SEPTEMBER 2012

FHIR – HL7’s Hottest New Standard

By Austin Kreisler, Chair, HL7 Technical Steering Committee Austin Kreisler and Lloyd McKenzie, FHIR Project Coordinator

If you were at the May Working Group Meeting in Vancouver, you likely no- ticed the excitement about a new standard called FHIR. If you were not at that meeting, you may be somewhat puzzled about what FHIR is and why there is so much buzz about this new standard. First, the name FHIR stands for “Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.” FHIR is pronounced “Fire.” Let’s look at that name a little closer:

• Fast – it’s intended to be fast to develop and, more importantly, fast to implement • Interoperability – it’s focused on being a standard for interoperability (no Lloyd Mckenzie different from most HL7 standards) • Healthcare – no surprise here, HL7 is about healthcare • Resources – what the heck are those?

The introduction to FHIR states:

“These resources represent granular clinical concepts that can be exchanged in order to quickly and effectively solve problems in healthcare and related processes. The resources cover the basic elements of healthcare – patients, admissions, diagnostic reports, medications, and problem lists, with their typical participants, and also support a range of richer and more complex clinical models.”

A FHIR Resource is analogous to an HL7 Version 2.x “Segment” or a Version 3 “CMET” (Common Message Element Types). FHIR Resources are:

• Granular – they are the smallest unit of operation, and a transaction scope of their own • Independent – the content of a resource can be understood without reference to other resources • Simple – each resource is easy to understand and implement without needing tooling or infra- structure (though that can be used if desired) • RESTful – resources are able to be used in a RESTful exchange context • Flexible – resources can also be used in other contexts, such as messaging, document or SOA architectures, and moved in and out of RESTful paradigms as convenient • Extensible – resources can be extended to cater for local requirements without impacting on interoperability • Web Enabled – where possible or appropriate, open internet standards are used for data representation • Free for use – the FHIR specification itself is open - anyone can implement FHIR or derive related specifications without any IP restrictions

You can find out a lot more about the technical details regarding FHIR at: http://www.hl7.org/fhir.

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® Health Level Seven and HL7 are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International, registered in the US Trademark Office In This Issue... FHIR, continued from page 1 FHIR is built on the HL7 Reference Informa- as example applications using FHIR. Obvi- FHIR – HL7’s Hottest Standard...... 1-2, 9 tion Model (RIM), data types and vocabulary. ously, these are all based on what is currently FHIR hides the complexity of Version 3 (V3) the draft specification of FHIR. Economics of Interoperabily...... 3,7 from the implementer while leveraging the Update From Headquarters...... 4-6 semantic strength of V3. FHIR also leverages One thing to understand about FHIR today is the concept of extensions from HL7 2.x which that it is under development as an HL7 Stan- Save the Date for HIMSS 2013...... 7 has the capability of z-extensions. It will al- dard. Like any other HL7 Standard, it will go Information Exchange Standards low extensions, but does so in a controlled through the HL7 ballot process. The current Meet Supply Chain Standard...... 8-9 fashion that should avoid many of the issues plan is for FHIR to be balloted as draft for with the 2.x extension mechanism. comment this summer. That ballot will cover News from the PMO and Project Services Work Group...... 10 the methodology for developing FHIR as well FHIR is built on certain design premises. It’s as a small set of draft resources. During the HL7 Launches New Membership designed for the 80%, not 100%, meaning it May Working Group Meeting in Vancouver, Program and Webpage for Caregivers...... 11 only includes data elements in the artifacts if the FHIR team (Grahame Grieve, Ewout 80% of all implementers of that artifact will Kramer and Lloyd McKenzie) joined a num- 26th Annual Plenary Meeting; use the data element. FHIR extensions allow ber of work groups to discuss development HL7 in the Era of Patient Empowerment...... 12-13 sharing of those data elements expected to of FHIR resources. One project for develop- be used by fewer than 80% of implement- ing FHIR resources for Pharmacy has been HL7 Tooling Challenge...... 13 ers (“the 20%”). Unlike V3, FHIR focuses on approved and there are likely more projects HL7 Argentina Welcomes New documenting what the implementer needs, being considered by other work groups. The Chair Fernando Campos...... 14 not what the modelers thought or design- first DSTU ballot for FHIR is expected to occur ers need to remember. FHIR documentation as part of the January 2013 ballot cycle. Member Spotlight on Grant Wood 14 strives to be concise; every word written is a News from the PBS Metrics word that must be read thousands of times. How will HL7 be managing the development Team...... 15 FHIR focuses on the physical wire format and balloting of the FHIR standard? As this Certification Exam (XML), not an abstract implementable tech- article is being written, the Technical Steer- Congratulations...... 16-17 nology specification (ITS). FHIR also requires ing Committee is considering how FHIR wire format stability from release to release. will be managed within the HL7 organiza- HL7 Benefactors...... 17 FHIR retains the semantic rigor of HL7 V3 but tion. The TSC is using another HL7 standard HL7 Welcomes New Director of hides it from implementers. The V3 semantic called SAIF (Service-Aware Interoperability Education, Sharon Chaplock...... 18 richness is still there for implementers who Framework) to set up the FHIR governance, Upcoming International want to leverage it. management and methodology within HL7. Events...... 18 FHIR governance will define and oversee the The “Fast” aspect of FHIR is very important. boundaries of the FHIR standard and FHIR Organizational Members...... 19-21 Fast to develop means that the FHIR stan- resources. FHIR management will be respon- 2012 Technical Steering dard development is intended to be a rapid sible for coordinating development of re- Committee Members ...... 22 process. FHIR resources are documented sources, ensuring that developers are follow- Steering Divisions...... 22 in a spreadsheet format. Java tooling has ing FHIR methodology, as well as performing already been developed to create the techni- quality assurance on the FHIR artifacts being HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs...... 23-25 cal artifacts from these resource definitions. developed. FHIR methodology will be respon- HL7 Facilitators...... 26-27 Fast to implement means that developing a sible for defining guidelines, validation rules FHIR based interface or application should be and best practices for use by work groups in Affiliate Contacts...... 28 quick and simple. FHIR has been designed to constructing FHIR artifacts. At this point, the HL7 Staff Members...... 29 utilize off the shelf tools to enable very rapid methodology group will likely be the Model- implementation. There are already a couple of ing and Methodology Work Group. 2012 Board of Directors...... 30 FHIR test servers publically available as well continued on page 9 Educational Summits...... 31

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Catherine Chronaki by Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director, HL7 Board of Directors

Interoperability in healthcare IT in to worry about her health record, as it ments, business conditions that sup- Europe is characterized by strong po- will be available in the cloud. port interoperability, interoperability litical support, increased awareness, guidelines, interoperability compli- and pockets of best practice. The Although there is some awareness ance testing, and promotion (market- European Union (EU) digital Agenda of the direct and indirect economic ing, education, conferences), present- 2020 has recognized interoperability benefits of interoperability, the busi- ing WiFi as a successful model. standards as one of the main pillars ness models for interoperability need in its mission to achieve the triple to be reworked to unlock win: sustainable healthcare systems, the market potential. quality care, and innovative solutions This was the topic of an that unlock market potential. EU- HL7-organized panel at wide initiatives such as the European the recent eHealth Week eHealth Project (epSOS), the Se- & World of Health IT 2012 mantic Healthnet network of excel- Congress in Copenhagen lence, the European Interoperability that highlighted the notion Framework, the eHealth Governance of incremental interoper- Initiative (eHGI), and the eHealth ability championed by Network address interoperability at HL7 CDA®. the semantic, technical, organiza- Fredrik Linden, coordi- tional, and political levels in Europe. Figure 1: Innovation prizes at the eHealth Week Thus, interoperability in healthcare nator of the epSOS large IT is perceived as a driver to con- scale pilot for cross-border tain costs as well as improve patient ePrescription and Patient Summaries; Matic Megli focused on the public safety and quality of care; but, more Matic Megli, coordinator of the PAR- health and research perspective, importantly, as an enabler to innova- ENT joint action for patient registries; noting the tremendous effort lost in tive eHealth solutions. In her speech, Rick Cnossen, from Intel; and myself merging data from different clinical or population registries, resulting fre- Nellie Croes, commissioner for the participated in a panel moderated by HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, for quently in data of poor quality that Digital Agenda, and vice president a focused discussion on interoperabil- does not add enough value and could of the European Commission, said ity. In his talk, Fredrik Linden quoted mislead policy makers. Starting from that in the future she will not need Mark Bertolini from AETNA point- Porter’s five forces view of healthcare ing out that the “future lays in IT, Matic moved on to reflect that uncommon connections” and healthcare providers as purchas- comparing paper records with ers are mostly frustrated due to IT electronic health records, noted vendor lock-in, creating low buying the environmental impact from power and discouragement for new savings in paper (estimated entrants. However, with interoper- 1,000 tons a week), as well as ability, a different landscape is gradu- savings in accessibility (time ally forced. This results in reduced spend searching for missing entry barriers, reduced lock-in, and documents), sharing of records, new (XAAS, plug-and-play) business and organization of care (sav- models where once deemed impos- ings in time). sible: business intelligence, clinical decision support, business rules and Rick Cnossen outlined the keys process management. He concluded to successful product interoper- that healthcare providers need to ability strategy that leads from be aware of the financial value of Figure 2: Porter’s five forces view of Health- requirements to viable prod- reduced lock-in risk when choosing care IT (http://hbr.org/2008/01/the-five-com- ucts: market viable use cases, interoperable solutions. petitive-forces-that-shape-strategy/ar/1) standards to enable the require- continued on page 7 SEPTEMBER 2012 3 Update from Headquarters By Mark McDougall, Executive Director, HL7

