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2010 Ed Hammond Volunteer of the Year Awards Seven members honored HL7 honored seven members with the 14th annual W. Edward Hammond, PhD Volunteer of the Year Award. Established in 1997, the award is named after Dr. Ed Hammond, one of HL7’s most active volunteers, founding member and past Board chair. The award recognizes individuals who January 9 – 14, 2011 May 15 – 20, 2011 have made significant contributions to HL7’s success. The 2010 recipients include: • Hugh Glover and Julie James, HL7 UK January Working Group • Stan Huff, MD, chief medical informatics officer, Intermountain Healthcare Working Group Meeting • Charlie Mead, MD, MSc, CTO, 3rd Millennium, Inc. Meeting • Mark Shafarman, principal, Shafarman Consulting Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort • D. Mead Walker, Health Data and Interoperability, Inc. Cliftons Meeting and Training Center Lake Buena Vista, FL • Pat Van Dyke, director of information, security, privacy and EDI representing Delta Dental and the Amora Hotel Plans Association Sydney, Australia About the Volunteers: Hugh Glover and Julie James have been involved with HL7 since 2001. They received the award jointly as they are partners both personally and profession- ally. They have both actively contributed to HL7 for many years and have held leadership positions in the Pharmacy Work Group such as a co-chair or facilitator. Their backgrounds—James as a pharmacist and Glover’s expertise in data modeling—complement each other and have brought valuable insight to HL7. Both have been involved with Version 3 development since its inception. James September 11 – 16, 2011 January 15 – 20, 2012 is also active in the Patient Safety Work Group. She currently serves as a Vocabu- Julie James, Ed Hammond and Hugh Glover lary Facilitator for medication and pharma- 25th Annual Plenary and Working Group Meeting cy. Glover currently serves as the Pharmacy Work Group representative on the Common Product Model project. He also serves as a Modeling and Methodology Facilitator for medication and as a Working Group Meeting Hyatt Regency on the Riverwalk Vocabulary Facilitator for CMET. Town and Country Resort and Convention San Antonio, TX Center San Diego, CA Stan Huff, MD is a long-time member of HL7 and currently sits on the HL7 Board of Directors. An international expert on vocabulary, he was one of the first co-chairs elected to lead HL7’s Vocabulary Work Group, a position he held for nearly a decade. He was also one of the early co-chairs for PLEASE BOOK YOUR ROOM AT THE HL7 MEETING HOTEL HL7’s Templates Work Group. Additionally, Huff has been elected to the HL7 Board of Directors twice, serving as chair HL7 urges all meeting attendees to secure their hotel reservations at the HL7 Working Group Meeting from 2000 – 2001. Actively involved in the development of Host Hotel. In order to secure the required meeting space, HL7 has a contractual obligation to fill Version 3, he has served as Vocabulary Facilitator for the our sleeping room block. If you make reservations at a different hotel, HL7 risks falling short on our Vocabulary and Orders and Observations Work Groups. In 2008, Huff was named to the HL7 Roadmap Committee, and obligation and will incur additional costs in the form of penalties. Should this occur, HL7 will likely in 2009 he was elected by the Board of Directors to serve as be forced to pass these costs on to our attendees through increased meeting registration fees. the US representative to the HL7 International Council.

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Seven 2010 Volunteers of the Year Honored...... 1-3 Charlie Mead, MD has been a member of HL7 since Gain real-world HL7 knowledge HL7 Organizational Relations Update.... 3 1995. He co-chaired the Patient Care Work Group for many years and later became co-chair of Personnel HL7 Comes of Age...... 4 Management. Mead was a member of the HL7 Interna- TODAY tional Board of Directors for two terms, serving one of Looking Ahead to Meaningful Use them as Treasurer. An avid participant in the develop- that you can apply Stage II...... 5 ment of Version 3, he was among the initial Modeling Update From Headquarters...... 6-8 and Methodology facilitators and has spearheaded efforts over the years to improve the accessibility and Ed Hammond and Charlie Mead TOMORROW 2011 Publishing Calendar...... 8 readability of Version 3.

Remembering Dr. Yun Sik Kwak...... 9 A member of the CDISC Board of Directors, Mead has encouraged and nurtured collaborations between CDISC and HL7, and has been an active participant in the Regulated Clinical Research Co-Chair Q & A...... 10-11 Information Management (RCRIM) Work Group. With support from HL7 RCRIM, CDISC, and News from the PMO...... 11 FDA, he founded the project that developed the model we now know as the Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) model. Mead currently serves as chair of the Architectural re- What is an Educational Summit? HL7 Static Model Designer Tool...... 12 view Board (ArB), and is instrumental in driving the development of the Services Aware Interop- The HL7 Educational Summit is a a two-day schedule erability Framework, known as SAIF. of tutorials focused on HL7-specific topics such as HL7 Standards in Child Health...... 13 Version 2, Version 3 and Clinical Document Architecture. Mark Shafarman has been a member of HL7 since 1992. Educational sessions also cover general interest industry International Council Meeting Why Should I Attend? in Cambridge...... 14-15 He has served HL7 in almost every capacity including topics such as vocabulary. co-chair of the Control Query Work Group for many This is an invaluable educational opportunity for the GELLO: The Domain Specific Language years, co-chair of the Templates Work Group (a position healthcare IT community as it strives for greater interop- of Healthcare...... 16 that he holds today), and as co-chair of the initial Affili- erability among healthcare information systems. Our ates’ Council. Shafarman also held the position of the classes offer a wealth of information designed to benefit IHIC 2011: The Tomorrowland of Health...... 17 Chair of HL7 from 2004 – 2005, and served on the HL7 UPCOMING a wide range of HL7 users, from beginner to advanced. Board of Directors, the Technical Steering Committee, ISHEP 2010 Workshop Recap...... 18-19 and the ArB for a number of years. He was integral in EDUCATIONAL Among the benefits of attending the HL7 Educational the development of the original HL7 Version 2 certifica- Summit are: Upcoming International Events...... 19 tion exam and currently serves as an HL7 Ambassador. SUMMITS • Efficiency Save the Date for MIE 2011...... 20 In addition, HL7’s current working relationship with Concentrated two-day format provides maximum training with minimal time investment Certification Exam Congratulations..... 21 the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) was forged under Sharfarman’s leadership, and he has • Learn Today, Apply Tomorrow Save the Date for HIMSS 2011...... 22 served as HL7’s liaison to that organization for a num- Ed Hammond and Mark Shafarman ber of years. A focused curriculum featuring real-world HL7 HL7 Benefactors...... 22 knowledge that you can apply immediately D. Mead Walker has been a member of HL7 since Affiliate Contacts...... 23 • Quality Education 1993. Shortly after joining, he was elected co-chair of High-quality training in a “small classroom” setting Organizational Members...... 24-26 the Quality Assurance/Data Modeling Committee, a precursor to today’s Modeling and Methodology Work promotes more one-on-one learning 2011 Technical Steering Group, and to the Architectural review Board, which Committee Members ...... 27 • Superior Instructors he chaired for nearly a decade. Walker served on the You’ll get HL7 training straight from the source: Our HL7 Board of Directors from 1998-1999, and has been Steering Divisions...... 27 instructors. They are not only HL7 experts; they are actively engaged in the development of Version 3. He the people who help produce the HL7 standards HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs...... 28-30 was one of the initial authors of the Message Devel- opment Framework (MDF) and its successor, the H7 • Certification Testing HL7 Facilitators...... 31-32 Development Framework (HDF). March 15 –17, 2011 Become HL7 Certified: HL7 is the sole source for The Hilton Suites Chicago/Magnificent Mile HL7 certification testing, now offering testing on HL7 Staff Members...... 33 Continued on next page Chicago, IL Version 2.6, Clinical Document Architecture, 2011 Board of Directors...... 34 Ed Hammond and Mead Walker and Version 3 RIM July 12 – 14, 2011 Educational Summits...... 35 Embassy Suites Denver • Economical Upcoming Working Group Aurora Denver, CO A more economical alternative for companies who Meetings...... 36 is the official publication of: Health Level Seven International want the benefits of HL7’s on-site training but have 3300 Washtenaw Avenue, Suite 227, Ann Arbor, MI • 48104-4261 USA fewer employees to train Phone: +1 (734) 677-7777 • Fax: +1 (734) 677-6622 • www.HL7.org

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HL7 NEWS COVER.indd 2 12/16/10 10:23:27 AM HL7 NEWS COVER.indd 3 12/16/10 10:23:30 AM 2011 HL7 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Chair-Elect Treasurer Secretary Technical Steering Committee Chair HL7 Organizational Relations Update Scott M. Robertson, By Scott M Robertson, PharmD, Co-Chair, HL7 Organizational Relations Committee PharmD Robert Dolin, MD Don Mon, PhD Hans Buitendijk Jill Kaufman, PhD Semantically Yours, LLC American Health Information Siemens Healthcare +1-847-832-7163 HL7 interacts with many other standards development, with other organizations, currently as Memoranda of Un- +1-714-532-1130 Management Association +1-610-219-2087 [email protected] Austin Kreisler Science [email protected] +1-312-233-1135 hans.buitendijk Applications International professional, industry/trade and academic organizations. derstanding (MOUs) and Associate Charter Agreements [email protected] @siemens.com Corp. (SAIC) These interactions are key to making sure we have the (ACAs). The purpose of a formal agreement is to define +1-404-542-4475 appropriate interests and knowledge involved in our stan- common goals, working parameters, and, in some cases, [email protected] Directors-at-Large dards development, and that our standards are coordinat- extending some joint member benefits (e.g., conference ed with other standards, industry initiatives and regula- registration at member rates). tory developments. While some of these relationships are casual, there are a number of formalized agreements The Organizational Relations Committee (ORC) is charged with monitoring and managing these relation- Seven Members Honored, cont. from pg. 2 ships. The ORC does not “control” relationships, but we ensure that the appropriate agreements A sought after modeling expert, Walker has served as Modeling Keith Boone Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD Dennis Giokas, MS are in place, and up-to-date, as appropriate. The Facilitator for both the Patient Safety and RCRIM Work Groups, GE Healthcare Anakam, Inc. Canada Health Infoway, Inc. current agreements are posted on the HL7 web- +1-617-519-2076 +1-703-888-4630 +1-416-595-3415 and been an active member of the Modeling and Methodology [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (MnM) Work Group for many years. He also serves as the co- site under About Us >Agreements (http://www. chair to the Patient Safety Work Group and has participated in hl7.org/about/agreements.cfm Affiliate Directors the Public Health and Emergency Response Work Group. Walker recently served another term on the newly-formed ArB and is the Over the past year, the ORC has been reviewing immediate past chair of the Foundation & Technology Steering the existing MOUs and ACAs. We have found Division, serving as one of that group’s two representatives on the Technical Steering Committee. that there is little difference between an MOU and an ACA, and that there are no criteria t o Pat Van Dyke joined determine when a formal agreement is neces- HL7 in 2003. An active sary. The ORC has developed a proposal to con- member, she is deeply solidate the MOU and ACA into a single docu- W. Edward Rebecca Kush, PhD Catherine Chronaki Michael van Campen involved in the devel- ment. The new paradigm would differentiate Hammond, PhD CDISC FORTH-Institute of Computer Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. opment of Electronic +1-919-383-3555 +1-512-791-7612 Science; HL7 Hellas BoD +1-250-881-4568 between agreements that are specific to projects hammond001 Health Record (EHR) [email protected] +30-2810-391691 michael.vancampen and general agreements which align organiza- @mc.duke.edu [email protected] @gpinformatics.com standards. Van Dyke currently serves as a co- tional goals and principles. That proposal is chair for the Electronic being revised in discussions with the TSC and Ex Officio Members Advisory Council Chair Records (EHR) Work the International Council and is expected to go Group and is the group’s to the Board during the January Work Group primary organizer. She coordinates and leads all Meeting in Sydney. weekly conference calls, The development work for ORC is maintained face-to-face meetings, Ed Hammond and Pat Van Dyke ballot submissions, and on an HL7 Wiki page (http://wiki.hl7.org/index. with the ArB, facilitates php?title=Organizational_Relations_Committee). the process of tying the HL7 Electronic Health Record System Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD John Quinn Mark McDougall Richard Dixon Hughes The ORC welcomes comments and input on HL7 CEO HL7 CTO HL7 Exective Director Functional Model (EHR-S FM) to the SAIF. Van Dyke also co- DH4 Pty Limited this work. +1-858-720-8200 +1-216-409-1330 +1-734-677-7777 +61-02-9953-8544 leads the development of the dental functional profile for the [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Electronic Health Record System Functional Model (EHR-S FM). 34 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 3

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2010 has brought changes in the leadership of govern- training, those resources may be harder to obtain than ments around the world. In some instances, this has many predicted. When we can share in those resources, Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD created a new focus on the challenges of managing HL7 must be wise in how we make use of them. Wisdom John Quinn Mark McDougall Karen Van Hentenryck +1-858-720-8200 +1-216-409-1330 healthcare in an aging population. In other countries, does not come easily. It is achieved on the road filled with +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] the obstacles to embracing a healthier citizenry has all wrong turns and misguided intentions. HL7 needs to learn but been lost to budget constraints and a contraction of from failures and learn to celebrate our successes. While Director of Tools Manager Web Development new healthcare projects and reforms. By the time you there have been many achievements, both great and small, Meetings Administrator of Education read this, there may be new leadership in the legislative some may come from places that we least expect. Coordinator branch of the American Federal government. The direc- tion that may take us is vague and clouded in macroeco- Our intellectual capital, expressed a s the products and nomic philosophies. Regardless of the fiscal approach services that we develop, should never be recklessly the governments everywhere may take to return to real abused. More than ever, we have been asked to share economic growth, HL7 will continue to pursue our vision the achievements of HL7 and ensure that others do the of interoperable healthcare. same. Like any other resource, the intellectual property of HL7 must be provided with great generosity to those who Interoperability of healthcare information is not a destina- need it but cannot truly afford to pay for it. At the same Lillian Bigham Wilfred Bonney Mary Ann Boyle Joshua Carmody tion. It is but one path in our time, HL7 must become +1-989-736-3703 +1-902-877-0593 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] journey to improve the well Interoperability of healthcare more adept at managing being of the citizens of this that intellectual property Director, Project Administrative Director of TSC Project planet. HL7 is maturing. We information is not a destination. and at ensuring that we are Management Office Coordinator Technical Services Manager have moved past our “growth appropriately rewarded for spurt” years, overcome the It is but one path in our journey creating and nurturing and turmoil of adolescence, building upon those re- and become a more mature to improve the well being of the sources. In 2011, we will see organization. The impact of citizens of this planet. some important steps toward a global economic downturn better management of our IP does not seem to have damp- and the value that it brings. ened the spirit of creativity and innovation that has been s uch an important part of For my part, I want to thank those of you who have Dave Hamill Linda Jenkins Michael Kingery Lynn Laakso the last two decades. contributed to the great strides that HL7 was able to make +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 +1-919-636-4032 +1-906-361-5966 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] in 2010. I especially applaud those who have selflessly In order to become increasingly successful, however, contributed countless hours with little recognition or HL7 must be wiser and more efficient. We must evolve acclaim. I salute those organizations and the stakeholder Director of Director of a business model that sustains us beyond the wide eco- communities that provided collaboration and many times Technical Director of Membership nomic swings that have been part of the last decade. As showed the way. More than anything, so much of what Publications Communications Services in the past, we will always rely upon the collaborative we accomplished was made possible by the gift of trust. efforts with our stakeholders and with other standards In 2011, there will be many new milestones to reach and development organizations. Collaboration has been a accomplishments to commemorate. So here’s a toast to vital component of our technical development, and it HL7, “May it always be the offspring for which we can be must grow in the coming year. It is certainly a time dur- most proud, and the parent to the many accomplishments ing which we will be required to leverage the limited we can only dream about.” resources at our disposal. Donald Lloyd Andrea Ribick Diana Stephens +1-734-677-7777 Although governments everywhere have promised dra- +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] matic increases in spending for healthcare technology and [email protected]

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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 2 12/16/10 10:31:15 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 31 12/16/10 10:32:16 AM HL7 FACILITATORS, continued HL7 Structured Documents Work Group and Health Story

Craig Parker, MD Guilherme Del Fiol, MD Patrick Loyd Sarah Ryan Intermountain Healthcare Duke Translational Medicine Institute Icode Solutions Clinical Interoperability Council Looking Ahead to Clinical Decision Support Clinical Decision Support Clinical Statement Email: [email protected] Phone: 801-859-4480 Phone: 919-681-7011 Phone: 415-209-0544 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Harold Solbrig Apelon, Inc. Meaningful Use Stage II Jenni Puyenbroek Kristi Eckerson Susan Matney Modeling & Methodology Liora Alschuler Science Applications International Emory University, Research & University of Utah Health Care Phone: 807-993-0269 By Liora Alschuler, Co-Chair, HL7 Structured Documents Work Group Corporation (SAIC) Health Services IT Patient Care Email: [email protected] and Health Story Project Liaison Implementation/Conformance PHER Phone: 801-680-2161 Phone: 678-261-2099 Phone: 404-712-5086 Email: [email protected] Harry Solomon Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] GE Healthcare IT HL7’s Structured Documents Work Group (SDWG) started the importance of availability of complete electronic Robert McClure, MD Imaging Integration the Cambridge meeting looking to new projects to support information at the point of care. The proposed project can John Ritter Christof Gessner Apelon, Inc. Phone: 847-277-5096 the next stage of “Meaningful Use” of electronic health make it easier to implement a fully interoperable patient College of American Pathologists HL7 Germany CBCC Email: [email protected] EHR records. The specific project consolidates a series of HL7 record using the same framework as Phase I. Health Care Devices Phone: 303-926-6771 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) implementation Phone: 847-832-7732 Phone: 49-172-3994033 Email: [email protected] Sandra Stuart Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Kaiser Permanente guides. These include eight common types of clinical The full scope and detail of the project is yet to be Nancy Orvis Infrastructure & Messaging notes: determined. The project was presented by HL7 Chair Bob Robert Savage Hugh Glover US Department of Defense, Military Phone: 925-924-7473 American Immunization Registry Assoc. • History & Physical Dolin, MD to the International Council on the Sunday HL7 UK Health System Email: [email protected] • Consult preceding the Cambridge Working Group Meeting, where Immunization; PHER CMET Email: [email protected] Government Projects Phone: 44-0-7889-407113 Phone: 703-681-5657 Pat Van Dyke • Operative Note it generated much interest. It is likely that the project will Email: • Procedure Note be initially pursued for the US Realm on the premise that Gregg Seppala Email: [email protected] Delta Dental Plans Association US Department of Veterans Affairs [email protected] EHR • Diagnostic Imaging Reports it is best to es tablish a benchmark for realm-specific best Patient Administration Jenni Puyenbroek Phone: 503-243-4992 • Discharge Summaries practices and then reconcile those across domains. Phone: 301-526-2703 Margaret Haber, BSN, RN, OCN Science Applications International Email: [email protected] • Unstructured Documents (any clinical type) and Email: [email protected] National Cancer Institute Center for Corporation (SAIC) Bioinformatics Implementation/Conformance • Progress Notes SDWG co-chair Keith Boone suggested that the Ioana Singureanu RCRIM Phone: 678-261-2099 project include templates developed by Integrating the Eversolve, LLC Phone: 301-594-9185 Email: [email protected] All are either Draft Standards for Trial Use or Informative Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), a suggestion that was CBCC Email: [email protected] Documents. All of these have been already been enthusiastically received. Phone: 603-870-9739 Email: [email protected] W. Edward Hammond, PhD published with the exception of the Progress Note, Templates which is expected to be published by year-end. The Additional scope could include incorporation of US- Margarita Sordo Phone: 919-383-3555 consolidation project would re-publish these documents specific requirements such as those found in the HITSP Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Email: [email protected] in a single guide, including the Continuity of Ca re C32 Version 2.5. Other guides may be considered for Gello Phone: 617-643-5894 Robert Hausam, MD Document (CCD) templates, which are reused within the inclusion, such as the recently-renewed Personal Health Email: [email protected] OntoReason series. Monitoring Implementation Guide developed with the Orders & Observations; Structured support of the Continua Alliance. Anita Walden Documents The significance of the project is multifaceted: Duke Translational Medicine Institute Phone: 801-949-1556 • It highlights the reusability of CDA templates Development of the eight guides mentioned above Clinical Interoperability Council Email: [email protected] Phone: 919-668-8256 at each level: entry, section and document, an followed HL7’s open processes under the auspices of Email: [email protected] Joyce Hernandez approach called “templated CDA” SDWG with collaboration from Imaging Integration on Merck & Co. Inc. • A package of guides supports ease of Diagnostic Imaging Reports and Patient Care on several Grant Wood Clinical Genomics implementation for EHR vendors and clinical note types. The work was supported in part by the Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 732-594-1815 Clinical Genomics Email: [email protected] document vendors building a common platform Health Story Project, an alliance of associations, vendors Phone: 801-408-8153 for interoperability between the applications and providers working together to open the gateway Email: [email protected] Wendy Huang • Creating a single-source document containing all between dictated notes and electronic health records. Canada Health Infoway Inc. the information needed will ease implementation, (See www.healthstory.com.) Health Story is developing Vocabulary Facilitators Patient Administration accelerate adoption, and be aligned with the goals a Project Scope Statement to bring to SDWG and hopes Phone: 416-595-3449 of the US national program to have a ballot by the spring cycle. While much work Paul Biondich, MD Email: [email protected] IU School of Medicine • It provides a glide path into the next stage of remains to be done, this project holds the potential to Child Health Julie James meaningful use by building off existing work reconcile and resolve discrepancies across a number of Phone: 317-278-3466 II4SM already in the current regulation implementation guides, further highlight the strengths Email: [email protected] Medication; Pharmacy Phone: 44-7747-633-216 of MDHT, augment the cooperation with IHE, and Steve Connolly Email: [email protected] Regarding the last point—the development of a glide provide guidance for the industry. We look forward to Apelon, Inc. path—the Final Rule states that, “Increasingly robust an interesting and successful project! Security William “Ted” Klein expectations for health information exchange in stage two Email: [email protected] Klein Consulting, Inc. and stage three will support and make re al the goal that Modeling & Methodology Kevin Coonan, MD Phone: 631-924-6922 information follows the patient.” (p.35) Although specific Deloitte Consulting Email: [email protected] guidance on Phase II is not yet available, the HIT Policy Emergency Care Committee (HITPC) recommended earlier this year that Phone: 202-213-3891 Email: [email protected] Progress Note, at a minimum, be included and stressed 32 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 5

