using program management Implementation Guide under the SAIF techniques to manage the projects Architecture Program. The SAIF Im- within the program. This actually plementation Guide will describe the makes explicit some processes we processes and artifacts necessary to already have within HL7. We ef- develop a standard carrying the new fectively already have a “program” brand name. Once the piloting stage called Version 2 Publishing that is completed, we will transition to the oversees production of the various next stage where standards develop- incremental versions of 2.x (2.5., ment projects can petition to join the 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7…). There are certainly SAIF Architected Brand. To join the other examples of implicit programs brand means the project will need to already at work within HL7. One of develop the standard according to the the goals of SAIF is to make ex- rules laid out in the SAIF Implementa- plicit things which were previously tion Guide. Becoming SAIF branded implicit. Explicit identification of in this second phase will be optional. “programs” is one effect of moving to In the long term, we may require all a SAIF-based approach to developing new standards to be developed under standards. What this means is that the SAIF brand, following the rules

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4th Annual SOA in Healthcare Conference July 13-15, 2011 in Washington, DC

OMG® and Health Level 2006–July 2010. He is currently Seven® International (HL7) the Deputy Chief Information are excited to bring you Officer for Architecture, Strategy, the fourth annual SOA in and Design. Please check the Healthcare Conference: “SOA conference website for additional Road-map to Integration: Ar- keynotes and featured speakers. chitecting Interoperability in The call for participation was Healthcare.” The conference still underway at the time this will be held July 13-15, 2011 article was written so be sure to in Washington, D.C. sign up for program updates.

The focus of the SOA in The conference will be experi- Healthcare Conference is to entially focused; with speakers convey real-world experiences, assembling a commu- bringing their personal and organizational experiences nity of peers to exchange ideas and discuss what has to what will be a presentation and discussion-oriented worked, what did not work, and review best practices. forum. The conference will be divided into an Execu- Not a “tech industry” event, this conference is exclu- tive Summit, and Functional and Technical Tracks. sively healthcare focused, and will highlight the chal- Some topic areas you can expect to see include: lenges unique to healthcare organizations and empha- size cross-industry solutions that are viable within the • Modeling (SoaML, SysML, BPMN, etc.) healthcare domain. It is targeted primarily to a health- • Semantic Computability and Interoperability IT savvy audience. • Ontology and Vocabularies • Decision Support Systems A wide cross-section of the health industry will par- • Cloud Computing ticipate, including healthcare providers, payers, public • Enterprise Architecture (Business, System, SOA health organizations and vendors from both the public and Technical) and private sector. The conference program commit- tee has invited world-class speakers to present at the Registration & Information 4th Annual SOA in Healthcare conference. Organiza- The SOA in Healthcare event is hosted by OMG, HL7 tions expected to participate include MITRE, CSC, DoD International, Open Health Tools (OHT), and the Military Health System, Mayo Clinic, Fallon Community BPM/SOA Community of Practice. Everyone with an Health Plan, Brazil Dept. of Defense, in addition to interest in SOA in healthcare is invited to attend. The many universities. early-bird registration discount is available until Friday, May 6, 2011. Registration information is available at The conference will feature a keynote address by Paul http://www.omg.org/hc-pr. Exhibit space is available; A. Tibbits, MD. Dr. Tibbits was inducted into Senior for more information contact Mike Narducci at market- Executive Service in February 2004, appointed Deputy [email protected] +1-781-444 0404. Sponsorship opportu- Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Development nities are available; contact Ken Berk at kenberk@omg. for Department of Veterans Affairs on December 7, org or +1-781-444 0404

20 MAY 2011 Congratulations ttttttttttttttttttttt To the following people who passed the HL7 Certification Exams

Certified HL7 V2.5/2.6 Dr. Balamurugan February 22, 2011 María Angeles Serna Lledo Pitchumani Fernando Izquierdo Rial Ivan Exposito Jaramillo Chapter 2 Control Lakshmi Prasad P R Carmen Pilar Ubeda Portugués Lucía Reyes Manzano Gomez Specialist Manjunath B Sanjeevamurthy Santos Luis Sánchez del Ojo Gurudatta Sakaleshpura José-Carlos Elvira Gómez Jorge Gallinato Garcia Shankaraiah November 11, 2010 Shashi Kiran C V December 16, 2010 Bernard M. Chester Belén Pons Maciej A. Jakuc December 18, 2010 Certified HL7 CDA Daniel Casas Michelle M. Lassen Shrinivas Nagral Specialist Enric Samper Sosa Wayne M. Machuca Shujah Das Gupta José Vicente Torres Ivars Brent Nall Rahul Yogesh Bajaria November 11, 2010 Eduardo Llinares Legido Peter W. Svendsen Namita Waikul Thomas A. Carr José Manuel Lopez Sario Ajeet Yadav Jonathan Hendrich Alberto Borja Rubio January 12, 2011 Ranjit Poduval John S. Slavich Jacque Alsop Mihir R. Veera Ben Uphoff February 22, 2011 Lara Auzins Arif Khan Kamalini H. Vaidya Juan Antonio Fernández Moreno Peng Gong Pramod Chandra Dash Félix Federico de Mesa Wllem J. Koopman Rohit Jain January 13, 2011 Russell A. McDonell Shraddha Sayani Jacque Alsop David H. McKillop Ashish Seth Sarah L. Atwill Certified HL7 Version Angus B. Miller Akansha Sahu Matthew J. Cordell Deepti Chowdhary Michael Cowey 3 RIM Specialist January 25, 2011 Arvind Sahare Peter W. Davies Aqila Dissanayake Mike Farah HL7 Canada Gayathri Vijayabaskar February 19, 2011 David Geraghty Michael Sanga Jitin Sharma Corinne E. Gower October 25, 2010 Neelam Kumari Willem J. Koopman Walid El-Hallak Preeti Putti HL7 Spain Yu-Sheng Lo Stuart K. MacKinnon October 27, 2010 HL7 Canada November 5, 2010 Devendra S. Maisnam Sylvie Demers Robert Castellor Morant Paul W. McKee October 25, 2010 José Ramón García Pardos Alexander Mense October 30, 2010 Ghislain Bellmare Daniel Santamaría de Jalón David E. Mitchell Silky Elwadhi Samuel Moñux Salvador Edwin Ng HL7 India David Ojeda Auré John E. Reynolds November 19, 2010 Diego Benedicto Consejo Stefan W. Sabutsch Yogesh Chopade October 30, 2010 Kanishk Sudarsahan Jeff T. Horii Sachin Atri November 11, 2010 Rob B. Tholl Shivam Mundra Marcos Cabrera Goñi HL7 India Alfredo Paya Pardo December 20, 2010 November 13, 2010 José Luis Andreu December 4, 2010 Kin Kei (Gary) Fung Suganthi Chinnachamy Carlos Sánchez Arribas Arvind Ramaswamy Hemalatha Elangovan Jesús Rodríguez Martín de February 9, 2011 Deepasri Konka S. los Santos December 18, 2010 Bradley Chruszcz Sathyashree Ramanathan Elia de la Viuda Alonso Hiral Shah Dustin Doan Siddharth Sharma Juan Carlos González Herrero Roshan R. Anchan Tony He Rajeshwari Swaminathan Santiago Borras Natividad Vaishali K. Desai Yvan Tran Subramanyam Vallury Antonio de Pedro García Nirmala Verma Raghu Kiran Yajamanam Luis Miguel Arribas Escudero HL7 India Arjun Yuppala HL7 Spain Deepak Dhawan December 2, 2010 December 18, 2010 Gautam Garg Rodrigo Coba Olmo December 2, 2010 Roshan Fernandes Rajeev Kharwal Rubén del Casar Aroca Anjali Kale Anuradha Nardia December 16, 2010 Ramón Jorge Prieto Rodríguez Mayank Kapoor Babita Rani Daniel Nebot Benabarre Daniel Martos López Aniket Bartake Amit Kumar Singh Alberto Fuentes Francisco Romera Rodrigo Viren Shah Ponnuraj Subramanian Miguel Vich Ramos Esther Carnerero Martín Jatin Verma Sergio Merino Alberto Moreno Conde HL7 Spain Isaac Castro García Francisco Pascual Peña December 4, 2010 Jorge Cremades November 11, 2010 Senthil Gurupatham Sebastien Chaoulli December 15, 2010 Álvaro Domínguez Bragado Varri Malleswara Rao Eugeni Sendrós Fernández Jorge Rodríguez Graña Ram Mohan A A D Roberto Acero Cacho Beatríz Quintana Rodríguez February 22, 2011 Sri Haritha Vemuru María Ángeles Giménez Febrer Francisco José Mallado Muñoz David Moner Noelia Sánchez Pérez Gema Roldán González José Alberto Maldonado December 11, 2010 Àlex Rodríguez Casino Irene Nieto Ruiz Jyotsna Arvapalli Juan Carlos Roig Gonzalo Montesdeoca Zamora Sudheendra Balagar Xavier Mur Santamaria Raul Lopez Garcia Rohit Nirula David Ledo Dovale Bhuvanesh Pachauri Manuel Enrique Romero Navarro ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt MAY 2011 21 HL7 Benefactors as of April 15, 2011