Mark McDougall This year London hosts the 2012 Sum- medals for the 2012 Olympic and and majestic mountains, Vancouver mer Olympic Games, officially the Paralympic Games have been pro- was one of the most beautiful cities Games of the XXX Olympiad. When duced. HL7 has awarded 64 Volunteer that ever hosted an HL7 meeting. thinking of all of the Olympic events of the Year Award recipients and 30 We produced 30 tutorials and hosted and the participants from around the HL7 Fellows to-date. For a complete over 60 work groups and committee globe, I was reminded of a few simi- list of these well deserving HL7 award meetings in Vancouver. larities to the HL7 organization and winners, please go to HL7’s website activities – albeit on a smaller scale at these URLs. On behalf of the HL7 staff and board, and somewhat a stretch. http://www.hl7.org/about/hl7volun- I extend a warm thank you to the teers.cfm members of HL7 Canada and their The 2012 Summer Olympics are http://www.hl7.org/about/hl7fellows. WGM Planning Committee for their expecting athletes from 204 countries. cfm invaluable guidance and support that HL7 has members from 58 countries helped make this recent meeting a big – a very impressive number. Vancouver Welcomes HL7 success. I would also like to single out Again these individuals for going above and The Olympic record for weightlift- For its second time, Vancouver beyond the call of duty. Their guid- ing (“clean & jerk”) is 263 kg (580 welcomed HL7 for another produc- ance and dedication were instrumen- pounds). HL7 has an incredibly tive and enjoyable HL7 May Working tal to the success of this meeting: valuable group of people that do the Group Meeting – this time during • Michael van Campen heavy lifting for HL7: the 146 co- the week of May 13, 2012. Situated • Melva Peters chairs of our work groups who serve along British Colombia’s coastline • Rajan Rai as the back bone of the HL7 organiza- tion and lead the effort to produce our standards.

The Olympic record for running the marathon (42.195 km, or 26 miles and 385 yards) is 2 hours, 6 minutes and 32 seconds. HL7 members collectively partici- pate in marathon conference calls routinely. Just last month, HL7 members logged 104,427 minutes of HL7 related confer- ence calls. Yes, that The 2012 HL7 Board of Directors. First row from left: Catherine Chronaki; W. Ed Hammond, PhD; Becky Kush, was all within one PhD; Jill Kaufman, PhD; Diego Kaminker; and Michael van Campen. Second row, from left: Don Mon, PhD; month. Mark McDougall; Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD; Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD; and Keith Boone. Top row, from left: Aus- tin Kreisler; Ed Tripp; Richard Dixon Hughes; James Ferguson; and Bob Dolin, MD A total of 4,700 4 SEPTEMBER 2012 Chairs of the HL7 Affiliates who attended the May Working Group Meeting in Vancouver

We are pleased to also recognize all ber 10, 2012. The theme will be HL7 professional can transform of the organizations that sponsored in the Era of Patient Empowerment. healthcare by enabling patients key components of our recent Work- Presentations will cover a wide range to be informed and informing; ing Group meeting in Vancouver, of topics, such as: bridging the legacy and innova- Canada. Thanks in part to the gener- tive technologies; harmonizing ous sponsorship by GPI, our Wednes- • Engaging Patients with Stan- EHR and patient facing system day evening networking reception dards: how the HIT standards conitinued on page 6 was a Vancouver harbor cruise on the Queen of Diamonds ship. The ad- ditional sponsorship support provid- ed by these organizations contributes heavily to HL7’s meeting budget and is much appreciated.

• Beeler Consulting – MnM Facilitators Roundtable dinner meeting • Gordon Point Informatics – Networking reception co- sponsor • iNTERFACEWARE – Lanyards • LINKMED – Morning coffee break all week • Sparx Systems – Co-Chair Din- ner Meeting

Plenary Meeting We encourage you to join us in Baltimore, Maryland for HL7’s 26th Ed Hammond and Rik Smithies during the Wednesday evening annual Plenary Meeting on Septem- Networking Reception Cruise

SEPTEMBER 2012 5 Update, continued from page 4

interactions; maximizing the data to improve quality.

• The Rise of e-Patients: Three technology revolutions in the last generation have changed the way patients care for themselves and interact with doctors and peers: 1) the internet/broadband revolution; 2) the mobile revolution; 3) the social networks revolu- The 2012 May Working Group Meeting Sponsors tion. Discuss how patients and caregivers use these technolo- gies to inform themselves, deal an HTML email promoting our new tremendous contributions to devel- with medical providers, and “Care Connected by HL7” logo oping the logo for this new program. share their stories with fellow with a sports theme encouraging patients and their loved ones. industry stakeholders to “Get in the In Closing game”. These logos were initially What does the “Olympic spirit” • Panel discussion featuring intended to be used on HL7 mem- mean? Pierre de Coubertin’s state- presentations from different bers’ splash screens when their ment that “The important thing is stakeholders in the mobile applications are started. We are not to win, but to take part”, and the health space on how they view pleased to report that this campaign view of athletes who try their best the future of mobile health has received quite a bit of attention. but finish last are often epitomized and HL7’s potential role in this This logo has also been used on as the “Olympic spirit”. evolving arena HL7 member websites as well. We are very appreciative of everyone For more details on the HL7 Plenary In an effort to address the needs of who contributes to HL7 in so many meeting, please see the schedule on our HL7 Affiliates, we also made different ways. Some roles get the pages 12-13 or go to the www.HL7. the original files available to our limelight, and other roles are much org website. HL7 Affiliates for them to modify, less glamorous and receive little translate and tailor to meet the recognition or thanks. Care Connected by HL7 needs of their specific audience. We Campaign hope that this new “Care Connected In this time of the 2012 Olympics, HL7 recently launched a member- by HL7” logo will be appearing on please allow me to extend a heartfelt ship outreach campaign through your desktop soon. thank you to each and every HL7 member for their ongoing support The concept for this and contributions at any level, big campaign originated or small. from HL7’s Advi- sory Council who is Best wishes to you and your comprised of indus- loved ones. try “big shots”. I would like to thank the members of the Advisory Council for this great idea, and to extend a special thanks to Carl Dvorak Fernando Campos, Melva Peters and Iryna Roy at the and the Epic market- Wednesday evening Networking Reception Cruise ing team for their

6 SEPTEMBER 2012 Economics of Interoperability, continued from page 3

I elaborated on the notion of itera- ambiguate health information. Tom tion, creates a bridge from clinical tive, incremental interoperability as Jones, a member of the audience, research to patient care, and enables introduced by HL7 CDA, a standard noted that eHealth interoperability agile policy development. widely adopted for health informa- calls for long-term investment as tion exchange by many governments concrete savings may take up to 10 Beyond the benefits to individual worldwide. I also described the Trifo- years to be realized. Miroslav Kon- stakeholders, interoperability com- lia Workbench tool, which provides car also noted that the stakeholders bined with technological development reusable components for the creation need to realize that interoperability can benefit our society by enhancing of clinical documents in HL7 CDA, involves an iterative incremental its ability to respond to epidemics and highlighted the emerging trend process associated with milestones and emerging diseases much more toward interoperability standards and investment cycles, and should rapidly than in the past. Such insights that are delivered through online be dealt with, at least in the begin- in population health can also help the tools that enable their consistent ning, separately for each use case. treatment of a patient making avail- implementation accelerating devel- able information on his genetic profile opment of interoperable solutions. Recognizing the importance of fo- as well as “similar” patient trajecto- I closed my presentation with a call cused interoperability efforts linked ries as part of advanced clinical deci- for commitment to interoperability to investment cycles, alleviating the sion support. standards, recognizing interoperabil- fear to change course, even small ity as enabler of affordable innova- vendors can create robust resilient Helpful Links: tion for the health sector. interoperable solutions at an afford- • EU Digital Agenda: http:// able cost. At the same time, patients ec.europa.eu/information_so- In a highly interactive discussion, will enjoy better care and health ciety/digital-agenda/index_ the participants and the audience systems will save money through en.htm • Continua: http://www.con- reflected on investments in interop- business intelligence and agile deci- tinuaalliance.org erability recognizing misconcep- sion making. • Parent Joint Action: http:// tions, unrealistic expectations, and www.patientregistries.eu/ schedules. In a question inquiring In an aging society hampered by • epSOS: http://www.epsos.eu whether the Cloud will solve the chronic disease that is faced with an • Economics of interoperability: interoperability problem, Dr. Jaffe urgent need to contain healthcare http://www.hl7.org/events/ responded that we will still need costs, interoperability is a cost-sav- EconomicsofInteroperabil- data and transport standards to dis- ing investment that triggers innova- ity201205/

Save The Date For HIMSS 2013 March 3 – 7, 2013 New Orleans, LA

Join us in the HL7 Booth (#4325) at the HIMSS 2013 Exhibit

HL7 will once again offer a variety of education ses- sions covering HL7 standards and current industry topics such as Meaningful Use. Visit our booth to learn more about how HL7 and HL7 standards con- tribute to meaningful use and are helping change HL7 Vice Chair Dr. Bob Dolin presents at the HL7 the face of healthcare IT. Exhibit at HIMSS 2011 in Orlando, FL.