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 30 12/16/10 10:32:11 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 3 12/30/10 11:25 AM HL7 FACILITATORS Steering Division Hugh Glover Jenni Puyenbroek Peter Gilbert HL7 Fellows Program Facilitators HL7 UK Science Applications International Wayne State University Physician Group Medication Corporation (SAIC) Structured Documents Phone: 44-0-7889-407-113 Implementation/Conformance Phone: 313-262-1429 Rick Haddorff Email: Phone: 678-261-2099 Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic/Foundation Mark McDougall [email protected] Email: [email protected] Recognizes 25 Structure & Semantic Design Robert Hallowell Phone: 507-284-2013 Grahame Grieve Amnon Shabo, PhD Siemens Healthcare By Mark McDougall, HL7 Executive Director Email: [email protected] Kestral Computing Pty Ltd IBM Medication; Pharmacy Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Genomics Phone: 610-219-5612 Dave Hamill Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Phone: 972-544-714070 Email: [email protected] HL7 Fellows merit this recognition each year, the Health Level Seven International Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Technical & Support Services During the Plenary meeting, HL7 UPDATE FROM Awards Committee is challenged to Anthony Julian Phone: 734-677-7777 limit the annual award to only a few. Pat Gunter AbdulMalik Shakir Mayo Clinic announced a new recognition pro- Email: [email protected] gram: HL7 Fellowship. This program HEADQUARTERS This year’s recipients have contributed Duke Translational Medicine Institute City of Hope National Medical Center Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Interoperability Council Modeling & Methodology Phone: 507-266-0958 hundreds of hours, if not thousands, Lynn Laakso recognizes individuals who have con- Phone: 919-668-6010 Phone: 626-644-4491 Email: [email protected] Foundation and Technology tributed significantly to HL7 and have and have certainly served HL7 ex- Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 906-361-5966 Chuck Meyer tremely well for many years. As Ed Helmut Koenig, MD held continuous HL7 membershp for Email: [email protected] at least 15 years. HL7 CEO, Charles John Quinn mentioned during the awards c er- William “Ted” Klein Ioana Singureanu Siemens Healthcare Wes Rishel Klein Consulting, Inc. Eversolve, LLC Imaging Integration Jaffe, MD, PhD, announced the new emony, we are honored and pleased to Modeling and Robert Seliger Vocabulary CBCC & Health Care Devices Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 program and congratulated the fol- recognize this year’s recipients of the Methodology Facilitators Phone: 631-924-6922 Phone: 603-870-9739 Email: [email protected] lowing 25 individuals as the inaugural Gregg Seppala W. Ed Hammond HL7 Volunteer of the Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 2010 class of HL7 Fellows: Mark Shafarman Year Awards: George (Woody) Beeler, Jr., PhD Austin Kreisler D. Mead Walker • Hugh Glover Beeler Consulting LLC Austin Kreisler Corey Spears Science Applications International Facilitator-at-Large Science Applications International McKesson Provider Technology Corporation (SAIC) Woody Beeler, PhD • Stan Huff, MD Phone: 507-254-4810 Corporation (SAIC) EHR Orders & Observations Bernd Blobel, PhD Volunteers of the Year Awards • Julie James Email: [email protected] PHER, Structured Documents Phone: 206-269-1211 Phone: 404-542-4475 William Braithwaite, MD It is amazing to realize that we are • Charlie Mead, MD Phone: 404-542-4475 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] already in the 14th year of recognizing Charlie Bishop Email: [email protected] Hans Buitendijk • Mark Shafarman HL7 UK Mead Walker Margaret (Peggy) Leizear Jane Curry incredible efforts by our vast number • Pat Van Dyke Clinical Statement John Kufuor-Boakye Health Data and Interoperability, Inc. Food and Drug Administration Norman Daoust of dedicated volunteers via our W. Ed- • Mead Walker Phone: 44-8700-112-866 Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Patient Safety; RCRIM RCRIM Patient Care Phone: 610-518-6259 Phone: 301-827-5203 Gary Dickinson ward Hammond, PhD HL7 Volunteer Email: [email protected] of the Year Awards. While there are Phone: 780-438-0178 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Bob Dolin, MD Please see the cover story for more Bernd Blobel, PhD Email: [email protected] Jean Ferraro certainly dozens of individuals who details. HL7 Germany Publishing Facilitators Joginder Madra Freida Hall Security Patrick Loyd Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 49-941-944-6769 Icode Solutions Patient Safety W. Edward Hammond, PhD Becky Angeles Email: Orders & Observations ScenPro, Inc. Phone: 780-717-4295 Stan Huff, MD [email protected] Phone: 415-209-0544 RCRIM Email: [email protected] Bert Kabbes Email: [email protected] Phone: 972-437-5001 Kathleen Connor Email: [email protected] Mary Kay McDaniel Ted Klein Microsoft Corporation Joginder Madra Markam, Inc. Virginia Lorenzi Financial Management Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Douglas Baird Financial Management Ken McCaslin Phone: 360-480-7599 Immunization Boston Scientific Corporation Phone: 602-266-2516 Clement McDonald, MD Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-717-4295 Templates Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Charlie Mead, MD Phone: 651-582-3241 Kevin Coonan, MD Email: [email protected] Dale Nelson Deloitte Consulting Lloyd McKenzie Squaretrends LLC Right: The 2010 Volunteers of the Year Emergency Care HL7 Canada Mike Davis CMET; Implementable Technology Phone: 202-213-3891 Facilitator-at-Large US Department of Veterans Affairs Specifications Below: The 2010 HL7 Fellows Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-993-9501 Security Phone: 916-367-1458 Email: [email protected] Phone: 760-632-0294 Email: [email protected] Norman Daoust Email: [email protected] Daoust Associates Dale Nelson Frank Oemig Patient Administration Squaretrends LLC Jean Duteau HL7 Germany Phone: 617-491-7424 Implementable Technology Specifications Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. German Realm Email: [email protected] Phone: 916-367-1458 Patient Care Phone: 49-208-781194 Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-937-8991 Email: [email protected] Jean Duteau Email: [email protected] Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Craig Parker, MD Nancy Orvis Pharmacy Arizona State University Isobel Frean US Department of Defense, Military Health Phone: 780-937-8991 Clinical Decision Support HL7 UK System Email: [email protected] Phone: 801-859-4480 Clinical Statement Government Projects Email: [email protected] Phone: 44-207-656-2146 Phone: 703-681-5657 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 4 12/16/10 10:31:20 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 29 12/16/10 10:32:10 AM HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued Raju Kucherlapati, PhD – Paul C. Patient Safety Alean Kirnak Amnon Shabo, PhD (Interim) Robert Dolin, MD Board Election Results American Immunization Registry IBM Semantically Yours, LLC One of the many changes that 2011 Cabot Professor of Genetics and Pro- Nick Halsey Association Phone: 972-544-714070 Phone: 714-532-1130 will bring us is a new HL7 Board of fessor of Medicine at Harvard Medical Phone: 760-419-8436 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] European Medicines Agency School. His spell-binding keynote Phone: 44-0-20-7523-7100 Email: [email protected] Directors. As recently announced, the Email: [email protected] Rene Spronk Grahame Grieve election results for 2011 Board posi- address focused on the implementa- Joginder Madra HL7 The Netherlands Kestral Computing Pty Ltd. tions are as follows: tion of personalized medicine and Ali Rashidee Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 33-318-553812 Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Quantros Phone: 780-717-4295 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] set the stage for the presentations Phone: 408-957-3300 Email: Vice Chair/Chair-elect: Don Mon, that followed. Our slate of incredible Email: [email protected] [email protected] Security Templates PhD speakers clearly hit a home run. Mead Walker Michelle Williamson Bernd Blobel, PhD Mark Shafarman Secretary: Jill Kaufman, PhD Health Data and Interoperability National Center for Health HL7 Germany Shafarman Consulting A special thanks goes to Grant Wood Inc. Statistics/CDC University of Regensburg Medical Phone: 510-593-3483 Directors-at-Large: Keith Boone and Phone: 610-518-6259 Phone: 301-458-4618 Center Email: Ed Hammond, PhD and the co-chairs of the HL7 Clinical Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 49-941-944-6769 [email protected] Genomics Work Group for their efforts Email: bernd.blobel Affiliate Rep: Catherine Chronaki Pharmacy Publishing Committee @klinik.uni-regensburg.de Tooling in assembling the excellent Plenary Congratulations to these individuals. Raju Kucherlapati, PhD Meeting program: Joyce Hernandez, Garry Cruickshank George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD-V3 Mike Davis Jane Curry Kevin Hughes, MD, Amnon Shabo, Thames Valley Healthcare Beeler Consulting, LLC US Department of Veterans Affairs Health Information Strategies, Inc. Photos and contact information for vided a half-day tutorial on CDA and Phone: 519-657-3125 Phone: 507-254-4810 Phone: 760-632-0294 Phone: 780-459-8560 the above individuals along with the CCD. Ed Hammond, PhD, served PhD, and Mollie Ullman-Cullere. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: other members of the 2011 HL7 Board as panel moderator and speaker for [email protected] Immediately following our plenary Tom de Jong Jane Daus-V2 John Moehrke of Directors are provided on page 34. a session on “Translational strate- McKesson Provider Technologies GE Healthcare HL7 The Netherlands Tim Ireland gies for introducing health IT and meeting, HL7 also produced an HL7 Phone: 31-6-53255291 Phone: 847-495-1289 Phone: 920-912-8451 HL7 UK Ambassadors program on “HL7 and Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] NHS Connecting for Health Medinfo standards into developing countries,” Email: [email protected] Since 1995, HL7 has had a significant along with several panelists such as the Final Rule: Health Information Robert Hallowell Andrew Stechishin-V3 Services Oriented presence at the premier tri-annual Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Siemens Healthcare Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Architecture Andrew Stechishin Chuck Jaffe, MD, PhD. Phone: 610-219-5612 Phone: 780-903-0855 Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. international medical informatics-fo- Implementation Specifications, and Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-903-0855 Email: Don Jorgenson cused conference called “Medinfo.” I am pleased to also report that I had Certification Criteria for Electronic [email protected] Inpriva, Inc. Email: [email protected] Health Record Technology.” This very Klaus Veil-V2 Phone: 970-472-1441 The location of these meetings has the pleasure of attending the EFMI Process Improvement Phone: 61-412-746-457 Email: [email protected] Vocabulary spanned the globe, including: Council Dinner during the Medinfo popular session provided an overview Committee Email: [email protected] • Vancouver, Canada (1995) of how HL7 will be used to achieve Galen Mulrooney Jim Case conference. We discussed opportuni- meaningful use and then provided Margie Kennedy Regulated Clinical US Department of Veterans Affairs National Library of Medicine • Seoul, Korea (1998) ties for closer collaboration between HL7 Canada Research Information Phone: 703-815-0900 Phone: 530-752-4408 • London, England (2001) high-level tutorials on HL7’s Clinical Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] our organizations. I would like to Phone: 902-926-2827 Management • San Francisco, USA (2004) Document Architecture (CDA), Con- Email: thank the following individuals for [email protected] Ed Helton, PhD Ken Rubin Heather Grain • Brisbane, Australia (2007) their kindness: John Mantas, EFMI tinuity of Care Document (CCD) and National Cancer Institute Center for EDS Corporation Standards Australia, Llewelyn Grain our Version 2 standards, which are Phone: 703-845-3277 Informatics • Cape Town, South Africa (2010) President; Jacob Hofdijk, EFMI & Helen Stevens Love Bioinformatics named in the Final Rule referenced in Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 919-465-4473 Email: [email protected] Phone: 613-956-99443 IMIA Vice President for Europe, and Email: [email protected] Phone: 250-598-0312 Email: [email protected] This year’s event was the 13th Medin- Cristina Mazzoleni, EFMI Institutions the session title. This program was Email: [email protected] Ann Wrightson one of many that week that provided David Iberson-Hurst HL7 UK Russ Hamm fo conference and the first in Africa. Liaison Officer. Project Services CDISC Phone: 44-8700-112-866 Apelon, Inc. The September 12-15, 2010 conven- MDs with CMEs. Phone: 44-9-7989-603793 Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-271-0227 tion attracted about 1,100 attendees Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 24th Annual Plenary Meeting Rick Haddorff I am also pleased to recognize these Mayo Clinic Structured Documents from 75 countries. HL7 had a booth in HL7’s 24th Annual Plenary and Work- John Speakman William T. Klein Phone: 507-284-2013 the exhibit hall and hosted our popu- ing Group Meeting convened Octo- organizations that sponsored key Email: [email protected] National Cancer Institute Center for Liora Alschuler Klein Consulting, Inc. components of our 24th Annual Ple- Bioinformatics Alschuler Associates, LLC Phone: 631-924-6922 lar reception for many of the world’s ber 3-8, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Freida Hall Phone: 301-451-8786 Phone: 802-785-2623 Email: [email protected] leaders in medical informatics. Cambridge Hotel, in Cambridge, nary and Working Group Meeting. US Department of Veterans Affairs Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] • Beeler Consulting, LLC Beverly Knight Massachusetts. The setting on the Phone: 727-519-4607 • Gordon Point Informatics Email: [email protected] Edward Tripp Calvin Beebe HL7 Canada I’d like to personally thank several Charles River was both wonderful and Edward S. Tripp & Associates, Inc. Mayo Clinic Phone: 416-595-3449 HL7 members from around the globe • iNTERFACEWARE Phone: 224-234-9769 Phone: 507-284-3827 Email: [email protected] productive. Public Health Emergency who helped staff the HL7 booth, in- • LINKMED Response Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] cluding Fernando Campos, Catherine In addition to our regular Working • Lockheed Martin Rita Altamore Rim Based Application Keith Boone Chronaki, Michio Kimura, Ed Ham- • Virtify Washington State Department of Architecture GE Healthcare Integrated IT Group Meeting with over 40 com- Health Solutions mond, Bob Dolin and Chuck Jaffe. mittees meeting and 25 tutorials, the Phone: 617-519-2076 Phone: 360-951-4925 Peter Hendler, MD 24th Annual Plenary meeting focused The additional sponsorship support Email: [email protected] Kaiser Permanente Email: [email protected] provided by these organizations con- Phone: 510-248-3055 Many individuals with direct and in- on the Future of healthcare using Email: [email protected] direct ties to HL7 also made presen- genomics as a key tool. Our first tributes significantly to HL7’s meeting tations at this year’s Medinfo. HL7 keynote speaker for this program was budget and is much appreciated. In Board Chair Bob Dolin, MD, pro- continued on next page 30 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 7

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 28 12/16/10 10:32:08 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 5 12/16/10 10:31:21 AM HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued Update from Headquarters, cont. from pg. 7 Donald Kamens, MD Imaging Integration Sandra Stuart Orders and Observations made by three individuals: Richard Dixon- XPress Technologies Kaiser Permanente Hughes, Klaus Veil a nd Tina Connell-Clark. Phone: 904-296-1189 Helmut Koenig, MD Phone: 925-924-7473 Hans Buitendijk They have worked incredibly hard and have Email: [email protected] Siemens Healthcare Email: [email protected] Siemens Healthcare Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 Phone: 610-219-2087 devoted hundreds of hours working to ensure James McClay, MD Email: [email protected] International Mentoring Email: [email protected] the success of this meeting. On behalf of the University of Nebraska Medical Committee Center HL7 Board, I send a sincere thank you and Harry Solomon Robert Hausam, MD Phone: 402-559-3587 GE Healthcare IT Diego Kaminker OntoReason look forward to thanking them in person down Email: [email protected] Phone: 847-277-5096 HL7 Argentina Phone: 801-949-1556 under. Email: [email protected] Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 Email: [email protected] Peter Park Email: [email protected] US Navy Bureau of Medicine & Implementable Technology Austin Kreisler In Closing Surgery Specifications John Ritter Science Applications International As this article will be published prior to the Phone: 202-762-3438 College of American Pathologists Corp. (SAIC) Email: [email protected] Paul Knapp Phone: 847-832-7732 Phone: 404-542-4475 upcoming holidays, I wish to close with a Continovation Services, Inc. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] heartfelt thank you to all of you who have Financial Management Phone: 604-987-3313 Representatives from the 2010 HL7 Benefactors made a positive difference in my life and/or Email: [email protected] Marketing Council Patrick Loyd Kathleen Connor Icode Solutions in the lives around you. On behalf of the Microsoft Corporation Dale Nelson Catherine Chronaki Phone: 415-209-0544 addition, HL7 raised $211 for Doctors without Borders HL7 staff, we extend to you and your loved ones our Phone: 360-480-7599 Squaretrends LLC HL7 Hellas Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] from the sales of the joke ribbons at our WGMs in 2010. best wishes for good health, much happiness, and lots of Phone: 916-367-1458 FORTH-Institute of Computer Science Email: [email protected] Phone: 30-2810-391691 Ken McCaslin smiles this holiday season and beyond. Beat Heggli Email: [email protected] Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Benefactors and Supporters HL7 Switzerland Andy Stechishin Phone: 610-650-6692 Phone: 41-1-806-1164 We are thrilled to have attracted the all time highest Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Jill Kaufman, PhD Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-903-0885 College of American Pathologists @questdiagnostics.com number of HL7 benefactors and supporters, who are listed Email: [email protected] Phone: 847-832-7163 on pages 20 and 24. Their support of HL7 is very much Mary Kay McDaniel Email: [email protected] Outreach Committee for Markam, Inc. needed and sincerely appreciated. Representatives from Implementation/ Clinical Research Phone: 602-266-2516 Conformance Rene Spronk Email: [email protected] HL7 The Netherlands the benefactors are pictured Ed Helton, PhD Phone: 31-318-553812 above. A special thank you Wendy Huang National Cancer Institute Center for Generation Of Anesthesia Email: [email protected] is extended to the list of firms Canada Health Infoway Inc. Bioinformatics Standards Phone: 416-595-3449 Phone: 919-465-4473 Grant Wood that represent our 2010 HL7 2011 Publishing Calendar Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] benefactors and supporters. Martin Hurrell, PhD Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 801-408-8153 Phone: 44-7711-669-522 Frank Oemig May 2011 Ballot Cycle Email: [email protected] Patient Adminstration Email: [email protected] HL7 Germany Organizational Member Agfa Healthcare Gregg Seppala Alan Nicol Modeling and Methodology Firms January 23 Project scope statement deadline for new content as well Phone: 49-208-781194 US Department of Veterans Affairs Phone: 44-141-585-6358 Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-526-2703 As listed on 24 - 26, HL7 is very as committee intent to reconcile and advance status Email: [email protected] George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD Beeler Consulting, LLC Email: [email protected] proud to report that the number Melva Peters April 4 Ballot open date Phone: 507-254-4810 of HL7 organizational member Government Projects HL Canada Jay Zimmerman May 9 Ballot close date Email: [email protected] Jenaker Consulting, Inc. HL7 Canada companies is at an all time Nancy Orvis May 15 – 20 May Working Group Meeting Phone: 604-515-0339 Phone: 250-385-1510 US Department of Defense, Military Jean Duteau high, including 588 companies. Email: [email protected] Email: jzimmerman Health System HL7 Canada We sincerely appreciate their Phone: 780-937-8991 @infoway-inforoute.ca September 2011 Ballot Cycle Phone: 703-681-5657 Robert Snelick ongoing support of HL7 via Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] National Institute of Standards & Patient Care their organizational member- Technology Mitra Rocca Grahame Grieve May 29 Project scope statement deadline for new content as well Phone: 301-975-5924 Stephen Chu, PhD ship dues. Food and Drug Administration Kestral Computing Pty Ltd. as committee intent to reconcile and advance status Email: [email protected] National eHealth Transition Authority Phone: 301-796-2175 Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Email: [email protected] (NEHTA) August 1 Ballot open date Email: [email protected] Infrastructure & Messaging Sydney WGM Email: [email protected] I look forward to seeing many of September 5 Ballot close date Lloyd McKenzie Health Care Devices Anthony Julian September 11 – 16 September Working Group Meeting HL7 Canada William Goossen you in Sydney, Australia for our Mayo Clinic Results4Care B.V. Amersfoort, The Todd Cooper LM&A Consulting, Ltd . January 9-14, 2011 HL7 Working Phone: 507-266-0958 Netherlands Breakthrough Solutions Foundry, Inc. Phone: 780-993-9501 Email: [email protected] Phone: 31-654-614458 Group Meeting. Not only will January 2012 Ballot Cycle (IEEE) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] the WGM be productive, but we Phone: 858-435-0729 Patrick Loyd Email: [email protected] Ravi Natarajan will also have the opportunity to Icode Solutions Ian Townend September 25 Project scope statement deadline for new content as well NHS Consulting for Health Phone: 415-209-0544 NHS Connecting for Health visit one of world’s most beauti- Patty Krantz Phone: 44-113-390-6520 as committee intent to reconcile and advance status Email: [email protected] Phone: 44-113-280-6743 Medtronic Email: [email protected] ful cities. While there are many December 5 Ballot open date Email: [email protected] Phone: 763-526-0513 David Shaver individuals that have played Ioana Singureanu January 9 Ballot close date Email: [email protected] Corepoint Health Eversolve, LLC Klaus Veil key roles related to this January Phone: 214-618-7000 January 15 – 20 January Working Group Meeting Phone: 603-870-9739 Phone: 61-412-746-457 2011 WGM, I’d like to personally John Rhoads, PhD Email: Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Philips Healthcare [email protected] recognize the incredible efforts Phone: 978-659-3024 Email: [email protected] 8 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 29