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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HL7 International Welcomes HL7 Luxembourg as its Newest Affiliate

Stefan Benzschawel, MD Dr. Stefan Benzschawel is the inaugural chair of HL7 healthcare industry experi- Luxembourg. He holds a degree in Computer Science ence based upon three years at SAP as software devel- from the University of Kaiserslautern. After his studies, oper, and 10 years as R&D manager at AGFA Health- he worked as a member of a research group financed Care. For the past two years, he has been the project by IBM and as scientific collaborator of the University leader for eHealth at the CRP Henri Tudor. of Trier where he earned a Doctorate. His software and

22 MAY 2011 Affiliate Contacts

HL7 Argentina HL7 Czech Republic HL7 Korea HL7 Spain Diego Kaminker Libor Seidl Byoung-Kee Yi, PhD Carlos Gallego Perez Phone: +54-11-4781-2898 Phone: +420-775-387691 (Interim Chair) Phone: +34-93-693-18-03 Email: diego.kaminker Email: [email protected] Phone: +82 234101944 Email: [email protected] @kern-it.com.ar Email: [email protected] HL7 Finland HL7 Sweden HL7 Australia Juha Mykkanen, PhD HL7 Luxembourg Gustav Alvfeldt David Rowlands Phone: +82 234101944 Phone: +61-420-306-556 Phone: +358-403552824 Stefan Benzschawel Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +352-425-991-889 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Austria HL7 France HL7 Switzerland Stefan Sabutsch Nicolas Canu HL7 New Zealand Beat Heggli Phone: +43-664-3132505 Phone: +33 02-35-60-41-97 David Hay Phone: +41-1-806-1164 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +64-9-638-9286 Email: Email: [email protected] HL7 Brazil HL7 Germany [email protected] Marivan Santiago Abrahao Bernd Blobel, PhD HL7 Taiwan Phone: +55-11-3045-3045 Phone: +49-941-944-6769 HL7 Norway Chien-Tsai Liu, PhD Email: [email protected] Email: bernd.blobel@klinik. Espen Moeller Phone: +886-2-25526990 uni-regensburg.de Phone: +47 97008186 Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada Michael van Campen Email: Espen.Moller@ Phone: +1-250-881-4568 HL7 Greece oslo-universitetssykehus.no HL7 The Netherlands Email: Michael.vanCampen George Patoulis, MD, MPH Robert Stegwee, MSc, PhD @GPinformatics.com Phone: +30-213-2031933 HL7 Pakistan Phone: +31-30-689-2730 Email: [email protected] Dr. Hafiz Farooq Ahmad Email: HL7 Chile Phone: +92 51-90852155 [email protected] Sergio Konig HL7 Hong Kong Email: [email protected] Phone: +56-2-7697996 Chung Ping Ho HL7 Turkey Email: [email protected] Phone: +852 34883762 HL7 Romania Ergin Soysal Email: [email protected] Florica Moldoveanu, PhD Email: [email protected] HL7 China Phone: +40-21-4115781 Caiyou Wang Email: florica.moldoveanu Phone: +86-010-82801546 HL7 India HL7 UK Email: [email protected] Supten Sarbadhikari, MBBS, @rdslink.ro Charlie Bishop PhD Phone: +44-8700-112-866 HL7 Colombia Email: [email protected] HL7 Russia Email: [email protected] Fernando A. Portilla Tatyana Zarubina MD, PhD Phone: +57-2-5552334 x41 HL7 Italy Phone: +007-495-434-55-82 HL7 Uruguay Email: [email protected] Stefano Lotti Email: [email protected] Selene Indarte Phone: +39-06-42160685 Phone: +5985-711-0711 HL7 Croatia Email: [email protected] HL7 Singapore Email: [email protected] Stanko Tonkovic, PhD Colleen Brooks Phone: +385-1-6129-932 HL7 Japan Phone: +65-68181246 Email: [email protected] Michio Kimura, MD, PhD Email: Phone: +81-3-3506-8010 [email protected] Email: [email protected] MAY 2011 23 HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS Benefactors Hubbert Systems Consulting ICCBBA, Inc. Abbott Intelligent Health Systems Indian Health Service Accenture IT Broadcasting Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Taiwan Allscripts Laboratoire Bio-Medic, Inc. Iowa Department of Public Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC Lantana Consulting Group Iowa Foundation for Medical Care Duke Translational Medicine Institute LMI IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium Epic Lockheed Martin JSS Medical Research European Medicines Agency Mainstream Health, Inc. Kyungpook National Univ. MIPTH Food and Drug Administration Matricis Informatique Inc. L.A. County Dept of Public Health GE Healthcare IT MedQuist, Inc. LA County Probation Department IBM Medtronic Medical Research Council Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group Multimodal Technologies, Inc. Medical University of South Carolina InterSystems MxSecure Michigan Public Health Institute Kaiser Permanente newMentor Ministry of Health - Slovenia Lockheed Martin Ockham Information Services LLC Minnesota Department of Health McKesson Provider Technologies Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services Microsoft Corporation OTech, Inc. Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands Pervasive Software N.A.A.C.C.R. Novartis Professional Laboratory Management, Inc. NANDA International Oracle Corporation - Healthcare Ray Heath, LLC National Association of Dental Plans Partners HealthCare System, Inc. SabiaNet Inc National Center for Health Statistics/CDC Pfizer Inc. SEC Associates, Inc. National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Philips Healthcare SemanticBits, LLC National Institute of Standards and Technology Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Shafarman Consulting National Library of Medicine Siemens Healthcare Strategic Solutions Group, LLC National Quality Forum Thomson Reuters The Diebold Company of Canada New York State Department of Health US Department of Defense, Military Health System The Law Office of Jeffrey Chang PLLC NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands US Department of Veterans Affairs The St. John Group, LLC NIH/Department of Clinical Research Informatics Vangent, Inc. North Coast HIE Supporters Westat NYS Office of Mental Health AEGIS.net, Inc. Wovenware OA-ITSD - Department of Mental Health Beeler Consulting LLC Ochsner Medical Foundation Cellcura IHMedical General Interest Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Cgate Health, Inc. Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) Ohio Department of Health Corepoint Health Adventist Health Ohio Health Information Partnership iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Oklahoma State Department of Health LINK Medical Computing, Inc. Alabama Department of Public Health Pennsylvania Dept of Health-Bureau of Information Mediture Alliance for Pediatric Quality Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Agency Orego Anesthesiology Group, PC American Assoc. of Veterinary Lab Diagnosticians Phast SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS ELEARNING American College of Radiology Quality Partners of Rhode Island American Dietetic Association RTI International Consultants American Health Information Management Association SAFE-BioPharma Assn 3rd Millennium, Inc. American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) SAMHSA Accenture American Medical Association SC Dept. of Health & Environmental Control HS Accuregsoftware AORN Social Security Administration ACOM Solutions AZ Department of Health Services State Hygienic Laboratory at University of Iowa AHIS - St. John Providence Health Blue Cross Blue Shield Association State of Hawaii Department of Health Anakam, Inc. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Tennessee Department of Health CAL2CAL Corporation California Department of Health Care Services Texas Association of Community Health Centers, Inc Canon Development Americas California HealthCare Foundation Texas Department of State Health Services - Lab CentriHealth CalOptima Texas Health and Human Services Commission College of American Pathologists CAQH The Joint Commission CSG CDISC The MITRE Corporation Dapasoft Inc. CEI Community Mental Health Authority US Army Institute of Surgical Research Deloitte Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC US Department of Health & Human Services Deloitte Consulting LLP Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services University HealthSystem Consortium Diagnostic Radiology and Oncology Services College of Healthcare Information Mgmt. Executives University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Dinalex Technology Solutions Inc. Com of Mass Department of Public Health USDA APHIS VS CIO Eastern Informatics, Inc. Contra Costa County Health Services Utah Department of Health Edifecs, Inc. Delta Dental Plans Association Utah Health Information Network eGeeks, LLC Department of Developmental Services Vermont Oxford Network Evolvent Technologies Department of Health, Melbourne Washington State Department of Health FEI.com DGS, Commonwealth of Virginia Forward Advantage, Inc. Duke Translational Medicine Institute Payers Frank McKinney Group LLC ECRI Institute Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama Gartner Emory University, Research and Health Sciences IT Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina Gensa Corporation Estonian eHealth Foundation BMS Reimbursement Management Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. European Medicines Agency CIGNA GSI Health, LLC Georgia Medical Care Foundation Highmark, Inc. Guidewire Architecture Georgia Tech Research Institute Premera Blue Cross Healthcare Data Assets Health Information and Quality Authority TriWest Healthcare Alliance Healthcare Integration Technologies Health Research Inc. UnitedHealth Group HealthCare Technologies HIMSS Wellpoint, Inc. HLN Consulting, LLC Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Wisconsin Physicians Service Ins. Corp 24 MAY 2011 HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, continued Pharmacy Rockford Health System AxSys Bristol-Myers Squibb Rockingham Memorial Hospital Axway Eli Lilly and Company Saudi Aramco - Healthcare Applications Division Balsam Healthcare Corp. Ltd Food and Drug Administration Secon of New England Beeler Consulting LLC Genzyme Corporation SG NATCLAR SAC Bionuclear Merck & Co. Inc. Sharp HealthCare Information Systems BlueStep Systems Novartis Shields Health Care Boston Life Labs LLC. Pfizer Inc. South Bend Medical Foundation, Inc. Bradoc Data Management, Inc Sanofi-Aventis R&D Spectrum Health BrightEHR, LLC Sapphire Health, LLC Stanford Hospital & Clinics Brookwood Systems, Inc. Takeda Global Research & Development Center, Inc. Steven Porter, MD C7 Technologies Summa Health System CareCam Innovations Providers Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Carefx Corporation Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) SA Texas Health Resources Carestream Health, Inc. Akron General Medical Center The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Cellcura IHMedical Alamance Regional Medical Center The North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. Cerner Corporation Albany Medical Center Trinity Health Certify Data Systems Alere Health TriRivers Health Partners Cetrea A/S ARUP Laboratories, Inc. Tuomey Healthcare System Cgate Health, Inc. Ascension Health Information Services U.S. Department of Defense, Military Health System Chace and Associates Technologies, LLC Aspirus - Wausau Hospital U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc. Athens Regional Health Services, Inc. UK HealthCare ChemWare Avalon Health Care University Hospital (Augusta) Chiron Data Systems BJC HealthCare University of Chicago Medical Center Clear EMR Blessing Hospital University of Nebraska Medical Center Clinical Software Solutions Bloomington Hospital & Healthcare Systems University of Pittsburgh Medical Center CliniComp, Intl. Blount Memorial Hospital University of Utah Health Care Clinigence Carilion Clinic University Physicians, Inc. CMPMR, LLC Cedars-Sinai Medical Center UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center CMR Center for Life Management UW Medicine, IT Services CNSI Children’s Health System of Alabama VUMC Community Computer Service, Inc. Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron Washington National Eye Center Compu Care ALP, inc. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital WellMed Medical Management CompuSoft Systems of PR Inc City of Hope National Medical Center West Virginia University Hospitals Computer Technology Corporation Cleveland Clinic Health System Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Computrition, Inc. Community Reach Center COMS Interactive, LLC Correctional Medical Services Vendors Constitution Medical Investors David Lawrence Center //SOS/Corporation Core Sound Imaging, Inc. Diagnostic Laboratory Services 3M Health Information Systems Corepoint Health East Alabama Medical Center 4Medica Cortex Medical Management Systems, Inc. Eastern Main Healthcare Systems Abarca Health LLC Covisint Emory Healthcare Abbott CPCHS Endocrine Clinic of Southeast Texas ABELSoft Corporation CPSI Healix Inc Accent on Integration CSC Healthcare Health Network Laboratories ACS Curaspan Healthgroup, Inc. HealthBridge ACS Cyrus-XP LLC Hill Physicians Medical Group AEGIS.net, Inc. Darena Solutions LLC Il Melograno Data Services S.p.A. Agilex Technologies Data Strategies, Inc. Intermountain Healthcare Akimeka LLC DATALINK SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INC Johns Hopkins Hospital Alert Life Sciences Computing, Inc. Dawning Technologies, Inc. Kaiser Permanente Allied Medical LLC, dba SB Clinical DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc. Laboratory Corporation of America Allscripts Delta System Inc. Lahey Clinic AlphaCM, Inc Dg Med Technology Corp. Lakeland Regional Medical Center Altos Solutions, Inc digiChart, Inc. Lexington Medical Center Altova GmbH Digital Medical Merge, Inc. Loyola University Health System Amazing Charts DNA Data Systems Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital American Data DocComply Mayo Clinic American Health Care Software DocSite, LLC MedStar Health Information Systems American HealthTech, Inc. DocuTAP Meridian Health AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group Dolbey & Company Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Amtelco DoubleBridge Technologies, Inc. MultiCare Health System Andalusia health business solutions eDerm Systems National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatic Anvita Health eHealthCare Systems, Inc. Nationwide Laboratory Services, Inc Apelon, Inc. EMC Information Intelligence Group New York-Presbyterian Hospital Applied Informatics for Health Society Emdat, Inc. Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Applied Statistics & Management, Inc. e-MDs Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Arthrex, Inc Emissary Professional Group, LLC Patient First ASG Software Solutions Epic Qliance Medical Management, Inc Askesis Development Group ESRI Queensland Health Athena Health, Inc. ExactData, LLC Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Atirix Medical Systems Expert Sistemas Computacionales S.A. DE C.V. Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center Aurora MSC Explorys Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Availity, LLC E-Z BIS, Inc. Robert Bosch Healthcare Axolotl Corporation ezEMRx JMAY 2011 25 HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, continued

