SEPTEMBER 2011
HL7 International is Coming to Canada in 2012 (Again!) Michael Van Campen
By Michael van Campen, Chair, HL7 Canada; Affiliate Director, HL7 International Board of Directors
In keeping with the tradition of hosting annual, non-US working group meetings (WGMs), HL7 Canada and HL7 International will be hosting the May 2012 Working Group Meeting in Vancouver, BC, May 13-18. This follows on the successful meeting in Vancouver in Sep- tember 2008 where over 500 attendees participated in the working group meetings. The May 2012 WGM will be an excellent opportunity to understand and share Canadian HL7 experiences with the HL7 international community, specifically around HL7 Version 3 and the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) in provincial and national implementations — the EHR is active and growing in Canada!
Vancouver is a popular destination, with many international and domestic flights from Asia, Europe and the Americas. For those who attended in 2008, Vancouver has now installed a light rail connection from the Vancouver airport to downtown Vancouver. Also, there are many remnants of the 2010 Winter Olympics for those interested in the facilities. Lastly, May is spring time in Vancouver, with several outdoor activities for those interested in getting close to nature.
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® Health Level Seven and HL7 are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International, registered in the US Trademark Office In This Issue... HL7 Is Coming To Canada, continued
HL7 Coming to Canada, Again!...... 1-2
HL7 and IHTSDO Expand Collaborative Efforts...... 3 Please mark your calendars for this important 25th Annual Plenary Meeting Agenda.... 4 WGM in Vancouver – we look forward to meet-
Ambassador Program: HL7 Standards for ing you in May 2012! If you have suggestions for Electronic Health Record Technology: making this a successful WGM, please feel free to Meaningful Use and Other Initiatives..... 5 contact Michael van Campen, HL7 Canada Chair Update From Headquarters...... 6-7 ([email protected]) Joachim Dudeck Award Granted for First Time...... 8 HL7 Greece Welcomes New Chair...... 8 May 13-18, 2012 News from the PBS Metrics Team...... 9
News from the PMO and Project Working Group Services Work Group...... 10-11 HL7 Decision Support Service Meeting Standard Achieves Normative Status..... 11
HL7 Mentors: Extending a Helping Hand...... 12 Vancouver, BC
Upcoming International Events...... 12
TSC Newsletter Update...... 13
IHIC 2011 Recap...... 14
HL7 Releases New Tool for Capturing, Storing and Managing CDA® Templates ...... 15
ACLA and HL7 Announce Approval of First-Ever Electroninc Delivery of Services (eDOS) Guide...... 16
Certification Exam Congratulations...... 17
HL7 Benefactors...... 18
HL7 UK Welcomes New Chair...... 18
Affiliate Contacts...... 19
Organizational Members...... 20-22
2011 Technical Steering Committee Members ...... 23
Steering Divisions...... 23
HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs...... 24-26
HL7 Facilitators...... 27-28
HL7 Staff Members...... 29
2011 Board of Directors...... 30
Educational Summits...... 31 is the official publication of: Health Level Seven International Upcoming Working Group 3300 Washtenaw Avenue, Suite 227, Ann Arbor, MI • 48104-4261 USA Meetings...... 32 Phone: +1 (734) 677-7777 • Fax: +1 (734) 677-6622 • www.HL7.org
2 Mark McDougall, Publisher • Andrea Ribick, Managing Editor • Karen Van Hentenryck, Technical Editor HL7 and IHTSDO Expand Collaborative Efforts
Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) and amendments to SNOMED CT codes to be the International Health Terminology Standards made more effectively. Improvements are Development Organisation (IHTSDO®), the lead- being made in HL7’s internal processes and ing provider of standardized clinical terminology, also in IHTSDO’s request submission pro- have expanded collaborative efforts that began in cess. The latter should improve submission March 2009 with the signing of an official Memo- of requests from all standards development randum of Understanding (MOU). The closer organizations (SDOs). collaboration will foster healthcare information in- • IHTSDO has announced its support for the teroperability and lead to improvements in patient development of Release 2 of the Common safety by further facilitating the use of IHTSDO Terminology Services standard (CTS2) by standards with HL7 standards. HL7 and OMG. This standard Up front coordination will provide a consistent inter- IHTSDO and HL7 are jointly face into terminologies in EHR working on a number of key will bring significant environments. global healthcare information improvements in global technology standards initiatives, According to HL7 Board Chair including the following: healthcare information Bob Dolin, MD, “Expanding on • IHTSDO is making interoperability and the coordination and collabora- SNOMED CT codes and patient safety tive efforts between HL7 and descriptions freely avail- IHTSDO, these joint initiatives able for release in HL7 signify a major step toward the products, under a public construction of globally appli- good license, in order to improve semantic cable healthcare interoperability standards healthcare interoperability across countries that will require far less realm-localization. and to improve patient safety. HL7 will use HL7 is committed to working with IHTSDO the codes and descriptions to produce a and other standards bodies to advance the number of SNOMED-enabled products, us- delivery of safe and effective patient care.” ing universal realm bindings to SNOMED CT where appropriate. IHTSDO Chief Executive Officer Jan-Eric Slot • HL7 is investigating use of the IHTSDO said, “Making it easier to use HL7 standards with Workbench to maintain its vocabulary. Use SNOMED CT will facilitate global standards-based of common tooling will improve harmoni- healthcare implementations, where it will add the zation, leading to benefits across the two semantic dimension to interoperability.” He con- organizations as well as for users of both tinued, “The closer working relationship between standards. these two leading organizations will improve the • HL7 and IHTSDO are jointly reviewing and uptake and effectiveness of these jointly developed streamlining the request submissions pro- standards by members of both HL7 and IHTSDO.” cess, to enable requests for additions and
SEPTEMBER 2011 3 25th Annual Plenary Meeting Celebrating 25 Years of HL7 Improving