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 6 12/16/10 10:31:23 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 27 12/16/10 10:32:07 AM HL7 WORK GROUP CO-CHAIRS Remembering Professor Affiliates Council Child Health Clinical Genomics Max Walker Department of Human Services Catherine Chronaki—Affiliate David Classen, MD, MS Joyce Hernandez Phone: 61-3-9096-1471 Merck & Co., Inc. Email: [email protected] Yun Sik Kwak, Liaison Alliance for Pediatric Quality HL7 Hellas/FORTH-Institute of Phone: 801-532-3633 Phone: 732-594-1815 Computer Science Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Education Phone: 30-2810-391691 MD, PhD (1936-2010) Email: [email protected] Gay Giannone, MSN (Interim) Kevin Hughes, MD Mike Henderson Alschuler Associates, LLC Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Eastern Informatics, Inc. Robert Stegwee, MSc, PhD—HL7 Phone: 714-744-4152 Phone: 617-724-0048 Phone: 301-585-5750 International Liaison Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 The Netherlands After that, he Diego Kaminker Kwak Sensei Phone: 31-30-689-2730 Joy Kuhl Amnon Shabo HL7 Argentina moved to the Email: Alliance for Pediatric Quality IBM Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 [email protected] Phone: 703-842-5311 Phone: 972-544-714070 “Sensei” is a prefix to names, almost similar to “Doctor,” United States Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Helen Stevens Love—Secretary but it has many more meanings such as a “Medical doc- and became a Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Andy Spooner, MD, FAAP Mollie Ullman-Cullere AbdulMalik Shakir tor,” “Teacher,” or a “Respected person.” He was a sensei, faculty mem- Phone: 250-598-0312 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Partners HealthCare System, Inc. City of Hope National Medical Phone: 513-803-0121 Phone: 617-582-7249 by all of these meanings. ber of clinical Email: [email protected] Center Email: [email protected] Email: mollie_ullman-cullere pathology at @dfci.harvard.edu Phone: 626-644-4491 Anatomic Pathology Email: Feliciano Yu, MD Case Western [email protected] Dr. Kwak graduated from National Kyungpook Medi- David Booker, MD St. Louis Children’s Hospital Clinical Interoperability cal University of Daegu, Korea, which is his hometown. University in College of American Pathologists Phone: 314-454-2808 Council Electronic Health Records Phone: 706-736-0991 Email: [email protected] Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Kwak was appointed as a certi- Email: [email protected] Sam Brandt, MD Gary Dickinson fied inspector of the College of American Pathologists Clinical Context Object Siemens Healthcare CentriHealth Victor Brodsky, MD Workgroup (CCOW) Phone: 610-219-5701 Phone: 951-536-7010 (CAP). When he visited his hometown during his sab- College of American Pathologists Email: [email protected] Email: batical, he was strongly persuaded to be a faculty mem- Phone: 646-322-4648 David Fusari [email protected] Email: [email protected] Sentillion, Inc. Meredith Nahm (Interim) ber at his alma mater, and was appointed as a professor Phone: 978-749-0022 Duke Translational Medicine Don Mon, PhD of medical informatics. Architectural Review Email: [email protected] Institute American Health Information Board Phone: 919-668-8339 Management Association Michael Russell, MD Email: [email protected] Phone: 312-233-1135 Charlie Mead, MD, MSc Duke Translational Medicine Email: [email protected] Dr. Kwak was an excellent leader and his natural ten- 3rd Millennium, Inc. Institute Anita Walden dency was to be completely devoted to any endeavor he Phone: 510-541-8224 Phone: 919-684-2513 Duke Translational Medicine John Ritter Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Institute College of American Pathologists undertook. His involvement in healthcare informatics, Phone: 919-668-8256 Phone: 847-832-7732 and standards development in particular, was marked Ron Parker David Staggs Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada US Department of Veterans Affairs by the same devotion and benefitted from his leadership Phone: 902-832-0876 Phone: 858-826-5629 Clinical Statement Patricia Van Dyke Email: [email protected] capabilities. Dr. Kwak founded HL7 Korea in 2002 and Email: [email protected] Delta Dental Plans Association Hans Buitendijk Phone: 503-243-4492 served as the appointed chair for ISO/TC 215 from 2003- John Quinn Siemens Healthcare Email: [email protected] Health Level Seven International Clinical Decision Support Phone: 610-219-2087 2009. He paved the way for close cooperation between Phone: 216-409-1330 Electronic Services Email: [email protected] Guilherme Del Fiol, MD Email: hans.buitendijk@siemens. numerous standard developing organizations within and Duke Translational Medicine com Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD around the HL7, ISO/TC 215 and CEN/TC 251 realm. Dr. Arden Syntax Institute Phone: 919-681-7011 Patrick Loyd Anakam, Inc. Kwak was also a natural and skilled collaborator and Email: [email protected] Icode Solutions Phone: 703-888-4630 Robert Jenders, MD Email: [email protected] Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Phone: 415-209-0544 brought together diverse groups and interests to achieve Phone: 310-502-4124 Robert Jenders, MD Email: [email protected] Lorraine Constable (Interim) the common objective of global healthcare. Email: [email protected] Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Constable Consulting Inc Phone: 310-502-4124 Rik Smithies Phone: (780) 951-4853 Attachments Email: [email protected] HL7 UK Phone: 44-7720-290967 Email: [email protected] Above all, Dr. Kwak will long be Durwin Day Kensaku Kawamoto, PhD Email: [email protected] remembered as a friend and an Health Care Service Corporation Ken McCaslin Duke Translational Medicine Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated example for all of us to follow. Phone: 312-653-5948 Institute Community Based Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6692 Phone: 919-684-2340 Collaborative Care Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin Above: Email: [email protected] Craig Gabron @questdiagnostics.com Miyajima Shrine, Michio Kimura, MD, PhD Suzanne Gonzales-Webb Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Howard Strasberg Hiroshima Japan, Carolina US Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Care HL7 Japan Chair Wolters Kluwer Health Phone: 858-366-2008 at APAMI Phone: 803-763-1790 Phone: 408-746-9958 Email: [email protected] Email: Laura Heermann Langford Conference, Email: howard.strasberg@wolter- [email protected] Intermountain Healthcare skluwer.com Jim McKinley Phone: 801-290-6674 November 2009. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Richard Thoreson Email: [email protected] Alabama SAMHSA Michio Kimura, Right: Memorial Phone: 205-220-5960 Phone: 240-276-2827 MD, PhD Email: [email protected] Email: flowers sent by HL7 and other organizations. 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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 26 12/16/10 10:32:06 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 7 12/16/10 10:31:27 AM 2011 TECHNICAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Co-Chair Q & A By Karen Van Hentenryck, HL7 Associate Executive Director CHAIR DOMAIN EXPERTS CO-CHAIRS STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN Submitted on behalf of the Process Improvement Committee Austin Kreisler Austin Kreisler CO-CHAIRS Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Calvin Beebe Karen Van Hentenryck Phone: 404-542-4475 Phone: 404-542-4475 Mayo Clinic/Foundation Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-284-3827 Co-Chair Transition that announcement has been distributed from HQ, the Email: [email protected] interim will serve through the upcoming WGM and until CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER Edward Tripp John Quinn Edward S Tripp and Associates, Inc. Gregg Seppala A number of questions related to co-chair transition are the official co-chair elections at the WGM following that. HL7 International routinely raised by work groups during the course of Should the co-chair resign in advance of the 30-day call Phone: 224-234-9769 US Department of Veterans Affairs Phone: 216-409-1330 Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-526-2703 general business. The Process Improvement Committee for nominations, the open co-chair position will be an- Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] nounced in the 30-day call for nominations and elections (PIC) would like to take this opportunity to demystify FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY some of these processes by referencing the relevant sec- for the open position will be held at the upcoming WGM. ArB CO-CHAIRS Charles Mead, MD, MSc CO-CHAIRS TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES tions in the Governance and Operations Manual (GOM) George (Woody) Beeler CO-CHAIRS Sometimes, a work group decides not to fill a vacant 3rd Millennium, Inc. and providing clarifying information. Phone: 510-541-8224 Beeler Consulting, LLC Patrick Loyd co-chair position when a c o-chair resigns. As long as the Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-254-4810 Icode Solutions Q: Do new co-chairs elected at the Working Group work group has made that determination according to Email: [email protected] Phone: 415-209-0544 Meetings (WGM) take office immediately or do they as- its decision making practices, that is fine. Simply let HQ Ron Parker Email: [email protected] sume their new role immediately following the WGM? know so that this change is reflected in the database and Canada Health Infoway Anthony Julian the listservs. Phone: 902-222-7716 Mayo Clinic Ken McCaslin A: According to § 09.02.04 of the GOM (Term of Office), Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-266-0958 Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6692 co-chair terms “shall commence upon validation of elec- Q. Our work group would like to add an additional co- Email: chair. Is there a procedure for doing this? INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE tion results.” In other words, newly elected co-chairs of- [email protected] ficially assume their new role on Thursdays at the WGM, Jay Zimmerman Canada Health Infoway/ HL7 Canada although many work groups and newly elected co-chairs A. While most work groups should not require more than 2-3 chairs, GOM §09.02.04 (Work Group Co-Chairs) Phone: 250-385-1510 prefer to have the outgoing chair continue to chair the Email: [email protected] meetings through the end of the WGM, particularly since provides the process for work groups that wish to add an he or she planned the agenda. This is certainly reason- extra chair. Once a motion to add an additional co-chair able if that’s what the work group decides to do. has been raised and approved according to the work group’s decision making practices, the work group can Q: What happens if one of our work group co-chairs designate an individual to serve as the interim co-chair STEERING DIVISIONS resigns? until an official co-chair election can be held. Please notify HQ to ensure that their records can be updated STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN A: Co-chairs may need to resign for any number of rea- accordingly and that your work group’s co-chair elections DOMAIN EXPERTS FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY Implementable Technology Specifications Arden Syntax sons, both personal and professional. Luckily, there are are announced in the next call for nominations. Anatomic Pathology Implementation/Conformance Clinical Context Object Workgroup processes in place to ensure that your work group can fill Anesthesiology Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Decision Support the vacated co-chair position without too much interrup- Q: Can a work group remove a co-chair from office? If Attachments Modeling & Methodology Clinical Genomics tion to the g roup’s activities. so, under what conditions? Child Health Clinical Interoperability Council* RIM Based Application Architecture Clinical Statement Security Electronic Health Record First and foremost, the work group or resigning co-chairs A: §09.02.04.03 (Removal from Office) of the GOM does Community Based Collaborative Care Service Oriented Architecture Financial Management should advise HQ so that the appropriate updates can be allow for removal of a co-chair from office. This process Emergency Care Templates Orders & Observations made in the office and plans for the next co-chair elec- outlines two conditions under which removal may be Government Projects Vocabulary Patient Administration tions can be made. warranted: missing of two consecutive working group Health Care Devices meetings without mitigating circumstances and less than Imaging Integration Structured Documents If the need is immediate, the work group should, follow- 60% participation on the work group’s conference calls Patient Care TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES Education ing its established decision making practices, bring a mo- between WGMs. The individual bringing forward a mo- Patient Safety Electronic Services tion forward to fill the vacated position with an interim tion to the work group f or removal of a co-chair is respon- Pharmacy International Mentoring Committee co-chair. Accept nominees via email and on the phone sible for presenting the appropriate evidence and defend- Public Health & Emergency Response Process Improvement Committee and then conduct a simple vote on your call or through ing their charge; In addition, this work group business Regulated Clinical Research Project Services email/doodle poll. The interim co-chair serves until the should proceed according to the work group’s decision Information Management *Voice only; no vote Publishing open position can be announced through the official 30- making practices. It goes without saying that while day call for nominations from HQ, which is distributed at Tooling least 60 days before each WGM. If a co-chair resigns after continued on next page 10 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 27

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 8 12/16/10 10:31:28 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 25 12/16/10 10:32:04 AM HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, continued News Delta System Inc. Interfix, LLC Procura from the Dg Med Technology Corp. InterSystems Professional Practice Resources PMO digiChart, Inc. IntraNexus, Inc. Pronia Medical Systems Dave Hamill By Dave Hamill, Director, HL7 Project Management Office Digital Medical Merge, Inc. IntuitivEMR, Inc. dba AZZLY QS/1 Data Systems, Inc. DIPS ASA iSALUS Healthcare Recondo Technology, Inc. DocComply iSOFT Nederland b.v. Reed Technology and Information Services, Inc. DocSite, LLC ITIQ Solutions Remcare Inc. DocuTAP Keane, Inc. Response Genetics, Inc. Updated Project Scope State- Project Health and Project provide stakeholders a clear picture Dolbey & Company Kestral Computing Pty Ltd. Rosch Visionary Systems ment Template – Coming in Dashboard Reports of exactly what is required to use and DoubleBridge Technologies, Inc. Key Management Group RTZ Associates, Inc. January 2011 The HL7 PMO has been working with interoperate with an organization’s Dreamscape Blue K-Tech Solutions, Inc. Sage software components. echoBase Labware, Inc SAIC - Science Applications International Corp. The HL7 Project Management Office the Technical Steering Committee Eclipsys Corporation Lawson Sandlot, Inc. (TSC) to design Project Health and (PMO) and the Project Services Work EDS Corporation LEAD Technologies, Inc. SAS Institute Project Dashboard reports. Project Have questions regarding these proj- E-Health Partners, Inc. Life Systems Software Scantron Corporation Group (PS WG) will release a new 2011 Health reports reflect the status of ects? Contact project facilitators Rick Electronic Patient Records (Pty) Ltd Life Technologies Sentillion, Inc. version of the Project Scope Statement Haddorff (haddorff.richard@mayo. EMC Information Intelligence Group LINK Medical Computing, Inc. Siemens Healthcare a work group’s project portfolio. e-MDs Liquent, Inc. SilkOne (PSS) template; a result of their annual Project Dashboard reports provide an edu) or Ioana Singureanu (ioana. Emissary Professional Group, LLC Logibec Simplied Software Development LLC updates to the template. As usual, our at-a-glance status for individual proj- [email protected]). Epic LORENZ Life Sciences Group SISCO ects. The reports are based on data ESRI LSS Data Systems SNAPS, Inc. goal is to streamline and simplify the Ettelaresani Payvand Dadeha McKesson Provider Technologies Softactics, Inc. template so that it’s easier to use by HL7 gathered from Project Insight, includ- Monthly Webinars ExactData, LLC MD Land International Softek Solutions, Inc. members and provides the most useful ing status updates, milestone deliver- Be sure to look in eNews for the dates Expert Sistemas Computacionales S.A. DE C.V. MDofficeManager.com Software AG USA, Inc. able dates and balloting information. and times of the monthly webinar Explorys MEDai, Inc. Sorin CRM SAS data to the membership. E-Z BIS, Inc. Medcomsoft St. Jude Medical “HL7 Project Management Tool Over- ezEMRx Medflow, Inc. StatRad, LLC SAIF and Sound – Fast Track view for HL7 Project Facilitators”. The STI Computer Services, Inc. Changes include: FIACIA Corp MEDfx Corporation to Standard Development sessions are targeted for co-chairs First Insight Corporation MEDHOST, Inc. Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc. • Make co-sponsor its own field in The Project Services Work Group Fox Systems, Inc. Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. Stratus EMR and those leading HL7 projects (i.e. the PSS Template, Project Insight continues their effort on the SAIF Future Health, Inc. Medicity, Inc. Suncoast Solutions Project Facilitators). The webinar will GE Healthcare IT MediRec Inc. Sunquest Information Systems and the Searchable Project Data- and Sound – Fast Track to Standard demonstrate HL7 project tools includ- gloStream, Inc. MediServe Information Systems, Inc. Superclick Networks, Inc base Development project (project #676). Goldblatt Systems Mediture Surescripts The team is identifying changes to ing Project Insight (HL7’s primary Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. MEDIWARE Information Systems Surgical Information Systems • Provide for the ability to list key the Project Life Cycle for Product project repository), the HL7 Search- Grupo Prides S.A MedPATH Networks, Inc. SurgiVision Consultants, Inc. SDO/Profilers Haemonetics Corporation MedSign International Corporation Swearingen Software, Inc. Development (PLCPD) so as to intro- able Project Database, GForge, as well Harris Corporation MedVirginia Symantec • Include help text regarding Univer- duce predictable, one-year approval as review HL7 project processes and Health Care Software, Inc. META Solutions, Inc. SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS ELEARNING sal Realm guidelines cycles for suitably-scoped projects methodologies. Health Language, Inc. MicroFour, Inc. TC Software, Inc. HealthCare Conversion Services Microsoft Corporation TELCOR OIS • Include recommended communi- that leverage both methodology and HealthCare IQ Mirth Corporation Teradata Corporation, GIS/AMS cation tasks architecture best-practices and builds HL7 Project Tracking Tools Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. MITEM Corporation The CBORD Group, Inc. • Within the template area, remove on HL7’s past successes. HEALTHeSTATE Mitochon Systems. The Shams Group All of HL7’s project tools, includ- Healthland Modernizing Medicine, Inc. The SIMI Group, Inc. Help text and Project Insight ing the Searchable Project Database, Additionally, the Project Services Healthline, Inc. MPN Software Systems, Inc. The SSI Group, Inc. guideline text GForge and Project Insight, are avail- HealthTrio, LLC Netsmart Public Health, Inc. TheraDoc, Inc. Work Group will be working with the • Refine help text in the Appendices able on www.HL7.org via Participate Healthwise, Inc. New Health Sciences, Inc. Therap Services, LLC ArB and the SAIF project teams to Hill Associates NexJ Systems Inc. TouchNet Information Systems, Inc. • Remove the 2.b Public Document create an HL7 SAIF Implementation > Tools & Resources > Project Hi-Range Technologies, Inc NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. TouchPACS Health Solutions Tracking Tools. HospiServe Healthcare Services Pty Ltd Nexus Clinical TurningPoint Global Solutions LLC checkbox Guide (project #TBD at press time). Hyland Software, Inc. Niceware International, LLC Up To Data Professional Services Gmb The SAIF Implementation Guide will Iatric Systems Noridian Administrative Services USPD, Inc. IBM Noteworthy Medical Systems Valley Hope Association - IMCSS ICANotes, LLC Oakland Software Virco BVBA iConnect Consulting Occupational Health Research Virtify A. Work groups facing this situation can decide to hold Ignis Systems Corporation Omnicell, Inc. Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Inc. Co-Chair Q & A, cont. from pg. 10 Image Solutions, Inc.(ISI) Omnicom srl Warren Lamb & Associates, Ltd. the election anyway or choose to defer the election until ImageTrend, INC Openmed, LLC Watermark Research Partners, Inc. there are processes for removing a co-chair from office, the next WGM. GOM §05.02.01 (Variance to Voting Info World OpenTreatment.Com WebMD Health Services Process) allows for either of these two processes. Some InfoQuest Systems, Inc. Opus Healthcare Solutions Inc. Wellsoft Corporation these should be used with caution and discretion. Should Information Builders Oracle Corporation - Healthcare Wolters Kluwer Health the work group vote to remove a co-chair from office, it work groups choose to move forward with their co-chair Inmediata Health Group Oratier Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Workflow.com, LLC election as the election process allows for absentee voting Institute for Health Metrics Orchard Software Xeo Health may appoint an interim chair to serve until the next of- Integrated Healthcare Solution Sdn Bhd Orion Health XIFIN, Inc. ficial election. All of these decisions should be conveyed (GOM §05.02.3). Other groups prefer to defer the election integration AG OZ Systems XPress Technologies to HQ. until the next WGM. HQ assumes that work groups will Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group P&NP Computer Services, Inc. Yak Digital Corp. move forward with the scheduled election unless they are Intellicure, Inc. PAREXEL ZetaSys Dental Enterprise Solution IntelliSys Consulting Philips Healthcare Zoho Corp. Q: My co-chair term is expiring at the next WGM but advised otherwise. Intelliware Development, Inc. PolyRemedy, Inc. Zynx Health our work group won’t be meeting there. What should Interface People, LP Positive Business Solutions, Inc. iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. PrimeSource Healthcare we do? 26 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 11

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 24 12/16/10 10:32:03 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 9 12/16/10 10:31:29 AM HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, continued HL7 Static Model Payers Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital ACS Active Health Management, Inc. Lux Med AEGIS.net, Inc. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama Mayo Clinic Agilex Technologies Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina MedStar Health Information Systems Akimeka LLC Mercy Health Partners Alert Life Sciences Computing, Inc. Designer Tool Wilfred Bonney BMS Reimbursement Management CareSource Meridian Health Allied Medical LLC, dba SB Clinical Millennium Labs Allscripts-Misys By Wilfred Bonney, HL7 Tooling Administrator Health Care Service Corporation MedSolutions, Inc. Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Altos Solutions, Inc Premera Blue Cross MultiCare Health System Altova GmbH UnitedHealth Group National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics Amazing Charts Wisconsin Physicians Service Ins. Corp. Nationwide Laboratory Services, Inc. American Data The HL7 Static Model Designer (SMD) tool is a second of a sample static model (e.g. POLB_MT000001UV01) New York-Presbyterian Hospital American Health Care Software generation of HL7 Version 3 Message modeling tool in designed using the SMD tool. Pharmacy NHS Connecting for Health American HealthTech, Inc. Parkview Health AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group Eclipse platform. In its simplest form, the SMD tool is an Bristol-Myers Squibb Partners HealthCare System, Inc. AmkaiSolutions The Tooling Work Group has published “Beginners’ Eli Lilly and Company Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Amtelco Eclipse-based tool that enables HL7 modellers to create, Food and Drug Administration Guide to HL7 Static Model Designer” documentation to Patient First Andalusia health business solutions validate, and maintain healthcare models based on the Genzyme Corporation Qliance Medical Management, Inc Anvita Health aid beginners in understanding the full functionality and GlaxoSmithKline Queensland Health Apelon, Inc. HL7 Version 3 messaging standard. The tool was a NHS Merck & Co., Inc. capability of the tool. The document can be downloaded Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Applied Informatics for Health Society Connecting for Health funded project developed by B2 In- Novartis Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center ASG Software Solutions directly from the HL7 GForge site at the URL: http:// Pfizer, Inc. Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Askesis Development Group ternational (B2i) as a replacement of the existing HL7 Vi- Sanofi-Aventis R&D Riverside Methodist Hospitals Athena Health, Inc. gforge.hl7.org/gf/download/frsrelease/704/7666/hl7_smd- Sapphire Health, LLC sio-based RMIM Designer tool. These two tools have very Robert Bosch Healthcare Atirix Medical Systems beginnersguide-1.0.0.zip. Takeda Global Research & Development Center, Inc. Rockford Health System Aurora MSC similar features, but beginners will need to learn how to Providers Rockingham Memorial Hospital Availity, LLC use the new SMD tool in order to get the same results. Royal Hobart Hospital, Pathology Services Axolotl Corporation For additional assistance and comment regarding the use AAdvanced Biological Laboratories SA Tartu University Clinics AxSys of the SMD tool, please send your request to wbonney@ Akron General Medical Center Saudi Aramco - Healthcare Applications Division Axway Albany Medical Center Sharp HealthCare Information Systems Balsam Healthcare Corp. Ltd The HL7 SMD tool functions on any 32 or 64-bit machines HL7.org. Alere Health Shields Health Care Beeler Consulting, LLC with Linux, Macin- ARUP Laboratories, Inc. SISOFT Healthcare Information Systems Bizmatics, Inc. Ascension Health Information Services Sisters of Mercy Health System BlueStep Systems tosh, and Microsoft Aspirus - Wausau Hospital South Bend Medical Foundation, Inc. BridgeGate International Athens Regional Health Services, Inc. Windows operating Spectrum Health Brookwood Systems, Inc. Baylor Health Care System Stanford Hospital & Clinics CareFacts Information Systems, Inc. systems. The SMD BJC HealthCare Summa Health System Carefx Corporation Blessing Hospital Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Carestream Health, Inc. tool is a standalone Bloomington Hospital & Healthcare Systems Team Health Caristix application that is Blount Memorial Hospital Texas Children’s Hospital Cellcura IHMedical Cape Regional Medical Center Texas Health Resources Cerner Corporation delivered within Cedars-Sinai Medical Center The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Certify Data Systems Center for Life Management the Eclipse (3.3 and The North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. Cetrea A/S Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron Trinity Health Cgate Health, Inc. above) platform and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Triumph Healthcare Chace and Associates Technologies, LLC City of Hope National Medical Center Tuomey Healthcare System ChemWare is usually packaged Cleveland Clinic Health System US Department of Defense, Military Health System Chiron Data Systems in Eclipse RCP (Rich Community Reach Center US Department of Veterans Affairs CliniComp, Intl. Correctional Medical Services UKHealthCare Clinigence Client Platform) with Delta Health Alliance University Hospital (Augusta) CMR Detroit Medical Center all existing MIF-based University of Chicago Medical Center CNSI Diagnostic Laboratory Services University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center Community Computer Service, Inc. plug-ins (Instance Eastern Main Healthcare Systems University of Nebraska Medical Center CompuSoft Systems of PR, Inc Emory Healthcare University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Computer Technology Corporation Editor, MIF Diff, Endocrine Clinic of Southeast Texas University of Utah Health Care Computrition, Inc. etc). The SMD tool Group Health Cooperative University Physicians, Inc. Constitution Medical Investors Harden Healthcare Services UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Corepoint Health aims to be a unified Healix Inc UW Medicine, IT Services Cortex Medical Management Systems, Inc. modelling workbench Health Network Laboratories VUMC Covisint HealthBridge Washington National Eye Center CPCHS that aids HL7 mod- Hill Physicians Medical Group WellMed Medical Management CPSI Hong Kong Hospital Authority ellers to develop HL7 West Virginia University Hospitals CSAM International AS Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare CSC Healthcare Version 3 Messages, Il Melograno Data Services S.p.A Curaspan Healthgroup, Inc. Intermountain Healthcare Vendors Cybernetica AS create instances, test Johns Hopkins Hospital //SOS/Corporation Cyrus-XP LLC Kaiser Permanente 3M Health Information Systems Data Innovations, Inc. and difference static Laboratory Corporation of America 4Medica Data Processing SPA Lahey Clinic models. Figure 1 Abbott Data Strategies, Inc. Lakeland Regional Medical Center A sample static model design (e.g. POLB_MT000001UV01) ABELSoft Corporation Dawning Technologies, Inc. shows a screenshot Lexington Medical Center Accent on Integration DC Computers Loyola University Health System ACS DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc. 12 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 25

