HL7 News • COVID-19 Takes a Heavy Toll

Update from Headquarters In This Issue COVID-19 Takes a Heavy Toll COVID-19 Takes a Heavy Toll...... 2 The devastating toll that COVID-19 has had on Member Spotlight on Stuart Myerburg...... 4 By Mark McDougall, families and economies around the world has been HL7 Executive Director ONC Grant Funded Project Update...... 6 unprecedented in my lifetime. As of late September, HL7 Standards Approved by ANSI there were over 33 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than Since April 2020...... 7 one million deaths. According to the World Bank’s 238-page Global Benefactors...... 7 Economic Prospects June 2020 report, the pandemic is expected to Doing Less, But Better...... 8 plunge many countries into the deepest recession since the second world Community Roundtables Advance war and have a lasting impact on our economies for many years. The the Use of FHIR...... 10 global recession is forecasted to last longer if countries fail to bring the CodeX Community Stress-Tests the Value of a pandemic under control. Unfortunately, with over 7.3 million cases and Common Language for Cancer Data...... 12 more than 209,000 deaths the USA is leading the way on what NOT to Germany-wide Standards for do. While the USA has about 4% of the world’s population, the USA has Coronavirus Data...... 14 accounted for 21% of coronavirus related deaths. HL7 Supports Large-scale COVID-19 Testing in the Netherlands...... 16 Given the real-world situation we are all facing, I view this article highlighting recent HL7 activities as small potatoes. However, let’s pray Personal Health Train, FAIR and FHIR...... 18 and hope that “this too shall pass”. In fact, let’s also hope that HL7 may HL7 Welcomes New Members...... 21 contribute to helping clinicians, care providers, and vendors improve the HL7 Launches Project Vulcan FHIR healthcare that is being provided to those in need. Accelerator Program...... 22 Since COVID-19 continues to spread causing so many deaths, and Advantages of HL7 Membership ...... 24 without a reliable vaccine yet available, HL7 Board of Directors 2020 Technical Steering Committee Members..25 also made the decision to cancel for our working group meetings Steering Divisions...... 25 and HL7 FHIR DevDays through 2021. Instead, these events Organizational Members...... 26 will be produced virtually. HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs...... 30 Virtual FHIR Connectathon in May HL7 Work Group Facilitators...... 34 I am pleased to report that the three-day The HL7 FHIR Accelerators...... 34 event was a smashing success. The 667 HL7 Work Group Facilitators...... 35 participants were provided hands-on experience developing FHIR-based solutions and testing the exchange Affiliate Contacts...... 36 of data with one another. Kudos to Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Sandy 2020 HL7 Staff...... 37 Vance and our HL7 staff for producing the virtual event with general 2020 HL7 Board of Directors...... 38 session presentations along with 35 tracks. We were thrilled to confirm Find HL7 on Social Media...... 40 that our HL7 FHIR connectathons are meaningful and successful in person or virtually. HL7 News Virtual FHIR DevDays in June is the official publication of Producing a first ever virtual version of FHIR DevDays required our Health Level Seven International team to take a new approach and adapt the plans we had already 3300 Washtenaw Avenue, Suite 227 made for a face-to-face format. This pivot required research of new Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4261 USA platforms and execution of the best approach to deliver content Phone: +1 (734) 677-7777 and an experience that was as valuable as an in-person meeting and Fax: +1 (734) 677-6622 www.HL7.org maintained the DevDays vibe. Mark McDougall, Publisher Congratulations to our HL7 team for rising to the challenge Andrea Ribick, Managing Editor and producing a well-received and successful event for 679 Karen Van Hentenryck, Technical Editor participants. Special thanks to Mary Ann Boyle for managing the HL7 Kai Heitmann, Photographer 2 COVID-19 Takes a Heavy Toll • October 2020 staff on the aspects of the event planning and coordination of speakers from around the world. Since many components of the meeting production approach were first-time uses, we were thrilled that the event went smoothly and was well-received. We would also like to thank our CTO Wayne Kubick as well as the Firely team, particularly Rien Wertheim and Marita Mantle-Kloosterboer, for their partnership in producing another successful event. Virtual HL7 FHIR Connectathon and 34th Annual Plenary and Working Group Meeting Highlights from our virtual events in September include: • HL7 FHIR connectathon on Wednesday-Friday, September 9-11 attracted over 600 attendees • Plenary program featured timely presentations from around the world, including: • Bernardo Mariano, WHO Chief Information Officer and Director of Digital Health and Innovation • Renato Sabbatini, PhD, FIAHSI, CEO, Edumed Institute, Co-Chair Education, HL7 Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil • Amy Abernathy, MD, PhD, Principal Deputy Commissioner and Acting CIO, US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) • Ken Goodman, PhD, Director, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, University of Miami • Chesley Richards, MD, Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) • Atul Butte, MD, PhD, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor and Institute Director, University of California, San Francisco • Jennifer Khoe, MD, General Surgeon, Southern California Permanente Medical Group – Kaiser Permanente • Over 25 work group convened productive meetings Monday-Friday, September 21-25 Despite the new challenges of producing a WGM virtually, we are pleased that the Plenary meeting, HL7 Work Groups and FHIR connectathon were all productive and successful. A sincere thank you to our work group co-chairs for their role in facilitating the virtual meetings Benefactors and Supporters We are pleased to recognize HL7’s 2020 benefactors and gold members who are listed on page 21. Their support of HL7 is very much needed and sincerely appreciated. HL7 recognize sour benefactors in all of our HL7 newsletters, on the HL7 website and at all of our HL7 working group meetings. Organizational Member Firms As listed on pages 26-29, HL7 is very proud to recognize the organizations who are HL7 organizational member companies. We sincerely appreciate their ongoing support of HL7 via their organizational membership dues. Best wishes to you and your loved ones for staying healthy, counting our blessings and also finding time for enjoying plenty of hugs and laughter! ■

3 HL7 News • Member Spotlight on Stuart Myerburg

Member Spotlight on Stuart Myerburg

Professional Background first implementation-neutral expression of the Stuart received a BA in history and psychology from ACIP recommendations, increasing the accuracy Emory University in 1991 and a JD from Emory and consistency of immunization evaluation and University School of Law in 1994. He began his career forecasting services and improving the ease of working as a law librarian for internet services at his developing and maintaining immunization CDS alma matter where he maintained and develop the products in the IIS, EHR, and HIE communities. School of Law’s first websites, which was one of the • Project Lead for a collaboration with the National earliest academic web presences at Emory. While Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) there, he also developed the Federal Courts Project, – Support an interagency effort to create testing which provided web access to court opinions for seven tools for data exchange protocols, conformance, federal circuit court of appeals. This marked the first and functional standards. This effort provides time these opinions were made available to the public flexible tools for the immunization community on the Internet, increasing traffic to the School’s to easily test their conformance to national web site and dramatically boosting its visibility standards, thereby improving interoperability within the legal community. and data quality. • Project Lead for the Vaccine Code Set Public Health Management Service (VCSMS) Center – An In 1997, Stuart became involved in public health initiative to provide targeted immunization when he began working at the Rollins School of community users and EHRs with comprehensive Public Health of Emory University as the associate and consolidated mapping and translation director for project management. While there, he services for vaccine and vaccine-related supervised the web and application development codes. The codes represent components of team and developed the school’s first web-based vaccine ordering, inventory management, distance learning application, which allowed the barcodes, and the documentation of vaccines school to move from a graduate certificate program to administered to patients and are managed by a full Master of Public Health (MPH) degree online. diverse governmental and non-governmental While there, he also collaborated with researchers agencies such as CDC, the Food and Drug and developed data collection applications and data Administration (FDA), the American Medical warehouses for studies on topics such as influenza, Association (AMA), and GS1. pesticide exposure in individual’s diets, the effects of In addition, Stuart is now the team Vitamin D and calcium on colorectal cancer, nutrition lead for the Informatics Team, which is and physical activity, perimenopausal women and responsible for the following areas: migraines, and cancer registries. • Immunization Data exchange and vocabulary CDC standards, including the HL7 Implementation In 2010, Stuart moved to the Centers for Disease Guide for Immunization Messaging Control and Prevention (CDC) as a health scientist • Clinical Decision Support for to continue his career in public health sector. Since Immunizations (CDSi) that time, he was worked at the National Center for • 2D bar codes and related standards for Immunization and Respiratory Disease (NCIRD)/ vaccine products Immunization Services Division (ISD)/Immunization • Vaccine ordering and inventory through the Information Systems Support Branch (IISSB). Stuart Vaccine Tracking System (VTrckS) leads several projects, including: • Best practices guidance • Project Lead for the Clinical Decision Support for Immunization (CDSi) Project – CDSi is the • Business rules maintenance 4 Member Spotlight on Stuart Myerburg • October 2020

• Collaborations with national HL7 Activities Farley and Montgomery. A and international standards Stuart became a member of HL7 third cat who he likes to call and policy organizations, in 2010 and is actively involved Nandor lives outside and has such as the Department of in the Public Health Work decided it’s his home, too. 12 Health and Human Services’ Group. He manages a team that Stuart enjoys art, film and live Office of the Chief Technology provides technical support for music and will travel for any and all Office (CTO), the Centers HL7 messaging and vocabulary of them, especially for a concert of for Medicare and Medicaid standards, develops and maintains music festival. He especially loves Services (CMS), the Office the HL7 Implementation Guide international travel. He originally of the National Coordinator (IG) for Immunization Messaging, planned to visit art exhibits in for Health Information and ensures that information London and the Primavera Music Technology (ONC), Integrating and code sets that support the Festival this year but has shifted the Healthcare Enterprise needs of the HL7 standard them to 2021 due to the COVID (IHE), and Healthcare are maintained, updated, and pandemic. In addition, Stuart Information and Management align with industry standards. has had a side gig as a DJ ins the Systems (HIMSS) early 2000s. He has a regular • COVID-19 pandemic response Personal Life gig on Friday nights, which has activities to prepare for Stuart grew up in Cape Coral, become a virtual event during distribution, administration, Florida but moved to Atlanta, COVID times. He grateful that and electronic data exchange Georgia for college and has today’s technology allows for him of vaccine information in lived there since 1987. His to continue his pursuits. ■ response to the pandemic roommates include two cats, 5 HL7 News • ONC Grant Funded Project Update