Health and Healthcare Around the World Bob Dolin, MD Monday, September 12, 2011 Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA 8:30 – 8:45 am Welcoming Comments Bob Dolin, MD, Chair, HL7 International Board of Directors Ed Hammand, PhD 8:45 – 9:05 am Keynote Session 1: 25 Years in Review: The Good, the Bad and Lessons Learned W. Ed Hammond, PhD, Past Board Chair and Current Member, HL7 International Board of Directors 9:05 – 9:25 am Keynote Session 2: An International Perspective of HL7’s 25 Years Richard Alvarez Richard Alvarez, President and CEO, Canada Health Infoway 9:25 – 9:45 am Keynote Session 3: Beyond Band-Aids: Interoperability in Action J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer,
Siemens Healthcare Marc Overhage, MD, PhD 9:45 – 10:15 am Break 10:15 – 11:45 am Panel Presentation: How HL7 Has Delivered Value and the Value HL7 Has Enabled Through Facilitating Collaboration with Different Stakeholders Moderated by Bob Dolin, MD, Chair, HL7 International Board Directors
Jamie Ferguson, VP Health IT Strategy and Policy, Kaiser Permanente Robert Stegwee, PhD, Chair, HL7 Jamie Ferguson Robert Stegwee, Daniel Pollock, Robert Kolodner, The Netherlands PhD MD MD Daniel A.Pollock, MD, Surveillance Branch Chief, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention Robert Kolodner, MD, President, Collaborative Transformations, LLC and Executive VP and Chief Health Informatics Officer, Open Health Tools, Inc. 11:45 – 12:15 pm Panel Presentation: Celebrating 25 Years of Stellar
Achievement: Views From the Top – Panel Presentation Don Mon, PhD of Former Chairs of the HL7 Board of Directors Moderated by Don Mon, PhD, Chair-Elect, HL7 International Board of Directors 12:15 – 12:30 pm Closing Comments and Vision for HL7’s Future Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, CEO, Health Level Seven International Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD 4 SEPTEMBER 2011 Ambassador Program HL7 Standards for Electronic Health Record Technology: Meaningful Use
and Other US Initiatives Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD Monday, September 12, 2011 • 1:45 – 5:00 pm Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA
The session provides an overview of how HL7 standards are foundational to achieving “Meaning- ful Use,” using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. It begins with an introduction to the various US national health IT programs and then focuses on quality measurement/reporting and clinical decision support as fundamental to the success of these programs. Key initiatives like Gora Datta clinical document exchange, laboratory reporting, public health surveillance and immunization reporting will be discussed. Finally, a panel of experts present “experiences from the field”— how small, medium and large providers are achieving Meaningful Use objectives and incentives. Upon Completion of This Program, Attendees Will Know: • Various US national health IT programs & their inter-relations • How HL7 is foundational to achieving Meaningful Use • How HL7 standards are key for providers submitting data to public health agencies for Floyd Eisenberg, MD surveillance reporting, laboratory reporting & submission to immunization registries • Benefits and challenges to providers achieving Meaningful Use objectives & incentives Keynote Address: Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, Director of the Office of Standards and Interop- erability at the Office of the National Coordinator, US Department of Health and Human Services; Member, HL7 Board of Directors Overview: Gora Datta, HL7 Ambassador; Group Chairman/CEO, CAL2CAL Corporation • Meaningful Use, Accountable Care, ePrescribing, National Health Information Network Keith Boone (NHIN) and Health Information Exchange Quality Measurement and Clinical Decision Support: • What are the “Quality Measures”– Floyd Eisenberg, MD, Senior Vice President, National Quality Forum • Technology & HL7 Standards: QRDA/HQMF/QDM/CDS – Bob Dolin, MD, HL7 Board Chair and President of Lantana Consulting Group Austin Kreisler PM Break Key Initiatives: presented by Keith Boone (HL7 Ambassador and Member of the Board of Directors; Standards Architect, GE Healthcare)) and Austin Kreisler (Chair, HL7 Technical Steering Committee; Co-Chair, HL7 Orders & Observations Work Group; HL7 Messaging Specialist, SAIC) • Clinical Document Exchange, Laboratory Reporting, Surveillance and Meaningful Use Stage 2 Recommendations Martin Entwistle, Experiences from the Field: Panel Discussion moderated by Keith Boone, HL7 MD Ambassador; HL7 Board Member; Standards Architect, GE Healthcare Panelists • Small & Medium Provider Perspective – Gora Datta • Large Provider Perspective – Martin Entwistle, MD, Executive Director Center for Health Systems, Palo Alto Medical Foundation • Large Provider Perspective – Walter Suarez, MD, Director of Health IT Strategy, Kaiser Permanente Walter Suarez, MD
SEPTEMBER 2011 5 Getting Ready to
Celebrate Mark McDougall HL7’s 25th Annual Plenary Meeting
Time really does fly by. HL7 will be tion at Jimmy Buffet’s Magaritaville. celebrating its 25th Annual Plenary UPDATE FROM Please see page 14 for Stan Huff’s recap meeting September 12, 2011 at the HEADQUARTERS of IHIC 2011. Town & Country Resort in San Diego, California. The plenary program May WGM – Lake Buena will cover a wide range of stake- IHIC 2011 Vista holder perspectives on HL7’s value 2011 marked the first year that the Our May Working Group Meeting held and contributions to our healthcare International HL7 Interoperability Con- in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, May industry throughout the last 25 years ference (IHIC) was held in the US. The 15-20, 2011 was another big success. as well as plans for the future. It will meeting was held immediately preced- Over 45 HL7 work groups met and include three keynote presentations ing the May Working Group Meeting in attendees took advantage of 29 tutori- from Ed Hammond, PhD; Richard Orlando, FL on May 13-14, 2011. IHIC als that week. The common theme at Alvarez; and J. Marc Overhage, MD, 2011 featured 16 invited speakers and this WGM was that the meetings were PhD. A complete program schedule is included presentations on 16 papers very productive, albeit tiring. We also provided on page 3. representing initiatives underway in 11 enjoyed warm weather and a network- countries. I would also like to thank GE ing reception poolside – surprisingly, We look forward to celebrating our Healthcare for their generous sponsor- no one fell in this time. 25th plenary meeting with our veteran ship of the event’s networking recep- continued on next page members along with our new members. Please plan to join us for this special milestone. The San Diego Working Group Meeting will also include a special Ambassador Program event. This event will take place following the plenary on Monday afternoon and will cover HL7 Standards for Electronic Health record Technology: Meaningful Use and Other US Initiatives. For more details on this pro- gram, please see page 5.