SEPTEMBER 2012 7 Information Exchange Standards Catherine Chronaki Meet Supply Chain Standards

By Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director, HL7 Board of Directors

In late August 2012, things and related information HL7 International move efficiently and securely and GS1 join forces for traceability that benefits again at Medical businesses and helps improve Informatics Europe people’s lives, every day and 2012 in Pisa, for the everywhere. latest in a success- ful series of joint Joint HL7-GS1 workshop at Medical The concept of this HL7-GS1 workshops, including Informatics Europe (MIE 2012) workshop started from a long STC2010 in Iceland, August 29, 2012 • Pisa, Italy list of questions associated STC2011 in Slove- with collaborative sharing of nia, and MIE2011 in meaningful information in a Norway. The focus scenario of an elderly woman of this joint HL7-GS1 synergy workshop is on address- requiring health and social care services that cross the ing core challenges of quality and safety information world of healthcare and that of the supply chain. This exchange to support the well-being of elderly people taps into the value proposition of synergies between HL7 through integrated care provision. Taking the scenario of and GS1. Some of the relevant questions were: an elderly lady living alone, the workshop will focus on • What is the most important information needed to the adoption of interoperability standards, bridging the support integrated care, e.g. emergency care, public supply chain world and the clinically oriented health- health, emergency, and social care? For example, care world. The expected outcome of this workshop is how can GS1 and HL7 standards be leveraged to to increase clarity in the actions needed to accelerate the document and retrieve medication in a way that adoption of interoperability standards for high quality and upholds quality and safety? efficient information exchange. • What are the GS1 and HL7 standards that sup- port integrated care and what is the state of their Plug-n-play interoperability is a major aspect of, and a adoption and interrelation? For example, how do challenge to, quality for health information exchange we leverage GS1 and HL7 standards to support core particularly when leveraging standards from differ- processes related to transfer of care? ent worlds. Launched in 1987, the mission of HL7 is to • How can the quality of information exchange be provide standards for interoperability that improve care secured? What about privacy, protection and main- delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity and en- tained confidentiality? hance knowledge transfer among all healthcare stakehold- ers, exhibiting timeliness, scientific rigor and technical Starting from the story of a health-challenged elderly expertise without compromising transparency, account- woman that highlights how health information exchange ability, or practicality. The vision of GS1 is a world where are a requisite to meet her care needs introduced by Anne

8 SEPTEMBER 2012 Moen, short presentations by Christian Hay, Dr. Charles added value of GS1 and HL7 joint efforts, the challenges, Jaffe and myself will address interoperability challenges and steps ahead toward even more effective collabora- in bridging information from the clinical and supply tion. The moderated discussion will be targeted toward chain worlds: implementation priorities, benefits of implementations, • Supply Chain World: By concentrating on the privacy and security challenges, quality and safety, information exchange along Mrs. Erkel’s health etc. In this way, challenges for the innovative interplay journey from home to hospital, the presentation of current and future standards will be identified to will highlight selected elements from both GS1 strengthen collaboration and commitment to wide adop- and HL7, which document the sequence of en- tion. The workshop will be moderated by Bernd Blobel, counters. Unique identifiers according to the GS1 PhD, and Ulrike Kreysa. system of standards will be used along the envi- sioned journey or trajectory of care, with selected Links: encounters being used as examples of supply http://www.HL7.org chain achievements. The shift from GS1 messag- http://www.gs1.org ing to HL7 messaging will further be drawn with http://www.mie2012.it the purpose to illustrate continuity of information from automatic identification data capture to data processing, and some guidance will be provided on how to understand the benefits of unique identification in the clinical environment. FHIR, continued from page 2 • Patient Summaries for Health and Social-Care: Beginning Initially, the FHIR governance and management groups will be orga- with the patient scenario, the nized under the TSC. potentialities of patient sum- maries in bridging the worlds One question that keeps cropping up regarding FHIR is whether HL7 of emergency, health and social will continue to support the Version 2, Version 3 and CDA standards care will be presented, building alongside of FHIR. The answer to that question is “Yes!” HL7 will on current initiatives. Current continue to support all those standards as long as members continue to limitations will be highlighted use them. We expect V2.x, V3 and CDA to be with us for a long time. and the role of interoperability That being said, we also expect there will interest from some users of standards in amending them HL7 standards to migrate toward FHIR from these earlier standards. On will be introduced as part of the the other hand, we expect that FHIR will appeal to entirely new mar- presented best practices. kets where V2.x and V3 have poor adoption, such as the mobile health • Quality of Information market where FHIR seems particularly well suited. FHIR is built for the Exchange: Misinformation is future, but today it’s a “bleeding edge” HL7 standard. As such, many worse than no information at implementers will shy away from it simply because it is too new. Other all. Starting from the patient implementers will be attracted to FHIR because it is bleeding edge. scenario, HL7 standards that uphold quality and safety at In conclusion, we are trying to set up FHIR to be a successful HL7 stan- different stages of information dard. We are building FHIR using lessons learned from the development exchange will be presented. and implementation of other major HL7 standards. We are trying to avoid mistakes we have made in the past while leveraging the goodness Inspired by the presentations, the dis- to be found in those earlier standards. Only time will tell how success- cussion aims to gain insight about the ful we are in lighting this new FHIR!

SEPTEMBER 2012 9 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

FHIR Project Scope Statement determining their ballot strategy to www.HL7.org (PSS) • Included a reference to the PBS > Resources > At the May 2012 WGM in Vancouver, Metric Guidance for Steering Webinar Record- Project Services worked with the Division Co-Chairs to assist SD ings. TSC and Modeling and Methodology co-chairs evaluate work group Work Group to create a Project Scope capacity to undertake new effort. This session, Statement template that supports • Created a “Read Me” file point- targeted for Freida Hall FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability ing to the FHIR PSS template co-chairs and Resources). and included it in the .zip file those leading HL7 that contains the Project Scope projects (i.e. proj- The FHIR PSS is pre-filled with Statement templates and Proj- ect facilitators), verbiage that provides the ability to ect Approval Processes demonstrates identify and define the initial set of HL7 project tools key FHIR resources related to the including Project specified domain. These resources Come join us for the Project Insight (HL7’s will be defined using the available Management Roundtable primary project FHIR tooling, and in accordance repository), the Rick Haddorff with documented quality guidelines Every Working Group Meeting, HL7 Searchable Project Database, and balloted as part of the initial Project Services hosts an informal GForge, as well as a review of HL7 FHIR specification. gathering at lunchtime on Wednes- project processes and methodologies. day called the Project Management Roundtable. Look for the tent card If you would like the PMO to present Interim Release of the 2012 Proj- with “Project Managers” on it in the this webinar at one of your Steering Di- ect Scope Statement Template general session/lunch ballroom. vision or work group conference calls, please contact Dave Hamill at pmo@ The HL7 Project Management Office The forum is open, so please come HL7.org to schedule a day and time. and the Project Services Work Group forward with any project questions, have released updates to the 2012 ver- concerns or ideas. We’d love to have sion of the Project Scope Statement you join us! HL7 Project Tracking Tools (PSS) template. This mid-year release All of HL7’s project tools, includ- included the following changes: ing the Searchable Project Database, Webinar Recording: HL7 GForge and Project Insight, are avail- • Added the Conformance Facili- Project Management Tool able on www.HL7.org via Participate tator Role for Implementation Overview for HL7 Project > Tools & Resources > Project Guide projects Facilitators Tracking Tools. • Added a section to identify Proj- ect Requirements in order to In case you didn’t know, the HL7 PMO enable requirements traceability recorded a webinar which provides • Included a reference to the an overview of the various HL7 TSC’s Guidance on Ballot Levels Project Management tools. To view to assist project managers in the 38 minute webinar recording, go

10 SEPTEMBER 2012 HL7 Launches New Andrea Ribick Membership Program and Webpage for Caregivers: Gives Doctors, Nurses and Other Clinicians a Say in the Development of EHRs

By Andrea Ribick, HL7 Director of Communications

HL7 recently announced a pilot on how technology is used in health- “HL7 standards are the most widely membership program and webpage care. I reap the benefits in a very used in the industry,” said Don Mon, to encourage clinician caregivers to practical way as I apply technology PhD, chair, HL7 board of direc- participate in the process of develop- within my institution,” said Feliciano tors. “Caregiver members will not ing standards for electronic health Yu, MD, a practicing pediatrician only gain first-hand exposure to records (EHRs). and chief medical information officer the standards and technology that at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and drive clinical summaries, laboratory “We have always valued the con- co-chair of the HL7 Child Health results, prescriptions, and public tributions of caregivers—the physi- Work Group. health and quality data, they will cians, nurses, pharmacist, and others have a direct channel to influence in the healthcare continuum. These With an HL7 Caregiver Membership, the clinical technology requirements clinicians are best suited to provide clinicians can: that support an increasingly patient- input about the usability, interface • Help ensure that standards centered healthcare system.” design, and workflow demands adopted for healthcare IT (HIT) of electronic health records,” said offer real and practical value Standards development projects cur- Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, CEO of in supporting the informa- rently under way that will benefit HL7. “Yet, for several years, the HL7 tion exchange between health from caregiver input include HL7: leadership has voiced its concerns providers that is essential to • Electronic Health Records Sys- about the typical first encounter with coordinating patient care. tem Functional Model, Release the standards development process. • Improve the quality and us- 2 We are now in a better position to ability of the HIT standards • Preoperative Domain Analysis translate the practical clinical exper- developed by HL7 and, ulti- Model (DAM) tise of these caregivers into tangible mately, the EHR products that • Emergency Medical System improvements in the interaction with use them. DAM the health record technology.” • Network with HL7 members • Neonatal Functional Profile Caregiver membership is open to who are nationally recognized • Cardiovascular DAM physicians, nurses, pharmacists and experts in HIT. others who are involved in direct • Share knowledge and gain Functional models and profiles de- patient care. The annual member- insight on how the use of data scribe requirements for EHR system ship is $100. More information is standards affects clinical practice capabilities. DAMs describe work- available at www.HL7.org/caregivers in supporting patient care and flow and data requirements within or by visiting HL7.org and clicking improving quality and efficiency. specific domains of care. on “Join HL7.” • Have the information they need to make informed decisions “My participation in HL7 has al- in EHR purchases, and know lowed me to make a tangible impact what to request from vendors.