News from the HL7 Project Management Office ONC Grant Funded Project Update

Confluence/Jira and the Project Scope ONC Grant Funded By Dave Hamill, Statement (PSS) Project Update Director, HL7 Project The PMO and TSC members have teamed up to Work continued on projects Management Office assist HL7’s Application Manager, Josh Procious, in funded by the Office of the creating the PSS template in Jira. Ultimately, this National Coordinator for Health will be the foundation of a new project database and IT’s (ONC) 2020 $1,360,000 will replace Project Insight and the associated “HL7 grant for Maturing C-CDA and FHIR standards. As of Searchable Project Database”. Q3, 2020, efforts underway included the following: As part of the work, the team is reviewing every field 1. Implement the Unified Terminology Governance on the PSS to determine whether it should remain on (UTG) process and tooling the new template or can be removed. Expect to see a 2. Complete improvements to the FHIR Jira ballot more streamlined, shorter PSS template in the future. process The goal is to pilot the Jira PSS in Q4 2020. Until 3. Continued support for FHIR IG publishing and then, PSS’s should still be created within Confluence balloting processes and can be viewed at https://confluence.hl7.org/ 4. Continue to provide administration for the FHIR display/PSS/Project+Scope+Statement. Connectathons Zoom Migration/Rollout 5. Continue work on Bulk Data Access and Push In January, HL7 began its interest in providing 6. Produce additional HHS/ONC FHIR fact sheets and work groups a replacement for FreeConferenceCall. other educational material com for their conference call/screen sharing needs. 7. Publish errata to the US Core Implementation Guide In February, we settled on Zoom; in March, the rest of the world did too! 8. Continued support for the FHIR Terminology Server COVID-19 certainly has presented a unique turn for 9. Support for the HL7 FHIR build and our planned migration to Zoom, but nonetheless, implementation guide publishing tasks we are persevering and working our way through 10. Conduct a survey to inform the ONC about the obstacles. However, we’ve been able to provide the current and envisioned uses of the dedicated Zoom accounts to 16 work groups HL7 FHIR standard that are ‘heavy users’ (those that have many 11. Perform enhancements to the FHIR Registry conference calls per week). 12. Conduct additional C-CDA After successfully piloting three shared Zoom Implementation-A-Thons accounts for work groups that meet once per week 13. C-CDA R2.1 Value Set Updates or less, we rolled out the pilot to the rest of the work groups. Now any work group can utilize Zoom for 14. C-CDA Web Publishing Tool - Phase 2 their calls if they choose to do so. HL7 appreciates ONC’s continued support of C-CDA and FHIR for 2020 and beyond. ■

For more information: Details and deliverables for the above ONC funded projects can be found on HL7’s Confluence space at: who.int/nmh/publications/be-healthy-be-mobile/en

6 HL7 Standards Approved by ANSI Since April 2020 • October 2020 HL7 Standards Approved by ANSI Since April 2020

Name Designation Date

HL7 Version 3 Standard: ANSI/ 4/27/2020 Shared Messages, Release 3 HL7 V3 COMT, R3-2010 (R202

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration; ANSI/HL7 V3 4/27/2020 Person Registry, Release 1 PAPRSNREG, R1-2015 (R2020)

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Implantable Device ANSI/ 4/27/2020 Cardiac - Follow-up Device Summary, Release 2 HL7 V3 IDC, R2-2013 (R2020)

HL7 Cross Paradigm Implementation ANSI/HL7 IG UDI, R2-2020 6/24/2020 Guide: UDI Pattern, Release 2

HL7 Electronic Health Record System ANSI/HL7 EHR, R2.1-2020 6/30/2020 Functional Model, Release 2.1

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Regulated ANSI/ 7/27/2020 Product Submission, Release 2 HL7 V3 RPS, R2-2015 (R2020)

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Privacy and Security ANSI/HL7 V3 PSAF, R1-2020 7/28/2020 Architecture Framework, Release 1

HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: ANSI/HL7 V26 IG CCHD, R1- Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart 8/3/2020 2020 Defects (CCHD), Release 1

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7 HL7 News • Doing Less, But Better

Tooling Update Doing Less, But Better

For many of us, this desperate pandemic year has led to By Wayne Kubick, plenty of introspection. This has also been true for the HL7 CTO HL7 International Board, which has been contemplating the future of the HL7 organization after emerging from the current crisis. Among a set of core principles years since, it has been guiding Essentialism at HL7 adopted by the Board are our process improvement To paraphrase author Greg agility and focus. To be agile, and tooling initiatives. McKeon, Essentialism can be we need to simplify and refine Essentialism was a driving summed up as the disciplined the organization and core force behind our adoption of pursuit of less by learning to processes, as well as provide Confluence and JIRA as well as discern what really matters most support with continued efforts to simplify our product and eliminating everything else. improvements to our tooling. portfolio. Of course, we operate Among its principles are: This also requires getting our in a complex field, and there • A commitment to simplicity and global community to better were many confounding forces clarity in thought and actions understand and use the processes acting at the same time. The more consistently and effectively, HL7 community is more adept at • Prioritization and choice: If it so we can better focus on our introducing new processes, tools isn’t a clear “hell, yes!” – then core work of developing and and content than at retiring or it must be a clear “no” – there implementing interoperability eliminating the old stuff. Thus, is no in-between. We must standards. Which is a perfect our commitment to essentialism recognize that we can do segue back toward my long-held faded over time, tempered by anything but not everything, core belief in essentialism. inertia and continuing demands, so we must be ready to not the least of which has aggressively purge whatever Back to Basics been the black swans of 2020. impedes the path forward I first espoused the concept of Perhaps it’s time to once • Replacing habitual but faulty essentialism to an enthusiastic again review the key elements assumptions with three core Board and Technical Steering of essentialism and discuss truths: ‘I choose to’, ‘Only Committee back in 2016. how it fits with our ongoing a few things really matter’, While we’ve only made small tooling strategy and plans. and ‘I can do anything incremental progress in the four but not everything’ 8 Doing Less, But Better • October 2020

All of these require a major change (C-CDA). Furthermore, we’re the rest. Adding new tooling in our thinking and our cultural on the verge of releasing a new won’t make a difference unless attitudes. In the words of James FHIR Registry update that will we can focus on doing the right Clear, “Progress requires unlearning.” greatly increase our ability to things with agility. For the HL7 In order to move ahead more search and reuse implementation community, this includes: dramatically, HL7 needs to leave guides, resources, profiles and • Continuing to refine behind much of our past, even when extensions. Since new features Confluence as the single, we have invested so much sweat and capabilities are being rolled essential source of truth and equity in that past. All of us must out almost every month, it’s learning and not just using it as develop the courage to, as Stephen much more practical to rely on a storage closet King once said, “Kill your darlings.” the regular tooling and process • Aggressively retiring or Once we have accomplished that, updates posted at the CTO Tooling archiving outdated, conflicting, we can focus on the essential Update page in Confluence. or distracting information on few, instead of struggling to hack As I indicated in my last update, our website and wikis that our way through the many trivial 2020 is our time for JIRA. Our confounds understanding of items that distract even the most timing has slipped a bit, but we’re essential processes with clutter wizened of HL7 veterans—while now close to completing the • Incorporating visuals perplexing and frustrating many transition to JIRA for tracking and to emphasize the most others who we’d like to get more to replace the old STU Comment essential key points, along engaged in our community. website page. Our plans to use with hyperlinked drill JIRA as the standard platform HL7 Tooling Update downs to the details for recording and resolving ballot Now that we’ve reviewed the comments and liberating us • Introducing new, quick, basics of essentialism, we can from the tyranny of spreadsheets training capabilities to help return to the core topic of HL7 has also slipped and is now membership understand those tooling. While we have continued scheduled for piloting in the essentials, based on short advancing multiple tooling January cycle. Nevertheless, we’re summaries, tip sheets and initiatives since my last tooling determined to roll out the new five-minute webinars update (http://blog.hl7.org/hyl7_ JIRA-based workflow this • Asking the community – and tooling_update_spring_2020), summer, followed by workflow- especially those in leadership 2020 has been largely dedicated enabling the other forms that drive positions – to take a bit of time to completing the transition to our standards processes. to review those essentials, major programs like Unified commit to them, attest to Moving Together as One Terminology Governance (UTG) having read them, and trying to rather than introducing many Another James Clear precept forget much of the rest additional new initiatives. In is “Living with a bias toward addition, we have transitioned For HL7 International to adapt to a action,” which we will continue brave new future, a commitment to to Zoom as our primary to acknowledge by moving ahead, web meeting environment, essentialism will be fundamental recognizing we’ll have some to the success of our retooling and completed migrating content indigestion along the way before to Confluence, and introduced processing programs – and toward fully emerging as a healthier, achieving our critically important incremental improvements like more focused and agile HL7. a new document storage system vision of “A world in which And a commitment to essentialism, integrated with Confluence. everyone can securely access to eliminating the trivial many We have also made significant and use the right health data in search of the vital few, is not improvements to the FHIR IG when and where they need it.” a concession to indolence, but publisher, expanding its scope as In a troubling uncertain world a conscious recognition that our backbone publishing tool to that needs HL7 more than ever, we can only do the right things support UTG and the Consolidated now is the time for us to take these correctly by focusing on the vital Clinical Document Architecture steps forward together. ■ few, and aggressively eliminating 9 HL7 News • Community Roundtables Advance the Use of FHIR

Implementation Guides Progress Community Roundtables Advance the Use of FHIR

The HL7 Da Vinci Project continues to make strides By Fred Bazzoli, Communications Co-Lead, this year to find ways to use the HL7® Fast Healthcare HL7 Da Vinci Project Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) to use the standard to enable data exchange that will support the shift to value-based care.