May 2011 Working Group Meeting Sponsors
SEPTEMBER 2011 6 Meeting Sponsors Fridsma Joins HL7 Board 20 Year Milestone I am pleased to recognize the fol- On a personal note, I am pleased to lowing organizations that sponsored report that I will complete 20 years key components of our May Working of service with HL7 at the end of Group Meeting in Orlando, Florida: September 2011. I started work- • Sparx Systems – Co-Chair Din- ing for HL7 on October 1, 1991. ner Meeting My first nine months working for • iNTERFACEWARE – Lanyards HL7 included me commuting from • Beeler Consulting – MnM Chicago to Ann Arbor each week Facilitators’ Roundtable Dinner while my wife Shelly completed her Meeting master’s degree and her school year • LinkmedLINKMED – Morning Coffee of teaching. Since then, we have Break been blessed with two incredible • GPI – Wednesday PM Cookie boys, Jack (17) and Alex (15) who Break Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD have made us proud in all aspects of life: school, athletics (they kick butt The additional sponsorship sup- Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director of on the basketball court and football port provided by these organizations the Office of Interoperability and Stan- field), fun sense of humor and their contributes heavily to HL7’s meeting dards, Office of the National Coordi- respectful nature toward others. Yes, budget and is much appreciated. nator for Health Information Technol- we are very proud parents. ogy (ONC), was recently appointed to Organizational Membership serve on the HL7 Board of Directors. It has truly been a pleasure working Overview HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, for and with the HL7 community all Benefactors and Supporters said “More than ever, HL7 recog- of these years. I have been blessed We are thrilled to continue to at- nizes the importance of collaboration with the rewarding opportunity to tract impressive numbers of HL7 with the ONC to further the goal of work with so many dedicated volun- benefactors and supporters. There achieving nationwide standards-based teers who also happen to be brilliant. are currently 30 benefactors and 13 interoperability. HL7 is fortunate to I sincerely thank all of you who have supporters. These companies are have Dr. Fridsma’s participation on contributed to HL7 and have made listed on pages 18 and 20. Their sup- its Board of Directors. Not only will my last 20 years so rewarding. port of HL7 is very much needed and this help support the mission of both sincerely appreciated. A special thank organizations, we also believe that A thousand thanks to all of you, and you is extended to those firms that his experience in healthcare informat- best wishes to you and your loved represent our 2011 HL7 benefactors ics will drive our mutual objective of ones for good health and much and supporters. improved patient care.” laughter in your lives. Remember to take time to enjoy each day; as time Organizational Member Firms “I am looking forward to working really does fly by very quickly. As listed on pages 20-22, HL7 is with HL7 as a member of the Board very proud to report that the num- of Directors,” said Dr. Fridsma. “I be- ber of HL7 organizational member lieve this will provide an opportunity companies is at an all time high, in- to strengthen collaboration around cluding 713 companies. We sincerely shared goals that HL7 and the federal appreciate their ongoing support of government have to improve patient HL7 via their organizational mem- care through the use of interoperable bership dues. health information exchange.”
SEPTEMBER 2011 7 Joachim Dudeck Award
Granted for the First Time Bernd Blobel, PhD
By Bernd Blobel, PhD, Chair, HL7 Germany
The Joachim Germany as well as the first affiliate harmonization with other standards. Dudeck Award director of the HL7 Board of Direc- This year’s recipient of the newly was awarded tors and founder of established Joachim for the first time the International HL7 Dudeck was Mario E. at the Inter- Interoperability Con- Cortés from Cali, Colom- national HL7 ference. This award bia and his team. Cortés Interoperabil- will recognize young is a member of the HL7 ity Conference scientists who have Colombia affiliate and (IHIC) 2011 in accomplished extraor- co-authored the paper Joachim Dudeck Lake Buena dinary achievements “The Unified File Format Vista, FL this in the development for HL7 Electronic Docu- May. The award will be granted on an and implementation of ments – DUFF” with annual basis as part of the IHIC event HL7-based interoper- Diego M. Lopez and in memory of Joachim Dudeck, who ability solutions and Bernd Blobel. was the founder, longtime president have promoted the and first honorary member of HL7 use of HL7 and its Mario E. Cortés
HL7 Greece Welcomes New Chair Dr. Alexander Berler is the newly elected chair of HL7 Dr. Berler has a degree in electri- Greece. He has been a board member of HL7 Greece cal engineering from the Aristotle since 2003 and is involved in a number of other or- University of Thessaloniki, and ganizations, including: IEEE Computer Society, IEEE received a MSc in biomedical EMB Society, ACM, European Society on Engineering in engineering and a PhD in medical Medicine (ESEM), Healthcare Information Management informatics from a joint program and Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Project Manage- located at the National Technical ment Institute. He is also an external affiliated tutor to University of Athens (NTUA). He the National Public Health School. Since 2008, Dr. Berler is currently the director of con- Alexander Berler, PhD has participated in epSOS, a project that focuses on sulting service departments at Gnomon Informatics SA. establishing cross border smart open healthcare services He has also worked as a postgraduate research student (patient summary and ePrecription) in Europe. He has in biomedical engineering in European funded projects published over 10 articles in both national and interna- and was a project director in a large healthcare informat- tional peer-reviewed journals and has participated in ics government project at Information Society SA. more than 30 eHealth conferences.