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 10 12/16/10 10:31:31 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 23 12/16/10 10:32:03 AM HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS Benefactors Evolvent Technologies Department of Health HL7 Standards in Abbott FEI.com DGS, Commonwealth of Virginia Accenture Forward Advantage, Inc. Div.of Medical Assistance, State of NJ Booz Allen Hamilton Frank McKinney Group, LLC Duke Translational Medicine Institute Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC Gartner ECRI Institute Child Health Duke Translational Medicine Institute Gensa Corporation Emory University, Research and Health Science IT Andrew Spooner, MD Eclipsys Corporation Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Estonian eHealth Foundation Epic Systems Corporation GSI Health, LLC European Medicines Agency Prove Beneficial to National Efforts European Medicines Agency Guidewire Architecture Fauji Foundation Pakistan Food and Drug Administration Hashrocket Georgia Medical Care Foundation By S. Andrew Spooner, MD and Feliciano “Pele” Yu, MD, HL7 Child Health Work Group Co-Chairs GE Healthcare IT Healthcare Data Assets Health Information and Quality Authority GlaxoSmithKline Healthcare Integration Technologies HIMSS IBM HealthCare Technologies Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Electronic Health Record (EHR) The profile is now being used by a project that originated Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group HLN Consulting, LLC HSE - Health Service Executive InterSystems Hubbert Systems Consulting ICCBBA, Inc. systems are often built with adult pa- from the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthoriza- Kaiser Permanente Implementing Technologies Illinois Department of Public Health tients in mind and do not optimally tion Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), which calls for development of Lockheed Martin Information Technology Architect, Inc. Illinois Healthcare and Family Services McKesson Provider Technologies Intelligent Health Systems Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Taiwan support the provision of healthcare a model EHR Format for children enrolled in Medicaid or Microsoft Corporation IT Broadcasting Iowa Department of Public Health to children. In 2008, the HL7 Child the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The leg- NHS Connecting for Health Laboratoire Bio-Medic, Inc. Iowa Foundation for Medical Care LMI JSS Medical Research NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands Feliciano Yu, MD Health Work Group published the islation mandated that by January 1, 2010, the Secretary of Novartis Lockheed Martin Kansas Department of Health & Environment HL7 Child Health Functional Profile the Department of Health and Human Services establish a Oracle Corporation - Healthcare Mainstream Health, Inc. L.A. County Dept of Public Health Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Matricis Informatique Inc. LA County Probation Department for EHR Systems as a guide for vendors and providers in program to encourage the development and dissemination Meddius Medical Research Council Pfizer Inc. the US developing and using electronic medical record of a model EHR Format for children. The project’s goal Philips Healthcare MedQuist, Inc. Medical University of South Carolina Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Medtronic Ministry of Health - Slovenia systems for child healthcare. The profile is a companion is to develop a model Format, demonstrate that it can be Multimodal Technologies, Inc. Minnesota Department of Health Siemens Healthcare standard to the HL7 EHR-System Functional Model (EHR-S readily used, and package it in a way t hat facilitates broad St. Jude Medical newMentor Multimedia Development Corporation (MDec) US Department of Defense, Military Health System Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. N.A.A.C.C.R. FM), and it became an ANSI-approved American National incorporation into EHR systems. US Department of Veterans Affairs OTech, Inc. NACHRI Pervasive Software NANDA International Standard in January 2009. Supporters Pro-Active Revenue Solutions National Association of Dental Plans The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Professional Laboratory Management, Inc. National Center for Health Statistics/CDC AEGIS.net, Inc. Ray Heath, LLC National Council for Prescription Drug Programs The profile represents consensus from the major US pe- and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Beeler Consulting LLC SabiaNet Inc National Institute of Standards and Technology diatric organizations on the critical EHR functionality for are sponsoring the project. Westat is the project’s prime Cellcura IHMedical ScenPro, Inc. National Library of Medicine Cgate Health, Inc. SEC Associates, Inc. National Quality Forum child healthcare, receiving strong support from the Ameri- contractor, and subcontractors include the American Corepoint Health SemanticBits, LLC New England Healthcare Exchange Network can Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), The American Board of Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. Shafarman Consulting New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Ctr. LINK Medical Computing, Inc. Tech-Time, Inc. NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands Pediatrics (ABP), Child Health Corporation of American of Pediatrics (AAP), Duke University, Fox Systems, Inc., Mediture The Diebold Company of Canada NIH/Department of Clinical Reseach Informatics Sentillion, Inc. The Law Office of Jeffrey Chang North Carolina DHHS-DMH/DD/SAS (CHCA) and National Association of Children’s Hospitals Intermountain Healthcare, and the University of Mary- SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS ELEARNING The St. John Group, LLC OA-ITSD - Department of Mental Health and Related Institutions (NACHRI). Because of this, and land. The project team, which includes a panel of a dozen TPJ Systems, Inc. Ochsner Medical Foundation Consultants Vangent, Inc. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT the benefits of undergoing a vigorous review through the technical experts, is reviewing the profile’s requirements 3rd Millennium, Inc. Wovenware Ohio Health Information Partnerships open HL7 standards development process, the profile is a as one source of information for the model Format. Three 5AM Solutions, Inc. Pennsylvania Dept of Health-Bureau of Information Accenture General Interest Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Agency valuable tool for assessing what is needed in an EHR sys- HL7 Child Health Work Group co-chairs are participating Accuregsoftware Agency for Health Care Administration Phast ACOM Solutions tem that might be used to care for c hildren. on the panel. A draft version of the Format will be avail- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Public Health Data Standards Consortium AHIS - St. John Providence Health Alliance for Pediatric Quality SAMHSA able March 2011 for assessment by CHIPRA demonstration Alschuler Associates, LLC American Assoc. of Veterinary Lab Diagnosticians SC Dept. of Health & Environmental Control HS Anakam, Inc. Over the previous two years, the profile has been used in projects in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. American Health Information Management Association SEECS NUST Aprico Consultants American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) Social Security Administration two highly visible national efforts in the United States. It Aquashell IT Solutions Corp. American Medical Association Software and Technology Vendors’ Association BC Provincial Renal Agency was first used a resource for the Certification Commission The HL7 Child Health Work Group is providing input into AORN Southwest Research Institute Booz Allen Hamilton Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of Health for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) as its Child the work underway on Release 2 of the HL7 EHR-S FM and CAL2CAL Corporation Cabinet for Health and Family Services Tennessee Department of Health Canon Development Americas Health Work Group defined certification criteria for EHR has plans to publish Release 2 for the Child Health Profile California Department of Health Care Services Texas Association of Community Health Centers, Inc. CentriHealth California HealthCare Foundation Texas Department of State Health Services - Lab systems. The profile’s criteria for topics such as immuni- shortly after, incorporating good feedback from the above- College of American Pathologists CAQH Texas Health and Human Services Commission CSG zation management, growth tracking, medication dosing, mentioned CCHIT and CHIPRA efforts. For more informa- Cardiovascular/Metabolic Ctr: Ramathibodi Hospital The Joint Commission Dapasoft Inc. Carilion Clinic The MITRE Corporation data norms and privacy were used as starting points in tion, contact Joy Kuhl at [email protected]. Deloitte CDISC US Department of Health & Human Services Diagnostic Radiology and Oncology Services developing specific certification criteria for child healthcare. CEI Community Mental Health Authority University HealthSystem Consortium Dinalex Technology Solutions Inc. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston As of October 2010, forty ambulatory EHR vendor products DPSciences Corp Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services US Army Institute of Surgical Research Eastern Informatics, Inc. are certified by CCHIT for child healthcare (list available at College of Healthcare Information Mgmt. Executives USDA APHIS VS CIO Edifecs, Inc. Com of Mass Department of Public Health Utah Health Information Network www.cchit.org). eGeeks, LLC Delta Dental Plans Association Vermont Oxford Network Electro-Optical Sciences, Inc. Department of Developmental Services Washington State Department of Health 24 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 13

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 22 12/16/10 10:32:02 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 11 12/16/10 10:31:33 AM Report from the HL7 International AFFILIATE CONTACTS Council Meeting Catherine Chronaki HL7 Argentina HL7 Czech Republic HL7 Korea HL7 Sweden Diego Kaminker Libor Seidl Byoung-Kee Yi, PhD Gustav Alvfeldt in Cambridge Phone: +54-11-4781-2898 Phone: +420-775-387691 (Interim Chair) Phone: +82 234101944 Email: diego.kaminker Email: [email protected] Phone: +82 234101944 Email: [email protected] By Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director, HL7 International Board of Directors, @kern-it.com.ar Email: [email protected] International Council Co-Chair—Affiliate Liaison HL7 Finland HL7 Switzerland HL7 Australia Niilo Saranummi HL7 New Zealand Beat Heggli On Sunday October 3, the HL7 Inter- The program has recently launched reported on the dissolution of HL7 David Rowlands Phone: +41-1-806-1164 national Council had its open meeting a webinar series, which has been re- Ireland, and the strong prospects Phone: +61-420-306-556 Phone: +358-20-722-3300 David Hay attended by more than 100 participants ceived with enthusiasm and increas- toward the creation of HL7 Puerto Rico Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +64-9-638-9286 Email: from some 30 countries. In the opening ing interest by the global HL7 and and HL7 Bosnia Herzegovina. He also Email: [email protected] session, co-chairs Catherine Chronaki, healthcare IT community. noted several weak affiliates that need HL7 France [email protected] Robert Stegwee, and Helen Stevens support from the International Mentor- HL7 Austria welcomed HL7 Pakistan, the newest Jill also reported on the University Pro- ing Committee, volunteers and affiliate Stefan Sabutsch Nicolas Canu Phone: HL7 Taiwan member of the International Council gram, which aims to increase the pres- leadership to regain momentum. Phone: +43-664-3132505 Phone: +33 02-35-60-41-97 HL7 Norway Chien-Tsai Liu, PhD which aims to further promote adop- ence of HL7 and other health informa- Email: stefan.sabutsch Email: [email protected] Espen Moeller Phone: +886-2-25526990 tion of HL7 standards in Asia. tion technology standards as part of the Affiliate Liaison Report @fh-joanneum.at Phone: +47 97008186 Email: [email protected] Catherine Chronaki, in her affiliate HL7 Germany Email: Espen.Moller@ liaison report, noted several events and HL7 Brazil Bernd Blobel, PhD oslo-universitetssykehus.no HL7 The Netherlands conferences that were organized or Marivan Santiago Abrahao Phone: 49-941-944-6769 Robert Stegwee, MSc, PhD supported by members of the Interna- Phone: +55-11-3045-3045 Email: bernd.blobel@klinik. HL7 Pakistan Phone: +31-30-689-2730 tional Council: HL7 Italia Open Days Email: [email protected] (Role, September 2010), ISPHEP 2010 uni-regensburg.de Dr. Hafiz Farooq Ahmad Email: in Zagreb, Croatia (HL7 Croatia), HL7 HL7 Canada Phone: +92 51-90852155 [email protected] Asia Pacific Conference in Taiwan, and HL7 Greece Email: [email protected] the EFMI STC Conference in Reykjavik Michael van Campen sponsored by the International Council. Phone: +1-250-881-4568 George Patoulis, MD, MPH HL7 Turkey Email: Michael.vanCampen Phone: +30-210-8067888 HL7 Romania Ergin Soysal Health Story Project Report @GPinformatics.com Email: [email protected] Florica Moldoveanu, PhD Email: [email protected] HL7 Chair Bob Dolin, MD, presented Phone: +40-21-4115781 on the Health Story Project, a US- HL7 Chile HL7 Hong Kong Email: florica.moldoveanu HL7 UK driven effort to standardize transcripts Sergio Konig Chung Ping Ho @rdslink.ro Charlie Bishop of clinical documents that form part of Phone: +56-2-7697996 Phone: +852 34883762 Phone: +44-8700-112-866 Electronic Health Records using CDA Email: [email protected] implementation guides and a rigor- Email: [email protected] HL7 Russia Email: [email protected] ous conformance testing process. The Tatyana Zarubina MD, PhD HL7 China presentation triggered a vibrant discus- HL7 India Phone: +007-495-434-55-82 HL7 Uruguay Graphical representation depicting the growing number of HL7 affiliates Caiyou Wang sion on the transition from realm-based Bimal Naik Email: [email protected] Selene Indarte implementation guides to global or Phone: +86-010-82801546 Reports from the CEO, the CTO, and curriculum at universities. The program international ones. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +5985-711-0711 the JIC followed. recently completed the pilot of “Case HL7 Singapore Email: [email protected] of Health Care Interoperability Stan- HL7 Around the World HL7 Colombia HL7 Italy Ho Khai Leng Marketing Council Report dards,” a slide deck of 56 slides as part The last session allowed HL7 affiliates Fernando A. Portilla Stefano Lotti Email: Jill Kaufman’s report from the Mar- of the HL7 University Program Curricu- the opportunity to present develop- Phone: +57-2-5552334 x41 Email: [email protected] [email protected] keting Council discussed progress on lum 2010. University professors around ments from their affiliates sharing their Email: [email protected] the Ambassador Program, an initia- the world are welcome to contact HL7 concerns, roadblocks, progress, and tive that will be led from now on by and receive the slide deck to use it as success stories. HL7 Japan HL7 Spain Grant Wood, co-chair of the Marketing party of their course material. HL7 Croatia Michio Kimura, MD, PhD Carlos Gallego Perez Council. The Ambassador Program co- The report from HL7 Pakistan delivered Stanko Tonkovic, PhD Phone: +81-3-3506-8010 Phone: +34-93-693-18-03 Phone: +385-1-6129-932 ordinates the creation of standardized Due Diligence by Muhammad Afzal, received warm Email: Email: [email protected] short presentations for conferences Email: [email protected] Committee Report applause by the members of the coun- [email protected] and other events to promote aware- Michael van Campen, chair of the cil, for the elegant design of the HL7 ness of key HL7 technical work. Affiliate Due Diligence Committee, Pakistan website and logo, the mission 14 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 23

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 12 12/16/10 10:31:34 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 21 12/16/10 10:32:01 AM devoted to Healthcare record project known as DP (“Dos- Information Tech- sier Pharmaceutique”) that uses CDA nology (HIT) in 90 which has gained significant momen- Save the date for regions. He also noted tum in several regions across France. that JAMI, along with the Ministry of Progress can be monitored online for Health, is engaging different regions at as c an be seen on- HIMSS 2011 in a road show April line at http://www.ordre.pharmacien. 16-26, 2011 to teach fr/DP/index9.htm. HIT standards and February 20-24, 2011 possible applications At the same time, the DMP (“Dossier Orlando, FL in healthcare. This Médical Partagé”) project aims to go policy turns out to be live in December 2010. The underlying quite successful as the Interoperability Framework is based Join us in the HL7 Booth (#5863) number of HIS, ca- on HL7 CDA plus IHE XDS, while sev- at the HIMSS 2011 Exhibit pable of exporting or- eral target profiles are planned for CDA der entry data in HL7 level 3: Lab report, Anatomic pathol- HL7 Pakistan Website Version 2.5 format is ogy report, Hospital discharge report, HL7 will once again offer a variety of 594 (March 2010). Multidisciplinary meeting report (can- education sessions covering HL7 stan- statement “to promote and facilitate cer case), Birth certificate, etc. dards and current industry topics. Visit the development and use of HL7 and HL7 Taiwan Chair Chien-Tsai Liu our booth to learn more about how HL7 related standards to meet Pakistan reported that the efforts in Taiwan Nicolas also reiterated HL7 France’s in- eHealth needs” and the slogan “Health concentrate on developing transaction terest in hosting the Spring 2012 WGM. and HL7 standards contribute to mean- with standard.” ingful use and are helping change the and profiles for the exchange of EHRs face of healthcare IT. including medical imaging reports and HL7 Australia presented the Interna- HL7 Canada Chair Michael van discharge summaries, laboratory blood tional Council with the latest informa- Campen presented HL7 develop- test orders and reports, as well as tion on the January WGM which will ments from Canada. He revisited the outpatient medication reports. At the be held in Sydney. For more details on Canada Infoway Standards Col- same time, HL7 Taiwan contributes in this meeting, please visit http://www. HL7 Benefactors laborative including ISO, IHTSDO, assessing goals of EMR adoption. For hl7.org.au/Sydney2011.htm and HL7 Canada, which may soon as of November 15, 2010 2010, the goal of EHR adoption within include IHE Canada and possibly hospitals has been reached by 76%, in The reports from HL7 Around the GS1. This fruitful collaboration and primary clinics 100%, and across hos- World in Cambridge, MA are avail- synergy has brought wide adoption of pitals 14%, for exchange of medical able for download at the pages of the HL7 Version 3 specifications includ- images and radiology reports. International Council at http://www. ing: Chiro/Physio Claims (Ontario), hl7.org/library/committees/intl/HL7_ Pharmacy Claims (Newfoundland, HL7 France Chair Nicolas Canu report- around_the_world_oct_2010.zip PEI), Client and Provider registries ed on the progress of the pharmacy (in most regions), Diagnostic Imaging (BC/Yukon, Saskatchewan, Mani- toba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland), Lab (BC, Centers for Disease Ontario (v2), Quebec, Nova Scotia), Control and Prevention Pharmacy dispensation (Newfound- land, PEI, Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC (v2), Quebec), ePrescribing (Ontario, underway), Discharge Summary & eReferrals using CDA/Shared Health Record (Ontario, Nova Scotia), and Immunization (PEI, Newfoundland).

Prof. Ken Toyoda from HL7 Japan US Department shared the fact that several HL7 of Defense standards (i.e. CDA R2 Referral docu- Military Health System ment and HL7 Version 2.5 message for prescriptions and lab examination results, disease classifications) are now endorsed and subsidized by the Ministry of Health in Japan. More- over, he stated that as part of the Re- gional Healthcare Revitalization Fund (3B Yen), more than 10-15% will b e DP Pharmacy Record Project in France 22 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 15

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 20 12/16/10 10:32:00 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 13 12/16/10 10:31:37 AM The Domain Specific Language Congratulations ttttttttttttttttttttt GELLO: of Healthcare To the following people who passed the HL7 Certification Exams By Dr. Andrew McIntyre (FRACP, MBBS), Director of R&D, Medical-Objects, Australia Certified HL7 Pooja Gandhi July 21, 2010 Certified HL7 The journey from idea to implementation can be a long known as a Virtual Medical Record (VMR) and perform V2.5/2.6 Chapter 2 Manas Goel Barbara A. Collinson Version 3 one, but all long journeys begin with a single step. For logic processing on the results of the query and answer a Control Specialist Puneet Goenka Chris L. Brown RIM Specialist Medical-Objects, that step was a research and develop- clinical question. GELLO, unlike OCL, has a well-defined Akash Gupta Douglas A. Clayton ment project to explore ways of streamlining registry BNF grammar and operators, and is optimized for deal- Surbhit Sunil Jain Guenther C. Hertel July 15, 2010 July 15, 2010 reporting for lymphoma treatment in Australia. This ing with HL7 data objects rather than base OCL types. Anjali Kale Hui H. Sun Shamila R. Amarasekera Andrei M. Garine project was sponsored by the Australian Federal Gov- This allows clinical logic to be well-defined, concise and Mayank Kapoor Jody S. Seigle Nicolas S. Babiuch Sathyanarayana V Kovour ernment, through their Information Technology Online standardized. It also creates a language for defining for- Anubhav Kumar Lynne J. Hemsteger Edward G. Bartholomew Bruce D. McKinnon (ITOL) initiative. mulae for calculated values and quality criteria. GELLO’s Shyam Bahadur S. Maurya Marc A. Waterloo Courtney L. Bush Srikanth Suri logic processing abilities can make the definition of qual- Lokesh Meena Mary O. Jarquin James R. Curry The project was scoped to explore options rather than ity criteria or calculated values, for example, much more Jiten Pujara Neelima Chennamaraja Pravat K. Das October 7, 2010 determine a final solution. The initial thoughts were to natural than encoding the logic into XML constructs. Vishnuvarthan S Seth J. Puckett Cathy B. DeVos Muhammad Afzal hard code a GLIF-like (Guideline Interchange Format) Criteria or formula can then become directly executable. Sandeep Kr. Upadhyay Sherry Z. Wang Maha A. Elomeri Christopher E. Dedels application that enabled data collection from clinicians Akhilesh Yadav Srinath Vala Kathryn W. Garber Robert R. Hausam and subsequent transmission of summary data to a GELLO can solve the “Curly Brace Problem” of Arden Raj K. Iyer Alexander Henket cancer registry. The process of understanding a domain Syntax (i.e. standardize the content of these) and can be September 18, 2010 October 7, 2010 Raza H. Rizvi Michael Rossman is an iterative one, however, and it became clear that the used as an executable clinical query and logic language Dr. Syed Manzoor Ahmed Carmela A. Couderc Roderick D. Stitt final domain model would continue to change and hard from any executable environment. GELLO does not try Syed Salman Pasha.G Isabelle Gibaud Bryan R. Van Hoorn HL7 Canada coding the model and logic would not allow enough flex- to be a natural language environment, but rather tries to Derrick Sequeira Rich M. Kernan