FIACIA Corp Logibec Rice Lake Weighing Systems Fox Systems Inc. LORENZ Life Sciences Group Rosch Visionary Systems FSI LSS Data Systems RTZ Associates, Inc GE Healthcare IT Manchac Technologies, LLC. Sabiamed Corporation Gibraltar Technologies, Inc Marin Health Network Sage Grupo Prides S.A Masimo Labs SAIC - Science Applications International Corp Haemonetics Corporation McKesson Provider Technologies Sandlot, Inc. Halfpenny Technologies, Inc. MD Logic, Inc SANTEOS SA Harris Corporation MDofficeManager.com SAS Institute HCCS MECTA Corporation Scantron Corporation Health Care Software, Inc. MEDai, Inc. Scientific Retail Systems, Inc. Health Intersections Pty Ltd Medcomsoft Shared Health Health Language, Inc. Medexter Healthcare GmbH Siemens Healthcare HealthCare Conversion Services MedFrame, Inc. SilkOne Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. MEDfx Corporation Simplied Software Development LLC HEALTHCAREfirst, Inc. MEDHOST, Inc. SMARTMD Corp HEALTHeSTATE Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. Softactics, Inc. Healthland Medical Office Online Softek Solutions, Inc. Healthline Inc. MediServe Information Systems, Inc. Software AG USA, Inc. HealthTrio, LLC Mediture SonoSite, Inc Healthwise, Inc. MEDIWARE Information Systems SOUTHERN LIFE SYSTEMS, INC Hewlett-Packard Enterprises Services MedPATH Networks, Inc. St. Jude Medical Hill Associates MedSign International Corporation StatRad, LLC Hira Ben, LLC MedVirginia STI Computer Services, Inc. Hi-Range Technologies, Inc Meta HealthCare Solutions Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc. Hi-Tech Software, Inc. MGRID Stratus EMR Holt Systems, Inc MicroFour, Inc. StreamlineMD, LLC. Honeywell HomMed Microsoft Corporation Suncoast Solutions HospiServe Healthcare Services Pty) Ltd. Mirth Corporation Sunquest Information Systems Hyland Software, Inc. Mitchell & McCormick, Inc Superclick Networks Inc i4i Inc. (Infrastructures for Information Inc.) MITEM Corporation Surescripts Iatric Systems Mitochon Systems. Surgical Information Systems IBM Modernizing Medicine, Inc. SurgiVision Consultants, Inc. IBS MPN Software Systems, Inc. Swearingen Software, Inc. ICANotes, LLC NetDirector SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS ELEARNING ICLOPS New Health Sciences, Inc. TactusMD, Inc iConnect Consulting New Wave Software, Inc. TC Software, Inc. Ignis Systems Corporation NexJ Systems Inc Tectura Corporation Image Solutions, Inc.(ISI) Nexus Clinical TELCOR OIS ImageTrend INC NitroDesk, Inc. Teradata Corporation, GIS/AMS Info World Noteworthy Medical Systems The CBORD Group Inc. InfoQuest Systems, Inc. novaHEALTH Pte Ltd The Echo Group Information Builders Nuesoft Technologies, Inc. The Shams Group Inmediata Health Group Oakland Software The SIMI Group, Inc. Institute for Health Metrics Occupational Health Research The SSI Group, Inc. Integrated Healthcare Solution Sdn Bhd Omnicell, Inc. TheraDoc, Inc. integration AG Open Dental Software Thomson Reuters Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group Openmed, LLC Tidgewell Associates, Inc. Intel-GE Care Innovations, LLC OpenTreatment.Com Tolven, Inc. IntelliSys Consulting Optimus EMR, Inc. TouchPACS Health Solutions Intelliware Development Inc Opus Healthcare Solutions Inc. Trellix Medteam Interface People, LP Oracle Corporation - Healthcare TurningPoint Global Solutions LLC iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. Orchard Software Unlimited Systems Interfix, LLC Orego Anesthesiology Group, PC Up To Data Professional Services Gmb InterSystems Orion Health Valley Hope Association - IMCSS IntraNexus, Inc. OZ Systems Verizon Business IntuitivEMR, Inc. dba AZZLY P&NP Computer Services, Inc. Virco BVBA iSALUS Healthcare PAREXEL Virtify iSOFT Nederland b.v. PatientNOW VisionShare Inc. Isoprime Corporation Philips Healthcare Warren Lamb & Associates, Ltd. ITIQ Solutions Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County Watermark Research Partners, Inc. Jefferson Medical Associates Politechnika Poznanska WebMD Health Services John Wiley & Sons Positive Business Solutions, Inc Wolters Kluwer Health Keane, Inc. PrimeSource Healthcare Workflow.com, LLC Kestral Computing Pty Ltd Procura Xeo Health Key Management Group Prometheus Computing LLC XIFIN, Inc. Krames StayWell Pronia Medical Systems XPress Technologies Labware, Inc Prowess Inc. Yak Digital Corp. Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Inc. QS/1 Data Systems, Inc. ZetaSys Dental Enterprise Solution Lawson QuadraMed Corporation Zoho Corp. Lawson Razor Insights, LLC Zynx Health Life Systems Software Recondo Technology, Inc. Life Technologies Reed Technology and Information Services Inc. LINK Medical Computing, Inc. ReLi Med Solutions Liquent, Inc. Remcare Inc. 26 MAY 2011 2011 TECHNICAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