8 SEPTEMBER 2011 Internaltional Report cont. from pg. 8
News from the PBS Metrics Team By HL7 International Staff Members Dave Hamill, Director of the Project Management Office; Lynn Laakso, TSC Project Manager; Don Lloyd, PhD, HL7 Director of Technical Publications; and Karen Van Hentenryck, Associate Executive Director
Dave Hamill PBS Metrics (Projects, Ballots The PBS Metrics Report is easily accessible via the Re- and Standards) Report ports link on your work group’s HL7.org page. This link The PBS Metrics Report (http:// directs you to GForge, where the report resides within the gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/tsc/ TSC’s File area (http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/tsc/frs/ frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_ ?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=169). package_id=169) was created to support the HL7 Strategic Initiative As a reminder, the report reflects eight criteria for each to “streamline the HL7 standards work group: development process.” It is intended Lynn Laakso to be a tool to assist work groups 1. Idle Ballots – Items that haven’t balloted in a year, with managing ballots in addition to and are still “open” (haven’t successfully completed cleaning up projects and old data. By their ballot) reviewing the report, work groups 2. No Recon Package – Items that have not had a recon- can identify potential issues before ciliation package posted they get out of hand as well as move 3. Non-Advancing Ballots – Items that have gone items through balloting to a final through three or more ballots document or standard state. 4. Expired DSTUs – Expired DSTUs that have not pro- ceeded to normative or some other ballot level The Project Management Office 5. Unpublished Ballots – Items that are “finished” Don Lloyd, PhD (PMO) would like to thank all the (passed by numbers and reconciliation is complete) work group co-chairs, project facili- but unpublished (not in Normative Edition or on HL7 tators and everyone else that had a Standards page) hand in cleaning up their ‘red infrac- 6. Projects in Project Insight that are behind more than tions’ on the inaugural PBS Metrics 120 Days report issued in May. The PMO will 7. Projects in Project Insight with an ‘Unknown’ status be issuing an updated report again 8. Work groups that do not have any 3-Year Plan Items in September. in Project Insight
The PBS Metrics team reviewed ev- eryone’s feedback and will continue Karen Van Hentenryck to provide easier access to the data. Enhancements have been made to the Reports link located on the www.HL7.org work group’s pages, the Searchable Project Database as well as the PBS Metrics report itself.
SEPTEMBER 2011 9 News from the PMO and Project Services Work Group Dave Hamill By Dave Hamill, Director, HL7 Project Management Office; and Rick Haddorff and Freida Hall, Co-Chairs, Project Services Work Group
SAIF Pilot ing up projects based on the PBS #1681). This doc- Coordination Project Metrics, many were not aware of the ument proposes Project Services is leading this project, policy stated in Section 14.14 of the the approval which is sponsored by the Techni- HL7 Governance and Operations and adoption cal Steering Committee. The primary Manual (GOM) in regards to closing methodology for deliverable of the SAIF Pilot Coordina- a standards project: non-standards tion project will be to create concrete process artifacts. Frieda Hall examples of artifacts that can be used The TSC may discontinue a project in a future version of an HL7 SAIF involving a new HL7 Protocol HL7 has a well Implementation Guide. Specification (§02.02) or revision defined methodol- to an existing HL7 Protocol Specifi- ogy for producing Additionally, SAIF Pilot Coordination will assist in the documentation of cation (a standards project) if the standards, but the processes encountered throughout initiating work group has been: method to intro- the development of projects under a) unable to reach consensus nec- duce new pro- the SAIF AP (Architecture Program) essary to bring the HL7 Protocol cesses and move umbrella – such as procurement of Specification to normative ballot them to adoption HL7 tooling software – and others within a year of project initiation; and deployment Rick Haddorf that require input from more than one or throughout the HL7 organization is work group. b) unable to successfully complete more obscure/ad hoc. The “Introduc- a normative ballot and move the ing New Processes to HL7” white pa- Overall, the project will document co- HL7 Protocol Specification to pub- per evaluates the issues and proposes ordination conducted by over twelve lication within a year of initiation a standard approach to introduce HL7 work groups as they proceed of a normative ballot new processes to HL7. The proposed through over nine projects under the SAIF AP umbrella. From this coordina- approach includes three steps for tion, suggested contributions to SAIF Given approval by three quarters of approval of a new process artifact: governance documents will be created those in session when the motion is Initiation, Development and Valida- as well as modifications to the HL7 addressed, a work group may petition tion. Adoption of a new process arti- Project Life Cycle for Product Develop- the TSC to discontinue a standards fact includes three phases: Piloted, ment (PLCPD). project regardless of its current status. Endorsed and Implemented (which, The work group has the discretion to when implemented, the new process Project Services is happy to be work- take this action for whatever reason will be deemed either encouraged or ing on this effort to help move HL7 it deems appropriate. The TSC shall mandated). Lastly, an Appendix fo- toward adoption of the SAIF architec- have the final decision on a request cused solely on Peer Review has been ture. We appreciate and welcome the to discontinue a standards project. included for easy reference. contributions from all those involved in the SAIF AP projects. Adoption Process Questions? Feel free to contact White Paper Project Services. Did you know? When Clos- ing a Standards Project, Ad- Project Services has created a white here to GOM Section 14.14 paper focusing on “Introducing New Processes to HL7” in response to the continued on next page While working with co-chairs clean- TSC’s request (TSC GForge tracker
10 SEPTEMBER 2011 HL7 Decision Support Service Standard Achieves Normative Status; Open-Source Implementation Available at OpenCDS.org By Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, Director, Knowledge Management and Mobilization; and Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah
The HL7 Decision Support Service An open-source implementation of the DSS standard is (DSS) standard, which provides being developed by a multi-institutional effort known as a standard interface for accessing OpenCDS (www.opencds.org). OpenCDS provides a com- patient-specific inferencing capabili- plete solution for authoring, testing, and executing DSS knowledge modules to provide patient-specific clinical de- ties, achieved unanimous approval cision support capabilities. OpenCDS leverages a variety in its May 2011 normative ballot. of open-source resources including the JBoss Drools rules A joint effort by the HL7 Clinical engine and the Apelon terminology management system, Kensaku Kawamoto, Decision Support Work Group and and it provides an open-source implementation of the MD, PhD the HL7 Services Oriented Archi- emerging HL7 Virtual Medical Record standard. tecture Work Group, the HL7 DSS standard is a member of a family of healthcare services Further information regarding OpenCDS and the HL7 standards developed as a part of the Healthcare Services DSS standard can be found on the Web at http://www. Specification Project (HSSP), which is a joint initiative opencds.org and at http://hssp-dss.wikispaces.com. HL7 between HL7 and the Object Management Group (OMG) members with interest or questions in either effort are welcome to contact Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD at to standardize the capabilities and interfaces of software [email protected]. Ken is a co-chair of services important to healthcare the HL7 Clinical Decision Support Work Group and the (http://hssp.wikispaces.com). project lead for both the DSS and OpenCDS efforts.