ibility to support the iterative development of the logic. be a small precise language with unambiguous logic. An Natasha Sony Michael LaRocca October 7, 2010 Rajani Kumari June 29, 2010 A decision was made early on to implement a framework important safety feature of GELLO is that it is read-only Bruce D. McKinnon Mary E. Anthony Tappali Ekanathan Keestu Rajan Sharma that allowed configurable workflows and logic. Since the and its limited functionality makes it safer to execute in a Thomas P. Pole Christopher M. language “GELLO” was part of the GLIF project (GELLO network connected environment. The results of GELLO Mitra A. Rocca Bartholomew HL7 Spain July 13, 2010 is derived from “Object Orientated Guideline Expression expression can be returned to the medical record, but it Michael Tan Prasanth Chowdary Hamid Babanari Language”) and an HL7 standard, it seemed a logical does not aim to have this ability directly as it is a side Nwe Ni Tun Gottipati June 30, 2010 choice. The project continued in two streams with paral- effect of free language. Robert T. Yencha August 18, 2010 Kyung Jun Eduardo López lel development of domain modelling and GLIF/GELLO Eric E. Maillet Debra A. LaPierre Jacinto Macías and continuous integration between the two streams. The aim of GELLO is not to replace programmers, but to HL7 India Atul G. Patel Salvador Trujillo Sánchez allow clinicians with domain expertise to at least read, and HL7 Romania Jessica L. Stensrud David Anaya The existing GELLO standard was very helpful; however, mostly understand, the underlying logic that drives clinical July 31, 2010 Rodney D. Terrell Mario Villacé Díez during the project it became clear that the language had decision support. This logic can then be shared in an un- Sameer Desai July 17, 2010 Shuren Wang Nicolás Francisco not previously been implemented and there were errors ambiguous way. While the logic can be directly executed by González López Sanjeev Kumar Akanksha Arora in the grammar and documentation that needed resolu- a GELLO compiler, it can also be translated, either manually Rajesh Kisinchand Sajda Pooja Bansal HL7 Canada Juan Gabriel Castillo tion. Given that GELLO was OCL-based (Object Con- or automatically, into local implementation languages for Román Jyoti Dewani straint Language), we sought out all the OCL documenta- use. In many cases, this is achieved by the use of a GELLO HL7 Korea Sunil Kumar July 13, 2010 tion we could find for clues and read all the preceding interpreter, which has been our approach. Amit Malhotra Hamid Babanari July 1, 2010 documentation surrounding the GELLO project in HL7. Joaquin CerdÁ Enguix September 11, 2010 Sunny Sharma The result of this work was a new Backus-Naur Form Since we completed the original project, we have con- Hangchang Kim HL7 India Victor Bas Sanchis (BNF) grammar for GELLO that supported the existing tinued to find many places where GELLO solves difficult José Luis Bayo Montón Jeong Hun Ye July 31, 2010 examples and made production of a working GELLO problems. Its largest real world usage is in an HL7 Ver- Swapnil D. Bhojane July 17, 2010 Antonio Martínez Millana compiler possible. This grammar has been successfully sion 2-based laboratory and clinical system templates for HL7 Spain Vaishali K. Desai Anjali Gupta Álvaro Martínez Romero balloted by HL7 as GELLO, Release 2. Our journey from calculation of customized reference ranges and calculat- Lekh Raj Meena Dharam Veer Singh idea to the creation of a revised standard took four years; ed values such as eGFR and the Crohn’s Disease Activ- June 30, 2010 Ritesh Subramanian Manpreet Singh Dargan Certified HL7 CDA but the ideas behind GELLO can be traced 10 years back ity Index. It is ideally suited for more complex clinical Jaime Bercianos Yagnesh Arvind Vashi Pankaj Sharma to the team behind the GLIF project. decision support. We are currently actively involved in Specialist Nirmala Vishal Nayyar the Virtual Medical Record (VMR) project which aims July1, 2010 GELLO is a “Domain Specific Language” (DSL) which is to create a standardized model for a snapshot patient July 15, 2010 Javier Corbin SÁnchez HL7 Spain July 31, 2010 defined by Martin Fowler as “A computer programming history. This will allow standardized logic for a wide Bernard M. Chester Jose Colomer Gómez Arvind N. Agrawal language of limited expressiveness focused on a particu- range of more complex clinical problems such as analysis Phillip J. Frigo Juana Caldentey July 1, 2010 Abhishek Aiyangar Adam A. Gronsky lar domain.” GELLO is based on OCL and was a subset of pedigree data and drug-disease interactions. Making Julián César Amer Oliver José Luis Bayo Montón Aniket D. Bartake Chad E. Peterson of OCL with some additions, but given recent additions VMR models executable using GELLO enables standard- Álvaro Martínez Romero Niranjan Deshpande Luis A. Rivera to OCL, it may become a subset again. Anyone with OCL ized, sharable logic to be developed for clinical decision Roshan Eric Fernandes experience would have no problems writing GELLO, support and quality criteria. which is essentially the query part of OCL 2. It has the ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt ability to query an abstract model of the medical record 16 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 21

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 14 12/16/10 10:31:38 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 19 12/16/10 10:31:47 AM International HL7 Interoperability Conference 2011: Save the date for MIE 2011 The Tomorrowland Stan Huff, MD of Health By Anne Moen, RN, PhD, Chair of the Norwegian Society of Medical Informatics and Associate Professor By Stan Huff, MD, US Representative to the Affiliate Council and IHIC 2011 Program Co-Chair Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway Call for Papers • Home devices, Continua The MIE2011 contract We are currently inviting the submission of two-page • Community extended abstracts for the 12th International HL7 In- between EFMI (Eu- • Smoking, obesity teroperability Conference which will be held May 13 – 14 ropean Federation of just prior to the May HL7 Working Group Meeting May • Beacon grants Medical Informatics) 15 – 20 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Participants will • Behavior change and FDH (Norwegian present and discuss HL7 related projects, implementa- Society for Medical In- • Electronic aids for aging a nd independence tion experience and deployment strategies related to the formatics) was signed • PHR, Google Health, Health Vault, recreational theme of the conference. during the HL7 hosted genetics reception at MedIn- Following the success of previous IHIC venues in Brazil Next generation architecture fo2010 in Cape Town (2010), Japan (2009), Greece (2008), IHIC2011 aims to • Next Generation EHR in September. MIE2011 serve as a meeting place for more than 30 HL7 affiliates • SOA in health care is the 23rd European around the world as well as individuals interested in Medical Informatics interoperability and standards, to share their HL7 imple- • SMArt platform conference, and takes mentation experience and strengthen the shared vision for • Health care and the semantic web place in Oslo, Norway, a future of integrated high quality trusted eHealth services. • Modeling: LRA, openEHR, DCMs, and Clinical August 28-31, 2011. Stig Kjær Andersen, EFMI Executive Officer Petter Hurlen, MIE2011 LOC Chair John Mantas, EFMI President Anne Moen, Chair of FDH, MIE2011 SPC Co-Chair at contract signing at the HL7 Element Models MedInfo reception. Topics The chosen theme Appropriate to the venue in Orlando, the theme of the Format And Submission for MIE2011, “User Centered Networked Health Care,” ment for sustainable use, as well as new challenges when conference is “The Tomorrowland of Health.” Specific Papers should be formatted according to the: IEEE format continues discussions of current and future challenges health professionals collaborate in (virtual) teams with topics include: (http://www.hl7.org.gr/ihic2008/IEEE_template.doc). for the health informatics field. The conference open- colleagues and patients. In this regard, we look forward Meaningful use ing will commence at Akershus University Hospital, one to collaborations with HL7 International, the European • Security, privacy, and confidentiality Papers should be submitted by email to [email protected] of the technologically most advanced health facilities in Office and national chapters to explore opportunities and • How to generate value from incentive money by January 31, 2011 Europe. We will offer interactive workshops to feature topics for longer-term activities. We look forward to see- (final deadline) the hospital’s extensive experience with advanced health ing you all in Oslo. • Certification of systems technologies, as well as tours through the hospital, focus- • Interoperability framework Important Dates ing on Health Care of the Future (HP Global Centre of Simulation, virtual environment Deadline for Submissions: January 31, 2011 Excellence), Integrated EHR, digitalized radiology and • Virtual hospitals Response to authors: February 28, 2011 laboratory. Camera-ready papers due: March 31, 2011 • Virtual training Event Venue: Lake Buena Vista, Orlando Florida, MIE2011 is a primary venue for the European health infor- • Robotic surgery May 13 – 14, 2011 matics community. Therefore, we welcome the full range • The virtual patient of original health and biomedical informatics research • Social networking IHIC 2011 Program Co-Chairs and innovation. This includes health records, standards Stanley Huff, MD, Intermountain Healthcare Future of Personal Health for i nteroperability, social software, strategies for user in- William Edward Hammond, PhD, Duke Center for volvement, user-centered support to patient care, develop- • Mobile devices Health Informatics

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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 18 12/16/10 10:31:45 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 15 12/16/10 10:31:39 AM ISHEP 2010 Workshop Recap Interoperability and Standards Miroslav Koncar in Healthcare – European Perspective By Miroslav Koncar, ISHEP Program Organizing Committee and Vice Chair, HL7 Croatia

ISHEP 2010 was planned by HL7 Croatia, Croatian Society opening keynote was delivered by Benoît Abeloos, ICT for Presenters for the panel discussion on “Perspectives of eHealth in Southeast Europe.” for Medical Informatics and Slovenian Society for Medical Health Unit, DG Information Society and Media, Europe- Informatics. The event was organized under the auspices an Commission and was entitled “eHealth Interoperability A highlight of the program was the panel discussion The second day of the workshop featured an invited of the Ministry of Health of Republic of Slovenia, and and Standardization: a European perspective”. entitled “Perspectives of eHealth in Southeast Europe,” talk by Catherine Chronaki on “HL7 Standards – State Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Republic of Croa- which included representatives from the Croatian, of the World“ and educational seminars on HL7 CDA tia. The organizers invited healthcare executives, opinion Other presentations included: Slovenian and BiH Ministries of Health and was moder- by Rene Spronk, IHE Interoperability profiles by Charles leaders, physicians, industry and solution vendors, and all • Jos Devlies from EUROREC on “Through functional ated by Smiljana Slavec Voncina and Miroslav Koncar. Parisot, and a EHR-Q-TN workshop by Vesna Ilakovac, other stakeholders for a two-day workshop to present and harmonization to interoperability of EHR systems” The distinguished panelists, together with wider audi- Jos Devlies, Rolf Engelbrecht and Leo Ciglenecki. discuss best practices in standards development and imple- • Rolf Engelbrech, ProRec-DE on “Communication of ence, discussed their experience and expectations from mentations of healthcare IT solutions from top projects in EHRs and other data”, eHealth projects. More information on ISHEP 2010 is available at http:// the region. The main purpose was to exchange experiences • Stanko Tonkovic, Chair of HL7 Croatia on “HL7 www.ishep.org regarding eHealth strategy execution, costs vs. benefits Standards in Croatia” analysis, integration challenges, user friendliness, perfor- • Smiljana Slavec Voncina, CIO Ministry of Health of mance, reliability and security. Organized for the first time Republic of Slovenia on “Standardisation in eHealth this year, the conference featured several distinguished project in Slovenia” lecturers and attracted more than 120 participants. • Ranko Stevanovic, Head of Primary Health Care Upcoming INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Department, Croatian Public Health Institute on “Primary Healthcare Information System Project in The opening welcome was delivered by Prof. Izet Aga- HL7 International Standards 12th International HL7 Croatia” novic, PhD, on behalf of the President of the Republic and Education Meeting– Interoperability Conference • Fredrik Linden, SKL/SALAR, epSOS Project Co- January Working Group Meeting Lake Buena Vista, FL of Croatia; Dr. Andrej Orel, president of the Slovenian ordinator on “Cross Boarder Interoperability with Sydney, Australia May 13 – 14, 2011 Society for Medical Informatics; and Mira Hercigonja- Patient Summaries and ePrescribing – experiences January 9 – 14, 2011 Please watch the HL7 website Szekeres, PhD, chair of the organizing committee.The from epSOS project” For more information, please visit for more information. http://www.HL7.org and http://www.hl7.org.au/ Sydney2011.htm eHealth 2011: Enabling Healthy Outcomes CDISC Interchange Europe Toronto, Canada Brussels, Belgium May 29 – June 1, 2011 April 11 – 15, 2011 For more information, please visit For more information, please visit http://www.e-healthconference.com/ http://www.cdisc.org/interchange

eHealth Conference 2011 / World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition MIE 2011 Budapest, Hungary Oslo, Norway May 10 – 13, 2011 August 28 – 31, 2011 For more information, please visit For more information, please visit http://www.worldofhealthit.org/ http://www.mie2011.org/ Izet Aganovich, PhD and Mira Hercigonja-Szekeres, PhD deliver the opening welcome comments at ISHEP 2010.

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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 16 12/16/10 10:31:42 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 17 12/16/10 10:31:44 AM ISHEP 2010 Workshop Recap Interoperability and Standards Miroslav Koncar in Healthcare – European Perspective By Miroslav Koncar, ISHEP Program Organizing Committee and Vice Chair, HL7 Croatia

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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 16 12/16/10 10:31:42 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 17 12/16/10 10:31:44 AM International HL7 Interoperability Conference 2011: Save the date for MIE 2011 The Tomorrowland Stan Huff, MD of Health By Anne Moen, RN, PhD, Chair of the Norwegian Society of Medical Informatics and Associate Professor By Stan Huff, MD, US Representative to the Affiliate Council and IHIC 2011 Program Co-Chair Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway Call for Papers • Home devices, Continua The MIE2011 contract We are currently inviting the submission of two-page • Community extended abstracts for the 12th International HL7 In- between EFMI (Eu- • Smoking, obesity teroperability Conference which will be held May 13 – 14 ropean Federation of just prior to the May HL7 Working Group Meeting May • Beacon grants Medical Informatics) 15 – 20 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Participants will • Behavior change and FDH (Norwegian present and discuss HL7 related projects, implementa- Society for Medical In- • Electronic aids for aging a nd independence tion experience and deployment strategies related to the formatics) was signed • PHR, Google Health, Health Vault, recreational theme of the conference. during the HL7 hosted genetics reception at MedIn- Following the success of previous IHIC venues in Brazil Next generation architecture fo2010 in Cape Town (2010), Japan (2009), Greece (2008), IHIC2011 aims to • Next Generation EHR in September. MIE2011 serve as a meeting place for more than 30 HL7 affiliates • SOA in health care is the 23rd European around the world as well as individuals interested in Medical Informatics interoperability and standards, to share their HL7 imple- • SMArt platform conference, and takes mentation experience and strengthen the shared vision for • Health care and the semantic web place in Oslo, Norway, a future of integrated high quality trusted eHealth services. • Modeling: LRA, openEHR, DCMs, and Clinical August 28-31, 2011. Stig Kjær Andersen, EFMI Executive Officer Petter Hurlen, MIE2011 LOC Chair John Mantas, EFMI President Anne Moen, Chair of FDH, MIE2011 SPC Co-Chair at contract signing at the HL7 Element Models MedInfo reception. Topics The chosen theme Appropriate to the venue in Orlando, the theme of the Format And Submission for MIE2011, “User Centered Networked Health Care,” ment for sustainable use, as well as new challenges when conference is “The Tomorrowland of Health.” Specific Papers should be formatted according to the: IEEE format continues discussions of current and future challenges health professionals collaborate in (virtual) teams with topics include: (http://www.hl7.org.gr/ihic2008/IEEE_template.doc). for the health informatics field. The conference open- colleagues and patients. In this regard, we look forward Meaningful use ing will commence at Akershus University Hospital, one to collaborations with HL7 International, the European • Security, privacy, and confidentiality Papers should be submitted by email to [email protected] of the technologically most advanced health facilities in Office and national chapters to explore opportunities and • How to generate value from incentive money by January 31, 2011 Europe. We will offer interactive workshops to feature topics for longer-term activities. We look forward to see- (final deadline) the hospital’s extensive experience with advanced health ing you all in Oslo. • Certification of systems technologies, as well as tours through the hospital, focus- • Interoperability framework Important Dates ing on Health Care of the Future (HP Global Centre of Simulation, virtual environment Deadline for Submissions: January 31, 2011 Excellence), Integrated EHR, digitalized radiology and • Virtual hospitals Response to authors: February 28, 2011 laboratory. Camera-ready papers due: March 31, 2011 • Virtual training Event Venue: Lake Buena Vista, Orlando Florida, MIE2011 is a primary venue for the European health infor- • Robotic surgery May 13 – 14, 2011 matics community. Therefore, we welcome the full range • The virtual patient of original health and biomedical informatics research • Social networking IHIC 2011 Program Co-Chairs and innovation. This includes health records, standards Stanley Huff, MD, Intermountain Healthcare Future of Personal Health for i nteroperability, social software, strategies for user in- William Edward Hammond, PhD, Duke Center for volvement, user-centered support to patient care, develop- • Mobile devices Health Informatics

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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 18 12/16/10 10:31:45 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 15 12/16/10 10:31:39 AM The Domain Specific Language Congratulations ttttttttttttttttttttt GELLO: of Healthcare To the following people who passed the HL7 Certification Exams By Dr. Andrew McIntyre (FRACP, MBBS), Director of R&D, Medical-Objects, Australia Certified HL7 Pooja Gandhi July 21, 2010 Certified HL7 The journey from idea to implementation can be a long known as a Virtual Medical Record (VMR) and perform V2.5/2.6 Chapter 2 Manas Goel Barbara A. Collinson Version 3 one, but all long journeys begin with a single step. For logic processing on the results of the query and answer a Control Specialist Puneet Goenka Chris L. Brown RIM Specialist Medical-Objects, that step was a research and develop- clinical question. GELLO, unlike OCL, has a well-defined Akash Gupta Douglas A. Clayton ment project to explore ways of streamlining registry BNF grammar and operators, and is optimized for deal- Surbhit Sunil Jain Guenther C. Hertel July 15, 2010 July 15, 2010 reporting for lymphoma treatment in Australia. This ing with HL7 data objects rather than base OCL types. Anjali Kale Hui H. Sun Shamila R. Amarasekera Andrei M. Garine project was sponsored by the Australian Federal Gov- This allows clinical logic to be well-defined, concise and Mayank Kapoor Jody S. Seigle Nicolas S. Babiuch Sathyanarayana V Kovour ernment, through their Information Technology Online standardized. It also creates a language for defining for- Anubhav Kumar Lynne J. Hemsteger Edward G. Bartholomew Bruce D. McKinnon (ITOL) initiative. mulae for calculated values and quality criteria. GELLO’s Shyam Bahadur S. Maurya Marc A. Waterloo Courtney L. Bush Srikanth Suri logic processing abilities can make the definition of qual- Lokesh Meena Mary O. Jarquin James R. Curry The project was scoped to explore options rather than ity criteria or calculated values, for example, much more Jiten Pujara Neelima Chennamaraja Pravat K. Das October 7, 2010 determine a final solution. The initial thoughts were to natural than encoding the logic into XML constructs. Vishnuvarthan S Seth J. Puckett Cathy B. DeVos Muhammad Afzal hard code a GLIF-like (Guideline Interchange Format) Criteria or formula can then become directly executable. Sandeep Kr. Upadhyay Sherry Z. Wang Maha A. Elomeri Christopher E. Dedels application that enabled data collection from clinicians Akhilesh Yadav Srinath Vala Kathryn W. Garber Robert R. Hausam and subsequent transmission of summary data to a GELLO can solve the “Curly Brace Problem” of Arden Raj K. Iyer Alexander Henket cancer registry. The process of understanding a domain Syntax (i.e. standardize the content of these) and can be September 18, 2010 October 7, 2010 Raza H. Rizvi Michael Rossman is an iterative one, however, and it became clear that the used as an executable clinical query and logic language Dr. Syed Manzoor Ahmed Carmela A. Couderc Roderick D. Stitt final domain model would continue to change and hard from any executable environment. GELLO does not try Syed Salman Pasha.G Isabelle Gibaud Bryan R. Van Hoorn HL7 Canada coding the model and logic would not allow enough flex- to be a natural language environment, but rather tries to Derrick Sequeira Rich M. Kernan ibility to support the iterative development of the logic. be a small precise language with unambiguous logic. An Natasha Sony Michael LaRocca October 7, 2010 Rajani Kumari June 29, 2010 A decision was made early on to implement a framework important safety feature of GELLO is that it is read-only Bruce D. McKinnon Mary E. Anthony Tappali Ekanathan Keestu Rajan Sharma that allowed configurable workflows and logic. Since the and its limited functionality makes it safer to execute in a Thomas P. Pole Christopher M. language “GELLO” was part of the GLIF project (GELLO network connected environment. The results of GELLO Mitra A. Rocca Bartholomew HL7 Spain July 13, 2010 is derived from “Object Orientated Guideline Expression expression can be returned to the medical record, but it Michael Tan Prasanth Chowdary Hamid Babanari Language”) and an HL7 standard, it seemed a logical does not aim to have this ability directly as it is a side Nwe Ni Tun Gottipati June 30, 2010 choice. The project continued in two streams with paral- effect of free language. Robert T. Yencha August 18, 2010 Kyung Jun Eduardo López lel development of domain modelling and GLIF/GELLO Eric E. Maillet Debra A. LaPierre Jacinto Macías and continuous integration between the two streams. The aim of GELLO is not to replace programmers, but to HL7 India Atul G. Patel Salvador Trujillo Sánchez allow clinicians with domain expertise to at least read, and HL7 Romania Jessica L. Stensrud David Anaya The existing GELLO standard was very helpful; however, mostly understand, the underlying logic that drives clinical July 31, 2010 Rodney D. Terrell Mario Villacé Díez during the project it became clear that the language had decision support. This logic can then be shared in an un- Sameer Desai July 17, 2010 Shuren Wang Nicolás Francisco not previously been implemented and there were errors ambiguous way. While the logic can be directly executed by González López Sanjeev Kumar Akanksha Arora in the grammar and documentation that needed resolu- a GELLO compiler, it can also be translated, either manually Rajesh Kisinchand Sajda Pooja Bansal HL7 Canada Juan Gabriel Castillo tion. Given that GELLO was OCL-based (Object Con- or automatically, into local implementation languages for Román Jyoti Dewani straint Language), we sought out all the OCL documenta- use. In many cases, this is achieved by the use of a GELLO HL7 Korea Sunil Kumar July 13, 2010 tion we could find for clues and read all the preceding interpreter, which has been our approach. Amit Malhotra Hamid Babanari July 1, 2010 documentation surrounding the GELLO project in HL7. Joaquin CerdÁ Enguix September 11, 2010 Sunny Sharma The result of this work was a new Backus-Naur Form Since we completed the original project, we have con- Hangchang Kim HL7 India Victor Bas Sanchis (BNF) grammar for GELLO that supported the existing tinued to find many places where GELLO solves difficult José Luis Bayo Montón Jeong Hun Ye July 31, 2010 examples and made production of a working GELLO problems. Its largest real world usage is in an HL7 Ver- Swapnil D. Bhojane July 17, 2010 Antonio Martínez Millana compiler possible. This grammar has been successfully sion 2-based laboratory and clinical system templates for HL7 Spain Vaishali K. Desai Anjali Gupta Álvaro Martínez Romero balloted by HL7 as GELLO, Release 2. Our journey from calculation of customized reference ranges and calculat- Lekh Raj Meena Dharam Veer Singh idea to the creation of a revised standard took four years; ed values such as eGFR and the Crohn’s Disease Activ- June 30, 2010 Ritesh Subramanian Manpreet Singh Dargan Certified HL7 CDA but the ideas behind GELLO can be traced 10 years back ity Index. It is ideally suited for more complex clinical Jaime Bercianos Yagnesh Arvind Vashi Pankaj Sharma to the team behind the GLIF project. decision support. We are currently actively involved in Specialist Nirmala Vishal Nayyar the Virtual Medical Record (VMR) project which aims July1, 2010 GELLO is a “Domain Specific Language” (DSL) which is to create a standardized model for a snapshot patient July 15, 2010 Javier Corbin SÁnchez HL7 Spain July 31, 2010 defined by Martin Fowler as “A computer programming history. This will allow standardized logic for a wide Bernard M. Chester Jose Colomer Gómez Arvind N. Agrawal language of limited expressiveness focused on a particu- range of more complex clinical problems such as analysis Phillip J. Frigo Juana Caldentey July 1, 2010 Abhishek Aiyangar Adam A. Gronsky lar domain.” GELLO is based on OCL and was a subset of pedigree data and drug-disease interactions. Making Julián César Amer Oliver José Luis Bayo Montón Aniket D. Bartake Chad E. Peterson of OCL with some additions, but given recent additions VMR models executable using GELLO enables standard- Álvaro Martínez Romero Niranjan Deshpande Luis A. Rivera to OCL, it may become a subset again. Anyone with OCL ized, sharable logic to be developed for clinical decision Roshan Eric Fernandes experience would have no problems writing GELLO, support and quality criteria. which is essentially the query part of OCL 2. It has the ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt ability to query an abstract model of the medical record 16 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 21