SEPTEMBER 2012 11 26th Annual Plenary Meeting HL7 in the Era of Patient Empowerment Monday, September 10, 2012 Hyatt Regency Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

8:30 – 8:45 am Welcoming Comments Don Mon, PhD, Chair, HL7 Board of Directors Don Mon, PhD 8:45 – 9:15 a.m. Keynote Session 1: Engaging Patients with Standards Topics covered will include how the HIT standards professional can transform healthcare by • Enabling patients to be informed and informing • Bridging the legacy and innovative technologies • Harmonizing EHR and patient facing system interactions • Maximizing the data to improve quality. Leslie Kelly Hall Leslie Kelly Hall, Senior Vice President, Healthwise

9:15 – 9:50 a.m Keynote Session 2: The Rise of e-Patients Three technology revolutions in the last generation have changed the way patients care for themselves and interact with doctors and peers: 1. The internet/broadband revolution 2. The mobile revolution 3. The social networks revolution. Lee Rainie will describe how patients and caregivers use these Lee Rainie technologies to inform themselves, deal with medical providers, and share their stories with fellow patients and their loved ones.

Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, and formerly the managing editor of the news magazine U.S. News & World Report

9:50 – 10:15 a.m. Keynote Session 3: The Consumer Empowerment Paradox Policy makers, professionals and technologists paradoxically believe that homogeneous health information technology standards can empower clini- cally heterogeneous healthcare consumers. This paradox underlies a 2004 presidential order for a Nationwide Health Information Network and a National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. Since then, HL7, Elaine Blechman, HITSP, IHE, and the Standards & Interoperability Framework have acted PhD on this paradox, developing consumer standards for patient portals, per- sonal health records (PHRs), care coordination, transitions of care, data segmentation, telehealth, mobile devices and direct encrypted email. Evidence that few consumers use free portals threatens belief in the paradox, development of consumer standards and citizen support for healthcare reform.

The consumer empowerment paradox appears to accurately represent longstanding, top- down vs. bottom-up contradictions in health care yet needs empirical testing. Paradox testing, in turn, requires a logic model that traces paths from keystone standards for clinical summary exchange to the potential empowerment of diverse consumers and

12 SEPTEMBER 2012 the frustration of diverse providers. Test results are likely to reveal gaps in policy and standards that obstruct meaningful health IT use among consumers and providers alike.

Elaine A. Blechman, PhD, Professor Emerita, University of Colorado- Boulder and President, Prosocial Applications

10:15 – 10:50 a.m. Break

11:15 – 12:20 p.m Panel discussion featuring presentations on how different stakeholders in the mobile health space view the future of mobile health and HL7’s potential role in this evolving arena Moderated by Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, Director, Office of Standards Doug Fridsma, and Interoperability, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT MD, PhD • 10:55-11:10 Chuck Parker, President, Continua Health Alliance

• 11:10-11:25 Christoph Lehmann, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, will discuss empowering families of children • 11:25-11:40 Jim St. Clair, Senior Director, Interoperability Chuck Parker and Standards, HIMSS

• 11:40-11:55 Lonnie Smith, Policy Analyst, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will discuss mobile applications of SPL

• 11:55-12:10 Heather Grain, Standards Australia Christoph Lehmann, • 12:10-12:20 Questions and Answers for panelists MD

12:20 – 12:30 p.m. Closing Comments and a vision for HL7’s Future Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, CEO, Health Level Seven International Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD

HL7 Tooling Challenge By Jane Curry, Co-Chair, HL7 Tooling Work Group

Sparx Systems is sponsoring an HL7 Tooling announced at the Baltimore Working Group Challenge to encourage more people to help Meeting and will accept competing entries leverage UML in the Tooling infrastructure for through the May 2013 Work Group Meeting. De- HL7. Sparx is the vendor of Enterprise Architect, tails of the challenge are laid out at http://wiki. the UML modeling software used by many of hl7.org/index.php?title=HL7_Tooling_Challenge Jane Curry HL7’s Working Groups for requirements docu- The award of $4,000 for the successful entry will mentation. The HL7 Tooling Challenge will be be announced at the 2013 Plenary Meeting.

SEPTEMBER 2012 13 HL7 Argentina Welcomes New Chair Fernando Campos

Fernando Campos is an information ceived the “HL7 Volunteer of the Year” Fernando is systems engineer. He is completing a award for his contributions to the HL7 proud to have master’s degree in strategic direction online e-Learning course (ELC). He re- participated in all sessions of the ELC as of software engineering. Fernando is designed the course modules to partially a tutor, course coordinator and creator responsible for the definition of soft- automate assignment feedback to stu- of learning material and activities for ware architectures, design patterns, and dents, augmenting the course capacity these courses. He also assists other development standards as the software from 100 to 500+ students per session affiliates to fulfill course/tutor coordi- engineering department chief at the while maintaining the same number of nation duties and with the e-learning Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires where personal tutors. platform technical details. These edi- he has worked for more than 12 years. tions of the ELC were adopted by HL7 He was elected in April 2012 as the HL7 As a volunteer, Fernando co-authored India, HL7 Romania, HL7 Canada, HL7 Argentina Chair. HL7 ELC educational materials. He has Pakistan, HL7 New Zealand, HL7 Singa- given on-site HL7 courses in Spanish in pore and HL7 Austria and are also being Fernando began using HL7 in 2000 and Argentina and in other Latin-American translated to Japanese and Portuguese. has been a member of HL7 Argentina countries such as Chile and Brazil. He He puts not only his time, but heart since 2001. He is a Certified HL7 V2.x is active in CDA R2 implementations and soul to help students and tutors to Control Specialist, Certified HL7 CDA and participated in the design of the get through the course, understand the R2 Specialist, a Certified HL7 V3 RIM implementation guide for the Hospital materials and implement their acquired Specialist and also a member of the HL7 Italiano de Buenos Aires and several knowledge in real life. Education Work Group. In 2011, he re- organizations in Chile.

Member Spotlight on Grant Wood Grant Wood is the senior IT strategist for Intermoun- time, he admits he could use some help from his HL7 tain Healthcare’s Clinical Genetics Institute. He is based Dutch friends to practice the language. He states “Mijn in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is responsible for creating Nederlands is heel slecht.” computer systems that will support healthcare provid- ers in delivering genetics-based clinical care. He is Grant is the second of eight children. He is close a member of the HL7 Clinical Genomics Work with his extended family, which includes an Group and a co-chair of the HL7 Marketing impressive 7 siblings, 64 first cousins and Council, where he leads the HL7 Ambassa- 38 nieces and nephews. Grant credits his dor program. Grant also serves on the board dad’s career in hospital administration as of two non-profit organizations: Alphanet, the reason why he works in the health- which provides free disease management care field today. services to those with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency, and the Mountain States Genet- In addition to spending time with family, ics Foundation, which provides educational Grant enjoys attending musical concerts events for healthcare providers and patients (Rock-n-Roll, Symphony, Christmas), and on genetic topics. During his career, Grant has sporting events for both professional and authored 10 papers and articles on varying top- college teams. He also enjoys the travel op- ics including the role of the healthcare CIO, the patient portunities that he has had through his work with HL7. healthcare encounter of the future, family health history Last November he was able to spend time with Amnon and economic development in the state of Utah. Shabo at this home in Haifa, Israel. One final interesting fact, Grant shares his name—but no relation—with the Grant grew up in southern California and Arizona. He famous American painter, so if you want to Google him, lived in the Netherlands for two years while performing be sure to use his middle initial “M”. missionary service for his church. Although fluent at one

14 SEPTEMBER 2012 News from the PBS Metrics Team By HL7 International Staff Members Dave Hamill, Director, Project Management Office; Lynn Laakso, TSC Project Manager; Don Lloyd, PhD, Director of Technical Publications; and Karen Van Hentenryck, Associate Executive Director Dave Hamill

HL7 Strategic Initiatives Dashboard 4. Expired DSTUs – Expired DSTUs The PBS Metrics Team has created a dashboard to track HL7 that have not proceeded to nor- Strategic Initiatives which the TSC is responsible for manag- mative or some other ballot level ing. Metrics for the dashboard include: 5. Unpublished CMETs – CMETs that are Finished (passed by • Effectiveness of working group meetings numbers and Recon is complete) • Advancement of realm specifications to international but Unpublished (waiting for specifications the CMET clean-up work to be • Continuing improvement of product quality completed by Andy Stechishin Lynn Laakso • Enablement of requirements traceability and Dave Hamill) • Reduction of cross-artifact inconsistencies 6. Unpublished Ballots – Items • Demonstration of industry responsiveness through that are “finished” (passed by the timely development and maintenance of key numbers and reconciliation is standards complete) but unpublished (not • Improved ease of HL7 standards implementation in Normative Edition or on HL7 • Development of an HL7 education plan Standards page) 7. Projects in Project Insight that The Strategic Initiatives Dashboard is located on the TSC are behind more than 120 Days Don Lloyd, PhD Wiki at http://hl7tsc.org/wiki/index.php?title=Strategic_ 8. Projects in Project Insight with Initiatives_TSC_Dashboard an ‘Unknown’ status 9. Work Groups that do not have PBS Metrics Reports and Dashboard any 3-Year Plan Items in Project The PBS Metrics reporting and dashboards are easily ac- Insight cessible via the Reports link on your work group’s HL7. org page. This link directs you to GForge, where the report The PBS Metrics Report was created resides within the TSC’s File area (http://gforge.hl7.org/ to support the HL7 strategic initia- gf/project/tsc/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_pack- tive to “streamline the HL7 standards age_id=169). development process”. It is intended to be a tool to assist work groups Karen Van Hentenryck As a reminder, the PBS Metrics reporting and dashboards with managing ballots in addition to cleaning up projects reflect the following criteria for each work group: and old data. By reviewing the reports, work groups can identify potential issues before they get out of hand as well 1. Idle Ballots – Items that haven’t balloted in a year, as move items through balloting to a final document or and are still “open” (haven’t successfully completed standard state. their ballot) 2. No Recon Package – Items that have not had a rec- If you have any questions or comments, please direct them onciliation package posted. to any PBS Metrics team member: 3. Non-Advancing Ballots – Items that have gone Dave Hamill ([email protected]), Lynn Laakso (lynn@ through 3 or more ballots HL7.org), Don Lloyd ([email protected]) and Karen Van Hentenryck ([email protected]).