News from the PMO, cont.
Webinar Recording: HL7 and those leading HL7 projects (i.e. please contact Dave Hamill at pmo@ Project Management Tool Project Facilitators), demonstrates HL7.org to schedule a day and time. Overview for HL7 Project HL7 project tools including Project Facilitators Insight (HL7’s primary project re- HL7 Project Tracking Tools In case you didn’t know, the HL7 pository), the HL7 Searchable Project All of HL7’s project tools, includ- PMO recorded a webinar which Database, GForge, and also provides a ing the Searchable Project Database, provides an overview of the various review of HL7 project processes GForge and Project Insight, are avail- HL7 Project Management tools. To and methodologies. able on www.HL7.org via Participate view the 38 minute webinar record- > Tools & Resources > Project ing, please go to www.HL7.org > If you’d like the PMO to present this Tracking Tools. Resources > Webinar Recordings. webinar at one of your Steering Divi- This session, targeted for co-chairs sion or work group conference calls,
SEPTEMBER 2011 11 HL7 Mentors: Extending a Helping Hand By Margie Kennedy, Co-Chair, Process Improvement Committee; Director, Standards Collaborative, Canada Health Infoway
At any HL7 working group meeting (WGM), there is a high the best qualified and most experienced HL7 members in probability that new participants will encounter at least a order to provide the optimal experience and assistance to few familiar faces in the crowd who will share their WGM new members. Our mentors may be experts either in HL7 experiences and offer tidbits for a successful meeting. content or organization/process to support new attendees’ While such encounters are always welcome, HL7 Interna- needs and should demonstrate the following attributes: tional does in fact have a formal role for mentors with a • Been a member of HL7 International for at least role description and specific responsibilities. five years • Held at least one co-chair or affiliate chair role Mentors are experienced HL7 members who help guide • Attended at least five working group meetings in the new HL7 attendees and support engagement in HL7 activi- last five years ties. You can expect to find mentors supporting a new HL7 • Participated in at least five ballots in the last attendee to effectively access materials, engage in topics of five years interest in a timely way, connect to appropriate resources • Have excellent interpersonal communication skills and HL7 leaders and/or volunteers, and foster member par- • Have a clear and expressed interest in supporting ticipation in HL7 International activities. first-time attendees and new HL7 members
Although mentoring activities are targeted primarily at HL7 The Process Improvement Committee (PIC) has responsi- International activities, guidance may also be extended to bility for the Mentors and First-Time Attendee Program. HL7 Affiliate engagement. Mentor activities are typically Additionally, the International Mentoring Committee le- initiated at the working group meetings but mentors may, verages mentors in their role of supporting potential new and are encouraged to, continue this relationships beyond affiliates. New volunteers are always welcomed at both the WGM. Communication is intended to be informal, committees, and we especially invite those with multiple collegial, and supportive, assisting the new attendees to languages to consider becoming a mentor. get the most out of their HL7 membership and potentially growing into new future leaders and/or mentors. If you or someone you know would be a great mentor, please contact PIC (Helen Stevens at helen.stevens@ The best mentors are not always the most senior or most shaw.ca or Margie Kennedy mkennedy@infoway-info- technical experts HL7 members, but we strive to recruit route.ca) to inquire about how you can participate.
Upcoming INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
HL7 25th Annual Plenary & ISHEP 2011 – Interoperability and Working Group Meeting Standards in Healthcare San Diego, CA Varaždin, Croatia September 11-16, 2011 October 20-21, 2011 For more information, please visit For more information, please visit http://www.hl7.org/events/wgm092011/ http://www.ishep.org
HIMSS AsiaPac11 eChallenges e-2011 Conference Melbourne, Australia Florence, Italy September 20-23, 2011 October 26-28, 2011 For more information, please visit For more information, please visit http://www.himssasiapac.org/11/home/index.aspx http://www.echallenges.org/e2011/
12 SEPTEMBER 2011 TSC Newsletter Update By Lynn Laakso, HL7 TSC Project Manager
The TSC contin- submitted for presentation and DSTU Publication Request for ues to work on review on the Innovations wiki O&O at Project Insight ID #626, Product Visibility, page at http://wiki.hl7.org/in- for 24 months Product Quality, dex.php?title=Innovations the SAIF Architec- • HL7 Version 3 Standard: ture Program and • The SAIF Architecture Pro- Structured Product Labeling, T3F Review. More gram (PI #751) is coordinating Release 5, DSTU publication information is activities of the Product Quality request for RCRIM at Project Lynne Laakso available on each project (PI #647), SAIF Pilot Co- Insight ID #325, for 24 months of these efforts from the TSC web page ordination (PI #764), HL7 SAIF under “Projects,” at http://www.hl7. Implementation Guide (PI #763), • HL7 Version 3 Standard: Com- org/Special/committees/tsc/projects. and the SAIF Book balloting mon Product Model CMETs, cfm. In addition, the TSC continues (PI #746) DSTU Update Release 10, at maintenance of Work Group Visibility, Project Insight ID #625, for 24 as well as Work Group Health. • TSC Retrospective Self-Assess- months ment Based on T3F Recommen- • Only 11 work groups will need to dations (PI #749) • HL7 Version 3 Standard: review their Mission and Charter Orders; Substances CMETs (M&C) statements by the 2011 The TSC also approved a number Release 10, at Project Insight ID September Working Group Meet- of new projects. You can always see #626, for 24 months ing (WGM). These M&C state- the most recent list of new projects ments have not been reviewed from the Project Insight Searchable For any additions, updates or sugges- for two years. Please review your Database. To show the projects most tions on any of these TSC promoted Mission and Charter statements recently approved by the TSC, select initiatives please contact Lynn Laakso to keep them current! There are “TSC Approval” from among the dif- ([email protected]). 