The multi-stakeholder initiative— by the Centers for Medicare one of the HL7 FHIR accelerator & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs intended to improve the and the Office of the National uptake of FHIR in the healthcare Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). industry—has identified particular The project has hosted a series use cases for the standard, of community roundtables and several of its members this year with the intent of have been working hard to illustrating members’ progress implement code to solve vexing in implementing use cases information exchange problems. to solve business problems. The Da Vinci Project’s work has One of the roundtables described accelerated as it seeks to develop the efforts to improve data implementation guides for the exchange on quality measures use of FHIR to meet information in a collaboration between exchange requirements included Cigna, healthcare technology in recent final regulations released vendor InterSystems and Rush 10 Community Roundtables Advance the Use of FHIR • October 2020

Health, a clinically integrated network of healthcare providers Use Case Focus Areas and hospitals in the Chicago Improvement Quality Data Exchange for Clinical Data Payer Data Member Access Payer Data Quality Measures area. While FHIR connectivity Exchange Exchange Exchange STU2 had not been implemented in

Payer Data Payer Data Clinical Data Exchange Gaps in Care & Exchange: Exchange: Clinical Data live production systems as of Information Formulary Directory Exchange that date, the organizations

Coverage / Burden Reduction Payer Coverage Patient Cost Decision Exchange Transparency Notifications had tested functionality in a Coverage Requirements non-production environment and Discovery STU2 Risk Based Chronic Illness Patient Data Contract Member Documentation for Exchange Documentation continue to work, committing to Identification Risk Adjustment Templates and Rules regular meetings and consistent Process Improvement Performing Laboratory Reporting communication on the project Prior-Authorization Use Case Published Aligned with Support HL7 Standards Balloting specific ONC or CMS rule until the scheduled go-live. Progress Build Future 1 The organizations are implementing the Da Vinci Project’s Data Exchange for Da Vinci Resources Quality Measures (DEQM) use case with the goal of using it to VIEW FIND KEY RESOURCES • Live Demos • Listserv Sign Up • HL7 Confluence Site - • Member Panels • Background collateral https://confluence.hl7.org/display/DV initially share information on three P/ • End to End Clinical Scenario • Active Use Case content quality measures – medication • Where to find Da Vinci in Industry - • Implementation Guides https://confluence.hl7.org/display/DV View Full Schedule reconciliation, high blood pressure • Reference Implementations P/Da+Vinci+2020+Calendar hl7.me/davincinews • Calendar of Activities & Updates • Use Case Summary and Links to Call control and colorectal screening. In & Artifacts - https://confluence.hl7.org/display/DV Another recent community P/Da+Vinci+Use+Cases • Reference Implementation Code roundtable showcased work that Repository - https://github.com/HL7- is continuing on applications DaVinci that can seamlessly deliver healthcare data to consumers 2 using application programming interfaces (APIs) to pull data from payers’ information systems. CMS will require payers to make claims payment data and other patient for payers to share clinical data, Watch Recordings of the or member clinical information and access to clear formulary Da Vinci Project Community available to consumers with no information to support patient Roundtables Today! choice capabilities regarding obstacles, ideally through simple Recordings of these and other prescription drugs and potential apps that query for, gather and Da Vinci Project community purchasing alternatives through organize the data in meaningful roundtable events can be found Payer Data Exchange: Formulary. ways that create value for the user. on the project’s confluence The use of FHIR can help The CMS implementation page, by going to: https:// standardize approaches for resources for the pending rules confluence.hl7.org/display/DVP/ achieving the requirements, noted mentions several implementation Da+Vinci+Video+Presentations. guides developed by the Da Vinci John Kelly, principal business advisor at Edifecs, a technology Likewise, information on the Project to meet the regulations: Da Vinci Project and work Payer Data Exchange: Provider vendor working on developing and testing the implementation on developing use cases and Directory (Plan-Net) to share supporting implementation details on available providers guides that detail how to use the standardized FHIR standards. guides are on its main Confluence and pharmacies for a particular page, https://confluence.hl7. plan design, Payer Data Exchange org/display/DVP/Da+Vinci ■

11 HL7 News • CodeX Community Stress-Tests the Value of a Common Language for Cancer Data

Smarter Data on FHIR for Improved Cancer Care and Research CodeX Community Stress-Tests the Value of a Common Language for Cancer Data

CodeX (Common Oncology Data Elements eXtensions)

is an HL7 FHIR Accelerator, launched in late 2019, By Steve Bratt, that is building a community to enable interoperable Leader, CodeX FHIR Accelerator; cancer data modeling and applications. The ultimate Leader, Health Standards and goal is to leverage standardized “smarter data” to Interoperability enable step-change improvements in cancer patient Group, MITRE care and research, as well as reduce burden and cost.

The lingua franca of the CodeX how to use the IGs, pilots that community is mCODE (minimal validate the concepts and work, Common Oncology Data and adoption in commercial Elements), a FHIR implementa- and open source products. To tion guide (IG) that became an be successful, we ensured that HL7 Standard for Trial Use (STU) all roles needed to execute a in March. The STU 1 status signals workflow are represented as to vendors and other imple- participants in the CodeX projects. menters that mCODE is stable Four use case projects are in and ready for testing. In fact, we the execution phase. A common are already seeing vendors imple- theme throughout CodeX is menting this version of mCODE. to enable health systems to Like other accelerators, CodeX’s collect cancer patient data once work progresses within projects in the EHR [NOTE: See slide based on specific use cases and for possible graphic], and then workflows. We aim to have short leverage these mCODE-based development phases (3-6 months) data elements to feed a variety with increasingly ambitious of use cases using FHIR. workflows and deliverables. Let’s take a deeper dive into Deliverables include FHIR IGs two projects: based around mCODE, reference The most mature project is implementations to show people “Integrated Trial Matching for 12 CodeX Community Stress-Tests the Value of a Common Language for Cancer Data • October 2020

Cancer Patients and Providers.” The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network, Cancer Insights, TrialScope, BreastCancerTrials.org, and health systems are collaborating to develop and pilot open data standards and APIs to access trial matching services, via a patient’s EHR data, for possible matches. The aim is to speed the process and provide a more equitable and comprehensive list of the best options for trials for review by patients and their oncologists. The first phase which includes a Proof of Concept using only mCODE data elements is nearly complete. The next public meeting and demonstration will take place on September 16, 2020. Initial collaborators in the Cancer Registry Reporting project include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. Health systems are being engaged now. Today, a cancer patient’s data is reported to different regis- tries for different purposes using where we plan to work with side of homepage), and add your different standards and channels the HL7 Da Vinci Project. Visit name and organization to the (e.g., spreadsheets, forms, faxes, the CodeX Confluence page CoP and other email lists. specialized messages). The vision for launch announcements is to replace this with a more Many thanks to our Founding in the coming months, and to efficient approach, using stan- CodeX members! There are also keep updated on all projects. dardized, FHIR-based sharing a number of other organiza- of mCODE data and additions The CodeX/mCODE Community tions in the process of joining. that carry patient data directly of Practice (CoP) has been an Our first member meeting/call from EHRs to state cancer regis- amazing forum. The CoP is open is being planned this fall. Please tries, research registries and to the public as a place for sharing email me, Steve Bratt (sbratt@ other aggregators. The group updates on CodeX use case proj- mitre.org), if you’d to like to aims to collaborate with other ects as well as sharing independent become a CodeX member. Should initiatives with similar aims. initiatives that organizations are you do so, you’ll help drive the conducting with mCODE as their future of smarter data for the Use cases in the planning phase lingua franca. To receive notices fight against cancer, as well as include Radiation Therapy about future CoP calls, go to the be part of a growing network of Treatment Data and Oncology CodeX homepage, click on “Join passionate and talented people Clinical Pathways as well as a CodeX Listserv” (upper right driving the future of FHIR. ■ Prior Authorization Support, 13 HL7 News • Germany-wide Standards for Coronavirus Data

Multiple Stakeholders Join Forces Germany-wide Standards for Coronavirus Data

Scientists across Germany are studying the novel coronavirus,

SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. To streamline By Professor Dr. Sylvia Thun, research about the novel coronavirus, it is important to bring Director of the Core Unit “eHealth & Interoperability,” together findings and facilitate collaborative data use. Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and Chair, HL7 Germany; Stakeholders from the German others have only mild symptoms; healthcare system have therefore how the virus affects the bodies of joined forces under the Corona those who recover; and of course, Component Standards (cocos) what is the most promising route Initiative. The aim of the for treatment. A large number initiative is to establish common of organizations – institutes, data formats and standards for universities, startup companies Julian Sass, Master’s student data related to COVID-19 and and government agencies – are at the Core Unit “eHealth SARS-CoV-2. University hospitals gathering data, results and & Interoperability,” Berlin have agreed on a German Corona information, which are most Institute of Health (BIH) Consensus (GECCO) Dataset valuable when shared. The Corona for use in a national research Component Standards (cocos) network against COVID-19. Initiative (http://www.cocos.team) Scientists throughout Germany seeks to ensure that the different are currently researching the approaches come together and novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. thus become more effective. They want to find out how to “In order to reap the greatest keep the infection rate low; why possible benefit from the myriad some people get severely ill while data, it is necessary that they are

14 Germany-wide Standards for Coronavirus Data • October 2020 collected and stored in common progress: “Although we had to Informatics Initiative, a project formats and standards,” explains reach an agreement with more aiming to improve data use professor Sylvia Thun, head than 30 university hospitals on and exchange across German of the Core Unit eHealth and more than 80 core data elements, university hospitals, and the Interoperability at the Berlin we needed just under three weeks basic FHIR profiles of HL7 Institute of Health (BIH) and to complete the data set.” Germany. The FHIR profiles chair of HL7 Germany. “By using of the GECCO dataset are standardized languages like Scientists throughout published on the Simplifier SNOMED and LOINC, the data Germany…want to find out platform at: https://simplifier. how to keep the infection cannot only be clearly interpreted, net/ForschungsnetzCovid-19. rate low; why some people but also pooled Europewide, get severely ill while others The cocos Initiative was launched across national borders and have only mild symptoms; by the National Association used for research purposes.” how the virus affects of Statutory Health Insurance The first task was to define the bodies of those who Physicians (Kassenärztliche what data should be collected recover; and of course, Bundesvereinigung, KBV), the and in what format. The team what is the most promising health innovation hub (hih), led by Professor Thun created a route for treatment. the Federal Ministry of Health “consensus dataset” of COVID-19 (BMG) and Health Level Seven patients for a national research The data elements were annotated (HL7) Germany. Additional network of university medicine with international terminologies institutions and organizations to study COVID-19 funded by (SNOMED CT, LOINC, UCUM, in the health sector have since the German Federal Ministry of ICD-10-GM and ATC) using the joined the initiative, including Education and Research (BMBF). ART-DECOR tool (the dataset can the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), The dataset contains all relevant be accessed at https://art-decor. the Federal Institute for Drugs information, starting with org/art-decor/decor-datasets- and Medical Devices (BfArM), personal data like age, gender, -covid19f-). Subsequently, the the German Institute for Medical height and weight, followed by HL7 standard Fast Healthcare Documentation and Information lab results such as blood pressure Interoperability Resources (DIMDI), the Medical Informatics readings or cholesterol levels, (FHIR®) was used to define Initiative (MII), the Network risk factors, medication use, as profiles for interoperable data of University Hospitals, and the well as symptoms and therapeutic exchange. When defining the German Association of Health procedures performed. Julian FHIR profiles, care was taken IT Vendors (bvitg). The number Sass, a master’s student working to build on previous work of organizations supporting the with Professor Thun at the BIH, where possible, especially the initiative continues to grow. ■ reports that the team made fast FHIR profiles of the Medical The HL7 Job Board Are you looking for health IT experts with HL7 and FHIR experience? Or are you looking for the next step in your career? Be sure to check out the HL7 Job Board! It’s a great resource to address the growing demand for specialized IT skills, as well as the increasing adoption of HL7 FHIR and the ONC/CMS rule! http://www.hl7.org/jobs/index.cfm The Job Board provides a central location for the HL7 community to learn about openings aligned with their skills and for employers to gain visibility with implementers that have HL7 experience. During the pandemic we are waving all fees to post open positions.