SEPTEMBER 2012 15 Congratulations ttttttttttttttttttttt To the following people who recently passed the HL7 Certification Exams

Certified HL7 Version Badri Narayan Ma del Carmen Fernández 2.x Chapter 2 Control Manonmani Kandasamy Ferrari July 6, 2012 Specialist Karthik Manivannan Francisco Javier Fernández Lorenzo Chacón Mendoza Byju Prem Kumar N Piatek María Cecilia Costantini May 17, 2012 Mathuvappan Palaniappan Juan Manual Fuentes Belén Pons Pons Marla C. Albitz Jerry Sahayaraj Richard Hernández Bernat Sánchez Salo Chao Chih Ko Narsimha Reddy Sudini Jorge García Naz Sarah A. McGree Muthukumaran Thambusamy David Wenceslao González Sojo Certified HL7 CDA June 9, 2012 May 19, 2012 David Lobato Andrades Specialist Sam Agner Komal Gulati María Laura Martínez Jackie S. Churchill Manikonda Sai Ram Sagar Gonzáles May 17, 2012 Majvor B. Ehnstrom Lakshmi Rajasekaran Carlos Javier Navarro Beau Bannerman Linda D. Hudson Kumar Satyam Francisco Pascual Peña Jeffrey R. Brown LeeAnn Lawson K. V. Prema Alberto Vargas Christof Gessner James L. Lenon Iqbal Sian June 9, 2012 May 3, 2012 Helen Stevens-Love Sharon Christabel Jorge Cabañuz Biarge Tessa van Stijn HL7 India Srinivasareddy G Juan José Gracia Roche Iyyappan Iyer Beatriz Herreras Domínguez March 10, 2012 Premalatha Karunamurthi Raquel López Alarcón HL7 India Arabinda Behera R Shailesh Kotkundwar Patricia López Monteagudo Praveen Shivaprasad Raghuraman Murugaiyan Antonio Martínez Moreno February 11, 2012 Sadhana Shree Shivashanker Kalidass Murugesan Akash Gupta Swapna Kintali Meiyappan Ranganathan May 8, 2012 Mayank Kapoor Sethuramalingam Sundaram Patricia Andrés Díaz Kanchan Sanjay Kokal March 31, 2012 Anita Josephine Wilfred José Fernández Engo Pankjaj Kumar R. Mishra Latif Abdul Lakshmi Kalyani Yakkala Francisco Medina Gámiz Manali Mannur Prachi Agrawal Sandeep K. Patil Vikram Bethu June 28, 2012 Santosh Gopi Pillai Dipti Chavali HL7 Korea Miguel Angel Tercero García Ritu Shukla Sanchita Gulati Laura Tino Ramos Ankur R. Tripathi Ranjani Iyer April 21, 2012 Álvar Torres de la Hera Mohan Kalathi Sungchul Bae Rohit Mars June 29, 2012 HL7 Spain Seema Rathni Gonzalo Altuna López Deepika Singh HL7 Spain Alicia Martínez García May 3, 2012 Sumit Singhal Daniel Mejías Pinto Carlos Mendoza Hernando March 15, 2012 Amanda Muñoz Domínguez April 21, 2012 Jose Carlos Arcenegui María Palomino Franco May 8, 2012 Catherine Berkmans Marta Bonilla Dolores David Alaber Toro Sajeev Chand. A Manuel Cortés Martín Claudia Real Barrios Florencio Llanos Ruiz Venkatesan Govindarajan Juan Pedro Díaz García José Manuel Sivianes Rubio ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

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June 28, 2012 July 6, 2012 HL7 Canada HL7 India Víctor Martínez Sánchez Joan Casals Alonso Mario Rabasseda April 10, 2012 May 19, 2012 June 29, 2012 Jeesun Park Rawlani Ritika Pradeep Juan Pedro Díaz García Certified HL7 Version May 15, 2012 Juan Manuel Fuentes 3 RIM Specialist Kuan Fan Jorge García Naz May 17, 2012 David Wenceslao González Bob Milius May 22, 2012 Sojo Christopher M. Millet Han Ming Zhou Laura Martínez González Wei Wang ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

HL7 Benefactors as of August 13, 2012

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

SEPTEMBER 2012 17 HL7 Welcomes New Director of Education Sharon Chaplock, PhD

Sharon Kayne Chaplock, PhD, has been working in the field of instructional technology for more than 25 years, both in the academic and non-profit sectors. Her recent experience includes the planning, development and deployment of distance learning programs for clini- cal data managers for the Society for Clinical Data Management, and continuing education programs for clinicians and researchers associated with the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer. Prior to that, she was a project administrator for two major US Department of Educa- tion grants at Marquette University’s College of Education focused on technology integration and extending teacher certification online to adult, post-baccalaureate students.

Sharon was also a staff member of Marquette’s Center for Teaching and Learning where she consulted with faculty to provide pedagogical and instructional design support for online, hy- brid and web-enhanced courses. During this time she earned her PhD in Educational Policy Sharon Chaplock, PhD and Leadership with a concentration in online learning. Her dissertation explored the efficacy of virtual study groups in preparing participants for certification exams. Since the time she introduced videodiscs to the exhibit floor of the Milwaukee Public Museum (where she worked as Director of the Audiovisual Center), Sharon has been passionate about opportuni- ties afforded by technology supported learning, and believes that learners are served best by engaging the right technology in the right setting for the right outcomes.

Upcoming INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

MIE 2012: Quality of Life through 13th International HL7 Interoperability Quality of Information Conference Pisa, Italy Vienna, Austria August 26 - 29, 2012 September 28 - 29, 2012 For more information, please visit For more information, please visit http://www.mie2012.it http://ihic2012.hl7.at/

HIMSS AsiaPac 2012 eChallenges Marina Bay Sands, Singapore 2012 e-2012 Conference September 17 - 19, 2012 Lisbon, Portugal For more information, please visit October 17 - 19, 2012 http://www.himssasiapac.org For more information, please visit http://www.echallenges.org/e2012/

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Xerox State Healthcare, LLC iPatientCare, Inc. MPN Software Systems, Inc. SOAPware, Inc. XIFIN, Inc. iRCODER.COM MxSecure Socrates Healthcare Ltd XPress Technologies iSEEK Enterprise (USA), LLC MyClinic A/S Softek Solutions, Inc. ZetaSys LLC Isoprime Corporation NetDirector Software AG USA, Inc. ZipChart, Inc J&H Inc. NexJ Systems Inc Software Fulcrum, Inc. Zoho Corp. Kanick And Company Notable Solutions Software Partners LLC Zweena Keane, Inc. novaHEALTH Pte Ltd SonoSite, Inc Zynx Health Keiser Computers Inc. NRC - Illuminate SOUTHERN LIFE SYSTEMS, INC Kestral Computing Pty Ltd O&P Digital Technologies SRC INFONET D.O.O. knowtion OA Systems, Inc. SRSsoft, Inc. Krames StayWell Oakland Software St. Jude Medical KSB Dental OD Link Standing Stone, Inc. Lab Warehouse, Inc. Omnicell, Inc. StatRad, LLC Labware, Inc. OMNICOM srl STI Computer Services, Inc. Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Inc. Optima Healthcare Solutions STM Technology, Inc Lawson Optimus EMR, Inc. Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc. Leafsprout Technologies Inc. OptumInsight Stratus EMR, Inc. SEPTEMBER 2012 21 2012 TECHNICAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

CHAIR Ravi Natarajan STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN Austin Kreisler NHS Connecting for Health CO-CHAIRS Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Phone: 44 113-390-6520 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 Edward Tripp John Quinn Edward S Tripp and Associates, Inc. Patricia Van Dyke HL7 International Phone: 224-234-9769 Delta Dental Plans Association Phone: 216-409-1330 Email: [email protected] Phone: 503-243-4492 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mead Walker TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES ArB CO-CHAIRS Mead Walker Consulting; CO-CHAIRS Charles Mead, MD, MSc Phone: 610-518-6259 Frieda Hall Phone: 510-541-8224 Email: [email protected] Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6794 FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY Email: [email protected] Ron Parker CO-CHAIRS HL7 Canada George (Woody) Beeler Patrick Loyd Phone: 902-832-0876 Beeler Consulting, LLC ICode Solutions Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-254-4810 Phone: 415-209-0544 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Giorgio Cangioli Anthony Julian HL7 Italy Mayo Clinic Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-266-0958 Email: [email protected]