14 work groups that need to ferent date fields and then click “Filter update their Decision Making Projects.” By entering a date range How to find TSC information Practices (DMPs) in accord with you can see just the ones since the last The TSC wiki site houses its minutes, the latest template. The TSC will WGM, or click the column heading process documents, templates, links also recognize the “healthiest” over “TSC Approval Date” to bring the to the ArB wiki and the TSC Issue work groups at the 2011 Septem- most recent TSC approvals to the top Tracker, a list of current projects, and ber WGM. Three year planning of the list. more. You can access the TSC wiki should also be occurring annu- at: http://www.hl7.org/permalink/ ally, and 15 work groups are in Among a host of approvals granted by ?TSCWiki. See the links below for need of notifying HQ when their the TSC since the last WGM, several instructions on how to view the list plans have been updated. DSTU publications were approved. of projects and access the TSC Issue Interested parties are invited to down- Tracker. • Innovations Project (PI #701) load these DSTU and provide com- work has not seen new ideas ments and feedback on the standards • TSC Tracker: link to advanced in quite a while, and and their implementation at http:// http://gforge.hl7.org/ without further suggestions the www.hl7.org/dstucomments/. gf/project/tsc/tracker/ project will likely be cancelled by the September WGM. New • HL7 Version 3 Standard: Or- innovative concepts can be ders; Substances CMETs R10,
SEPTEMBER 2011 13 IHIC 2011 Recap By Stan Huff, MD, US Representative to the Affiliate Council and IHIC 2011 Program Co-Chair Stan Huff, MD
The 12th Annual International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC 2011) was held May 13 and 14 in Or- lando, Florida. This is the first time that IHIC has been held in the United States. The two-day meeting was conducted in a unique format with 16 invited speak- ers and 16 submitted papers presented. The theme of the conference was “The Tomorrowland of Health.” Four half-day tracks discussed the topics of the future of personal health and digital devices, simulation and virtual environments, meaningful use, and next genera- tion architectures.
The invited speakers provided summaries of the best IHIC 2011 presentations current thoughts on patient centered health, game based education methods, sharing of simulated Ed Hammond, PhD; Catherine patients, personalized health, and health related Chronaki; and Dennis Giokas who devices connected to home and personal networks. served as the organizing commit- Senior keynote speakers included Ken Lunn, PhD tee, and to the excellent help from (NHS); John Halamka, MD (Harvard University); HL7 staff including Don Lloyd, Jon Adams (FreeScale); Tom Jones, MD (Tolven); Lillian Bigham, Mary Ann Boyle, Jeffrey Taekman, MD (Duke University); Peter and Andrea Ribick. Thanks also Greene, MD (Johns Hopkins); and Sasha Bojicic to the many others who partici- (Canada Health Infoway). pated in reviewing and ranking the submitted papers. The submitted papers cov- Captions, clockwise from below: Bal- ered cutting edge develop- loon hats at the Friday night net- ments in implementing HL7 working reception at Jimmy Buffet’s standards in real systems. Margaritaville; Stan and Mitzie Huff; Andy Woyak of GE Healthcare, the The 16 presenters repre- organization which sponsored the net- sented initiatives underway working event. in eleven countries. The topics discussed included greenCDA®, social network- ing, interoperability infra- structure, and information modeling. The presentations of the submitted papers were a nice practical complement to the more theoretical and strategic ideas presented by the invited speak- ers. The discussion was lively during the sessions and even carried over into the conference’s social networking event held at Jimmy Buffett’s Margari- taville at Universal Studios CityWalk®.
The conference was a hit with everyone who par- ticipated due to the hard work of Stan Huff, MD;
14 SEPTEMBER 2011 HL7 Releases New Tool for Capturing, Storing and Rick Geimer Managing CDA® Templates
By Rick Geimer, Chief Technology Officer, Lantana Consulting Group
HL7 recently announced the resource to support adoption release of the Trifolia Work- Trifolia Workbench Beta Release of the HL7/IHE Health Story bench, Consolidation Project supports standards development Consolidation Project. The Edition 1.0, Beta Release. Trifolia logical model is open This release supports stan- and localization; includes library source so that implementers dards authors, developers of meaningful use templates can use it to develop gen- and implementers in captur- eral templates and reference ing, storing and managing libraries. “We are excited to HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) templates. offer this release of Trifolia Workbench to HL7 members,” It contains the full set of templates balloted through the said Rick Geimer, Chief Technology Officer, Lantana Con- HL7/IHE Health Story Consolidation Project, which har- sulting Group. “Our hope is that this release provides the monized health information exchange specifications for informatics community with a useful tool for developing meaningful use of EHR technology. The project covered CDA templates.” the HL7 Continuity of Care Document (CCD®) and the Health Story implementation guides for Discharge Sum- “HL7’s acceptance and offering of the Trifolia tool aligns mary, six other types of common clinical documents, and nicely with the organization’s current strategic initia- unstructured documents which can carry any clinical tives,” said John Quinn, HL7’s chief technology officer. content. The tool will help developers and implementers “We are very interested both in adopting tools that make localize and publish CDA templates. our standard easier to implement and in developing end to end Version 3/CDA template infrastructure. This tool Trifolia Workbench, Consolidation Project Edition 1.0, brings us a step closer to both of those goals.” Beta Release features: • Template Repository: A centralized database for Versions of the Trifolia Workbench have been developed CDA template management by Lantana Group for the Centers for Disease Control • Structured Template Entry Tool: Enter, review, and Prevention and the Child Health Corporation of manage and localize/update HL7 CDA templates America. It is one of several emerging tools addressing • HL7 CDA Templates: Nearly 70 clinical templates simplification of standards implementation. The Trifolia from the HL7/IHE Health Story Consolidation Project Workbench tool is available to HL7 members for down- • Publishing Tool: Export templates to share within load at the HL7.org website at Home > Resources > and outside your organization Tools & Resources > CDA Tools > Trifolia Workbench • Documentation: Manuals to support installation (Consolidation Project Ed.)