15 HL7 News • HL7 Supports Large-scale COVID-19 Testing in the Netherlands

Version 2.5 Indispensable in Netherlands COVID-19 Fight HL7 Supports Large-scale COVID-19 Testing in the Netherlands

As of June 1, all people in the Netherlands with mild symptoms of COVID-19 can get tested. On June 30, By Robert Stegwee, PhD, Board Member, HL7 the national association of regional health centers Netherlands; Independent announced that 250,000 tests had been administered. Consultant in Health IT For a population of a mere 17 million, that is quite impressive. How did we achieve testing at this unprecedented scale? HL7 plays an essential role. Testing for infectious diseases in the testing for infectious diseases is Netherlands is the responsibility of not such a big deal. The Centers for regional centers for public health Sexual Health, part of the GGDs, (GGDs). Across the country we reports 150,000 visits annually. have 25 such organizations, jointly The number of active cases of represented by their national tuberculosis has not risen above association, GGD GHOR Nederland. 1,000 for the last couple of years. Under normal circumstances,

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Suddenly the GGDs were told cancer screening) had already Before the pilot was actually in to prepare for 30,000 tests per established connections to the operation, other labs began to join day, with a possible increase national CoronIT system using a the effort. The pilot was opera- to 70,000 per day in the fall. highly simplified version of HL7 tional in early May and, by the end This meant opening over 60 Version 2.5 messaging. Being of the month, the first phase of 20 drive-thru testing locations, pandemic labs, they were only labs was connected to the national educating personnel on how to commissioned to run the PCR CoronIT system and ready for the properly conduct the test, and analysis, and hence did not receive June 1 launch. opening a call-center to schedule any patient information. Together with the dedicated group appointments. The national In times of crisis regular labs of pandemic labs, the testing number was called over 300,000 also assist the regional GGD in capacity was sufficient to serve the times on the first day alone. epidemiological analysis, so they needs of the population. Luckily, All of these are major go well beyond the technical the numbers didn’t rise to the achievements in their own right. analysis of the swab. They predicted 30,000 tests per day, But where do you find the labs that need fully functional clinical but instead have stabilized around can actually carry out the analysis information exchange based on the 10,000 per day. However, as the at this scale? The required tests are full scope of HL7 Version 2.5 lab country lifted more of the lock- PCR tests, which require rather ordering and results reporting. down measures, preparations for advanced equipment. During In the middle of April, a pilot an increase of up to the predicted the early stages of the pandemic, implementation was launched 70,000 tests per day in the fall is some 60 labs were accredited to connect a COVID-19 lab to ongoing. The next phase consists for SARS-CoV-2 virus detection, the national CoronIT solution. of another 20 labs that worked using the PCR test. In order to fill People at the lab, their laboratory hard to get their connection up and the projected numbers, all these information management system running in July. In all, we will have labs were needed to pitch in. (LMIS) vendor and the team connected 50 of the 60 accredited So how do you process that behind CoronIT worked closely labs, including the pandemic labs, many tests on a daily basis? GGD together to make this happen. within the course of four months. GHOR Nederland has chosen to Luckily, they could build upon It is still a lot of hard work on all develop one national solution all the work on lab information levels, from firewalls and char- for COVID-19 diagnostics, exchange that had been done acter sets, using OML, ORU, called CoronIT. The rationale in the past by LIMS vendors, OBR and OBX, by coding LOINC behind this decision is that the professional lab associations, HL7 and SNOMED CT, all the way available testing capacity needs Netherlands, IHE Netherlands and to contracts between regional to be allocated to the places Nictiz (the national competence GGDs and labs and the national where it is most needed. That center for electronic exchange of funding of COVID-19 diagnostics. won’t work when you have to health and care data). Without the dedicated commu- connect the existing 25 regional Combined with recent experiences nity of expertise around IHE/ solutions with 60 different labs on routine reporting of antibiotics HL7 lab information exchange across the country. Even with resistance data to the national in the Netherlands, we would one national solution, connecting Center for Infectious Disease never have been able to pull this 60 different labs is already quite Control and Lab2lab communica- off. The tried and true Version 2.5 challenging. Fortunately, we tions for national genetic typing of has proven to be indispensable in have HL7 well established in resistant bacteria, a solid commu- the fight against COVID-19 in the our labs in the Netherlands. nity of expertise and trust could Netherlands, because it has united A dedicated first group of be engaged. The common under- people around a common purpose. “pandemic labs” (normally standing was, “We can do this!” In times of crisis, these people will working in other fields, such roll up their sleeves and get the as veterinary labs or cervical job done. ■

17 HL7 News • Personal Health Train, FAIR and FHIR

COVID-19 Generates Big Data Worldwide Personal Health Train, FAIR and FHIR

Digitalization in the healthcare sector has resulted in an explosion of data—known as big data. Recently Ananya Choudhury Department of Radiation Oncology with the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 12 million (MAASTRO), GROW school for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht people have been found positive, of which more than University Medical Centre+, The 500,000 died.1 Netherlands Big Data and AI in Healthcare assisting robots, improved and These figures are massive, but accurate diagnosis in cancer, to what is even more enormous personalized treatments and is the amount of data these 12 developing new medicines, AI and million patients have created. machine learning is causing a paradigm shift in modern health- This is big data and most of the Esther Bloemen-van Gurp, Zuyd answers that scientist across the care. With machines that can Unversity of Applied Sciences and Fontys University of Applied Sciences, The globe are looking for are actually predict, diagnose, comprehend and learn healthcare sector is Netherlands, and Board Member, HL7 hidden in the data itself. Netherlands empowered like never before.3 Another example of big data can be seen with cancer. An Data Exchange, estimated 18 million new cases Interoperability and Data and 9.6 million deaths were Protection Laws recorded worldwide in 2018 Big data and AI are the driving 2 alone. Considering each patient force in modern day healthcare generates about 1-10 gigabytes innovation. However, the Johan van Soest, Department of of data, the total amount of data healthcare sector is far from Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO), generated is about 200 petabytes! GROW school for Oncology and harnessing the true power of Developmental Biology, Maastricht In the last 20 years, electronics and AI. This is because big data is University Medical Centre+, The computing devices have decreased contained in silos that are: Netherlands in size but have significantly • Located within hospital increased in processing power. boundaries and not One of the major benefits of this accessible for research – advancement has come in the form data exchange and of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. • Unstructured or poorly structured making them Andre Dekker, Department of Radiation The healthcare industry is unusable outside the Oncology (MAASTRO), GROW school for adopting and benefiting from source organization – data Oncology and Developmental Biology, these technologies. From surgery Maastricht University Medical Centre+, interoperability The Netherlands 18 Personal Health Train, FAIR and FHIR • October 2020

Lastly, even if we can exchange the data, we may not be allowed to due to data protection laws. Historically, sharing and exchanging patient data has been guided by the institute which generated the data. In the modern digitalization era, individuals are increasingly becoming aware of the consequences of uncontrolled data sharing. This poses a threat to indi- vidual’s privacy and confidentiality. Governments are fast adopting policies and formulating laws that regulate the collection, use and sharing of personal data. Data protection laws in the United Figure 1: Personal Health Train architecture States, GDPR in Europe, PIPEDA in Canada, Data Protection Act (DPA) in the UK, China Data Personal Health Train, FAIR and The metaphor train in PHT refers Protection Regulation (CDPR) in HL7 FHIR to the packaged algorithms and analysis script that are sent to China, and the IT act in India all In a world where we are restricted the remote data source. Stations reflect the increasing global to collect and share data outside the contain the FAIR (Findable, awareness regarding the impor- source organization, we can share Accessible, Interoperable and tance of preserving data privacy the analytics to the data. Current 4,5,6,7 Reusable) data and also provide and confidentiality. healthcare data sharing platforms are a computation environment for In popular discussion, this is focused on performing queries on executing the algorithms. often regarded as the Health Data remote data sources and obtaining GoldiLocks Dilemma­—whether to the results of these data queries. Finally, tracks are the communica- tion channels and mechanism by share data or to protect privacy? The rationale of Personal Health which the researcher (who initi- Or do both? Sharing too little data Train (PHT) is that instead of ates the analysis and is looking for will prevent care providers from requesting and receiving data, we answers), the central messaging quality clinical decision making. are interested in asking a specific server and the data stations talk to Next generation AI technologies question and receiving a corre- each other. Figure 1 depicts a sche- will be starved and promises like sponding answer.9 personalized medicine will be matic diagram of the PHT with PHT infrastructure is designed to repressed. Sharing too much data three FAIR data stations. deliver questions and algorithms could lead to a possible violation Although such an infrastructure which can be executed at the of personal privacy and confidenti- would work in an ideal world data source institutes. The entire ality. Trust in healthcare providers scenario where there is semantic execution is fully controlled by the would be eroded and value created interoperability, we have to cater data source institutes which means by healthcare data could be to a realistic situation. Hence, that interpretation and processing captured by third parties e.g., large such an infrastructure where data will happen at the data source technology companies.8 stays at the source needs proper institute as well, rather than at the definitions of where we can find receiving side. Hence, we are sharing data (Findable), how we can access only the necessary information about this data (Accessible), how we can a patient instead of asking for data.