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 14 12/16/10 10:31:38 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 19 12/16/10 10:31:47 AM devoted to Healthcare record project known as DP (“Dos- Information Tech- sier Pharmaceutique”) that uses CDA nology (HIT) in 90 which has gained significant momen- Save the date for regions. He also noted tum in several regions across France. that JAMI, along with the Ministry of Progress can be monitored online for Health, is engaging different regions at as c an be seen on- HIMSS 2011 in a road show April line at http://www.ordre.pharmacien. 16-26, 2011 to teach fr/DP/index9.htm. HIT standards and February 20-24, 2011 possible applications At the same time, the DMP (“Dossier Orlando, FL in healthcare. This Médical Partagé”) project aims to go policy turns out to be live in December 2010. The underlying quite successful as the Interoperability Framework is based Join us in the HL7 Booth (#5863) number of HIS, ca- on HL7 CDA plus IHE XDS, while sev- at the HIMSS 2011 Exhibit pable of exporting or- eral target profiles are planned for CDA der entry data in HL7 level 3: Lab report, Anatomic pathol- HL7 Pakistan Website Version 2.5 format is ogy report, Hospital discharge report, HL7 will once again offer a variety of 594 (March 2010). Multidisciplinary meeting report (can- education sessions covering HL7 stan- statement “to promote and facilitate cer case), Birth certificate, etc. dards and current industry topics. Visit the development and use of HL7 and HL7 Taiwan Chair Chien-Tsai Liu our booth to learn more about how HL7 related standards to meet Pakistan reported that the efforts in Taiwan Nicolas also reiterated HL7 France’s in- eHealth needs” and the slogan “Health concentrate on developing transaction terest in hosting the Spring 2012 WGM. and HL7 standards contribute to mean- with standard.” ingful use and are helping change the and profiles for the exchange of EHRs face of healthcare IT. including medical imaging reports and HL7 Australia presented the Interna- HL7 Canada Chair Michael van discharge summaries, laboratory blood tional Council with the latest informa- Campen presented HL7 develop- test orders and reports, as well as tion on the January WGM which will ments from Canada. He revisited the outpatient medication reports. At the be held in Sydney. For more details on Canada Infoway Standards Col- same time, HL7 Taiwan contributes in this meeting, please visit http://www. HL7 Benefactors laborative including ISO, IHTSDO, assessing goals of EMR adoption. For hl7.org.au/Sydney2011.htm and HL7 Canada, which may soon as of November 15, 2010 2010, the goal of EHR adoption within include IHE Canada and possibly hospitals has been reached by 76%, in The reports from HL7 Around the GS1. This fruitful collaboration and primary clinics 100%, and across hos- World in Cambridge, MA are avail- synergy has brought wide adoption of pitals 14%, for exchange of medical able for download at the pages of the HL7 Version 3 specifications includ- images and radiology reports. International Council at http://www. ing: Chiro/Physio Claims (Ontario), hl7.org/library/committees/intl/HL7_ Pharmacy Claims (Newfoundland, HL7 France Chair Nicolas Canu report- around_the_world_oct_2010.zip PEI), Client and Provider registries ed on the progress of the pharmacy (in most regions), Diagnostic Imaging (BC/Yukon, Saskatchewan, Mani- toba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland), Lab (BC, Centers for Disease Ontario (v2), Quebec, Nova Scotia), Control and Prevention Pharmacy dispensation (Newfound- land, PEI, Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC (v2), Quebec), ePrescribing (Ontario, underway), Discharge Summary & eReferrals using CDA/Shared Health Record (Ontario, Nova Scotia), and Immunization (PEI, Newfoundland).

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 20 12/16/10 10:32:00 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 13 12/16/10 10:31:37 AM Report from the HL7 International AFFILIATE CONTACTS Council Meeting Catherine Chronaki HL7 Argentina HL7 Czech Republic HL7 Korea HL7 Sweden Diego Kaminker Libor Seidl Byoung-Kee Yi, PhD Gustav Alvfeldt in Cambridge Phone: +54-11-4781-2898 Phone: +420-775-387691 (Interim Chair) Phone: +82 234101944 Email: diego.kaminker Email: [email protected] Phone: +82 234101944 Email: [email protected] By Catherine Chronaki, Affiliate Director, HL7 International Board of Directors, @kern-it.com.ar Email: [email protected] International Council Co-Chair—Affiliate Liaison HL7 Finland HL7 Switzerland HL7 Australia Niilo Saranummi HL7 New Zealand Beat Heggli On Sunday October 3, the HL7 Inter- The program has recently launched reported on the dissolution of HL7 David Rowlands Phone: +41-1-806-1164 national Council had its open meeting a webinar series, which has been re- Ireland, and the strong prospects Phone: +61-420-306-556 Phone: +358-20-722-3300 David Hay attended by more than 100 participants ceived with enthusiasm and increas- toward the creation of HL7 Puerto Rico Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +64-9-638-9286 Email: from some 30 countries. In the opening ing interest by the global HL7 and and HL7 Bosnia Herzegovina. He also Email: [email protected] session, co-chairs Catherine Chronaki, healthcare IT community. noted several weak affiliates that need HL7 France [email protected] Robert Stegwee, and Helen Stevens support from the International Mentor- HL7 Austria welcomed HL7 Pakistan, the newest Jill also reported on the University Pro- ing Committee, volunteers and affiliate Stefan Sabutsch Nicolas Canu Phone: HL7 Taiwan member of the International Council gram, which aims to increase the pres- leadership to regain momentum. Phone: +43-664-3132505 Phone: +33 02-35-60-41-97 HL7 Norway Chien-Tsai Liu, PhD which aims to further promote adop- ence of HL7 and other health informa- Email: stefan.sabutsch Email: [email protected] Espen Moeller Phone: +886-2-25526990 tion of HL7 standards in Asia. tion technology standards as part of the Affiliate Liaison Report @fh-joanneum.at Phone: +47 97008186 Email: [email protected] Catherine Chronaki, in her affiliate HL7 Germany Email: Espen.Moller@ liaison report, noted several events and HL7 Brazil Bernd Blobel, PhD oslo-universitetssykehus.no HL7 The Netherlands conferences that were organized or Marivan Santiago Abrahao Phone: 49-941-944-6769 Robert Stegwee, MSc, PhD supported by members of the Interna- Phone: +55-11-3045-3045 Email: bernd.blobel@klinik. HL7 Pakistan Phone: +31-30-689-2730 tional Council: HL7 Italia Open Days Email: [email protected] (Role, September 2010), ISPHEP 2010 uni-regensburg.de Dr. Hafiz Farooq Ahmad Email: in Zagreb, Croatia (HL7 Croatia), HL7 HL7 Canada Phone: +92 51-90852155 [email protected] Asia Pacific Conference in Taiwan, and HL7 Greece Email: [email protected] the EFMI STC Conference in Reykjavik Michael van Campen sponsored by the International Council. Phone: +1-250-881-4568 George Patoulis, MD, MPH HL7 Turkey Email: Michael.vanCampen Phone: +30-210-8067888 HL7 Romania Ergin Soysal Health Story Project Report @GPinformatics.com Email: [email protected] Florica Moldoveanu, PhD Email: [email protected] HL7 Chair Bob Dolin, MD, presented Phone: +40-21-4115781 on the Health Story Project, a US- HL7 Chile HL7 Hong Kong Email: florica.moldoveanu HL7 UK driven effort to standardize transcripts Sergio Konig Chung Ping Ho @rdslink.ro Charlie Bishop of clinical documents that form part of Phone: +56-2-7697996 Phone: +852 34883762 Phone: +44-8700-112-866 Electronic Health Records using CDA Email: [email protected] implementation guides and a rigor- Email: [email protected] HL7 Russia Email: [email protected] ous conformance testing process. The Tatyana Zarubina MD, PhD HL7 China presentation triggered a vibrant discus- HL7 India Phone: +007-495-434-55-82 HL7 Uruguay Graphical representation depicting the growing number of HL7 affiliates Caiyou Wang sion on the transition from realm-based Bimal Naik Email: [email protected] Selene Indarte implementation guides to global or Phone: +86-010-82801546 Reports from the CEO, the CTO, and curriculum at universities. The program international ones. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +5985-711-0711 the JIC followed. recently completed the pilot of “Case HL7 Singapore Email: [email protected] of Health Care Interoperability Stan- HL7 Around the World HL7 Colombia HL7 Italy Ho Khai Leng Marketing Council Report dards,” a slide deck of 56 slides as part The last session allowed HL7 affiliates Fernando A. Portilla Stefano Lotti Email: Jill Kaufman’s report from the Mar- of the HL7 University Program Curricu- the opportunity to present develop- Phone: +57-2-5552334 x41 Email: [email protected] [email protected] keting Council discussed progress on lum 2010. University professors around ments from their affiliates sharing their Email: [email protected] the Ambassador Program, an initia- the world are welcome to contact HL7 concerns, roadblocks, progress, and tive that will be led from now on by and receive the slide deck to use it as success stories. HL7 Japan HL7 Spain Grant Wood, co-chair of the Marketing party of their course material. HL7 Croatia Michio Kimura, MD, PhD Carlos Gallego Perez Council. The Ambassador Program co- The report from HL7 Pakistan delivered Stanko Tonkovic, PhD Phone: +81-3-3506-8010 Phone: +34-93-693-18-03 Phone: +385-1-6129-932 ordinates the creation of standardized Due Diligence by Muhammad Afzal, received warm Email: Email: [email protected] short presentations for conferences Email: [email protected] Committee Report applause by the members of the coun- [email protected] and other events to promote aware- Michael van Campen, chair of the cil, for the elegant design of the HL7 ness of key HL7 technical work. Affiliate Due Diligence Committee, Pakistan website and logo, the mission 14 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 23

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 12 12/16/10 10:31:34 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 21 12/16/10 10:32:01 AM HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS Benefactors Evolvent Technologies Department of Health HL7 Standards in Abbott FEI.com DGS, Commonwealth of Virginia Accenture Forward Advantage, Inc. Div.of Medical Assistance, State of NJ Booz Allen Hamilton Frank McKinney Group, LLC Duke Translational Medicine Institute Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC Gartner ECRI Institute Child Health Duke Translational Medicine Institute Gensa Corporation Emory University, Research and Health Science IT Andrew Spooner, MD Eclipsys Corporation Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Estonian eHealth Foundation Epic Systems Corporation GSI Health, LLC European Medicines Agency Prove Beneficial to National Efforts European Medicines Agency Guidewire Architecture Fauji Foundation Pakistan Food and Drug Administration Hashrocket Georgia Medical Care Foundation By S. Andrew Spooner, MD and Feliciano “Pele” Yu, MD, HL7 Child Health Work Group Co-Chairs GE Healthcare IT Healthcare Data Assets Health Information and Quality Authority GlaxoSmithKline Healthcare Integration Technologies HIMSS IBM HealthCare Technologies Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Electronic Health Record (EHR) The profile is now being used by a project that originated Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group HLN Consulting, LLC HSE - Health Service Executive InterSystems Hubbert Systems Consulting ICCBBA, Inc. systems are often built with adult pa- from the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthoriza- Kaiser Permanente Implementing Technologies Illinois Department of Public Health tients in mind and do not optimally tion Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), which calls for development of Lockheed Martin Information Technology Architect, Inc. Illinois Healthcare and Family Services McKesson Provider Technologies Intelligent Health Systems Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Taiwan support the provision of healthcare a model EHR Format for children enrolled in Medicaid or Microsoft Corporation IT Broadcasting Iowa Department of Public Health to children. In 2008, the HL7 Child the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The leg- NHS Connecting for Health Laboratoire Bio-Medic, Inc. Iowa Foundation for Medical Care LMI JSS Medical Research NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands Feliciano Yu, MD Health Work Group published the islation mandated that by January 1, 2010, the Secretary of Novartis Lockheed Martin Kansas Department of Health & Environment HL7 Child Health Functional Profile the Department of Health and Human Services establish a Oracle Corporation - Healthcare Mainstream Health, Inc. L.A. County Dept of Public Health Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Matricis Informatique Inc. LA County Probation Department for EHR Systems as a guide for vendors and providers in program to encourage the development and dissemination Meddius Medical Research Council Pfizer Inc. the US developing and using electronic medical record of a model EHR Format for children. The project’s goal Philips Healthcare MedQuist, Inc. Medical University of South Carolina Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Medtronic Ministry of Health - Slovenia systems for child healthcare. The profile is a companion is to develop a model Format, demonstrate that it can be Multimodal Technologies, Inc. Minnesota Department of Health Siemens Healthcare standard to the HL7 EHR-System Functional Model (EHR-S readily used, and package it in a way t hat facilitates broad St. Jude Medical newMentor Multimedia Development Corporation (MDec) US Department of Defense, Military Health System Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. N.A.A.C.C.R. FM), and it became an ANSI-approved American National incorporation into EHR systems. US Department of Veterans Affairs OTech, Inc. NACHRI Pervasive Software NANDA International Standard in January 2009. Supporters Pro-Active Revenue Solutions National Association of Dental Plans The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Professional Laboratory Management, Inc. National Center for Health Statistics/CDC AEGIS.net, Inc. Ray Heath, LLC National Council for Prescription Drug Programs The profile represents consensus from the major US pe- and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Beeler Consulting LLC SabiaNet Inc National Institute of Standards and Technology diatric organizations on the critical EHR functionality for are sponsoring the project. Westat is the project’s prime Cellcura IHMedical ScenPro, Inc. National Library of Medicine Cgate Health, Inc. SEC Associates, Inc. National Quality Forum child healthcare, receiving strong support from the Ameri- contractor, and subcontractors include the American Corepoint Health SemanticBits, LLC New England Healthcare Exchange Network can Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), The American Board of Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. Shafarman Consulting New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Ctr. LINK Medical Computing, Inc. Tech-Time, Inc. NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands Pediatrics (ABP), Child Health Corporation of American of Pediatrics (AAP), Duke University, Fox Systems, Inc., Mediture The Diebold Company of Canada NIH/Department of Clinical Reseach Informatics Sentillion, Inc. The Law Office of Jeffrey Chang North Carolina DHHS-DMH/DD/SAS (CHCA) and National Association of Children’s Hospitals Intermountain Healthcare, and the University of Mary- SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS ELEARNING The St. John Group, LLC OA-ITSD - Department of Mental Health and Related Institutions (NACHRI). Because of this, and land. The project team, which includes a panel of a dozen TPJ Systems, Inc. Ochsner Medical Foundation Consultants Vangent, Inc. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT the benefits of undergoing a vigorous review through the technical experts, is reviewing the profile’s requirements 3rd Millennium, Inc. Wovenware Ohio Health Information Partnerships open HL7 standards development process, the profile is a as one source of information for the model Format. Three 5AM Solutions, Inc. Pennsylvania Dept of Health-Bureau of Information Accenture General Interest Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Agency valuable tool for assessing what is needed in an EHR sys- HL7 Child Health Work Group co-chairs are participating Accuregsoftware Agency for Health Care Administration Phast ACOM Solutions tem that might be used to care for c hildren. on the panel. A draft version of the Format will be avail- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Public Health Data Standards Consortium AHIS - St. John Providence Health Alliance for Pediatric Quality SAMHSA able March 2011 for assessment by CHIPRA demonstration Alschuler Associates, LLC American Assoc. of Veterinary Lab Diagnosticians SC Dept. of Health & Environmental Control HS Anakam, Inc. Over the previous two years, the profile has been used in projects in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. American Health Information Management Association SEECS NUST Aprico Consultants American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) Social Security Administration two highly visible national efforts in the United States. It Aquashell IT Solutions Corp. American Medical Association Software and Technology Vendors’ Association BC Provincial Renal Agency was first used a resource for the Certification Commission The HL7 Child Health Work Group is providing input into AORN Southwest Research Institute Booz Allen Hamilton Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of Health for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) as its Child the work underway on Release 2 of the HL7 EHR-S FM and CAL2CAL Corporation Cabinet for Health and Family Services Tennessee Department of Health Canon Development Americas Health Work Group defined certification criteria for EHR has plans to publish Release 2 for the Child Health Profile California Department of Health Care Services Texas Association of Community Health Centers, Inc. CentriHealth California HealthCare Foundation Texas Department of State Health Services - Lab systems. The profile’s criteria for topics such as immuni- shortly after, incorporating good feedback from the above- College of American Pathologists CAQH Texas Health and Human Services Commission CSG zation management, growth tracking, medication dosing, mentioned CCHIT and CHIPRA efforts. For more informa- Cardiovascular/Metabolic Ctr: Ramathibodi Hospital The Joint Commission Dapasoft Inc. Carilion Clinic The MITRE Corporation data norms and privacy were used as starting points in tion, contact Joy Kuhl at [email protected]. Deloitte CDISC US Department of Health & Human Services Diagnostic Radiology and Oncology Services developing specific certification criteria for child healthcare. CEI Community Mental Health Authority University HealthSystem Consortium Dinalex Technology Solutions Inc. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston As of October 2010, forty ambulatory EHR vendor products DPSciences Corp Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services US Army Institute of Surgical Research Eastern Informatics, Inc. are certified by CCHIT for child healthcare (list available at College of Healthcare Information Mgmt. Executives USDA APHIS VS CIO Edifecs, Inc. Com of Mass Department of Public Health Utah Health Information Network www.cchit.org). eGeeks, LLC Delta Dental Plans Association Vermont Oxford Network Electro-Optical Sciences, Inc. Department of Developmental Services Washington State Department of Health 24 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 13

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 22 12/16/10 10:32:02 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 11 12/16/10 10:31:33 AM HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, continued HL7 Static Model Payers Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital ACS Active Health Management, Inc. Lux Med AEGIS.net, Inc. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama Mayo Clinic Agilex Technologies Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina MedStar Health Information Systems Akimeka LLC Mercy Health Partners Alert Life Sciences Computing, Inc. Designer Tool Wilfred Bonney BMS Reimbursement Management CareSource Meridian Health Allied Medical LLC, dba SB Clinical Millennium Labs Allscripts-Misys By Wilfred Bonney, HL7 Tooling Administrator Health Care Service Corporation MedSolutions, Inc. Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Altos Solutions, Inc Premera Blue Cross MultiCare Health System Altova GmbH UnitedHealth Group National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics Amazing Charts Wisconsin Physicians Service Ins. Corp. Nationwide Laboratory Services, Inc. American Data The HL7 Static Model Designer (SMD) tool is a second of a sample static model (e.g. POLB_MT000001UV01) New York-Presbyterian Hospital American Health Care Software generation of HL7 Version 3 Message modeling tool in designed using the SMD tool. Pharmacy NHS Connecting for Health American HealthTech, Inc. Parkview Health AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group Eclipse platform. In its simplest form, the SMD tool is an Bristol-Myers Squibb Partners HealthCare System, Inc. AmkaiSolutions The Tooling Work Group has published “Beginners’ Eli Lilly and Company Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Amtelco Eclipse-based tool that enables HL7 modellers to create, Food and Drug Administration Guide to HL7 Static Model Designer” documentation to Patient First Andalusia health business solutions validate, and maintain healthcare models based on the Genzyme Corporation Qliance Medical Management, Inc Anvita Health aid beginners in understanding the full functionality and GlaxoSmithKline Queensland Health Apelon, Inc. HL7 Version 3 messaging standard. The tool was a NHS Merck & Co., Inc. capability of the tool. The document can be downloaded Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Applied Informatics for Health Society Connecting for Health funded project developed by B2 In- Novartis Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center ASG Software Solutions directly from the HL7 GForge site at the URL: http:// Pfizer, Inc. Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Askesis Development Group ternational (B2i) as a replacement of the existing HL7 Vi- Sanofi-Aventis R&D Riverside Methodist Hospitals Athena Health, Inc. gforge.hl7.org/gf/download/frsrelease/704/7666/hl7_smd- Sapphire Health, LLC sio-based RMIM Designer tool. These two tools have very Robert Bosch Healthcare Atirix Medical Systems beginnersguide-1.0.0.zip. Takeda Global Research & Development Center, Inc. Rockford Health System Aurora MSC similar features, but beginners will need to learn how to Providers Rockingham Memorial Hospital Availity, LLC use the new SMD tool in order to get the same results. Royal Hobart Hospital, Pathology Services Axolotl Corporation For additional assistance and comment regarding the use AAdvanced Biological Laboratories SA Tartu University Clinics AxSys of the SMD tool, please send your request to wbonney@ Akron General Medical Center Saudi Aramco - Healthcare Applications Division Axway Albany Medical Center Sharp HealthCare Information Systems Balsam Healthcare Corp. Ltd The HL7 SMD tool functions on any 32 or 64-bit machines HL7.org. Alere Health Shields Health Care Beeler Consulting, LLC with Linux, Macin- ARUP Laboratories, Inc. SISOFT Healthcare Information Systems Bizmatics, Inc. Ascension Health Information Services Sisters of Mercy Health System BlueStep Systems tosh, and Microsoft Aspirus - Wausau Hospital South Bend Medical Foundation, Inc. BridgeGate International Athens Regional Health Services, Inc. Windows operating Spectrum Health Brookwood Systems, Inc. Baylor Health Care System Stanford Hospital & Clinics CareFacts Information Systems, Inc. systems. The SMD BJC HealthCare Summa Health System Carefx Corporation Blessing Hospital Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Carestream Health, Inc. tool is a standalone Bloomington Hospital & Healthcare Systems Team Health Caristix application that is Blount Memorial Hospital Texas Children’s Hospital Cellcura IHMedical Cape Regional Medical Center Texas Health Resources Cerner Corporation delivered within Cedars-Sinai Medical Center The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Certify Data Systems Center for Life Management the Eclipse (3.3 and The North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. Cetrea A/S Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron Trinity Health Cgate Health, Inc. above) platform and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Triumph Healthcare Chace and Associates Technologies, LLC City of Hope National Medical Center Tuomey Healthcare System ChemWare is usually packaged Cleveland Clinic Health System US Department of Defense, Military Health System Chiron Data Systems in Eclipse RCP (Rich Community Reach Center US Department of Veterans Affairs CliniComp, Intl. Correctional Medical Services UKHealthCare Clinigence Client Platform) with Delta Health Alliance University Hospital (Augusta) CMR Detroit Medical Center all existing MIF-based University of Chicago Medical Center CNSI Diagnostic Laboratory Services University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center Community Computer Service, Inc. plug-ins (Instance Eastern Main Healthcare Systems University of Nebraska Medical Center CompuSoft Systems of PR, Inc Emory Healthcare University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Computer Technology Corporation Editor, MIF Diff, Endocrine Clinic of Southeast Texas University of Utah Health Care Computrition, Inc. etc). The SMD tool Group Health Cooperative University Physicians, Inc. Constitution Medical Investors Harden Healthcare Services UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Corepoint Health aims to be a unified Healix Inc UW Medicine, IT Services Cortex Medical Management Systems, Inc. modelling workbench Health Network Laboratories VUMC Covisint HealthBridge Washington National Eye Center CPCHS that aids HL7 mod- Hill Physicians Medical Group WellMed Medical Management CPSI Hong Kong Hospital Authority ellers to develop HL7 West Virginia University Hospitals CSAM International AS Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare CSC Healthcare Version 3 Messages, Il Melograno Data Services S.p.A Curaspan Healthgroup, Inc. Intermountain Healthcare Vendors Cybernetica AS create instances, test Johns Hopkins Hospital //SOS/Corporation Cyrus-XP LLC Kaiser Permanente 3M Health Information Systems Data Innovations, Inc. and difference static Laboratory Corporation of America 4Medica Data Processing SPA Lahey Clinic models. Figure 1 Abbott Data Strategies, Inc. Lakeland Regional Medical Center A sample static model design (e.g. POLB_MT000001UV01) ABELSoft Corporation Dawning Technologies, Inc. shows a screenshot Lexington Medical Center Accent on Integration DC Computers Loyola University Health System ACS DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc. 12 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 25