SEPTEMBER 2011 15 ACLA and HL7 Announce Approval of First-Ever Electronic Directory of Services Ken McCaslin (eDOS) Implementation Guide
Ken McCaslin, Co-Chair, Technical & Support Services Steering Division-HL7 Technical Steering Committee; Co-Chair, Electronic Services Work Group; Director, HealthCare Standards, Quest Diagnostics, Inc. and Jason DuBois, Vice President, Governmental Relations, ACLA
The American Clinical Laboratory Jason DuBois, vice president of as the one for the H1N1 virus, being Association (ACLA) and Health government relations at ACLA said, made available for ordering on a Level Seven® International (HL7®) “Standardization and interoperabil- timelier basis. recently announced the approval of ity are crucial elements in advancing the first-ever implementation guide the adoption of electronic health- Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director of in the laboratory industry for a reli- care. I am pleased that ACLA’s mem- the office of standards and interoper- able process to deliver a laboratory’s bers have collaborated to develop a ability at ONC and HL7 International electronic Directory of Service to framework for the electronic distri- board member, commented, “I ap- those providers ordering laboratory bution of a Directory of Service for plaud the efforts of ACLA and HL7 services in a meaningful and con- laboratories based on the HL7 stan- to produce this first-ever standard structive process. dard. This interoperability standard for laboratory interoperability. It for laboratory services is the first of marks an important step in an ongo- The Version 2 Implementation its kind and sets the stage for similar ing journey toward full nationwide Guide establishes a standard format collaborative efforts in other areas of interoperable health information for delivery of test compendium the healthcare industry.” exchange and improved outcomes data elements that differ from for patients.” laboratory to laboratory, including Use of this implementation guide order codes, test descriptions, and will support the initial laboratory HL7 members can download the specimen requirements. The guide test compendium for each customer HL7 Version 2 Implementation is based on the Master File chapter as well as ongoing maintenance Guide: Laboratory Test Compendium of the HL7 Version 2.6 standard. As updates throughout the life of the Framework on the HL7 website. it was being developed, a number interface, regardless of the labora- of proposed edits were incorporated tory or electronic health record into the guide, which also included (EHR) system. The guide will allow the early adoption of change pro- EHR systems and other laboratory posals to HL7 Version 2.8, to enable systems to automate the database eDOS to provide all the necessary update process for all laboratories information to assist in the re- so that services are ordered in one search, selection and ordering of consistent manner. This will trans- laboratory tests. late into newly developed tests, such
16 SEPTEMBER 2011 ACLA and HL7 Announce Approval of Congratulations ttttttttttttttttttttt First-Ever Electronic To the following people who passed the HL7 Certification Exams Certified HL7 V2.5/2.6 Arjun Singh Grewal James S. Rankins Néstor Alís Pozo Biswajit Mishra James E. Rawls Fernando Macías Sierra Directory of Services Chapter 2 Control Veera Venkata Naga Hari Karun Praveen M. Rokkam Francisco Miguel Ruiz Alcántara Motamarry Cheng-Yi Yang Antonio Jesús Ríos Cabrera Specialist Soumya Naik B Yu-Ting Yeh Jose Antonio Porras Doblas Ignacio Nebot García (eDOS) Implementation Guide March 17, 2011 HL7 Spain HL7 Canada Andrés Antonio Vargas Márquez Mahmoud A Abusareis José Enrique Hernández Tomás Hemanth K. Ande April 29, 2011 June 2, 2011 Ken McCaslin, Co-Chair, Technical & Support Services Steering Division-HL7 Technical Steering Committee; Larry A. Bannister Manel Domingo Jean Charles Dron Co-Chair, Electronic Services Work Group; Director, HealthCare Standards, Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Heath L. Giles Jordi Sallent Trullás Kin Kei (Gary) Fung Certified HL7 Version Kate Hanratty David Lorente Urbano and Jason DuBois, Vice President, Governmental Relations, ACLA Tracy Harnden HL7 Australia 3 RIM Specialist Charles C. Josephs May 11, 2011 Steven M. Koetting Berta María Pérez Esteban March 23, 2011 May 19, 2011 Veera Pratap Kumar Lakkoju Javier Pons Rubio Mike Bray Stacy A. Berger Aaron N. McMillan Reuben Daniels Rik Smithies Vincent Moy May 12, 2011 Grahame Grieve Manoj Thotakura José Joaquín Sánchez Campos Weng Kai Loke HL7 Canada David D. Wang Álvaro Amorós Verdú Trevor Perry Wei (Johnny) Wang Iván Prudencio López Landon Reilly May 11, 2011 Denson Yong Soon Wee David Moner Vin Sekar Ashraf Iqbal Jose Fco Luengo Ruiz Robert Trethewey May 19, 2011 Jose Vicente Sancho Hernández Paul Watt June 13, 2011 Bert O. Burch Julián Miras Hernández Philip Wilford Tristin Baylis Chris D. Cobb Jesús María de Zarate Lacarra Trevor Crljenko Alison K. Eden Mª Carmen Gisbert Yuste HL7 India Snow Han Jay Lyle Francisco Matas Albaladejo Greg Perkins Suman Telesphore April 30, 2011 Lianquan Shan Anthony Thomas June 1, 2011 Roshan Fernandes Fiona Warman Todd F. Young Isidro Merayo Castellano Annul Khanna Patrick Weckermann Sandra Muñoz Mínguez Jyoti Khetan June 21, 2011 Jaime Bercianos Vega Lekh Raj Meena HL7 India Deborah Anderson Jose Javier Albendea Saornil Padmashri Tambe Kristen E. Metzger José Manuel Rodríguez Tamayo April 16, 2011 Kingsley Weaver HL7 Spain Shinni Gupta June 2, 2011 Mohit Gupta HL7 Canada Jose Jesús Jiménez Flores April 29, 2011 Amit Kumar Raquel Casaus Álvarez Matias Lizana Neeraj Kumar Kamboj March 25, 2011 Fernando Macías Sierra Roque Ruíz Bujanda Ravindra Nath Hui Shi Francisco Miguel Ruiz Alcántara Antonio Manuel Fernandez Jaen Ritika Ohri Gonzalo Peche Irissarry Oliver Jiménez Hernández Rajneesh Shukla HL7 India