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interpret (Interoperable) the data records is a key step in achieving The entire process is executed available, and how we can (Re) semantic interoperability. without patient data leaving use the data. This means that this In addition, FHIR is built on top the source and is completely infrastructure heavily relies on the of a rich information model and data agnostic. PHT relies on the 10 FAIR principles. is supported by rich metadata metadata information and is HL7 Fast Healthcare descriptions in the resources. independent of the actual data Interoperability Resources (HL7 Furthermore, with the FHIR API, standard. This makes the PHT a FHIR®) as a clinical interopera- it is possible to find and query generic infrastructure, indepen- bility standard also establishes a patient data from remote servers. dent of the (medical) specialty or research domain. strong relationship and identifi- Finally, it has been experimentally cation with the FAIR data princi- shown that PHT and FHIR can go These proof of concept studies ples. The “I” (interoperability) in hand-in-hand in achieving privacy show a promising future where FAIR is the core concept in FHIR. preserving federated data analyis in large scale clinical data from hospi- FHIR provides a well-defined healthcare. As a proof of concept, tals can be utilized and machine structure in the form of resources, we designed a patient cohort learning models can be trained profiles and extensions, which are counter to calculate the number of for diagnostic as well as predic- the building blocks for ensuring matching patients from two public tive analytics. PHT and FAIR data syntactic interoperability. FHIR repositories and calculated principles using HL7 FHIR as an FHIR also supports all major basic summanry statistics like mean interoperability solution has the medical coding terminology age, mean BMI, standard devia- potential to bring ground breaking standards (e.g., SNOMED CT, tion, age, and BMI relationship research in healthcare. ■ ICD, LOINC). Adopting coding in patients diagnosed with both terminology in describing health hypertension and diabetes.11, 12, 13

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21 HL7 News • HL7 Launches Project Vulcan FHIR Accelerator Program

Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Aims to Streamline Translational and Clinical Research HL7 Launches Project Vulcan FHIR Accelerator Program

HL7 recently announced the launch of its newest FHIR Accelerator, Project Vulcan. HL7 seeks to use its widely recognized data exchange standards to help healthcare By Amy (Nordo) Cramer, researchers more effectively acquire, exchange and use MMCi, RN, CPHQ, Co- Chair, Vulcan Steering data in translational and clinical research. Committee; Global Product Development Strategic Partnerships, Pfizer The effort, called Vulcan, intends medical research, which is often to use a model for collaboration a time-intensive and costly among diverse stakeholders in process that unnecessarily delays the translational and clinical progress in discovering treat- research community to define ments for medical conditions a common set of standards that because researchers are unable can be implemented internation- to share critical information,” ally, built on current agreements said HL7 International CEO to use the HL7 Fast Healthcare Charles Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D. “Project Interoperability (FHIR®) standard Vulcan aims to develop common to facilitate data exchange. solutions to help partners “Improving data sharing can overcome these challenges.” bring significant benefits to 22 HL7 Launches Project Vulcan FHIR Accelerator Program • October 2020

The initiative is the latest that will use HL7’s FHIR Accelerator Program, which seeks to strengthen the FHIR standard and enhance market adop- tion through a programmatic approach that diverse stake- holders can use. The Accelerator Program aims to motivate and support market collaborations, seeking to speed the availability of FHIR to tackle important interoperability needs. Project Vulcan represents an ambitious Goodwin, co-chair of Vulcan patient safety and compliance in new use of the FHIR Accelerator and Vice President of Pfizer’s mind,” said Amy (Nordo) Cramer, Program, pulling together Global Product Development Vulcan co-chair and Pfizer a diverse multi-stakeholder Operations Center of Excellence. Global Product Development group that includes govern- “Delivering a new therapy Strategic Partnerships. Cramer ment and regulatory agencies, to market now takes 10 to 15 continued, “Vulcan’s contribu- standards development orga- years at an average cost of tions in using FHIR to streamline nizations, academic sites, tech- $2.6 billion,” said Goodwin, data collection and submission, nology vendors and patients. who’s also an ILT member of protocol representation, clin- With the advent of FHIR TransCelerate BioPharma, a ical trial setup and management, there is a clear path to utilize non-profit organization that and for other data-inten- FHIR and other existing works across the biopharma- sive purposes will be a game standards to execute the ceutical research and develop- changer for clinical research.” interoperable exchange of ment community to improve the Goals for Project Vulcan include: data for clinical research. delivery of new medicines. • Bridge Existing Gaps: Work “Using FHIR to assist trans- “The most powerful way to make to close gap between clinical lational and clinical research research faster and less expen- care and clinical research to is a natural extension for sive is to bridge clinical care and improve patient lives, decrease the standard,” said Rob clinical research, while keeping costs and improve efficiency.

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• Strategically Connect Industry and return on value that identified and prioritized use Collaborations: Coordinate a unified network could cases for secondary use of strategy between stakeholders realize to various parties EHR data that meet interested and leverage existing work and provide comprehensive parties needs and goals within HL7 and other groups. recommendations to Organizers of Vulcan are • Maximize Collective global regulators. encouraging other entities to Resources: leverage shared • Deliver Integrated Tools and participate in the effort. More community and resources Solutions: Develop necessary information can be found on its to be able to communicate FHIR Research Resources to website, www.hl7.org/vulcan. ■ the return on investment maturity. Vulcan will handle

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BENEFACTORS CITRIOM LLC OCHIN Accenture Community Care HIE OneRecord Ad Hoc LLC Computrition, Inc. Oregon Health and Science University Allscripts Connecticut Department of Particle Health American Medical Association Public Health PCPI Foundation Centers for Disease Control and CORMAC Corp PenRad Prevention/CDC Council of State and Territorial Prime Therapeutics LLC Cerner Corporation Epidemiologists Prometheus Research, LLC CRISP Department of State Health Public Health Informatics Institute Services (Texas) CVS Health Ready Computing Inc. EBSCO Health Duke Clinical & Translational Redox eHealth Initiative Science Institute Regenstrief Institute, Inc. EMI Advisors LLC Edifecs, Inc. Registry Clearinghouse ESAC Inc Epic Rimidi, Inc EyeMD EMR Healthcare Systems, Inc. Federal Electronic Health Record Rochester RHIO Modernization Office Health Care Service Corporation Samvit Solutions Food and Drug Administration Health Intersections Pty Ltd Scope Infotech, Inc. Google Healthcare Integrations, LLC SMART Health IT GuideWell heartbase, inc. Sparx Systems Intermountain Healthcare Hi3 Solutions St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital InterSystems ICANotes, LLC Starwest Tech Kaiser Permanente Info World State of New Hampshire NewWave Inovalon Inc. Systex, Inc. Office of the National Coordinator Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc for Health IT iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. Tata Consultancy Services Optum IRIS Health Solutions, LLC The Sequoia Project Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Kno2 LLC Therap Services LLC Pfizer Lyniate UC Davis School of Medicine Philips Healthcare Massachusetts Health UCSF Center for Digital Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Data Consortium Health Innovation U.S. Department of Defense, Military MaxMD UHIN (Utah Health Health System Medallies, Inc Information Network) U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Michigan Health University of Arkansas UnitedHealthcare Information Network Medical Sciences Microsoft Corporation UW Medicine Information GOLD Milliman IntelliScript Technology Services AbleTo, Inc. Missouri Department of Health & VNB Health Solutions Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Senior Services Vynyl Altarum Moxe Health American Academy of Neurology National Association of Dental Plans CONSULTANTS American College of Physicians National Marrow Donor Program Accenture Association of Public Health NeuralFrame Ad Hoc LLC Laboratories New York eHealth Collaborative AEGIS.net, Inc. Asymmetrik Ltd. NICTIZ Altarum Audacious Inquiry NIH/Department of Clinical Amitech Solutions Research Informatics Availity, LLC Asymmetrik Ltd. Northrop Grumman Blue Cross Blue Shield Association B3 Group Technology Services BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama CAL2CAL Corporation Northwestern Medicine CAL2CAL Corporation Carradora Health, Inc. Cancer Insights NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene CITRIOM LLC Cigna Cognosante, LLC 26 Organizational Members • October 2020 Organizational Members (continued)

Dapasoft Inc. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Massachusetts Health Elimu Informatics Inc. CA Department of Public Health Data Consortium EMI Advisors LLC California Department of Health Michigan Health EnableCare LLC Care Services Information Network ESAC Inc CAQH Minnesota Department of Health Health eData Inc. CDISC Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services Health Intersections Pty Ltd Center for Medical Interoperability NAACCR Healthcare Integrations, LLC Centers for Disease Control and National Association of Dental Plans Hi3 Solutions Prevention/CDC National Cancer Institute HLN Consulting, LLC Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services National Centre for Healthcare iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. Centre for Development of Information Systems IRIS Health Solutions, LLC Advanced Computing National Council for Prescription J Michael Consulting, LLC College of American Pathologists Drug Programs Lantana Consulting Group College of Healthcare Information National Institute of Standards M*Modal, Inc. Mgmt. Executives and Technology Mathematica Policy Research Colorado Regional Health Information National Library of Medicine NYSTEC Organization National Marrow Donor Program Point-of-Care Partners CommonWell Health Alliance NC Division of Public Health Professional Laboratory Connecticut Department of NCQA Management, Inc. Public Health Nebraska Dept of Health and Ready Computing Inc. Contra Costa County Health Services Human Services Registry Clearinghouse Council of State and Territorial Nebraska Health Information Rochester RHIO Epidemiologists Initiative (NeHII) Samvit Solutions Department of State Health New York eHealth Collaborative Scope Infotech, Inc. Services (Texas) New York State Office of Security Risk Solutions, Inc. (SRS) DGS, Commonwealth of Virginia Mental Health Systex, Inc. DirectTrust NICTIZ Telligen Duke Clinical & Translational NIH/Department of Clinical Science Institute Research Informatics Vernetzt, LLC eHealth Initiative NJ Division of Developmental WaveOne Associates Inc. European Medicines Agency Disabilities Federal Electronic Health Record NJDOH GENERAL INTEREST Modernization Off NYC Department of Health and American Dental Association Florida Department of Health Mental Hygiene Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Food and Drug Administration NYS DOH, Office of Quality and Agence eSante Luxembourg Health and Welfare Information Patient Safety Alabama Department of Public Health Systems Centre OASIS American Academy of Neurology Health Current Object Management Group (OMG) American Clinical Health Sciences South Carolina OCHIN Laboratory Association HealtHIE Nevada Office of the National Coordinator American College of Obstetricians and HIMSS for Health IT Gynecologists HSE - Health Service Executive Oklahoma State Department of Health American College of Physicians I3L @ GaTech OR.NET American Immunization Registry Oregon Health and Science University Association (AIRA) ICCBBA, Inc. Oregon Public Health Division American Medical Association ICH PCPI Foundation Arkansas Department of Health Idaho Health Data Exchange Illinois Department of Public Health Pharmaceuticals & Medical ASIP SANTE Devices Agency Indian Health Service Association of Public Health Public Health Informatics Institute Laboratories Iowa Department of Public Health RTI International Australian Digital Health Agency Japan Pharmaceutical SLI Compliance Baylor College of Medicine Manufacturers Association 27 HL7 News • Organizational Members Organizational Members (continued)