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 10 12/16/10 10:31:31 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 23 12/16/10 10:32:03 AM HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, continued News Delta System Inc. Interfix, LLC Procura from the Dg Med Technology Corp. InterSystems Professional Practice Resources PMO digiChart, Inc. IntraNexus, Inc. Pronia Medical Systems Dave Hamill By Dave Hamill, Director, HL7 Project Management Office Digital Medical Merge, Inc. IntuitivEMR, Inc. dba AZZLY QS/1 Data Systems, Inc. DIPS ASA iSALUS Healthcare Recondo Technology, Inc. DocComply iSOFT Nederland b.v. Reed Technology and Information Services, Inc. DocSite, LLC ITIQ Solutions Remcare Inc. DocuTAP Keane, Inc. Response Genetics, Inc. Updated Project Scope State- Project Health and Project provide stakeholders a clear picture Dolbey & Company Kestral Computing Pty Ltd. Rosch Visionary Systems ment Template – Coming in Dashboard Reports of exactly what is required to use and DoubleBridge Technologies, Inc. Key Management Group RTZ Associates, Inc. January 2011 The HL7 PMO has been working with interoperate with an organization’s Dreamscape Blue K-Tech Solutions, Inc. Sage software components. echoBase Labware, Inc SAIC - Science Applications International Corp. The HL7 Project Management Office the Technical Steering Committee Eclipsys Corporation Lawson Sandlot, Inc. (TSC) to design Project Health and (PMO) and the Project Services Work EDS Corporation LEAD Technologies, Inc. SAS Institute Project Dashboard reports. Project Have questions regarding these proj- E-Health Partners, Inc. Life Systems Software Scantron Corporation Group (PS WG) will release a new 2011 Health reports reflect the status of ects? Contact project facilitators Rick Electronic Patient Records (Pty) Ltd Life Technologies Sentillion, Inc. version of the Project Scope Statement Haddorff (haddorff.richard@mayo. EMC Information Intelligence Group LINK Medical Computing, Inc. Siemens Healthcare a work group’s project portfolio. e-MDs Liquent, Inc. SilkOne (PSS) template; a result of their annual Project Dashboard reports provide an edu) or Ioana Singureanu (ioana. Emissary Professional Group, LLC Logibec Simplied Software Development LLC updates to the template. As usual, our at-a-glance status for individual proj- [email protected]). Epic LORENZ Life Sciences Group SISCO ects. The reports are based on data ESRI LSS Data Systems SNAPS, Inc. goal is to streamline and simplify the Ettelaresani Payvand Dadeha McKesson Provider Technologies Softactics, Inc. template so that it’s easier to use by HL7 gathered from Project Insight, includ- Monthly Webinars ExactData, LLC MD Land International Softek Solutions, Inc. members and provides the most useful ing status updates, milestone deliver- Be sure to look in eNews for the dates Expert Sistemas Computacionales S.A. DE C.V. MDofficeManager.com Software AG USA, Inc. able dates and balloting i nformation. and times of the monthly webinar Explorys MEDai, Inc. Sorin CRM SAS data to the membership. E-Z BIS, Inc. Medcomsoft St. Jude Medical “HL7 Project Management Tool Over- ezEMRx Medflow, Inc. StatRad, LLC SAIF and Sound – Fast Track view for HL7 Project Facilitators”. The STI Computer Services, Inc. Changes include: FIACIA Corp MEDfx Corporation to Standard Development sessions are targeted for co-chairs First Insight Corporation MEDHOST, Inc. Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc. • Make co-sponsor its own field in The Project Services Work Group Fox Systems, Inc. Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. Stratus EMR and those leading HL7 projects (i.e. the PSS Template, Project Insight continues their effort on the SAIF Future Health, Inc. Medicity, Inc. Suncoast Solutions Project Facilitators). The webinar will GE Healthcare IT MediRec Inc. Sunquest Information Systems and the Searchable Project Data- and Sound – Fast Track to Standard demonstrate HL7 project tools includ- gloStream, Inc. MediServe Information Systems, Inc. Superclick Networks, Inc base Development project (project #676). Goldblatt Systems Mediture Surescripts The team is identifying changes to ing Project Insight (HL7’s primary Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. MEDIWARE Information Systems Surgical Information Systems • Provide for the ability to list key the Project Life Cycle for Product project repository), the HL7 Search- Grupo Prides S.A MedPATH Networks, Inc. SurgiVision Consultants, Inc. SDO/Profilers Haemonetics Corporation MedSign International Corporation Swearingen Software, Inc. Development (PLCPD) so as to intro- able Project Database, GForge, as well Harris Corporation MedVirginia Symantec • Include help text regarding Univer- duce predictable, one-year approval as review HL7 project processes and Health Care Software, Inc. META Solutions, Inc. SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS ELEARNING sal Realm guidelines cycles for suitably-scoped projects methodologies. Health Language, Inc. MicroFour, Inc. TC Software, Inc. HealthCare Conversion Services Microsoft Corporation TELCOR OIS • Include recommended communi- that leverage both methodology and HealthCare IQ Mirth Corporation Teradata Corporation, GIS/AMS cation tasks architecture best-practices and builds HL7 Project Tracking Tools Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. MITEM Corporation The CBORD Group, Inc. • Within the template area, remove on HL7’s past successes. HEALTHeSTATE Mitochon Systems. The Shams Group All of HL7’s project tools, includ- Healthland Modernizing Medicine, Inc. The SIMI Group, Inc. Help text and Project Insight ing the Searchable Project Database, Additionally, the Project Services Healthline, Inc. MPN Software Systems, Inc. The SSI Group, Inc. guideline text GForge and Project Insight, are avail- HealthTrio, LLC Netsmart Public Health, Inc. TheraDoc, Inc. Work Group will be working with the • Refine help text in the Appendices able on www.HL7.org via Participate Healthwise, Inc. New Health Sciences, Inc. Therap Services, LLC ArB and the SAIF project teams to Hill Associates NexJ Systems Inc. TouchNet Information Systems, Inc. • Remove the 2.b Public Document create an HL7 SAIF Implementation > Tools & Resources > Project Hi-Range Technologies, Inc NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. TouchPACS Health Solutions Tracking Tools. HospiServe Healthcare Services Pty Ltd Nexus Clinical TurningPoint Global Solutions LLC checkbox Guide (project #TBD at press time). Hyland Software, Inc. Niceware International, LLC Up To Data Professional Services Gmb The SAIF Implementation Guide will Iatric Systems Noridian Administrative Services USPD, Inc. IBM Noteworthy Medical Systems Valley Hope Association - IMCSS ICANotes, LLC Oakland Software Virco BVBA iConnect Consulting Occupational Health Research Virtify A. Work groups facing this situation can decide to hold Ignis Systems Corporation Omnicell, Inc. Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Inc. Co-Chair Q & A, cont. from pg. 10 Image Solutions, Inc.(ISI) Omnicom srl Warren Lamb & Associates, Ltd. the election anyway or choose to defer the election until ImageTrend, INC Openmed, LLC Watermark Research Partners, Inc. there are processes for removing a co-chair from office, the next WGM. GOM §05.02.01 (Variance to Voting Info World OpenTreatment.Com WebMD Health Services Process) allows for either of these two processes. Some InfoQuest Systems, Inc. Opus Healthcare Solutions Inc. Wellsoft Corporation these should be used with caution and discretion. Should Information Builders Oracle Corporation - Healthcare Wolters Kluwer Health the work group vote to remove a co-chair from office, it work groups choose to move forward with their co-chair Inmediata Health Group Oratier Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Workflow.com, LLC election as the election process allows for absentee voting Institute for Health Metrics Orchard Software Xeo Health may appoint an interim chair to serve until the next of- Integrated Healthcare Solution Sdn Bhd Orion Health XIFIN, Inc. ficial election. All of these decisions should be conveyed (GOM §05.02.3). Other groups prefer to defer the election integration AG OZ Systems XPress Technologies to HQ. until the next WGM. HQ assumes that work groups will Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group P&NP Computer Services, Inc. Yak Digital Corp. move forward with the scheduled election unless they are Intellicure, Inc. PAREXEL ZetaSys Dental Enterprise Solution IntelliSys Consulting Philips Healthcare Zoho Corp. Q: My co-chair term is expiring at the next WGM but advised otherwise. Intelliware Development, Inc. PolyRemedy, Inc. Zynx Health our work group won’t be meeting there. What should Interface People, LP Positive Business Solutions, Inc. iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. PrimeSource Healthcare we do? 26 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 11

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 24 12/16/10 10:32:03 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 9 12/16/10 10:31:29 AM 2011 TECHNICAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Co-Chair Q & A By Karen Van Hentenryck, HL7 Associate Executive Director CHAIR DOMAIN EXPERTS CO-CHAIRS STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN Submitted on behalf of the Process Improvement Committee Austin Kreisler Austin Kreisler CO-CHAIRS Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Calvin Beebe Karen Van Hentenryck Phone: 404-542-4475 Phone: 404-542-4475 Mayo Clinic/Foundation Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-284-3827 Co-Chair Transition that announcement has been distributed from HQ, the Email: [email protected] interim will serve through the upcoming WGM and until CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER Edward Tripp John Quinn Edward S Tripp and Associates, Inc. Gregg Seppala A number of questions related to co-chair transition are the official co-chair elections at the WGM following that. HL7 International routinely raised by work groups during the course of Should the co-chair resign in advance of the 30-day call Phone: 224-234-9769 US Department of Veterans Affairs Phone: 216-409-1330 Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-526-2703 general business. The Process Improvement Committee for nominations, the open co-chair position will be an- Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] nounced in the 30-day call for nominations and elections (PIC) would like to take this opportunity to demystify FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY some of these processes by referencing the relevant sec- for the open position will be held at the upcoming WGM. ArB CO-CHAIRS Charles Mead, MD, MSc CO-CHAIRS TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES tions in the Governance and Operations Manual (GOM) George (Woody) Beeler CO-CHAIRS Sometimes, a work group decides not to fill a vacant 3rd Millennium, Inc. and providing clarifying information. Phone: 510-541-8224 Beeler Consulting, LLC Patrick Loyd co-chair position when a c o-chair resigns. As long as the Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-254-4810 Icode Solutions Q: Do new co-chairs elected at the Working Group work group has made that determination according to Email: [email protected] Phone: 415-209-0544 Meetings (WGM) take office immediately or do they as- its decision making practices, that is fine. Simply let HQ Ron Parker Email: [email protected] sume their new role immediately following the WGM? know so that this change is reflected in the database and Canada Health Infoway Anthony Julian the listservs. Phone: 902-222-7716 Mayo Clinic Ken McCaslin A: According to § 09.02.04 of the GOM (Term of Office), Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-266-0958 Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6692 co-chair terms “shall commence upon validation of elec- Q. Our work group would like to add an additional co- Email: chair. Is there a procedure for doing this? INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE tion results.” In other words, newly elected co-chairs of- [email protected] ficially assume their new role on Thursdays at the WGM, Jay Zimmerman Canada Health Infoway/ HL7 Canada although many work groups and newly elected co-chairs A. While most work groups should not require more than 2-3 chairs, GOM §09.02.04 (Work Group Co-Chairs) Phone: 250-385-1510 prefer to have the outgoing chair continue to chair the Email: [email protected] meetings through the end of the WGM, particularly since provides the process for work groups that wish to add an he or she planned the agenda. This is certainly reason- extra chair. Once a motion to add an additional co-chair able if that’s what the work group decides to do. has been raised and approved according to the work group’s decision making practices, the work group can Q: What happens if one of our work group co-chairs designate an individual to serve as the interim co-chair STEERING DIVISIONS resigns? until an official co-chair election can be held. Please notify HQ to ensure that their records can be updated STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN A: Co-chairs may need to resign for any number of rea- accordingly and that your work group’s co-chair elections DOMAIN EXPERTS FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY Implementable Technology Specifications Arden Syntax sons, both personal and professional. Luckily, there are are announced in the next call for nominations. Anatomic Pathology Implementation/Conformance Clinical Context Object Workgroup processes in place to ensure that your work group can fill Anesthesiology Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Decision Support the vacated co-chair position without too much interrup- Q: Can a work group remove a co-chair from office? If Attachments Modeling & Methodology Clinical Genomics tion to the g roup’s activities. so, under what conditions? Child Health Clinical Interoperability Council* RIM Based Application Architecture Clinical Statement Security Electronic Health Record First and foremost, the work group or resigning co-chairs A: §09.02.04.03 (Removal from Office) of the GOM does Community Based Collaborative Care Service Oriented Architecture Financial Management should advise HQ so that the appropriate updates can be allow for removal of a co-chair from office. This process Emergency Care Templates Orders & Observations made in the office and plans for the next co-chair elec- outlines two conditions under which removal may be Government Projects Vocabulary Patient Administration tions can be made. warranted: missing of two consecutive working group Health Care Devices meetings without mitigating circumstances and less than Imaging Integration Structured Documents If the need is immediate, the work group should, follow- 60% participation on the work group’s conference calls Patient Care TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES Education ing its established decision making practices, bring a mo- between WGMs. The individual bringing forward a mo- Patient Safety Electronic Services tion forward to fill the vacated position with an interim tion to the work group f or removal of a co-chair is respon- Pharmacy International Mentoring Committee co-chair. Accept nominees via email and on the phone sible for presenting the appropriate evidence and defend- Public Health & Emergency Response Process Improvement Committee and then conduct a simple vote on your call or through ing their charge; In addition, this work group business Regulated Clinical Research Project Services email/doodle poll. The interim co-chair serves until the should proceed according to the work group’s decision Information Management *Voice only; no vote Publishing open position can be announced through the official 30- making practices. It goes without saying that while day call for nominations from HQ, which is distributed at Tooling least 60 days before each WGM. If a co-chair resigns after continued on next page 10 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 27