CHAIR Ravi Natarajan STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN Austin Kreisler NHS Connecting for Health CO-CHAIRS Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Phone: 44-113-6520 Calvin Beebe Phone: 404-542-4475 Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-284-3827 DOMAIN EXPERTS CO-CHAIRS Email: [email protected] CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER Austin Kreisler John Quinn Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Gregg Seppala HL7 International Phone: 404-542-4475 US Department of Veterans Affairs Phone: 216-409-1330 Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-526-2703 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Edward Tripp ArB CO-CHAIRS Charles Mead, MD, MSc Edward S Tripp and Associates, Inc. TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES 3rd Millennium, Inc. Phone: 224-234-9769 CO-CHAIRS Phone: 510-541-8224 Email: [email protected] Patrick Loyd Email: [email protected] GPI FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY Phone: 415-209-0544 Ron Parker CO-CHAIRS Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada George (Woody) Beeler Phone: 902-832-0876 Beeler Consulting, LLC Ken McCaslin Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-254-4810 Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6692 INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Email: Jay Zimmerman Anthony Julian [email protected] HL7 Canada Mayo Clinic Phone: 250-385-1510 Phone: 507-266-0958 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

STEERING DIVISIONS

DOMAIN EXPERTS FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN Anatomic Pathology Implementable Technology Specifications Arden Syntax Anesthesiology Implementation/Conformance Clinical Context Object Workgroup Attachments Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Decision Support Child Health Modeling & Methodology Clinical Genomics Clinical Interoperability Council* RIM Based Application Architecture Clinical Statement Community Based Collaborative Care Security Electronic Health Record Emergency Care Service Oriented Architecture Financial Management Government Projects Templates Orders & Observations Health Care Devices Vocabulary Patient Administration Imaging Integration Structured Documents Patient Care TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES Patient Safety Education Pharmacy Electronic Services Public Health & Emergency Response International Mentoring Committee Regulated Clinical Research Process Improvement Committee Project Services Information Management *Voice only; no vote Publishing Tooling

MAY 2011 27 HL7 WORK GROUP CO-CHAIRS

Affiliates Council Child Health Kevin Hughes, MD Max Walker Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Department of Health Catherine Chronaki—Affiliate David Classen, MD, MS Phone: 617-724-0048 Phone: 61-3-9096-1471 Liaison Alliance for Pediatric Quality Email: [email protected] Email: HL7 Hellas/FORTH-Institute of Phone: 801-532-3633 [email protected] Computer Science Email: [email protected] Amnon Shabo Phone: 30-2810-391691 IBM Education Email: [email protected] Gay Dolin, MSN Phone: 972-544-714070 Lantana Consulting Group Email: [email protected] Mike Henderson Robert Stegwee, MSc, PhD—HL7 Phone: 714-744-4152 Eastern Informatics, Inc. International Liaison Email: [email protected] Mollie Ullman-Cullere Phone: 301-585-5750 HL7 The Netherlands Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Email: Phone: 31-30-689-2730 Joy Kuhl Phone: 617-582-7249 [email protected] Email: Alliance for Pediatric Quality Email: mollie_ullman-cullere@dfci. [email protected] Phone: 703-842-5311 harvard.edu Diego Kaminker Email: [email protected] HL7 Argentina Helen Stevens Love—Secretary Clinical Interoperability Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Andy Spooner, MD, FAAP Council Email: Phone: 250-598-0312 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 513-803-0121 Sam Brandt, MD Email: [email protected] Siemens Healthcare AbdulMalik Shakir Phone: 610-219-5701 City of Hope National Medical Anatomic Pathology Feliciano Yu, MD Email: [email protected] Center St. Louis Children’s Hospital David Booker, MD Phone: 626-644-4491 Phone: 314-454-2808 Email: College of American Pathologists Email: [email protected] Meredith Nahm Phone: 706-736-0991 Duke Translational Medicine [email protected] Email: [email protected] Institute Clinical Context Object Electronic Health Records Workgroup (CCOW) Phone: 919-668-8339 Victor Brodsky, MD Email: [email protected] College of American Pathologists Gary Dickinson David Fusari CentriHealth Phone: 646-322-4648 Microsoft Corporation Dianne Reeves Email: [email protected] National Cancer Institute Center for Phone: 951-536-7010 Phone: 978-749-0022 Email: Email: [email protected] Bioinformatics Architectural review Phone: 301-435-5602 [email protected] Board Michael Russell, MD Email: [email protected] Don Mon, PhD Duke Translational Medicine American Health Information Charlie Mead, MD, MSc Institute Anita Walden 3rd Millennium, Inc. Phone: 919-684-2513 Duke Translational Medicine Management Association Phone: 510-541-8224 Email: [email protected] Institute Phone: 312-233-1135 Email: [email protected] Phone: 919-668-8256 Email: [email protected] David Staggs Email: [email protected] Ron Parker US Department of Veterans Affairs John Ritter HL7 Canada Phone: 858-826-5629 Clinical Statement College of American Pathologists Phone: 902-832-0876 Email: [email protected] Phone: 847-832-7732 Email: Hans Buitendijk Email: [email protected] [email protected] Clinical Decision Support Siemens Healthcare Phone: 610-219-2087 Helen Stevens Love John Quinn Guilherme Del Fiol, MD Email: hans.buitendijk@siemens. Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Health Level Seven International Duke Translational Medicine com Phone: 250-598-0312 Phone: 216-409-1330 Institute Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 919-681-7011 Patrick Loyd Email: [email protected] GPI Patricia Van Dyke Arden Syntax Phone: 415-209-0544 Delta Dental Plans Association Robert Jenders, MD Email: [email protected] Phone: 503-243-4492 Robert Jenders, MD National Library of Medicine Email: National Library of Medicine Phone: 310-435-3192 Rik Smithies [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 310-435-3192 HL7 UK Email: [email protected] Phone: 44-7720-290967 Electronic Services Kensaku Kawamoto, PhD Email: [email protected] Attachments Duke Translational Medicine Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD Institute Community Based Equifax Phone: 919-684-2340 Phone:+1 202-543-6937 Durwin Day Email: [email protected] Collaborative Care Health Care Service Corporation Email: [email protected] Phone: 312-653-5948 Howard Strasberg Suzanne Gonzales-Webb Email: [email protected] US Department of Veterans Affairs Wolters Kluwer Health Lorraine Constable (Interim) Phone: 408-746-9958 Phone: 858-366-2008 Craig Gabron Email: Constable Consulting Inc. Email: howard.strasberg Phone: 780-951-4853 Blue Cross Blue Shield of South @wolterskluwer.com [email protected] Carolina Email: [email protected] Phone: 803-763-1790 Clinical Genomics Richard Thoreson Email: [email protected] SAMHSA Ken McCaslin Phone: 240-276-2827 Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Joyce Hernandez Phone: 610-650-6692 Jim McKinley Merck & Co., Inc. Email: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of [email protected] Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin Phone: 732-594-1815 @questdiagnostics.com Alabama Email: Phone: 205-220-5960 [email protected] Email: [email protected] 28 MAY 2011 HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued

Emergency Care Patty Krantz Sandra Stuart Orders and Observations Medtronic Kaiser Permanente Laura Heermann Langford Phone: 763-526-0513 Phone: 925-924-7473 Hans Buitendijk Intermountain Healthcare Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Siemens Healthcare Phone: 801-290-6674 Phone: 610-219-2087 Email: [email protected] John Rhoads, PhD International Mentoring Email: [email protected] Philips Healthcare Committee Donald Kamens, MD Phone: 978-659-3024 Robert Hausam, MD XPress Technologies Email: [email protected] Diego Kaminker OntoReason Phone: 904-296-1189 HL7 Argentina Phone: 801-949-1556 Email: [email protected] Imaging Integration Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 Email: [email protected] Email: James McClay, MD Helmut Koenig, MD [email protected] Austin Kreisler University of Nebraska Medical Siemens Healthcare Science Applications International Center Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 John Ritter Corp. (SAIC) Phone: 402-559-3587 Email: [email protected] College of American Pathologists Phone: 404-542-4475 Email: [email protected] Phone: 847-832-7732 Email: [email protected] Harry Solomon Email: [email protected] Peter Park GE Healthcare IT Patrick Loyd US Navy Bureau of Medicine & Phone: 847-277-5096 GPI Surgery Marketing Council Email: [email protected] Phone: 415-209-0544 Phone: 202-762-3438 Catherine Chronaki Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Implementable Technology HL7 Hellas Financial Management Specifications FORTH-Institute of Computer Science Ken McCaslin Phone: 30-2810-391691 Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Kathleen Connor Paul Knapp Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6692 Microsoft Corporation Continovation Services, Inc. Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin@questdia- Phone: 360-480-7599 Phone: 604-987-3313 Jill Kaufman, PhD gnostics.com Email: Email: [email protected] College of American Pathologists [email protected] Phone: 847-832-7163 Outreach Committee for Dale Nelson Email: [email protected] Clinical Research Beat Heggli Squaretrends LLC HL7 Switzerland Phone: 916-367-1458 Rene Spronk Ed Helton, PhD Phone: 41-1-806-1164 Email: [email protected] HL7 The Netherlands National Cancer Institute Center for Email: [email protected] Phone: 31-318-553812 Bioinformatics Andy Stechishin Email: [email protected] Phone: 919-465-4473 Mary Kay McDaniel Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Email: [email protected] Markam, Inc. Phone: 780-903-0885 Grant Wood Phone: 602-266-2516 Email: [email protected] Intermountain Healthcare Patient Adminstration Email: [email protected] Phone: 801-408-8153 Implementation/ Email: [email protected] Gregg Seppala Generation Of Anesthesia Conformance US Department of Veterans Affairs Standards Modeling and Methodology Phone: 301-526-2703 Wendy Huang Email: [email protected] Martin Hurrell, PhD Canada Health Infoway Inc. George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD Phone: 44-7711-669-522 Phone: 416-595-3449 Beeler Consulting, LLC Jay Zimmerman Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-254-4810 HL7 Canada Email: [email protected] Phone: 250-385-1510 Alan Nicol Frank Oemig Email: Phone: 44-141-585-6358 HL7 Germany Jean Duteau [email protected] Email: [email protected] Agfa Healthcare HL7 Canada Phone: 49-208-781194 Phone: 780-937-8991 Patient Care Government Projects Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Stephen Chu, PhD Jill Kaufman Robert Snelick National eHealth Transition Authority College of American Pathologists National Institute of Standards & Grahame Grieve (NEHTA) Phone: 847-832-7163 Technology Health Intersections Pty Ltd Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-975-5924 Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Email: [email protected] Email: William Goossen Nancy Orvis [email protected] HL7 The Netherlands US Department of Defense, Military Infrastructure & Messaging Results4Care B.V. Amersfoort Health System Lloyd McKenzie Phone: 31-654-614458 Phone: 703-681-5657 Anthony Julian HL7 Canada Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic LM&A Consulting, Ltd . Phone: 507-266-0958 Phone: 780-993-9501 Ian Townend Mitra Rocca Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] NHS Connecting for Health Food and Drug Administration Phone: 44-113-280-6743 Phone: 301-796-2175 Patrick Loyd Ravi Natarajan Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] GPI NHS Consulting for Health Health Care Devices Phone: 415-209-0544 Phone: 44-113-390-6520 Klaus Veil Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Australia Phone: 61-412-746-457 Todd Cooper Breakthrough Solutions Foundry, Inc. David Shaver Ioana Singureanu Email: [email protected] (IEEE) Corepoint Health Eversolve, LLC Phone: 858-435-0729 Phone: 214-618-7000 Phone: 603-870-9739 Email: [email protected] Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] MAY 2011 29 HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued

Patient Safety John Roberts Rene Spronk Austin Kreisler Tennessee Department of Health HL7 The Netherlands Science Applications International Nick Halsey Phone: 615-741-3702 Phone: 33-318-553812 Corp European Medicines Agency Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] (SAIC) Phone: 44-0-20-7523-7100 Phone: 404-542-4475 Email: [email protected] Michelle Williamson Security Email: [email protected] National Center for Health Ali Rashidee Statistics/CDC Bernd Blobel, PhD Templates Quantros Phone: 301-458-4618 HL7 Germany Phone: 408-514-4804 Email: [email protected] University of Regensburg Medical John Roberts Email: [email protected] Center Tennessee Department of Health Publishing Committee Phone: 49-941-944-6769 Phone: 615-741-3702 Mead Walker Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Health Data and Interoperability Inc. George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD-V3 regensburg.de Phone: 610-518-6259 Beeler Consulting, LLC Mark Shafarman Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-254-4810 Mike Davis Shafarman Consulting Email: [email protected] US Department of Veterans Affairs Phone: 510-593-3483 Pharmacy Phone: 760-632-0294 Email: Jane Daus-V2 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Garry Cruickshank McKesson Provider Technologies Thames Valley Healthcare Phone: 847-495-1289 John Moehrke Tooling Phone: 519-657-3125 Email: [email protected] GE Healthcare Email: [email protected] Phone: 920-912-8451 Jane Curry Andrew Stechishin-V3 Email: [email protected] Health Information Strategies, Inc. Tom de Jong Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 780-459-8560 HL7 The Netherlands Phone: 780-903-0855 Services Oriented Email: Phone: 31-6-3255291 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Email: [email protected] Architecture Klaus Veil-V2 Tim Ireland Robert Hallowell Don Jorgenson HL7Australia NHS Connecting for Health Siemens Healthcare Inpriva, Inc. Phone: 61-412-746-457 Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-219-5612 Phone: 970-472-1441 Email: Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] [email protected] Andrew Stechishin Regulated Clinical Galen Mulrooney Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Process Improvement Research Information US Department of Veterans Affairs Phone: 780-903-0855 Committee Management Phone: 703-815-0900 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Vocabulary Margie Kennedy Ed Helton, PhD HL7 Canada National Cancer Institute Center for Ken Rubin Jim Case Phone: 902-926-2827 Bioinformatics Hewlett-Packard Enterprises National Library of Medicine Email: Phone: 919-465-4473 Services [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 703-845-3277 Phone: 301-594-9152 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Helen Stevens Love David Iberson-Hurst Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. CDISC Ann Wrightson Heather Grain Phone: 250-598-0312 Phone: 44-9-7989-603793 HL7 UK Standards Australia, Llewelyn Grain Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 44-8700-112-866 Informatics Email: Phone: 613-956-99443 Project Services John Speakman [email protected] Email: [email protected] National Cancer Institute Center for Rick Haddorff Bioinformatics Structured Documents Robert Hausam Mayo Clinic Phone: 301-451-8786 OntoReason Phone: 507-284-2013 Email: [email protected] Liora Alschuler Phone: 801-949-1556 Email: [email protected] Lantana Consulting Group Email: [email protected] Edward Tripp Phone: 802-785-2623 Freida Hall Edward S. Tripp & Associates, Inc. Email: liora.alschuler@lantana- William T. Klein Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Phone: 224-234-9769 group.com Klein Consulting, Inc. Phone: 610-650-6794 Email: [email protected] Phone: 631-924-6922 Email: Calvin Beebe Email: [email protected] [email protected] Rim Based Application Mayo Clinic Architecture Phone: 507-284-3827 Beverly Knight Public Health Emergency Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada Response Peter Hendler, MD Phone: 416-595-3449 Kaiser Permanente Robert Dolin, MD Email: Alean Kirnak Phone: 510-248-3055 Lantana Consulting Group [email protected] American Immunization Registry Email: [email protected] Phone: 714-532-1130 Association Email: Phone: 760-419-8436 Amnon Shabo, PhD [email protected] Email: [email protected] IBM Phone: 972-544-714070 Grahame Grieve Joginder Madra Email: [email protected] Health Intersections Pty Ltd Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Phone: 780-717-4295 Email: grahame Email: @healthintersections.com.au [email protected]