GENERAL INTEREST HealthNow New York Inc. Northwestern Medicine (continued) Healthspring Partners HealthCare System, Inc. SMART Health IT Highmark Health Perry Community Hospital Social Security Administration Humana Inc Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated State of New Hampshire Lumeris, Inc. Rady Children’s Hospital Tennessee Department of Health Meridian Health Plan Redington-Fairview Hospital The Joint Commission Noridian Healthcare Solutions Regenstrief Institute, Inc. The Sequoia Project Prime Therapeutics LLC Sharp HealthCare U.S. Department of Defense, Military UnitedHealthcare Information Systems Health System Wisconsin Physicians Spectrum Health U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Service Ins. Corp. St. Joseph’s Healthcare System UC Davis School of Medicine St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital UCSF Center for Digital PHARMACY Stanford Children’s Health Health Innovation Parexel International The Children’s Hospital of UHIN (Utah Health Pfizer Philadelphia Information Network) UK HealthCare United Network for Organ Sharing PROVIDERS University of Nebraska United Physicians 1Life, Inc. Medical Center University of AL at Birmingham Acuity Healthcare University of Utah Health Care University of Arkansas Alaska Native Tribal University Physicians, Inc. Medical Sciences Health Consortium UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center University of Miami Albany Medical Center Waseel Asp Ltd University of Minnesota Albany Medical Center Hospital West Virginia University Hospitals University of Texas Medical Branch almerys at Galveston ARUP Laboratories, Inc. VENDORS Utah Department of Health Benedictine Health System AbleTo, Inc. UW Medicine Information Blessing Hospital AcuStaf Technology Services Boston Medical Center Adeptia Inc. Virginia Department of Health Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Advanced Concepts AG Washington State Central Illinois ADVault, Inc. Department of Health Radiological Associates Allscripts Westat Children’s Mercy Amtelco Wisconsin Department of Hospitals and Clinics Apelon, Inc. Health Services Children’s of Alabama Apervita, Inc. WNY HEALTHeLINK daytoday Health Applied PilotFish WorldVistA Dayton Children’s Hospital Healthcare Integration Diagnostic Laboratory Services Applied Research Works PAYERS HCA IT&S athenahealth Anthem, Inc. Hendricks Regional Health Audacious Inquiry Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield Intermountain Healthcare Availity, LLC Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Johns Hopkins Hospital Azuba Corporation Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Kaiser Permanente BayHealth Development Blue Cross Blue Shield of Laboratory Corporation of America South Carolina Beckman Coulter, Inc. Mary Greeley Medical Center BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama Becton Dickinson Mayo Clinic BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Bizmatics, Inc. Mediclinic Southern Africa Cambia Health Solutions Bridge Connector Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Cigna By Light Professional IT Services LLC MolecularDx, LLC CVS Health Cancer Insights MultiCare Health System GuideWell Care Everywhere, LLC New York-Presbyterian Hospital Health Care Service Corporation Cerner Corporation North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. Change Healthcare 28 Organizational Members • October 2020 Organizational Members (continued)

Clinical Architecture LLC Innovaccer Inc. Particle Health Clinical Software Solutions Inovalon Inc. Patient Resource LLC Clinicomp, Intl Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) PenRad CMG Online Sdn Bhd Interbit Data, Inc. Perspecta Cognitive Medical Systems InterSystems Philips Healthcare Comet Information Systems iPatientCare, LLC Premier Healthcare Alliance Community Care HIE IPRD Solutions, Inc. Prometheus Computing LLC Community Computer Service, Inc. Isoprime Corporation Prometheus Research, LLC Complia Health iSteer Inc QS/1 Data Systems, Inc. Computrition, Inc. Kno2 LLC Qvera CORMAC Corp Labware, Inc. Real Seven, LLC CoverMyMeds Leidos, Inc. Redox CRISP Logibec Reed Technology and Information Cyrus-XP LLC Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services Inc. Deer Creek Pharmacy Services Services (LANES) retarus Diameter Health Lyniate Rimidi, Inc Document Storage Systems, Inc. MaxMD Roche Diagnostics International Ltd. Dynamic Health IT, Inc. McKesson Corporation Rosch Visionary Systems EBSCO Health MDT Technical Services, Inc. Sabiamed Corporation Eccovia Solutions Medallies, Inc SemanticBits, LLC eClinicalWorks MedConnect, Inc. SIVSA SOLUCIONES Edifecs, Inc. Medecision INFORMATICAS, S.A.U. ELEKTA MedEvolve, Inc. Smiths Medical EMR Direct MedicaSoft Softek Solutions, Inc. Epic Medicomp Systems, Inc. Software AG USA, Inc. Evident Medicus Clinical, LLC Southwestern Provider Services, Inc Exscribe, Inc. MediSked, LLC Sparx Systems EXTEDO Medisolv Inc Standing Stone, LLC EyeMD EMR Healthcare Systems, Inc. MEDITECH, Inc Starwest Tech ezEMRx Medtronic Summit Healthcare Services, Inc. FEI.com MedX Open Systems Surescripts Flatiron Health Mettle Solutions LLC SurgiVision Consultants, Inc. Foothold Technology Microsoft Corporation Synopsys Finland Oy Fresenius Vial SAS Milliman IntelliScript Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc GE Healthcare ModuleMD LLC Tata Consultancy Services Genesis Systems, Inc. Morris Systems Inc Tesia Clearinghouse Goldblatt Systems, LLC Motive Medical Intellligence TGX Medical Systems Google Moxe Health The CBORD Group Inc. GPM Corp. MyHealth ACCESS NETWORK, INC. The MITRE Corporation Greenway Health NeuralFrame Therap Services LLC Health Catalyst NewWave TIBCO Software Inc. HealthLX NextGen Healthcare Information TriMed Technologies Corp HealthTrio, LLC Systems, Inc. Varian Medical Systems, Inc. heartbase, inc. NoMoreClipboard.com VNB Health Solutions IBM Northrop Grumman Vynyl Technology Services ICANotes, LLC Wolters Kluwer Health OneHealthPort Info World XchangeWorx OneRecord Infor XIFIN, Inc. Optum Information Builders Yardi Systems, Inc. Orchard Software Innosoft Corporation OZ Systems 29 HL7 News • HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs

ANESTHESIA Bryn Rhodes CLINICAL INTEROPERABILITY Martin Hurrell, PhD Dynamic Content Group COUNCIL Phone: Phone: +44 7711-669-522 +1 801-210-0324 Laura Heermann Langford RN, PhD Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Intermountain Healthcare John Walsh, MD Howard Strasberg, MD, MS Phone: +1 801-507-9254 Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Wolters Kluwer Health Email: [email protected] Phone: Phone: +1 857-282-3953 +1 858-481-4249 Lindsey Hoggle Email: [email protected] Email: howard.strasberg@ IRIS Health Solutions, LLC wolterskluwer.com Email: [email protected]

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD Russell Leftwich, MD CLINICAL GENOMICS InterSystems Lorraine Constable Phone: +1 617-551-2111 Gil Alterovitz, PhD HL7 Canada Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 780-951-4853 Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 857-282-3953 Email: [email protected] Anthony Julian, FHL7 CLINICAL QUALITY INFORMATION Mayo Clinic Robert Freimuth, PhD Patricia Craig, MS, MIS Phone: +1 507-293-8384 Mayo Clinic The Joint Commission Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 507-266-4078 Phone: +1 630-792-5546 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] James Jones ARDEN SYNTAX Paul Denning SMART Health IT The MITRE Corporation Peter Haug, MD Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 781-271-9614 Intermountain Healthcare Bob Milius, PhD Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 801-507-9253 National Marrow Donor Program Email: [email protected] Floyd Eisenberg, MD Phone: +1 612-627-5844 iParsimony LLC Robert Jenders, MD, MS, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 202-643-6350 Charles Drew University/UCLA Kevin Power Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 323-249-5734 Cerner Corporation Email: [email protected] Yan Heras Phone: +1 816-201-3026 Optimum eHealth LLC Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 949-566-3361 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND Patrick Werner Email: [email protected] REGULATION HL7 Germany Juliet Rubini, MS, MSIS Phone: +49 15150602008 Mathematica Policy Research Boris Brodsky Email: [email protected] Food and Drug Administration Phone: +1 609-750-3181 Phone: +1 301-796-5179 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] CLINICAL INFORMATION Hugh Glover, FHL7 MODELING INITIATIVE COMMUNITY-BASED CARE AND Blue Wave Informatics Richard Esmond PRIVACY Email: hugh_glover@ PenRad bluewaveinformatics.co.uk Johnathan Coleman Phone: +1 763-475-3388 Security Risk Solutions, Inc. (SRS) Bron Kisler, BS Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 843-442-9104 National Cancer Institute Stanley Huff, MD, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 850-225-2766 Intermountain Healthcare Email: [email protected] Suzanne Gonzales-Webb Phone: +1 801-507-9111 Department of Veteran Affairs Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 727-605-5081 CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT Galen Mulrooney, MBA Email: [email protected] U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD James Kretz Phone: +1 703-815-0900 SAMHSA University of Utah Health Care Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 801-213-4129 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Claude Nanjo David Pyke University of Utah Health Care Robert Jenders, MD, MS, FHL7 Ready Computing Inc. Phone: +1 810-587-6092 Phone: +1 212-877-3307 x101 Charles Drew University/UCLA Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 323-249-5734 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD University of Utah Health Care Phone: +1 801-587-8076 Email: [email protected]