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 8 12/16/10 10:31:28 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 25 12/16/10 10:32:04 AM HL7 WORK GROUP CO-CHAIRS Remembering Professor Affiliates Council Child Health Clinical Genomics Max Walker Department of Human Services Catherine Chronaki—Affiliate David Classen, MD, MS Joyce Hernandez Phone: 61-3-9096-1471 Merck & Co., Inc. Email: [email protected] Yun Sik Kwak, Liaison Alliance for Pediatric Quality HL7 Hellas/FORTH-Institute of Phone: 801-532-3633 Phone: 732-594-1815 Computer Science Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Education Phone: 30-2810-391691 MD, PhD (1936-2010) Email: [email protected] Gay Giannone, MSN (Interim) Kevin Hughes, MD Mike Henderson Alschuler Associates, LLC Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Eastern Informatics, Inc. Robert Stegwee, MSc, PhD—HL7 Phone: 714-744-4152 Phone: 617-724-0048 Phone: 301-585-5750 International Liaison Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 The Netherlands After that, he Diego Kaminker Kwak Sensei Phone: 31-30-689-2730 Joy Kuhl Amnon Shabo HL7 Argentina moved to the Email: Alliance for Pediatric Quality IBM Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 [email protected] Phone: 703-842-5311 Phone: 972-544-714070 “Sensei” is a prefix to names, almost similar to “Doctor,” United States Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Helen Stevens Love—Secretary but it has many more meanings such as a “Medical doc- and became a Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Andy Spooner, MD, FAAP Mollie Ullman-Cullere AbdulMalik Shakir tor,” “Teacher,” or a “Respected person.” He was a sensei, faculty mem- Phone: 250-598-0312 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Partners HealthCare System, Inc. City of Hope National Medical Phone: 513-803-0121 Phone: 617-582-7249 by all of these meanings. ber of clinical Email: [email protected] Center Email: [email protected] Email: mollie_ullman-cullere pathology at @dfci.harvard.edu Phone: 626-644-4491 Anatomic Pathology Email: Feliciano Yu, MD Case Western [email protected] Dr. Kwak graduated from National Kyungpook Medi- David Booker, MD St. Louis Children’s Hospital Clinical Interoperability cal University of Daegu, Korea, which is his hometown. University in College of American Pathologists Phone: 314-454-2808 Council Electronic Health Records Phone: 706-736-0991 Email: [email protected] Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Kwak was appointed as a certi- Email: [email protected] Sam Brandt, MD Gary Dickinson fied inspector of the College of American Pathologists Clinical Context Object Siemens Healthcare CentriHealth Victor Brodsky, MD Workgroup (CCOW) Phone: 610-219-5701 Phone: 951-536-7010 (CAP). When he visited his hometown during his sab- College of American Pathologists Email: [email protected] Email: batical, he was strongly persuaded to be a faculty mem- Phone: 646-322-4648 David Fusari [email protected] Email: [email protected] Sentillion, Inc. Meredith Nahm (Interim) ber at his alma mater, and was appointed as a professor Phone: 978-749-0022 Duke Translational Medicine Don Mon, PhD of medical informatics. Architectural Review Email: [email protected] Institute American Health Information Board Phone: 919-668-8339 Management Association Michael Russell, MD Email: [email protected] Phone: 312-233-1135 Charlie Mead, MD, MSc Duke Translational Medicine Email: [email protected] Dr. Kwak was an excellent leader and his natural ten- 3rd Millennium, Inc. Institute Anita Walden dency was to be completely devoted to any endeavor he Phone: 510-541-8224 Phone: 919-684-2513 Duke Translational Medicine John Ritter Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Institute College of American Pathologists undertook. His involvement in healthcare informatics, Phone: 919-668-8256 Phone: 847-832-7732 and standards development in particular, was marked Ron Parker David Staggs Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada US Department of Veterans Affairs by the same devotion and benefitted from his leadership Phone: 902-832-0876 Phone: 858-826-5629 Clinical Statement Patricia Van Dyke Email: [email protected] capabilities. Dr. Kwak founded HL7 Korea in 2002 and Email: [email protected] Delta Dental Plans Association Hans Buitendijk Phone: 503-243-4492 served as the appointed chair for ISO/TC 215 from 2003- John Quinn Siemens Healthcare Email: [email protected] Health Level Seven International Clinical Decision Support Phone: 610-219-2087 2009. He paved the way for close cooperation between Phone: 216-409-1330 Electronic Services Email: [email protected] Guilherme Del Fiol, MD Email: hans.buitendijk@siemens. numerous standard developing organizations within and Duke Translational Medicine com Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD around the HL7, ISO/TC 215 and CEN/TC 251 realm. Dr. Arden Syntax Institute Phone: 919-681-7011 Patrick Loyd Anakam, Inc. Kwak was also a natural and skilled collaborator and Email: [email protected] Icode Solutions Phone: 703-888-4630 Robert Jenders, MD Email: [email protected] Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Phone: 415-209-0544 brought together diverse groups and interests to achieve Phone: 310-502-4124 Robert Jenders, MD Email: [email protected] Lorraine Constable (Interim) the common objective of global healthcare. Email: [email protected] Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Constable Consulting Inc Phone: 310-502-4124 Rik Smithies Phone: (780) 951-4853 Attachments Email: [email protected] HL7 UK Phone: 44-7720-290967 Email: [email protected] Above all, Dr. Kwak will long be Durwin Day Kensaku Kawamoto, PhD Email: [email protected] remembered as a friend and an Health Care Service Corporation Ken McCaslin Duke Translational Medicine Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated example for all of us to follow. Phone: 312-653-5948 Institute Community Based Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6692 Phone: 919-684-2340 Collaborative Care Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin Above: Email: [email protected] Craig Gabron @questdiagnostics.com Miyajima Shrine, Michio Kimura, MD, PhD Suzanne Gonzales-Webb Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Howard Strasberg Hiroshima Japan, Carolina US Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Care HL7 Japan Chair Wolters Kluwer Health Phone: 858-366-2008 at APAMI Phone: 803-763-1790 Phone: 408-746-9958 Email: [email protected] Email: Laura Heermann Langford Conference, Email: howard.strasberg@wolter- [email protected] Intermountain Healthcare skluwer.com Jim McKinley Phone: 801-290-6674 November 2009. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Richard Thoreson Email: [email protected] Alabama SAMHSA Michio Kimura, Right: Memorial Phone: 205-220-5960 Phone: 240-276-2827 MD, PhD Email: [email protected] Email: flowers sent by HL7 and other organizations. 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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 26 12/16/10 10:32:06 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 7 12/16/10 10:31:27 AM HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued Update from Headquarters, cont. from pg. 7 Donald Kamens, MD Imaging Integration Sandra Stuart Orders and Observations made by three individuals: Richard Dixon- XPress Technologies Kaiser Permanente Hughes, Klaus Veil a nd Tina Connell-Clark. Phone: 904-296-1189 Helmut Koenig, MD Phone: 925-924-7473 Hans Buitendijk They have worked incredibly hard and have Email: [email protected] Siemens Healthcare Email: [email protected] Siemens Healthcare Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 Phone: 610-219-2087 devoted hundreds of hours working to ensure James McClay, MD Email: [email protected] International Mentoring Email: [email protected] the success of this meeting. On behalf of the University of Nebraska Medical Committee Center HL7 Board, I send a sincere thank you and Harry Solomon Robert Hausam, MD Phone: 402-559-3587 GE Healthcare IT Diego Kaminker OntoReason look forward to thanking them in person down Email: [email protected] Phone: 847-277-5096 HL7 Argentina Phone: 801-949-1556 under. Email: [email protected] Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 Email: [email protected] Peter Park Email: [email protected] US Navy Bureau of Medicine & Implementable Technology Austin Kreisler In Closing Surgery Specifications John Ritter Science Applications International As this article will be published prior to the Phone: 202-762-3438 College of American Pathologists Corp. (SAIC) Email: [email protected] Paul Knapp Phone: 847-832-7732 Phone: 404-542-4475 upcoming holidays, I wish to close with a Continovation Services, Inc. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] heartfelt thank you to all of you who have Financial Management Phone: 604-987-3313 Representatives from the 2010 HL7 Benefactors made a positive difference in my life and/or Email: [email protected] Marketing Council Patrick Loyd Kathleen Connor Icode Solutions in the lives around you. On behalf of the Microsoft Corporation Dale Nelson Catherine Chronaki Phone: 415-209-0544 addition, HL7 raised $211 for Doctors without Borders HL7 staff, we extend to you and your loved ones our Phone: 360-480-7599 Squaretrends LLC HL7 Hellas Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] from the sales of the joke ribbons at our WGMs in 2010. best wishes for good health, much happiness, and lots of Phone: 916-367-1458 FORTH-Institute of Computer Science Email: [email protected] Phone: 30-2810-391691 Ken McCaslin smiles this holiday season and beyond. Beat Heggli Email: [email protected] Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Benefactors and Supporters HL7 Switzerland Andy Stechishin Phone: 610-650-6692 Phone: 41-1-806-1164 We are thrilled to have attracted the all time highest Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Jill Kaufman, PhD Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-903-0885 College of American Pathologists @questdiagnostics.com number of HL7 benefactors and supporters, who are listed Email: [email protected] Phone: 847-832-7163 on pages 20 and 24. Their support of HL7 is very much Mary Kay McDaniel Email: [email protected] Outreach Committee for Markam, Inc. needed and sincerely appreciated. Representatives from Implementation/ Clinical Research Phone: 602-266-2516 Conformance Rene Spronk Email: [email protected] HL7 The Netherlands the benefactors are pictured Ed Helton, PhD Phone: 31-318-553812 above. A special thank you Wendy Huang National Cancer Institute Center for Generation Of Anesthesia Email: [email protected] is extended to the list of firms Canada Health Infoway Inc. Bioinformatics Standards Phone: 416-595-3449 Phone: 919-465-4473 Grant Wood that represent our 2010 HL7 2011 Publishing Calendar Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] benefactors and supporters. Martin Hurrell, PhD Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 801-408-8153 Phone: 44-7711-669-522 Frank Oemig May 2011 Ballot Cycle Email: [email protected] Patient Adminstration Email: [email protected] HL7 Germany Organizational Member Agfa Healthcare Gregg Seppala Alan Nicol Modeling and Methodology Firms January 23 Project scope statement deadline for new content as well Phone: 49-208-781194 US Department of Veterans Affairs Phone: 44-141-585-6358 Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-526-2703 As listed on 24 - 26, HL7 is very as committee intent to reconcile and advance status Email: [email protected] George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD Beeler Consulting, LLC Email: [email protected] proud to report that the number Melva Peters April 4 Ballot open date Phone: 507-254-4810 of HL7 organizational member Government Projects HL Canada Jay Zimmerman May 9 Ballot close date Email: [email protected] Jenaker Consulting, Inc. HL7 Canada companies is at an all time Nancy Orvis May 15 – 20 May Working Group Meeting Phone: 604-515-0339 Phone: 250-385-1510 US Department of Defense, Military Jean Duteau high, including 588 companies. Email: [email protected] Email: jzimmerman Health System HL7 Canada We sincerely appreciate their Phone: 780-937-8991 @infoway-inforoute.ca September 2011 Ballot Cycle Phone: 703-681-5657 Robert Snelick ongoing support of HL7 via Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] National Institute of Standards & Patient Care their organizational member- Technology Mitra Rocca Grahame Grieve May 29 Project scope statement deadline for new content as well Phone: 301-975-5924 Stephen Chu, PhD ship dues. Food and Drug Administration Kestral Computing Pty Ltd. as committee intent to reconcile and advance status Email: [email protected] National eHealth Transition Authority Phone: 301-796-2175 Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Email: [email protected] (NEHTA) August 1 Ballot open date Email: [email protected] Infrastructure & Messaging Sydney WGM Email: [email protected] I look forward to seeing many of September 5 Ballot close date Lloyd McKenzie Health Care Devices Anthony Julian September 11 – 16 September Working Group Meeting HL7 Canada William Goossen you in Sydney, Australia for our Mayo Clinic Results4Care B.V. Amersfoort, The Todd Cooper LM&A Consulting, Ltd . January 9-14, 2011 HL7 Working Phone: 507-266-0958 Netherlands Breakthrough Solutions Foundry, Inc. Phone: 780-993-9501 Email: [email protected] Phone: 31-654-614458 Group Meeting. Not only will January 2012 Ballot Cycle (IEEE) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] the WGM be productive, but we Phone: 858-435-0729 Patrick Loyd Email: [email protected] Ravi Natarajan will also have the opportunity to Icode Solutions Ian Townend September 25 Project scope statement deadline for new content as well NHS Consulting for Health Phone: 415-209-0544 NHS Connecting for Health visit one of world’s most beauti- Patty Krantz Phone: 44-113-390-6520 as committee intent to reconcile and advance status Email: [email protected] Phone: 44-113-280-6743 Medtronic Email: [email protected] ful cities. While there are many December 5 Ballot open date Email: [email protected] Phone: 763-526-0513 David Shaver individuals that have played Ioana Singureanu January 9 Ballot close date Email: [email protected] Corepoint Health Eversolve, LLC Klaus Veil key roles related to this January Phone: 214-618-7000 January 15 – 20 January Working Group Meeting Phone: 603-870-9739 Phone: 61-412-746-457 2011 WGM, I’d like to personally John Rhoads, PhD Email: Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Philips Healthcare [email protected] recognize the incredible efforts Phone: 978-659-3024 Email: [email protected] 8 JANUARY 2011 JANUARY 2011 29

HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 6 12/16/10 10:31:23 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 27 12/16/10 10:32:07 AM HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued Raju Kucherlapati, PhD – Paul C. Patient Safety Alean Kirnak Amnon Shabo, PhD (Interim) Robert Dolin, MD Board Election Results American Immunization Registry IBM Semantically Yours, LLC One of the many changes that 2011 Cabot Professor of Genetics and Pro- Nick Halsey Association Phone: 972-544-714070 Phone: 714-532-1130 will bring us is a new HL7 Board of fessor of Medicine at Harvard Medical Phone: 760-419-8436 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] European Medicines Agency School. His spell-binding keynote Phone: 44-0-20-7523-7100 Email: [email protected] Directors. As recently announced, the Email: [email protected] Rene Spronk Grahame Grieve election results for 2011 Board posi- address focused on the implementa- Joginder Madra HL7 The Netherlands Kestral Computing Pty Ltd. tions are as follows: tion of personalized medicine and Ali Rashidee Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 33-318-553812 Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Quantros Phone: 780-717-4295 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] set the stage for the presentations Phone: 408-957-3300 Email: Vice Chair/Chair-elect: Don Mon, that followed. Our slate of incredible Email: [email protected] [email protected] Security Templates PhD speakers clearly hit a home run. Mead Walker Michelle Williamson Bernd Blobel, PhD Mark Shafarman Secretary: Jill Kaufman, PhD Health Data and Interoperability National Center for Health HL7 Germany Shafarman Consulting A special thanks goes to Grant Wood Inc. Statistics/CDC University of Regensburg Medical Phone: 510-593-3483 Directors-at-Large: Keith Boone and Phone: 610-518-6259 Phone: 301-458-4618 Center Email: Ed Hammond, PhD and the co-chairs of the HL7 Clinical Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 49-941-944-6769 [email protected] Genomics Work Group for their efforts Email: bernd.blobel Affiliate Rep: Catherine Chronaki Pharmacy Publishing Committee @klinik.uni-regensburg.de Tooling in assembling the excellent Plenary Congratulations to these individuals. Raju Kucherlapati, PhD Meeting program: Joyce Hernandez, Garry Cruickshank George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD-V3 Mike Davis Jane Curry Kevin Hughes, MD, Amnon Shabo, Thames Valley Healthcare Beeler Consulting, LLC US Department of Veterans Affairs Health Information Strategies, Inc. Photos and contact information for vided a half-day tutorial on CDA and Phone: 519-657-3125 Phone: 507-254-4810 Phone: 760-632-0294 Phone: 780-459-8560 the above individuals along with the CCD. Ed Hammond, PhD, served PhD, and Mollie Ullman-Cullere. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: other members of the 2011 HL7 Board as panel moderator and speaker for [email protected] Immediately following our plenary Tom de Jong Jane Daus-V2 John Moehrke of Directors are provided on page 34. a session on “Translational strate- McKesson Provider Technologies GE Healthcare HL7 The Netherlands Tim Ireland gies for introducing health IT and meeting, HL7 also produced an HL7 Phone: 31-6-53255291 Phone: 847-495-1289 Phone: 920-912-8451 HL7 UK Ambassadors program on “HL7 and Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] NHS Connecting for Health Medinfo standards into developing countries,” Email: [email protected] Since 1995, HL7 has had a significant along with several panelists such as the Final Rule: Health Information Robert Hallowell Andrew Stechishin-V3 Services Oriented presence at the premier tri-annual Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Siemens Healthcare Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Architecture Andrew Stechishin Chuck Jaffe, MD, PhD. Phone: 610-219-5612 Phone: 780-903-0855 Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. international medical informatics-fo- Implementation Specifications, and Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-903-0855 Email: Don Jorgenson cused conference called “Medinfo.” I am pleased to also report that I had Certification Criteria for Electronic [email protected] Inpriva, Inc. Email: [email protected] Health Record Technology.” This very Klaus Veil-V2 Phone: 970-472-1441 The location of these meetings has the pleasure of attending the EFMI Process Improvement Phone: 61-412-746-457 Email: [email protected] Vocabulary spanned the globe, including: Council Dinner during the Medinfo popular session provided an overview Committee Email: [email protected] • Vancouver, Canada (1995) of how HL7 will be used to achieve Galen Mulrooney Jim Case conference. We discussed opportuni- meaningful use and then provided Margie Kennedy Regulated Clinical US Department of Veterans Affairs National Library of Medicine • Seoul, Korea (1998) ties for closer collaboration between HL7 Canada Research Information Phone: 703-815-0900 Phone: 530-752-4408 • London, England (2001) high-level tutorials on HL7’s Clinical Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] our organizations. I would like to Phone: 902-926-2827 Management • San Francisco, USA (2004) Document Architecture (CDA), Con- Email: thank the following individuals for [email protected] Ed Helton, PhD Ken Rubin Heather Grain • Brisbane, Australia (2007) their kindness: John Mantas, EFMI tinuity of Care Document (CCD) and National Cancer Institute Center for EDS Corporation Standards Australia, Llewelyn Grain our Version 2 standards, which are Phone: 703-845-3277 Informatics • Cape Town, South Africa (2010) President; Jacob Hofdijk, EFMI & Helen Stevens Love Bioinformatics named in the Final Rule referenced in Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 919-465-4473 Email: [email protected] Phone: 613-956-99443 IMIA Vice President for Europe, and Email: [email protected] Phone: 250-598-0312 Email: [email protected] This year’s event was the 13th Medin- Cristina Mazzoleni, EFMI Institutions the session title. This program was Email: [email protected] Ann Wrightson one of many that week that provided David Iberson-Hurst HL7 UK Russ Hamm fo conference and the first in Africa. Liaison Officer. Project Services CDISC Phone: 44-8700-112-866 Apelon, Inc. The September 12-15, 2010 conven- MDs with CMEs. Phone: 44-9-7989-603793 Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-271-0227 tion attracted about 1,100 attendees Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 24th Annual Plenary Meeting Rick Haddorff I am also pleased to recognize these Mayo Clinic Structured Documents from 75 countries. HL7 had a booth in HL7’s 24th Annual Plenary and Work- John Speakman William T. Klein Phone: 507-284-2013 the exhibit hall and hosted our popu- ing Group Meeting convened Octo- organizations that sponsored key Email: [email protected] National Cancer Institute Center for Liora Alschuler Klein Consulting, Inc. components of our 24th Annual Ple- Bioinformatics Alschuler Associates, LLC Phone: 631-924-6922 lar reception for many of the world’s ber 3-8, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Freida Hall Phone: 301-451-8786 Phone: 802-785-2623 Email: [email protected] leaders in medical informatics. Cambridge Hotel, in Cambridge, nary and Working Group Meeting. US Department of Veterans Affairs Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] • Beeler Consulting, LLC Beverly Knight Massachusetts. The setting on the Phone: 727-519-4607 • Gordon Point Informatics Email: [email protected] Edward Tripp Calvin Beebe HL7 Canada I’d like to personally thank several Charles River was both wonderful and Edward S. Tripp & Associates, Inc. Mayo Clinic Phone: 416-595-3449 HL7 members from around the globe • iNTERFACEWARE Phone: 224-234-9769 Phone: 507-284-3827 Email: [email protected] productive. Public Health Emergency who helped staff the HL7 booth, in- • LINKMED Response Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] cluding Fernando Campos, Catherine In addition to our regular Working • Lockheed Martin Rita Altamore Rim Based Application Keith Boone Chronaki, Michio Kimura, Ed Ham- • Virtify Washington State Department of Architecture GE Healthcare Integrated IT Group Meeting with over 40 com- Health Solutions mond, Bob Dolin and Chuck Jaffe. mittees meeting and 25 tutorials, the Phone: 617-519-2076 Phone: 360-951-4925 Peter Hendler, MD 24th Annual Plenary meeting focused The additional sponsorship support Email: [email protected] Kaiser Permanente Email: [email protected] provided by these organizations con- Phone: 510-248-3055 Many individuals with direct and in- on the Future of healthcare using Email: [email protected] direct ties to HL7 also made presen- genomics as a key tool. Our first tributes significantly to HL7’s meeting tations at this year’s Medinfo. 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HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 28 12/16/10 10:32:08 AM HL7 NEWS JAN 11 INTERIOR.indd 5 12/16/10 10:31:21 AM HL7 FACILITATORS Steering Division Hugh Glover Jenni Puyenbroek Peter Gilbert HL7 Fellows Program Facilitators HL7 UK Science Applications International Wayne State University Physician Group Medication Corporation (SAIC) Structured Documents Phone: 44-0-7889-407-113 Implementation/Conformance Phone: 313-262-1429 Rick Haddorff Email: Phone: 678-261-2099 Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic/Foundation Mark McDougall [email protected] Email: [email protected] Recognizes 25 Structure & Semantic Design Robert Hallowell Phone: 507-284-2013 Grahame Grieve Amnon Shabo, PhD Siemens Healthcare By Mark McDougall, HL7 Executive Director Email: [email protected] Kestral Computing Pty Ltd IBM Medication; Pharmacy Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Genomics Phone: 610-219-5612 Dave Hamill Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Phone: 972-544-714070 Email: [email protected] HL7 Fellows merit this recognition each year, the Health Level Seven International Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Technical & Support Services During the Plenary meeting, HL7 UPDATE FROM Awards Committee is challenged to Anthony Julian Phone: 734-677-7777 limit the annual award to only a few. Pat Gunter AbdulMalik Shakir Mayo Clinic announced a new recognition pro- Email: [email protected] gram: HL7 Fellowship. This program HEADQUARTERS This year’s recipients have contributed Duke Translational Medicine Institute City of Hope National Medical Center Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Interoperability Council Modeling & Methodology Phone: 507-266-0958 hundreds of hours, if not thousands, Lynn Laakso recognizes individuals who have con- Phone: 919-668-6010 Phone: 626-644-4491 Email: [email protected] Foundation and Technology tributed significantly to HL7 and have and have certainly served HL7 ex- Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 906-361-5966 Chuck Meyer tremely w ell for many years. As Ed Helmut Koenig, MD held continuous HL7 membershp for Email: [email protected] at least 15 years. HL7 CEO, Charles John Quinn mentioned during the awards cer- William “Ted” Klein Ioana Singureanu Siemens Healthcare Wes Rishel Klein Consulting, Inc. Eversolve, LLC Imaging Integration Jaffe, MD, PhD, announced the new emony, we are honored and pleased to Modeling and Robert Seliger Vocabulary CBCC & Health Care Devices Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 program and congratulated the fol- recognize this year’s recipients of the Methodology Facilitators Phone: 631-924-6922 Phone: 603-870-9739 Email: [email protected] lowing 25 individuals as the inaugural Gregg Seppala W. Ed Hammond HL7 Volunteer of the Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 2010 class of HL7 Fellows: Mark Shafarman Year Awards: George (Woody) Beeler, Jr., PhD Austin Kreisler D. Mead Walker • Hugh Glover Beeler Consulting LLC Austin Kreisler Corey Spears Science Applications International Facilitator-at-Large Science Applications International McKesson Provider Technology Corporation (SAIC) Woody Beeler, PhD • Stan Huff, MD Phone: 507-254-4810 Corporation (SAIC) EHR Orders & Observations Bernd Blobel, PhD Volunteers of the Year Awards • Julie James Email: [email protected] PHER, Structured Documents Phone: 206-269-1211 Phone: 404-542-4475 William Braithwaite, MD It is amazing to realize that we are • Charlie Mead, MD Phone: 404-542-4475 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] already in the 14th year of recognizing Charlie Bishop Email: [email protected] Hans Buitendijk • Mark Shafarman HL7 UK Mead Walker Margaret (Peggy) Leizear Jane Curry incredible efforts by our vast number • Pat Van Dyke Clinical Statement John Kufuor-Boakye Health Data and Interoperability, Inc. Food and Drug Administration Norman Daoust of dedicated volunteers via our W. Ed- • Mead Walker Phone: 44-8700-112-866 Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Patient Safety; RCRIM RCRIM Patient Care Phone: 610-518-6259 Phone: 301-827-5203 Gary Dickinson ward Hammond, PhD HL7 Volunteer Email: [email protected] of the Year Awards. While there are Phone: 780-438-0178 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Bob Dolin, MD Please see the cover story for more Bernd Blobel, PhD Email: [email protected] Jean Ferraro certainly dozens of individuals who details. HL7 Germany Publishing Facilitators Joginder Madra Freida Hall Security Patrick Loyd Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 49-941-944-6769 Icode Solutions Patient Safety W. Edward Hammond, PhD Becky Angeles Email: Orders & Observations ScenPro, Inc. 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2010 has brought changes in the leadership of govern- training, those resources may be harder to obtain than ments around the world. In some instances, this has many predicted. When we can share in those resources, Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD created a new focus on the challenges of managing HL7 must be wise in how we make use of them. Wisdom John Quinn Mark McDougall Karen Van Hentenryck +1-858-720-8200 +1-216-409-1330 healthcare in an aging population. In other countries, does not come easily. It is achieved on the road filled with +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] the obstacles to embracing a healthier citizenry has all wrong turns and misguided intentions. HL7 needs to learn but been lost to budget constraints and a contraction of from failures and learn to celebrate our successes. While Director of Tools Manager Web Development new healthcare projects and reforms. By the time you there have been many achievements, both great and small, Meetings Administrator of Education read this, there may be new leadership in the legislative some may come from places that we least expect. Coordinator branch of the American Federal government. The direc- tion that may take us is vague and clouded in macroeco- Our intellectual capital, e xpressed as the products and nomic philosophies. Regardless of the fiscal approach services that we develop, should never be recklessly the governments everywhere may take to return to real abused. More than ever, we have been asked to share economic growth, HL7 will continue to pursue our vision the achievements of HL7 and ensure that others do the of interoperable healthcare. same. Like any other resource, the intellectual property of HL7 must be provided with great generosity to those who Interoperability of healthcare information is not a destina- need it but cannot truly afford to pay for it. At the same Lillian Bigham Wilfred Bonney Mary Ann Boyle Joshua Carmody tion. It is but one path in our time, HL7 must become +1-989-736-3703 +1-902-877-0593 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] journey to improve the well Interoperability of healthcare more adept at managing being of the citizens of this that intellectual property Director, Project Administrative Director of TSC Project planet. HL7 is maturing. We information is not a destination. and at ensuring that we are Management Office Coordinator Technical Services Manager have moved past our “growth appropriately rewarded for spurt” years, overcome the It is but one path in our journey creating and nurturing and turmoil of adolescence, building upon those re- and become a more mature to improve the well being of the sources. In 2011, we will see organization. The impact of citizens of this planet. some important steps toward a global economic downturn better management of our IP does not seem to have damp- and the value that it brings. ened the spirit of creativity and innovation that has b een such an important part of For my part, I want to thank those of you who have Dave Hamill Linda Jenkins Michael Kingery Lynn Laakso the last two decades. contributed to the great strides that HL7 was able to make +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 +1-919-636-4032 +1-906-361-5966 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] in 2010. I especially applaud those who have selflessly In order to become increasingly successful, however, contributed countless hours with little recognition or HL7 must be wiser and more efficient. We must evolve acclaim. I salute those organizations and the stakeholder Director of Director of a business model that sustains us beyond the wide eco- communities that provided collaboration and many times Technical Director of Membership nomic swings that have been part of the last decade. As showed the way. More than anything, so much of what Publications Communications Services in the past, we will always rely upon the collaborative we accomplished was made possible by the gift of trust. efforts with our stakeholders and with other standards In 2011, there will be many new milestones to reach and development organizations. Collaboration has been a accomplishments to c ommemorate. So here’s a toast to vital component of our technical development, and it HL7, “May it always be the offspring for which we can be must grow in the coming year. It is certainly a time dur- most proud, and the parent to the many accomplishments ing which we will be required to leverage the limited we can only dream about.” resources at our disposal. Donald Lloyd Andrea Ribick Diana Stephens +1-734-677-7777 Although governments everywhere have promised dra- +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] matic increases in spending for healthcare technology and [email protected]

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