STEERING DIVISIONS

DOMAIN EXPERTS FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN Anatomic Pathology Conformance & Guidance for Arden Syntax Anesthesiology Implementation/Testing Clinical Context Object Workgroup Attachments Implementable Technology Specifications Clinical Decision Support Child Health Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Statement Clinical Genomics Modeling & Methodology Electronic Health Record Clinical Interoperability Council RIM Based Application Architecture Financial Management Community Based Collaborative Care Security Imaging Integration Emergency Care Service Oriented Architecture Mobile Health Health Care Devices Templates Orders & Observations Patient Care Vocabulary Patient Administration Patient Safety Structured Documents Pharmacy TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES Public Health & Emergency Response Education Regulated Clinical Research Electronic Services Information Management International Mentoring Committee Process Improvement Committee Project Services Publishing Tooling

22 SEPTEMBER 2012 HL7 WORK GROUP CO-CHAIRS Anatomic Pathology Joy Kuhl Mollie Ullman-Cullere Ioana Singureanu Alliance for Pediatric Quality Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Eversolve, LLC David Booker, MD Phone: 818-308-7063 Phone: 617-582-7249 Phone: 603-870-9739 College of American Pathologists Email: [email protected] Email: mollie_ullman-cullere@dfci. Email: ioana.singureanu Phone: 706-736-0991 harvard.edu @gmail.com Email: [email protected] Andy Spooner, MD, FAAP Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Clinical Interoperability Robert Snelick National Institute of Standards & Victor Brodsky, MD Phone: 513-803-0121 Council Email: [email protected] Technology College of American Pathologists Phone: 301-975-5924 Phone: 646-322-4648 W. Edward Hammond Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Feliciano Yu, MD Phone: 919-383-3555 St. Louis Children’s Hospital Email: [email protected] Phone: 314-454-2808 Education Jeffrey Karp College of American Pathologists Email: [email protected] Dianne Reeves National Cancer Institute Diego Kaminker Phone: 847-832-7358 HL7 Argentina Email: [email protected] Clinical Context Object Phone: 301-435-5602 Email: [email protected] Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 Workgroup (CCOW) Email: diego.kaminker Architectural review Anita Walden @kern-it.com.ar Board David Fusari Duke Translational Medicine Microsoft Corporation Institute Patrick Loyd ICode Solutions Charlie Mead, MD, MSc Phone: 978-749-0022 Phone: 919-668-8256 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 415-209-0544 Phone: 510-541-8224 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Michael Russell, MD Clinical Statement Duke Translational Medicine Melva Peters Ron Parker HL7 Canada HL7 Canada Institute Hans Buitendijk Siemens Healthcare Phone: 604-515-0339 Phone: 902-832-0876 Phone: 919-668-3889 Email: [email protected] Email: Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-219-2087 Email: [email protected] Electronic Health Records David Staggs [email protected] John Quinn US Department of Veterans Affairs Gary Dickinson Phone: 858-826-5629 Patrick Loyd Health Level Seven International ICode Solutions CentriHealth Phone: 216-409-1330 Email: [email protected] Phone: 415-209-0544 Phone: 951-536-7010 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: gary.dickinson@ehr-stan- Clinical Decision Support dards.com Arden Syntax Rik Smithies Guilherme Del Fiol, MD HL7 UK Don Mon, PhD Peter Haug Duke Translational Medicine NProgram Ltd. RTI International Intermountain Healthcare Institute Phone: 44-7720-290967 Phone: 312-777-5228 Phone: 801-442-6240 Phone: 919-213-4129 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] John Ritter Community Based Phone: 412-372-5783 Robert Jenders, MD Robert Jenders, MD Collaborative Care National Library of Medicine National Library of Medicine Email: [email protected] Phone: 310-435-3192 Phone: 301-435-3192 Suzanne Gonzales-Webb Email: [email protected] Helen Stevens Love Email: [email protected] US Department of Veterans Affairs Stevens Healthcare Integration Inc. Phone: 619-972-9047 Kensaku Kawamoto, PhD Phone: 250-598-0312 Attachments Email: Email: [email protected] University of Utah Health Care [email protected] Durwin Day Phone: 801-587-8076 Email: Patricia Van Dyke Phone: 312-653-5948 Richard Thoreson Delta Dental Plans Association [email protected] Email: [email protected] SAMHSA Phone: 503-243-4492 Phone: 240-276-2827 Craig Gabron Howard Strasberg Email: Electronic Services Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Wolters Kluwer Health [email protected] Carolina Phone: 858-481-4249 Max Walker Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD Phone: 803-763-1790 Email: howard.strasberg Anakam Equity Services, Equifax @wolterskluwer.com Department of Health Email: [email protected] Phone: 61-3-9096-1471 Phone: 202-543-6937 Email: bill.braithwaite Clinical Genomics Email: Jim McKinley [email protected] @equifax.com Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama Joyce Hernandez Lorraine Constable Phone: 205-220-5960 Merck & Co., Inc. Conformance & Guidance Constable Consulting Inc. Email: [email protected] Phone: 732-594-1815 for Implementation/ Phone: 780-951-4853 Email: Testing Email: [email protected] Child Health [email protected] Wendy Huang Ken McCaslin David Classen, MD, MS Amnon Shabo Canada Health Infoway Inc. Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Phone: 610-650-6692 Alliance for Pediatric Quality IBM Phone: 416-595-3449 Phone: 801-532-3633 Phone: 972-544-714070 Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin@quest- Email: diagnostics.com Email: david.classen Email: [email protected] [email protected] @pascalmetrics.com Daryl Thomas MSCS, PhD Emergency Care Frank Oemig Gaye Dolin, MSN Life Technologies HL7 Germany Email: [email protected] Laura Heermann Langford Lantana Consulting Group Agfa Healthcare Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 714-744-4152 Phone: 49-208-781194 Phone: 801-507-9254 Email: gaye.dolin Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] @lantanagroup.com SEPTEMBER 2012 23 HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued Donald Kamens, MD Harry Solomon Marketing Council Robert Hausam, MD XPress Technologies GE Healthcare Hausam Consulting Phone: 904-296-1189 Phone: 847-277-5096 Rene Spronk Phone: 801-949-1556 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Netherlands Email: [email protected] Phone: 31-318-553812 James McClay, MD Implementable Technol- Email: [email protected] Patrick Loyd University of Nebraska Medical ogy Specifications ICode Solutions Center Edward Tripp Phone: 415-209-0544 Phone: 402-559-3587 Paul Knapp Edward S. Tripp and Associates, Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Knapp Consulting Inc. Inc. Phone: 604-987-3313 Phone: 224-234-9769 Ken McCaslin Peter Park Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated US Department of Defense, Phone: 610-650-6692 Military Health System Dale Nelson Grant Wood Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin@ques- Phone: 202-762-0926 Lantana Consulting Group Intermountain Healthcare tdiagnostics.com Email: Phone: 916-367-1458 Phone: 801-408-8153 [email protected] Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Organizational Relations Financial Management Mobile Health Committee Andy Stechishin Scott Robertson Kathleen Connor CANA Software & Services Ltd. Gora Datta (Interim) Kaiser Permanente Edmond Scientific Phone: 780-903-0885 CAL2CAL Corporation Phone: 310-200-0231 Email: Email: [email protected] Phone: 949-955-3443 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] [email protected] Infrastructure & Beat Heggli Messaging Erin Fitzsimmons (Interim) Outreach Committee for HL7 Switzerland Angel eCare Phone: 319-621-5277 Clinical Research Phone: 41-1-806-1164 Anthony Julian Email: [email protected] Email: Mayo Clinic Ed Helton, PhD Nadine Manjaro (Interim) [email protected] Phone: 507-266-0958 National Cancer Institute Email: [email protected] Verizon Business Phone: 908-559-4143 Phone: 919-465-4473 Mary Kay McDaniel Email: [email protected] Patrick Loyd Email: nadine.manjaro Markam, Inc. @verizonwireless.com Email: [email protected] ICode Solutions Patient Adminstration Phone: 415-209-0544 Modeling and Generation Of Anesthesia Email: [email protected] Alexander deLeon Methodology Kaiser Permanente Standards David Shaver Phone: 626-381-4141 Corepoint Health George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD Email: [email protected] Martin Hurrell, PhD Phone: 214-618-7000 Beeler Consulting, LLC Phone: 44-7711-669-522 Email: dave.shaver Phone: 507-254-4810 Line Saele Email: [email protected] @corepointhealth.com Email: [email protected] Helse Vest IKT Phone: 47-55976494 Terri Monk Sandra Stuart Jean Duteau Email: [email protected] Duke Translational Medicine Kaiser Permanente Duteau Design Inc. Institute Phone: 925-924-7473 Phone: 780-328-6395