30 MAY 2011 HL7 FACILITATORS Steering Division Hugh Glover Amnon Shabo, PhD Robert Hallowell Facilitators HL7 UK IBM Siemens Healthcare Medication Clinical Genomics Medication; Pharmacy Phone: 972-544-714070 Phone: 610-219-5612 Rick Haddorff Phone: 44-0-7889-407-113 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic/Foundation Email: Structure & Semantic Design [email protected] AbdulMalik Shakir Anthony Julian Phone: 507-284-2013 City of Hope National Medical Center Mayo Clinic Email: [email protected] Grahame Grieve Modeling & Methodology Infrastructure & Messaging Health Intersections Pty Ltd Phone: 626-644-4491 Phone: 507-266-0958 Dave Hamill Infrastructure & Messaging Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Health Level Seven International Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Technical & Support Services Email: Ioana Singureanu Helmut Koenig, MD Phone: 734-677-7777 [email protected] Eversolve, LLC Siemens Healthcare Email: [email protected] CBCC & Health Care Devices Imaging Integration William “Ted” Klein Phone: 603-870-9739 Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 Lynn Laakso Klein Consulting, Inc. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Health Level Seven International Foundation and Technology Vocabulary Corey Spears Austin Kreisler Phone: 906-361-5966 Phone: 631-924-6922 McKesson Provider Technology Science Applications International Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] EHR Corporation (SAIC) Phone: 206-269-1211 Orders & Observations Modeling and Austin Kreisler Science Applications International Email: [email protected] Phone: 404-542-4475 Email: [email protected] Methodology Facilitators Corporation (SAIC) Mead Walker PHER, Structured Documents Health Data and Interoperability, Inc. Margaret (Peggy) Leizear George (Woody) Beeler, Jr., PhD Phone: 404-542-4475 Beeler Consulting LLC Patient Safety; RCRIM Food and Drug Administration Email: [email protected] Facilitator-at-Large Phone: 610-518-6259 RCRIM Phone: 507-254-4810 Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-827-5203 Email: [email protected] John Kufuor-Boakye Email: [email protected] Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Publishing Facilitators Charlie Bishop Patient Care Joginder Madra HL7 UK Phone: 780-438-0178 Becky Angeles Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Clinical Statement Email: [email protected] ScenPro, Inc. Patient Safety Phone: 44-8700-112-866 RCRIM Phone: 780-717-4295 Email: [email protected] Patrick Loyd Phone: 972-437-5001 Email: [email protected] GPI Email: [email protected] Bernd Blobel, PhD Orders & Observations Mary Kay McDaniel HL7 Germany Phone: 415-209-0544 Douglas Baird Markam, Inc. Financial Management Security Email: [email protected] Boston Scientific Corporation Phone: 49-941-944-6769 Templates Phone: 602-266-2516 Email: Email: [email protected] Joginder Madra Phone: 651-582-3241 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Dale Nelson Immunization Kathleen Connor Mike Davis Squaretrends LLC Phone: 780-717-4295 Microsoft Corporation US Department of Veterans Affairs CMET; Implementable Technology Email: [email protected] Financial Management Security Specifications Phone: 360-480-7599 Phone: 760-632-0294 Phone: 916-367-1458 Email: [email protected] Dale Nelson Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Squaretrends LLC Kevin Coonan, MD Implementable Technology Specifications Jean Duteau Frank Oemig Deloitte Consulting Phone: 916-367-1458 HL7 Canada HL7 Germany Emergency Care Email: [email protected] Patient Care German Realm Phone: 202-213-3891 Phone: 780-937-8991 Phone: 49-208-781194 Email: [email protected] Craig Parker, MD Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Intermountain Healthcare Nancy Orvis Norman Daoust Clinical Decision Support Isobel Frean Daoust Associates US Department of Defense, Military Health Phone: 801-859-4480 HL7 UK Patient Administration System Email: [email protected] Clinical Statement Phone: 617-491-7424 Phone: 44-207-656-2146 Government Projects Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 703-681-5657 Jenni Puyenbroek Email: [email protected] Science Applications International Jean Duteau Peter Gilbert Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Corporation (SAIC) Wayne State University School of Medicine Craig Parker, MD Pharmacy Implementation/Conformance Structured Documents Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 780-937-8991 Phone: 678-261-2099 Phone: 313-262-1429 Clinical Decision Support Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 801-859-4480 Email: [email protected]