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CONFORMANCE Mark Janczewski, MD, MPH Mary Kay McDaniel Nathan Bunker Medical Networks, LLC Cognosante, LLC American Immunization Email: [email protected] Email: marykay.mcdaniel@ Registry Association John Ritter, FHL7 cognosante.com Phone: +1 435-635-1532 Phone: +1 412-372-5783 Benoit Schoeffler Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] almerys Frank Oemig, PhD, FHL7 Feliciano Yu, MD, MS Phone: +33 473982044 HL7 Germany University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 208-781194 Email: [email protected] Andy Stechishin Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada Phone: +1 780-903-0885 Ioana Singureanu, MSCs, FHL7 EMERGENCY CARE U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Email: [email protected] Dominik Brammen Phone: +1 603-548-5640 HL7 Germany Email: ioana.singureanu@ Phone: +49 700-7777-6767 HL7 TERMINOLOGY AUTHORITY bookzurman.com Email: [email protected] Julie James Robert Snelick Laura Heermann Langford, RN, PhD Blue Wave Informatics National Institute of Standards Intermountain Healthcare Email: julie_james@ & Technology Phone: +1 801-507-9254 bluewaveinformatics.co.uk Phone: +1 301-975-5924 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] James McClay, MD IMAGING INTEGRATION University of Nebraska Medical Center Chris Lindop CROSS GROUP PROJECTS Phone: +1 402-559-3587 GE Healthcare Jean Duteau Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Duteau Design Inc Jonathan Whitby Email: [email protected] FHIR INFRASTRUCTURE Vital (Canon) Floyd Eisenberg, MD Phone: +1 952-487-9736 Rick Geimer iParsimony LLC Email: [email protected] Lantana Consulting Group Phone: +1 202-643-6350 Phone: +1 209-954-6030 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] IMPLEMENTABLE TECHNOLOGY SPECIFICATIONS Joshua Mandel, MD DEVICES SMART Health IT Jeff Brown Phone: +1 617-500-3253 Cigna Health Services Todd Cooper Phone: +1 6336-374-1150 Intermountain Healthcare Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 801-290-6887 Lloyd McKenzie, FHL7 Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada / Gevity Paul Knapp Email: [email protected] Knapp Consulting Inc. Chris Courville Phone: +1 604-987-3313 Epic Yunwei Wang Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 608-271-9000 The MITRE Corporation Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Brian Pech, MD, MBA, FHL7 Kaiser Permanente John Garguilo Phone: +1 678-245-1762 National Institute of Standards FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Email: [email protected] and Technology Phone: +1 301-975-5248 Jeff Brown Andy Stechishin Email: [email protected] Cigna Health Services HL7 Canada Phone: +1 336-374-1150 Phone: +1 780-903-0885 John Rhoads, PhD Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Philips Healthcare Phone: +1 617-245-5927 Kathleen Connor, FHL7 Email: [email protected] U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs INFRASTRUCTURE & MESSAGING Phone: +1 727-519-4607 Anthony Julian, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS Paul Knapp Phone: +1 507-293-8384 Michael Brody, DPM Knapp Consulting Email: [email protected] Registry Clearinghouse Phone: +1 604-987-3313 Nick Radov Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] UnitedHealthcare Gary Dickinson, FHL7 Celine Lefebvre, JD Phone: +1 800-328-5979 Email: [email protected] American Medical Association Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 312-464-4782 Stephen Hufnagel, PhD Sandra Stuart, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Registry Clearinghouse Kaiser Permanente Email: shufnagel@ Phone: +1 925-519-5735 registryclearinghouse.net Email: [email protected] 31 HL7 News • HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs (continued)

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ORDERS/OBSERVATIONS Emma Jones Peter Jordan, MSc LLB Hans Buitendijk, MSc, FHL7 Allscripts HL7 New Zealand Cerner Corporation Phone: +1 919-859-8441 Phone: +64 21-758834 Phone: +1 610-219-2087 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Jay Lyle Ron Parker David Burgess U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs HL7 Canada Laboratory Corporation of America Phone: 727-519-4607 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 615-221-1901 Email: [email protected] Line Saele Email: [email protected] Michelle Miller HL7 Norway / TietoEvry Lorraine Constable Cerner Corporation Phone: +47 9592-5357 HL7 Canada Phone: +1 816-201-2010 Email: line.saele@tietoevry.com Phone: +1 780-951-4853 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Michael Padula, MD, MBI Robert Hausam, MD, FHL7 The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia LEARNING HEALTH SYSTEMS Hausam Consulting, LLC Phone: +1 215-590-1653 Bruce Bray, MD Phone: +1 801-949-1556 Email: [email protected] University of Utah Health Care Email: [email protected] Michael Tan Phone: +1 801-581-4080 Ralf Herzog NICTIZ Email: [email protected] Roche Diagnostics International Ltd. Phone: +31 7031-73450 Russell Leftwich, MD Phone: +41 417992893 Email: [email protected] InterSystems Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 617-551-2111 Patrick Loyd, FHL7 PATIENT EMPOWERMENT Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Dave deBronkart Ulrike Merrick Health Intersections Pty Ltd MOBILE HEALTH Vernetzt, LLC Phone: +61 603459119 Email: [email protected] Nathan Botts, PhD, MSIS Phone: +1 415-634-4131 Westat Email: [email protected] Virginia Lorenzi Phone: +1 760-845-8356 John David Nolen, MD, PhD New York-Presbyterian Hospital Email: [email protected] Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics Email: [email protected] Gora Datta, FHL7 Phone: +1 816-701-4882 AbdulMalik Shakir CAL2CAL Corporation Email: [email protected] Hi3 Solutions Phone: +1 949-955-3443 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Debi Willis PATIENT ADMINSTRATION Matthew Graham PatientLink Alexander de Leon Mayo Clinic Phone: +1 405-735-5144 x101 Kaiser Permanente Phone: +1 507-284-3028 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 626-381-4141 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Frank Ploeg PAYER/PROVIDER INFORMATION Irma Jongeneel-de Haas, FHL7 HL7 Netherlands EXCHANGE HL7 Netherlands Email: [email protected] Phone: +31 681153857 Durwin Day Email: [email protected] Health Care Service Corporation Phone: +1 312-653-5948 MODELING AND METHODOLOGY Brian Postlethwaite, BaSc Email: [email protected] Jean Duteau HL7 Australia Christol Green Duteau Design Inc. Phone +61 420-306-556 Anthem, Inc. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 303-435-6195 Grahame Grieve, FHL7 Line Saele Email: [email protected] HL7 International; Health HL7 Norway / TietoEvry Russell Ott Intersections Pty Ltd Phone: +47 9592-5357 Deloitte Consulting LLP Phone: +61 3-98445796 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]; grahame@ healthintersections.com.au PATIENT CARE AbdulMalik Shakir PHARMACY Stephen Chu, MD Hi3 Solutions Danielle Bancroft Phone: +61 416960333 Email: abdulmalik.shakir@ Fred IT Group Email: [email protected] hi3solutions.com Email: [email protected] Laura Heermann Langford, RN, PhD Ron Shapiro Jean Duteau Intermountain Healthcare Qvera Duteau Design Inc Phone: +1 801-507-9254 Phone: +1 801-335-5101 x7011 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 32 HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs • October 2020 HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs (continued)

John Hatem, RN, MS, MBA, FHL7 Elizabeth Newton Paul Knapp Email: [email protected] Kaiser Permanente Knapp Consulting Inc. Melva Peters Phone: 925-997-8150 Phone: +1 604-987-3313 Jenaker Consulting Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 604-512-5124 Brian Pech, MD, MBA, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Kaiser Permanente STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS Scott Robertson, PharmD, FHL7 Phone: +1 678-245-1762 Calvin Beebe, FHL7 Kaiser Permanente Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic Phone: +1 310-200-0231 Andrew Statler Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Cerner Corporation Phone: +1 816-201-3336 Gay Dolin, MSN RN Email: [email protected] Namaste Informatics PROCESS IMPROVEMENT Email: [email protected] Michael Van der Zel, BSc COMMITTEE HL7 Netherlands Benjamin Flessner Ken Rubin Phone: +31 503619876 Redox University of Utah Health Care Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 810-587-6092 Austin Kreisler, FHL7 Email: [email protected] SECURITY Leidos, Inc. Sandra Stuart, FHL7 Kathleen Connor, FHL7 Phone: +1 706-525-1181 Kaiser Permanente U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 925-519-5735 Phone: +1 727-519-4607 Sean McIlvenna Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Lantana Consulting Group Alexander Mense Phone: +1 802-785-2623 HL7 Austria Email: [email protected] PROJECT SERVICES Phone: +43 01-1-333-40-77-232 Andrew Statler Rick Haddorff Email: [email protected] Cerner Corporation Mayo Clinic Phone: +1 816-201-3336 Email: [email protected] John Moehrke By Light Professional IT Services LLC Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 920-564-2067 PUBLIC HEALTH Email: [email protected] VOCABULARY Erin Holt, MPH Chris Shawn Carmela Couderc Tennessee Department of Health U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs The MITRE Corporation Phone: +1 615-741-3570 Phone: +1 518-681-1858 Phone: +1 703-983-5783 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Joginder Madra Patricia Williams, PhD, MSc Reuben Daniels Madra Consulting Inc. HL7 Australia HL7 Australia Phone: +1 780-717-4295 Phone: +61 420-306-556 Phone: +61 408749769 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Craig Newman SERVICES ORIENTED Heather Grain Altarum ARCHITECTURE eHealth Education Email: [email protected] Stefano Lotti Phone: +61 3-956-99443 Laura Rappleye HL7 Italy Email: [email protected] Altarum Phone: +39 06-42160685 Robert Hausam, MD, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Hausam Consulting, LLC Danny Wise Vince McCauley, MBBS, PhD Phone: +1 801-949-1556 Allscripts Telstra Health (Australia) Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 919-239-7401 Phone: +61 298186493 William Ted Klein, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 307-883-9739 Diana Proud-Madruga Email: [email protected] PUBLISHING, ELECTRONIC U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Caroline Macumber SERVICES, AND TOOLS Phone: +1 619-467-5568 Apelon, Inc. Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 203-431-2530 James Agnew Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada / Smile CDR STANDARDS GOVERNANCE BOARD Email: [email protected] Robert McClure, MD, FHL7 Lorraine Constable MD Partners, Inc. David Burgess HL7 Canada Phone: Laboratory Corporation of America +1 303-926-6771 Phone: +1 780-951-4853 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 615-221-1901 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND Amy Nordo, MMCi, RN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS REGULATION Publishing Pfizer Corey Spears D. Mead Walker, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Modeling and Methodology Modeling and Methodology Infor Mead Walker Consulting Sarah Ryan Phone: +1 917-426-7397 Phone: +1 610-518-6259 Vocabulary Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] John Ritter, FHL7 Julie James, FHL7 Publishing Vocabulary COMMUNITY-BASED CARE AND Phone: +1 412-372-5783 Blue Wave Informatics PRIVACY Email: [email protected] Email: julie_james@ Ioana Singureanu, MSCs, FHL7 bluewaveinformatics.co.uk Modeling and Methodology; Publishing EMERGENCY CARE U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT Phone: +1 603-548-5640 Kevin Coonan, MD Email: ioana.singureanu@ Modeling and Methodology Craig Parker, MD, MS, FHL7 bookzurman.com Email: [email protected] Modeling and Methodology; Publishing Parexel International Kathleen Connor, FHL7 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Phone: +1 978-495-4152 Vocabulary Email: [email protected] U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Kathleen Connor, FHL7 Phone: +1 727-519-4607 Modeling and Methodology; Vocabulary Robert McClure, MD, FHL7 Email: [email protected] U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Vocabulary Phone: +1 727-519-4607 MD Partners, Inc. Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 303-926-6771 DEVICES Email: [email protected] Ioana Singureanu, MSCs, FHL7 Beat Heggli, FHL7 Modeling and Methodology Modeling and Methodology; Publishing CLINICAL GENOMICS U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs HL7 Switzerland Phone: +1 603-548-5640 Phone: +41 44-297-5737 Amnon Shabo, PhD, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Modeling and Methodology Philips Healthcare Todd Cooper Mary Kay McDaniel Email: [email protected] Vocabulary Publishing; Vocabulary Email: [email protected] Cognosante, LLC Grant Wood Email: marykay.mcdaniel@ Publishing Christof Gessner cognosante.com Intermountain Healthcare Vocabulary Phone: +1 801-408-8153 HL7 Germany Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 172-3994033 Email: [email protected] Joel Schneider Vocabulary National Marrow Donor Program Phone: +1 763-406-8207 Email: [email protected]