Phone: 919-286-6938 Email: [email protected] Email: Patient Care Email: [email protected] [email protected] International Council Stephen Chu, PhD Health Care Devices Grahame Grieve National eHealth Transition Catherine Chronaki, MSc— Health Intersections Pty Ltd Authority (NEHTA) Phone : 61-730238448 Todd Cooper Affiliate Liaison Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Email: [email protected] 80001 Experts, LLC HL7 Hellas/FORTH-Institute of Email: grahame Phone: 858-435-0729 Computer Science @healthintersections.com.au Kevin Coonan, MD Email: [email protected] Phone: 30-2810-391691 Email: [email protected] Lloyd McKenzie Deloitte Consulting LLP Email: [email protected] Allen Hobbs HL7 Canada (Gordon Point Kaiser Permanente Philip Scott, PhD—HL7 Informatics) William Goossen Phone: 510-267-5031 International Liaison Email: [email protected] HL7 The Netherlands Email: [email protected] HL7 UK Phone: 44-8700-112-866 AbdulMalik Shakir Results4Care B.V. Amersfoort City of Hope National Medical Phone: 31-654-614458 Patty Krantz Email: [email protected] Center Email: [email protected] Medtronic Phone: 626-644-4491 Phone: 763-526-0513 Helen Stevens Love—Secretary Email: Hugh Leslie Email: [email protected] Stevens Healthcare Integration Inc. Phone: 250-598-0312 [email protected] Ocean Informatics Email: John Rhoads, PhD Email: [email protected] Orders and Observations [email protected] Philips Healthcare Phone: 978-659-3024 International Mentoring Hans Buitendijk Ian Townend Email: [email protected] Committee Siemens Healthcare NHS Connecting for Health Phone: 610-219-2087 Imaging Integration Diego Kaminker Phone: 44-113-280-6743 HL7 Argentina Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Helmut Koenig, MD Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 Klaus Veil Siemens Healthcare Email: diego.kaminker@kern- Lorraine Constable HL7 Australia Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 it.com.ar Constable Consulting Inc. Phone: 61-412-746-457 Email: Phone: 780-951-4853 Email: [email protected] [email protected] John Ritter Phone: 412-372-5783 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 24 SEPTEMBER 2012 HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued Patient Safety John Roberts Rene Spronk Brett Marquard Tennessee Department of Health HL7 The Netherlands Email: [email protected] Nick Halsey Phone: 615-741-3702 Phone: 33-318-553812 European Medicines Agency Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Templates Phone: 44-0-20-7523-7100 Email: [email protected] Rob Savage Security Kai Heitmann (Interim) Rob Savage Consulting HL7 Germany Ali Rashidee Email: [email protected] Bernd Blobel, PhD Phone: 49-17722660814 Quantros HL7 Germany; University of Email: [email protected] Phone: 408-514-4804 Publishing Committee Regensburg Medical Center Email: [email protected] Phone: 49-700-7777-6767 John Roberts George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD- Email: bernd.blobel Tennessee Department of Health Mead Walker V3 @klinik.uni-regensburg.de Phone: 615-741-3702 Mead Walker Consulting Beeler Consulting, LLC Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-518-6259 Phone: 507-254-4810 Mike Davis Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] US Department of Veterans Affairs Mark Shafarman Phone: 760-632-0294 Shafarman Consulting Pharmacy Jane Curry-V2/V3 Email: [email protected] Phone: 510-593-3483 Health Information Strategies Inc. Email: Tom de Jong Phone: 780-459-8560 John Moehrke [email protected] HL7 the Netherlands GE Healthcare Phone: 31-6-3255291 Email: janecurry@healthinforstra- tegies.com Phone: 920-912-8451 Tooling Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Jane Daus-V2 Jane Curry Hugh Glover Patricia Williams (Interim) HL7 UK McKesson Provider Technologies Health Information Strategies, Inc. Blue Wave Informatics Phone: 847-495-1289 Edith Cowan University Phone: 780-459-8560 Phone: 44-07889407113 Email: [email protected] Phone: 61-863045039 Email: Email: hugh_glover Email: [email protected] [email protected] @bluewaveinformatics.co.uk Brian Pech-V2 Kaiser Permanente Services Oriented Tim Ireland Melva Peters Phone : 678-245-1762 Architecture NHS Connecting for Health HL7 Canada Email : [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 604-515-0339 Gerald Beuchelt Email: Andrew Stechishin-V3 The MITRE Corporation Andrew Stechishin [email protected] CANA Software & Services Ltd. Email : [email protected] CANA Software & Services Ltd. Phone: 780-903-0855 Phone: 780-903-0855 Process Improvement Email: [email protected] Don Jorgenson Email: [email protected] Committee Inpriva, Inc. Sandra Stuart-V2 Phone: 970-472-1441 Vocabulary Rita Scichilone Kaiser Permanente Email: [email protected] American Health Information Phone: 925-924-7473 Jim Case Management Association Email: [email protected] Vince McCauley National Library of Medicine Phone: 312-233-15-2 HL7 Australia Phone: 530-219-4203 Email: [email protected] Regulated Clinical Phone: 61-412-312-416 Email: [email protected] Email: Sandra Stuart Research Information [email protected] Heather Grain Kaiser Permanente Management Standards Australia, Llewelyn Grain Phone: 925-924-7473 Ken Rubin Informatics Email: [email protected] Ed Helton, PhD Hewlett-Packard Enterprises Phone: 613-956-99443 National Cancer Institute Services Email: [email protected] Project Services Phone: 919-465-4473 Phone: 703-845-3277 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Russell Hamm Rick Haddorff Lantana Consulting Group Mayo Clinic Armando Oliva, MD Structured Documents Phone: 507-271-0227 Phone: 978-296-1462 Food & Drug Administration Email: [email protected] Email: Phone: 301-796-8126 Calvin Beebe [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic Freida Hall Phone: 507-284-3827 Robert Hausam Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6794 Edward Tripp Hausam Consulting Email: Edward S. Tripp & Associates, Inc. Phone: 801-949-1556 Phone: 224-234-9769 Robert Dolin, MD [email protected] Lantana Consulting Group Email: [email protected] Phone: 714-532-1130 Public Health Emergency RIM Based Application Email: William T. Klein Architecture [email protected] Klein Consulting, Inc. Response Phone: 631-924-6922 Email: [email protected] Joginder Madra Peter Hendler, MD Grahame Grieve Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Kaiser Permanente Health Intersections Pty Ltd Phone: 780-717-4295 Phone: 510-248-3055 Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Email: joginder.madra@gpinformat- Email: [email protected] Email: grahame ics.com @healthintersections.com.au Amnon Shabo, PhD Ken Pool IBM Austin Kreisler OZ Systems Phone: 972-544-714070 Science Applications International Phone: 214-631-6161 Email: [email protected] Corp Email: [email protected] (SAIC) Phone: 404-542-4475 Email: [email protected]

SEPTEMBER 2012 25 HL7 FACILITATORS Steering Division Jean Duteau Craig Parker, MD Jean Duteau Duteau Design Inc. Intermountain Healthcare Duteau Design Inc. Facilitators Patient Care; Pharmacy Clinical Decision Support PHER Phone: 780-328-6395 Phone: 801-859-4480 Phone: 780-328-6395 Rick Haddorff Email: Email: [email protected] Email: Mayo Clinic/Foundation [email protected] [email protected] Structure & Semantic Design Amnon Shabo, PhD Phone: 978-296-1462 Hugh Glover IBM Isobel Frean Email: HL7 UK Clinical Genomics Bupa Group [email protected] Medication Phone: 972-544-714070 Clinical Statement Phone: 44-0-7889-407-113 Email: [email protected] Phone: 44-207-656-2146 Lynn Laakso Email: hugh_glover Email: [email protected] Health Level Seven International @bluewaveinformatics.co.uk AbdulMalik Shakir Foundation & Technology City of Hope National Medical Peter Gilbert Phone: 906-361-5966 Grahame Grieve Center Covisint Email: [email protected] Health Intersections Pty Ltd Clinical Interoperability Council; Structured Documents Infrastructure & Messaging Modeling & Methodology Phone: 313-227-0358 Dave Hamill Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Phone: 626-644-4491 Email: [email protected] Health Level Seven International Email: grahame Email: abdulmalik Technical & Support Services @healthintersections.com.au @shakirconsulting.com Robert Hallowell Phone: 734-677-7777 Siemens Healthcare Email: [email protected] Alexander Henket Ioana Singureanu Medication; Pharmacy HL7 Netherlands Eversolve, LLC Phone: 610-219-5612 Patient Administration CBCC; Health Care Devices Email: Modeling and Email: Phone: 603-870-9739 [email protected] Methodology [email protected] Email: [email protected] Alexander Henket Facilitators William “Ted” Klein HL7 Netherlands Klein Consulting, Inc. Corey Spears Patient Administration George (Woody) Beeler, Jr., PhD Vocabulary McKesson Provider Technology Email: Beeler Consulting LLC Phone: 631-924-6922 Electronic Health Records [email protected] Facilitator-at-Large Email: [email protected] Phone: 206-269-1211 Phone: 507-254-4810 Email: Anthony Julian Email: [email protected] Austin Kreisler [email protected] Mayo Clinic Science Applications International Infrastructure & Messaging Charlie Bishop Corporation (SAIC) Mead Walker Phone: 507-266-0958 iSoft Structured Documents Mead Walker Consulting Email: [email protected] Clinical Statement Phone: 404-542-4475 Patient Safety; RCRIM Phone: 44-7989-705-395 Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-518-6259 Helmut Koenig, MD Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Siemens Healthcare Patrick Loyd Imaging Integration Bernd Blobel, PhD ICode Solutions Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 HL7 Germany Orders & Observations Publishing Email: Security Phone: 415-209-0544 Facilitators [email protected] Phone: 49-700-7777-6767 Email: [email protected] Austin Kreisler Email: bernd.blobel Becky Angeles Joginder Madra Science Applications International @klinik.uni-regensburg.de ScenPro, Inc. Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Corporation (SAIC) RCRIM Immunization; PHER Orders & Observations Kathleen Connor Phone: 972-437-5001 Phone: 780-717-4295 Phone: 404-542-4475 Edmond Scientific Email: [email protected] Financial Management Email: joginder.madra Email: [email protected] @gpinformatics.com Email: Douglas Baird Margaret (Peggy) Leizear [email protected] Boston Scientific Corporation Dale Nelson Food and Drug Administration Templates Lantana Consulting Group RCRIM Kevin Coonan, MD Phone: 651-582-3241 Implementable Technology Phone: 301-827-5203 Deloitte Consulting LLP Email: Specifications Email: [email protected] Emergency Care [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 916-367-1458 Email: Mary Kay McDaniel Mike Davis [email protected] Markam, Inc. Norman Daoust US Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Management Daoust Associates Security Lloyd McKenzie Email: Anatomic Pathology, Patient Care Phone: 760-632-0294 HL7 Canada; LM&A Consulting [email protected] Phone: 617-491-7424 Email: [email protected] Email: Ltd. [email protected] Facilitator-at-Large Email: [email protected] 26 SEPTEMBER 2012 HL7 FACILITATORS, continued Dale Nelson Kevin Coonan, MD Patrick Loyd Harry Solomon Lantana Consulting Group Deloitte Consulting LLP ICode Solutions GE Healthcare CMET; Implementable Technology Emergency Care Clinical Statement Imaging Integration Specifications Email: [email protected] Phone: 415-209-0544 Phone: 847-277-5096 Phone: 916-367-1458 Email: [email protected] Email: Email: dale.nelson Guilherme Del Fiol, MD [email protected] @squaretrends.com Duke Translational Medicine Susan Matney Institute 3M Health Information Systems Sandra Stuart Frank Oemig Clinical Decision Support Patient Care Kaiser Permanente HL7 Germany Phone: 919-213-4129 Phone: 801-265-4326 Infrastructure & Messaging German Realm Email: Email: [email protected] Phone: 925-924-7473 Phone: 49-208-781194 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Robert McClure, MD Christof Gessner Apelon, Inc. Pat Van Dyke HL7 Germany Craig Parker, MD CBCC Delta Dental Plans Association Health Care Devices Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 303-926-6771 Electronic Health Records Phone: 49-172-3994033 Clinical Decision Support Email: [email protected] Phone: 503-243-4992 Email: [email protected] Phone: 801-859-4480 Email: Email: [email protected] Margaret Haber, BSN, RN, OCN Sarah Ryan [email protected] National Cancer Institute Clinical Interoperability Council John Ritter RCRIM Email: [email protected] Tony Weida Electronic Health Records Phone: 301-594-9185 Apelon Phone: 412-372-5783 Email: [email protected] Harold Solbrig Security Email: [email protected] Apelon, Inc. Email: [email protected] W. Edward Hammond, PhD Modeling & Methodology Ioana Singureanu Templates Phone: 807-993-0269 Eversolve, LLC Phone: 919-383-3555 Email: [email protected] CBCC Email: [email protected] Phone: 603-870-9739 Email: Monica Harry [email protected] Gordon Point Informatics PHER Margarita Sordo Email: monica.harry Partners HealthCare System, Inc. @gpinformatics.com Gello Phone: 781-416-8479 Robert Hausam, MD Email: [email protected] Hausam Consulting Orders & Observations; Structured Anita Walden Documents Duke Translational Medicine Phone: 801-949-1556 Institute Email: [email protected] Clinical Interoperability Council Phone: 919-668-8256 Joyce Hernandez Email: [email protected] Merck & Co. Inc. Clinical Genomics Phone: 732-594-1815 Grant Wood Email: Intermountain Healthcare [email protected] Clinical Genomics Phone: 801-408-8153 Wendy Huang Email: [email protected] Canada Health Infoway Inc. Patient Administration Vocabulary Phone: 416-595-3449 Email: Facilitators [email protected]