MAY 2011 31 HL7 FACILITATORS, continued

Jenni Puyenbroek Guilherme Del Fiol, MD Patrick Loyd Sarah Ryan Science Applications International Duke Translational Medicine Institute GPI Clinical Interoperability Council Corporation (SAIC) Clinical Decision Support Clinical Statement Email: [email protected] Implementation/Conformance Phone: 919-681-7011 Phone: 415-209-0544 Phone: 678-261-2099 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Harold Solbrig Email: [email protected] Apelon, Inc. Kristi Eckerson Susan Matney Modeling & Methodology John Ritter Emory University, Research & Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 807-993-0269 College of American Pathologists Health Services IT Patient Care Email: [email protected] EHR PHER Phone: 801-680-2161 Phone: 847-832-7732 Phone: 404-712-5086 Email: [email protected] Harry Solomon Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] GE Healthcare IT Robert McClure, MD Imaging Integration Robert Savage Christof Gessner Apelon, Inc. Phone: 847-277-5096 American Immunization Registry Assoc. HL7 Germany CBCC Email: [email protected] Immunization; PHER Health Care Devices Phone: 303-926-6771 Email: [email protected] Phone: 49-172-3994033 Email: [email protected] Sandra Stuart Email: [email protected] Kaiser Permanente Gregg Seppala Nancy Orvis Infrastructure & Messaging US Department of Veterans Affairs Hugh Glover US Department of Defense, Military Phone: 925-924-7473 Patient Administration HL7 UK Health System Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-526-2703 CMET Government Projects Email: [email protected] Phone: 44-0-7889-407113 Phone: 703-681-5657 Pat Van Dyke Email: Email: [email protected] Delta Dental Plans Association Ioana Singureanu [email protected] EHR Eversolve, LLC Jenni Puyenbroek Phone: 503-243-4992 CBCC Margaret Haber, BSN, RN, OCN Science Applications International Email: [email protected] Phone: 603-870-9739 National Cancer Institute Center for Corporation (SAIC) Email: [email protected] Bioinformatics Implementation/Conformance RCRIM Phone: 678-261-2099 Margarita Sordo Phone: 301-594-9185 Email: [email protected] Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Email: [email protected] Gello Phone: 617-643-5894 W. Edward Hammond, PhD Email: [email protected] Templates Phone: 919-383-3555 Anita Walden Email: [email protected] Duke Translational Medicine Institute Clinical Interoperability Council Robert Hausam, MD Phone: 919-668-8256 OntoReason Email: [email protected] Orders & Observations; Structured Documents Grant Wood Phone: 801-949-1556 Intermountain Healthcare Email: [email protected] Clinical Genomics Phone: 801-408-8153 Joyce Hernandez Email: [email protected] Merck & Co. Inc. Clinical Genomics Phone: 732-594-1815 Vocabulary Facilitators Email: [email protected]

Paul Biondich, MD Wendy Huang IU School of Medicine Canada Health Infoway Inc. Child Health Patient Administration Phone: 317-278-3466 Phone: 416-595-3449 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Steve Connolly Julie James Apelon, Inc. II4SM Security Medication; Pharmacy Email: [email protected] Phone: 44-7747-633-216 Email: [email protected] Kevin Coonan, MD Deloitte Consulting William “Ted” Klein Emergency Care Klein Consulting, Inc. Phone: 202-213-3891 Modeling & Methodology Email: [email protected] Phone: 631-924-6922 Email: [email protected]

32 MAY 2011 2011 HL7 STAFF Chief Executive Chief Technical Executive Associate Executive Officer Officer Director Director

Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD John Quinn Mark McDougall Karen Van Hentenryck +1-858-720-8200 +1-216-409-1330 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Director of Manager Web Development Director, Project Meetings of Education Coordinator Management Office

Lillian Bigham Mary Ann Boyle Joshua Carmody Dave Hamill +1-989-736-3703 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Manager of Administrative Director of TSC Project Services Technical Services Manager

Linda Jenkins Michael Kingery Lynn Laakso +1-734-677-7777 +1-919-636-4032 +1-906-361-5966 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Director of Director of Technical Director of Membership Publications Communications Services

Diana Stephens Donald Lloyd Andrea Ribick +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] MAY 2011 33 2011 HL7 Board of Directors Chair Chair-Elect Treasurer Secretary Technical Steering Committee Chair

Robert Dolin, MD Don Mon, PhD Hans Buitendijk Jill Kaufman, PhD Lantana Consulting Group American Health Information Siemens Healthcare +1-847-832-7163 +1-714-532-1130 Management Association +1-6 10-219-2087 [email protected] Austin Kreisler Bob.Dolin@LantanaGroup. +1-3 12-233-1135 hans.buitendijk Science Applications com [email protected] @siemens.com International Corp. (SAIC) +1-404-542-4475 Directors-at-Large [email protected]

Keith Boone Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD Dennis Giokas, MS W. Edward GE Healthcare IT Equfax, Inc. HL7 Canada Hammond, PhD +1-617-519-2076 +1-202-543-6937 +1-416-595-3415 +1-919-383-3555 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] hammond001 @mc.duke.edu Affiliate Directors

Stan Huff, MD Rebecca Kush, PhD Catherine Chronaki Michael van Campen Intermountain Healthcare CDISC FORTH-Institute of Computer Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: +1 801-442-4885 +1-512-791-7612 Science; HL7 Hellas BoD +1-250-881-4568 Email: [email protected] [email protected] +30-2810-391691 michael.vancampen [email protected] @gpinformatics.com

Ex Officio Members Advisory Council Chair

Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD John Quinn Mark McDougall Richard Dixon Hughes HL7 CEO HL7 CTO HL7 Exective Director DH4 Pty Limited +1-858-720-8200 +1-216-409-1330 +1-734-677-7777 +61-02-9953-8544 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

34 MAY 2011 HL7 EDUCATIONAL SUMMITS

Gain real-world HL7 knowledge TODAY that you can apply TOMORROW

What is an Educational Summit? The HL7 Educational Summit is a a two-day schedule of tutorials focused on HL7-specific topics such as Version 2, Version 3 and Clinical Document Architecture. Educational sessions also cover general interest industry topics such as vocabulary. Why Should I Attend? This is an invaluable educational opportunity for the healthcare IT community as it strives for greater interop- erability among healthcare information systems. Our classes offer a wealth of information designed to benefit UPCOMING a wide range of HL7 users, from beginner to advanced. EDUCATIONAL Among the benefits of attending the HL7 Educational SUMMITS Summit are: • Efficiency Concentrated two-day format provides maximum training with minimal time investment • Learn Today, Apply Tomorrow A focused curriculum featuring real-world HL7 knowledge that you can apply immediately • Quality Education High-quality training in a “small classroom” setting promotes more one-on-one learning • Superior Instructors You’ll get HL7 training straight from the source: Our instructors. They are not only HL7 experts; they are the people who help produce the HL7 standards • Certification Testing July 12 – 14, 2011 Become HL7 Certified: HL7 is the sole source for Embassy Suites Denver-Aurora HL7 certification testing, now offering testing on Denver, CO Version 2.6, Clinical Document Architecture, and Version 3 RIM November 15 – 17, 2011 Embassy Suites at the Chevy Chase Pavilion • Economical Washington, DC A more economical alternative for companies who want the benefits of HL7’s on-site training but have fewer employees to train

MAY 2011 35 Upcoming WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

May 15 – 20, 2011 September 11 – 16, 2011 January 15 – 20, 2012 Working Group Meeting 25th Annual Plenary and Working Group Meeting Working Group Meeting Hilton in the Walt Disney Hyatt Regency on the Riverwalk World Resort Town and Country Resort and San Antonio, TX Lake Buena Vista, FL Convention Center San Diego, CA

May 13 – 18, 2012 September 9 – 14, 2012 January 13 – 18, 2013 Working Group Meeting 26th Annual Plenary & Working Group Meeting Sheraton Vancouver Working Group Meeting Pointe Hilton at Wall Centre Hotel Hyatt Regency Baltimore Squaw Peak Resort Vancouver, BC, Canada Baltimore, MD Phoenix, AZ

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