CLINICAL INFORMATION MODELING INITIATIVE The HL7 FHIR Accelerators Susan Matney, PhD, RN Vocabulary Intermountain Healthcare Email: [email protected]

CLINICAL INTEROPERABILITY COUNCIL AbdulMalik Shakir, FHL7 Modeling and Methodology Hi3 Solutions Email: abdulmalik.shakir@ hi3solutions.com

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IMAGING INTEGRATION PATIENT ADMINISTRATION Elliot Silver, MSc Alexander Henket Vocabulary Modeling and Methodology; Publishing Argentix Informatics NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands Phone: +1 604-765-6068 Phone: +31 7031-73450 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Wendy Huang INFRASTRUCTURE AND MESSAGING Vocabulary Grahame Grieve, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Modeling and Methodology Health Intersections Pty Ltd./Health Level PATIENT CARE Seven International Email: [email protected]. Jean Duteau Watch the HL7 website for au / [email protected] Modeling and Methodology upcoming HL7 online classes! Duteau Design Inc. Anthony Julian, FHL7 Email: [email protected] See more details at: Publishing www.hl7.org/events/ Susan Matney, PhD, RN Mayo Clinic webinars.cfm Phone: +1 507-293-8384 Vocabulary Email: [email protected] Intermountain Healthcare Email: [email protected] Sandra Stuart, FHL7 SECURITY Vocabulary PHARMACY Kaiser Permanente Mike Davis Phone: +1 925-519-5735 Jean Duteau Publishing Email: [email protected] Modeling and Methodology U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Duteau Design Inc. Phone: +1 760-632-0294 MODELING AND METHODOLOGY Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Kathleen Connor, FHL7 AbdulMalik Shakir, FHL7 Scott Robertson, PharmD, FHL7 Publishing Vocabulary Modeling and Methodology U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Hi3 Solutions Kaiser Permanente Phone: +1 310-200-0231 Phone: +1 727-519-4607 Email: abdulmalik.shakir@ Email: [email protected] hi3solutions.com Email: [email protected]

William Ted Klein, FHL7 Julie James, FHL7 SERVICES ORIENTED Vocabulary Vocabulary ARCHITECTURE Phone: +1 307-883-9739 Blue Wave Informatics Email: [email protected] Email: julie_james@ Diana Proud-Madruga bluewaveinformatics.co.uk Vocabulary U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ORDERS AND OBSERVATIONS PUBLIC HEALTH Phone: +1 619-467-5568 Patrick Loyd, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Modeling and Methodology Joginder Madra Email: [email protected] Modeling and Methodology STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS Madra Consulting Inc. Lorraine Constable Phone: +1 780-717-4295 Austin Kreisler, FHL7 Publishing Email: [email protected] Modeling and Methodology HL7 Canada Leidos, Inc. Phone: +1 780-951-4853 Jean Duteau Phone: +1 706-525-1181 Email: [email protected] Publishing Email: [email protected] Duteau Design Inc. Robert Hausam, MD, FHL7 Email: [email protected] Sheila Abner, PhD Vocabulary Vocabulary Hausam Consulting LLC Sunanda McGarvey, BS Centers for Disease Control and Phone: +1 801-949-1556 Vocabulary Prevention/CDC Email: [email protected] Northrop Grumman Technology Services Phone: +1 470-344-2864 Phone: +1 404-679-9384 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] VOCABULARY William Ted Klein, FHL7 Modeling and Methodology Phone: +1 307-883-9739 Email: [email protected] 35 HL7 News • Affiliate Contacts Affiliate Contacts

HL7 ARGENTINA HL7 FRANCE HL7 POLAND Fernando Campos, FHL7 Jean-Christophe Cauvin Roman Radomski, MD, MBA Email: fernando.campos@ Phone: +33 786-160-591 Phone: +48 605-404-363 hospitalitaliano.org.ar Email: jean-christophe. Email: [email protected] HL7 AUSTRALIA [email protected] HL7 PORTUGAL Jason Steen HL7 GERMANY Paulo Alves Phone: +61 488881882 Sylvia Thun Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 221-4724-344 HL7 ROMANIA HL7 AUSTRIA Email: [email protected] Florica Moldoveanu Stefan Sabutsch HL7 GREECE Phone: +40 21-4115781 Phone: +43 664-3132505 Alexander Berler Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +30 2111001691 HL7 RUSSIA HL7 BELGIUM Email: [email protected] Sergey Shvyrev, MD, PhD Jose Costa Teixeira HL7 HONG KONG Phone: +7 495-434-55-82 Phone: +32 468-215-828 Chun-Por Wong Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +852 3488-3762 HL7 SAUDI ARABIA HL7 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Email: [email protected] Abdullah Alsharqi Samir Dedovic HL7 INDIA Phone: +966 11-2021555 Phone: +387 0-33-721-911 Chandil Gunashekara Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +91 80-2973-8025 HL7 SINGAPORE HL7 BRAZIL Email: [email protected] Adam Chee Guilherme Zwicker Rocha, MD HL7 ITALY Email: [email protected] Phone: +11-5573-9580 Giorgio Cangioli HL7 SLOVENIA Email: guilherme. Email: [email protected] Brane Leskosek EE, PhD [email protected] HL7 JAPAN Phone: +386 543-7775 HL7 CANADA Michio Kimura, MD, PhD Email: [email protected] Ron Parker Phone: +81 53-435-2770 HL7 SPAIN Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Francisco Perez, FHL7 HL7 CHILE HL7 KOREA Phone: +34 637208657 César Galindo, Msc Byoung-Kee Yi, PhD Email: [email protected] Phone: +56 2-29789664 Phone: +82 234101944 HL7 SWEDEN Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mikael Wintell HL7 CHINA HL7 NETHERLANDS Phone: +46 736-254831 Haiyi Liu Rob Mulders Email: [email protected] Phone: +86 010-65815129 Email: [email protected] HL7 SWITZERLAND Email: [email protected] HL7 NEW ZEALAND Roeland Luykx, PhD HL7 CROATIA Peter Jordan, MSc, LLB Phone: +41 71-279-11-89 Miroslav Koncar Phone: +64 21-758834 Email: [email protected] Phone: +385 99-321-2253 Email: [email protected] HL7 TAIWAN Email: [email protected] HL7 NORWAY Yu-Ting Yeh HL7 CZECH REPUBLIC Line Saele Phone: +886 2-2552-6990 Libor Seidl Phone: +47 9592-5357 Email: [email protected] Phone: +420 605740492 Email: [email protected] HL7 UK Email: [email protected] HL7 PAKISTAN Ben McAlister HL7 DENMARK Sharifullah Khan, PhD Email: [email protected] Jens Villadsen MSc Email: [email protected] HL7 UKRAINE Phone: +45 39966101 HL7 PHILIPPINES Leonid Stoyanov Email: [email protected] Michael Hussin Muin, MD Phone: +380 443336829 HL7 FINLAND Phone: +63 9285543435 Email: [email protected] Jari Porrasmaa Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

36 2020 HL7 Staff • October 2020 2020 HL7 Staff

Chief Executive Chief Associate Executive Director Officer Technology Officer Executive Director

Charles Jaffe, MD PhD Wayne Kubick Mark McDougall Karen Van Hentenryck +1 858-720-8200 +1 847-842-1846 +1 734-677-7777 x103 +1 734-677-7777 x104 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Systems FHIR Product Director of Education Director of Meetings Director of Marketing Administrator Director

Sadhana Alangar, PhD Mary Ann Boyle Bryn Evans Grahame Grieve Patricia Guerra +1 734-677-7777 x116 +1 734-677-7777 x141 +1 734-677-7777 x107 +1 734-677-7777 +1-773-516-0943 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Director of Director, Project Membership & Director of Technical Director of Technical Web Developer Management Office Administrative Services & Webmaster Publications Services

Dave Hamill Linda Jenkins David Johnson Lynn Laakso, MPA Laura Mitter +1 734-677-7777 x142 +1 734-677-7777 x170 +1 734-677-7777 x125 +1 906-361-5966 +1 740-963-9839 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Joshua Procious Andrea Ribick Theresa Schenk, CPA Melinda Stewart Anne Wizauer +1 231-220-3129 +1 734-726-0289 +1 734-677-7777 x106 +1 248-755-3548 +1 734-677-7777 x112 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 37 HL7 News • 2020 HL7 Board of Directors 2020 HL7 Board of Directors

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Walter Suarez, MD, MPH Calvin Beebe, FHL7 Melva Peters Floyd Eisenberg, MD W. Edward Hammond, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Mayo Clinic Jenaker Consulting iParsimony LLC FHL7 +1 301-801-3207 [email protected] +1 604-512-5124 +1 202-643-6350 Duke Clinical & Translational [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Science Institute +1 919-668-2408 [email protected] APPOINTED DIRECTORS AFFILIATE DIRECTORS

Dave Shaver, FHL7 Micky Tripathi Andrew Truscott Diego Kaminker Peter Jordan Earth Wind Health, LLC Arcadia.io Accenture HL7 Argentina HL7 New Zealand [email protected] +1 781-434-7905 +1 713-855-8402 +54 11-4781-2898 +64 21-758834 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] TSC CHAIR DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE

Austin Kreisler, FHL7 Viet Nguyen, MD Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD Janet Marchibroda Julia Skapik, MD Leidos, Inc. Stratemetrics, LLC University of Utah Health Care Alliance for Cell Therapy Now National Assoc. of Community +1 706-525-1181 +1 801-707-6225 +1 801-587-8076 jmarchibroa@ Health Centers [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] allianceforcelltherapynow.org [email protected]

NON-VOTING MEMBERS

Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD Wayne Kubick Mark McDougall HL7 CEO HL7 CTO HL7 Executive Director +1 858-720-8200 +1 847-842-1846 +1 734-677-7777 x103 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 38 2020 HL7 Board of Directors • October 2020 TRAINING Visit HL7.org/training for more information

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