Paul Biondich, MD Julie James IU School of Medicine Blue Wave Informatics Child Health Medication; Pharmacy Phone: 317-278-3466 Email: julie_james Email: [email protected] @bluewaveinformatics.co.uk William “Ted” Klein Kathleen Connor Klein Consulting, Inc. Edmond Scientific Modeling & Methodology Financial Management, Security Phone: 631-924-6922 Email: kathleen_connor Email: [email protected] @comcast.net SEPTEMBER 2012 27 Affiliate Contacts

HL7 Argentina HL7 Czech Republic HL7 Korea HL7 Russia Fernando Campos Libor Seidl Byoung-Kee Yi, PhD Tatyana Zarubina MD, PhD Phone: +54-11-478-2898 Phone: +420 605740492 Phone: +82 234101944 Phone: +007-495-434-55-82 Email:fernando.campos Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] @hospitalitaliano.org.ar HL7 Finland HL7 Luxembourg HL7 Singapore HL7 Australia Juha Mykkanen, PhD Stefan Benzschawel Colleen Brooks Richard Dixon Hughes Phone: +358-403552824 Phone: +352-425-991-889 Phone: +65-68181246 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Austria HL7 France HL7 Mexico Stefan Sabutsch Nicolas Canu Pablo Ceballos Yanez HL7 Spain Phone: +43-664-3132505 Phone: +33 02-35-60-41-97 Phone: +52 55-5261-4000 Carlos Gallego Perez Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +34-93-693-18-03 Email: [email protected] HL7 Bosnia and Herzegovina HL7 Germany HL7 Netherlands Samir Dedovic Kai Heitmann, MD Robert Stegwee, MSc, PhD HL7 Sweden Phone: +387 0-33-721-911 Phone: +49-172-2660814 Phone: +31-30-689-2730 Gustav Alvfeldt Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: Phone: +46 08-123-13-117 [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Brazil HL7 Greece Marivan Santiago Abrahao Alexander Berler, PhD HL7 New Zealand HL7 Switzerland Phone: +55-11-3045-3045 Phone: +30-2111001691 David Hay Beat Heggli Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +64-9-638-9286 Phone: +41-1-806-1164 Email: [email protected] Email: HL7 Canada HL7 Hong Kong [email protected] Melva Peters Chung Ping Ho HL7 Norway Phone: +604-515-0339 Phone:+852 34883762 Espen Moeller HL7 Taiwan Email: Email: [email protected] Phone: +47 97008186 Chih-Chan (Chad) Yen [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +886-2-25526990 HL7 India Email: [email protected] HL7 China Supten Sarbadhikari, MBBS, HL7 Pakistan Prof. Baoluo Li PhD Dr. Hafiz Farooq Ahmad HL7 Turkey Phone: +86-010-65815129 Email: [email protected] Phone: +92 51-90852155 Ergin Soysal Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Italy HL7 Colombia Stefano Lotti HL7 Puerto Rico HL7 UK Fernando Portilla Phone: +39-06-42160685 Julio Cajigas Philip Scott, PhD Phone: +57 2-5552334 x241 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 787-805-0505 x6003 Phone: +44 8700-112-866 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Japan HL7 Croatia Michio Kimura, MD, PhD HL7 Romania HL7 Uruguay Miroslav Koncar Phone: +81-3-3506-8010 Florica Moldoveanu, PhD Selene Indarte Phone: +385-99-321-2253 Email: Phone: +40-21-4115781 Phone: +5985-711-0711 Email: [email protected] Email: florica.moldoveanu Email: [email protected] [email protected] @rdslink.ro 28 SEPTEMBER 2012 2012 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 of Meetings of Education Coordinator Education

Lillian Bigham Mary Ann Boyle Joshua Carmody Sharon Chaplock +1-989-736-3703 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 +1-414-443-1327 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Manager of Director, Project Administrative Director of TSC Project Management Office Services Technical Services Manager

Dave Hamill Linda Jenkins Michael Kingery Lynn Laakso +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 +1-919-636-4032 +1-906-361-5966 [email protected] [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] SEPTEMBER 2012 29 2012 HL7 Board of Directors Chair Past Chair Treasurer Secretary Technical Steering Committee Chair

Donald Mon, PhD Robert Dolin, MD Michael van Campen Jill Kaufman, PhD RTI International Lantana Consulting Group Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. College of American Austin Kreisler +1-312-777-5228 +1-714-532-1130 +1-250-881-4568 Pathologists Science Applications [email protected] bob.dolin michael.vancampen +1-847-832-7163 International Corp. (SAIC) @gpinformatics.com [email protected] +1-404-542-4475 [email protected] Directors-at-Large Chair Emeritus and Director-at-Large

W. Edward Keith Boone James Ferguson Douglas Fridsma, MD, PhD Hammond, PhD GE Healthcare Kaiser Permanente Office of the National +1-919-383-3555 +1-617-519-2076 +1 510-271-5639 Coordinator for Health IT [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] +1-202-205-4408 [email protected] Affiliate Directors

Catherine Chronaki, MSc Diego Kaminker Stanley Huff, MD Rebecca Kush, PhD Edward Tripp FORTH-Institute of Computer HL7 Argentina Intermountain Healthcare CDISC Edward S Tripp Science; HL7 Hellas BoD +54-11-4781-2898 +1-801-442-4885 +1-512-791-7612 and Associates, Inc. +30-2810-391691 diego.kaminker [email protected] [email protected] +1-224-234-9769 [email protected] @kern-it.com.ar [email protected] Ex Officio Members Advisory Council Chair

Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD John Quinn Mark McDougall Richard Dixon Hughes HL7 CEO HL7 CTO HL7 Exective Director HL7 Australia / DH4 Pty Limited +1-858-720-8200 +1-216-409-1330 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 30 SEPTEMBER 2012 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 Become HL7 Certified: HL7 is the sole source for HL7 certification testing, now offering testing on November 13-15, 2012 Version 2.7, Clinical Document Architecture, San Francisco Marriot and Version 3 RIM Fisherman’s Wharf • Economical A more economical alternative for companies who want the benefits of HL7’s on-site training but have fewer employees to train

SEPTEMBER 2012 31 Upcoming WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

January 13 – 18, 2013 Working Group Meeting Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort Phoenix, AZ

May 5 – 10, 2013 September 22 – 27, 2013 Working Group Meeting 27th Annual Plenary & Sheraton Atlanta Hotel Working Group Meeting Atlanta, GA Hyatt Regency Cambridge Cambridge, MA

January 12 – 17, 2014 October 4-9, 2015 Working Group Meeting 29th Annual Plenary & Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort® Working Group Meeting Sheraton Atlanta Hotel Atlanta, GA