Antonio Jesús Ríos Cabrera Akhilesh Srivastava Jose Antonio Porras Doblas May 11, 2011 April 30, 2011 Ignacio Nebot García Luis de Lapresa Rodriguez- May 28, 2011 Dipen D. Ambalia Ricardo Correia Rebelo Contreras Arvind Ramaswamy Balaji Ankulwar Manuel Jesús Morales Antonio Alejandro Conde Geli Dileep R Manisha R. Bafna Ronak Bhanushali May 12, 2011 HL7 Pakistan Annapurna S. Dabhade Certified HL7 CDA Antonio Gil Bellver Kashyap Desai Marta Ruiz Server May 24, 2011 Shashank S. Dharap Specialist Alberto Maldonado Zafar Iqbal Shefali Vijay Ghanekar Sana Qamar Piyush Gondaliya March 17, 2011 May 18, 2011 Khurram Zia Prasannakumar Jayaraman John R. Frazee Maria Eugenia Díez Pedrals Omkar Vijay Joshi Adel Ghlamallah Germán Mollá Landete HL7 Spain Swarna Vinay Kamath William R. Hanson Kanchan Sanjay Kokal Angelo Kastroulis June 1, 2011 June 1, 2011 Sunil Lloyd Mathias John F. King Isidro Merayo Castellano Alberto Sáez Mahesh Mhatre Jay Lyle Sandra Muñoz Mínguez Pratibha Mishra Lisa R. Nelson Jaime Bercianos Vega Arpa Mukhopadhyay Dajiba R. Patil Jose Javier Albendea Saornil Prachi Vijay Naik Minghim Salentine José Manuel Rodríguez Tamayo Satyaprakash Oza J. Michael Stevens Jignesh S. Parekh June 2, 2011 Santosh Gopi Pillai May 19, 2011 Alicia Martínez Mansi Shah Sham Balkaran María Dolores Palomino Franco Thirupathaiah Undela Rob A. Brull Claudia Real Barrios Melissa M. Crenshaw Fermín Medina Pizarro May 28, 2011 Gerald G. Hayes Javier Canovaca García Dinesh Cheluvegal Balasundara Davidson James Rodrigo Coba Olmo Achal Gogia Arnold Miller ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt SEPTEMBER 2011 17 HL7 Benefactors as of August 1, 2011
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
US Department of Defense Military Health System
HL7 UK Welcomes New Chair
Dr. Philip Scott is the newly elected chair of HL7 UK. He is also the vice-chair of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics, and is a senior lecturer in information systems at the University of Portsmouth. Philip previously worked in NHS information management and IT development projects for fourteen years. He has been a member of the HL7 UK Board since 2005. He has a practical interest in systems interoperability, having led numerous implementation projects such as an automated solution for diagnostic image transfer from the local military hospital unit and Independent Sector Treatment Centre into the NHS hospital’s PACS. Philip has an MSc with distinction in healthcare infor- mation systems and a PhD for a research program exploring clinician usage of informa- tion. He is a fellow of the British Computer Society, a chartered IT professional and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He also chairs the program committee for the Southern Institute for Health Informatics hosted by the University of Portsmouth, or- Philip Scott, PhD ganized the HL7 UK 2010 road shows, and is a guest lecturer in the HL7 UK university outreach programme for academic health informatics courses.
18 SEPTEMBER 2011 AFFILIATE CONTACTS
HL7 Argentina HL7 Czech Republic HL7 Korea HL7 Singapore Diego Kaminker Libor Seidl Byoung-Kee Yi, PhD Colleen Brooks Phone: +54-11-4781-2898 Phone: +420-775-387691 (Interim Chair) Phone: +65-68181246 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +82 234101944 Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] HL7 Australia HL7 Finland David Rowlands Juha Mykkanen, PhD HL7 Luxembourg HL7 Spain Phone: +61-420-306-556
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Portilla Email: [email protected] Florica Moldoveanu, PhD Ergin Soysal Phone: +57-2-5552334 x41 Phone: +40-21-4115781 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Italy Email: florica.moldoveanu Stefano Lotti @rdslink.ro HL7 UK HL7 Croatia Phone: +39-06-42160685 Philip Scott, PhD Stanko Tonkovic, PhD Email: [email protected] HL7 Russia Phone: +44 8700-112-866 Phone: +385-1-6129-932 Tatyana Zarubina MD, PhD Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] HL7 Japan Phone: +007-495-434-55-82 Michio Kimura, MD, PhD Email: [email protected] HL7 Uruguay Phone: +81-3-3506-8010 Selene Indarte Email: Phone: +5985-711-0711 [email protected] Email: [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2011 19 HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS Benefactors Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Georgia Tech Research Institute Abbott GSI Health, LLC Health Research Inc. Accenture Guidewire Architecture HIMSS Allscripts Healthcare Data Assets Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Booz Allen Hamilton Healthcare Integration Technologies ICCBBA, Inc. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/CDC HIMAP Indian Health Service Duke Translational Medicine Institute HLN Consulting, LLC Indiana Health Information Exchange Epic Hubbert Systems Consulting Iowa Department of Public Health European Medicines Agency IT Broadcasting Iowa Foundation for Medical Care Food and Drug Administration Lantana Consulting Group IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium GE Healthcare IT LMI Kansas Department of Health & Environment GlaxoSmithKline Lockheed Martin Kyungpook National Univ. MIPTH Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Mainstream Health, Inc. LA County Dept of Public Health IBM Matricis Informatique Inc. LA County Probation Department Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group MD Informatics, LLC Medical Research Council InterSystems MedQuist, Inc. Medical University of South Carolina Kaiser Permanente Medtronic Michigan Department of Community Health Lab Lockheed Martin Multimodal Technologies, Inc. Michigan Public Health Institute McKesson Provider Technologies MxSecure Michigan State University Microsoft Corporation newMentor Ministry of Health - Slovenia NICTIZ Nat.ICT.Inst.Healthc.Netherlands Ockham Information Services, LLC Minnesota Department of Health Novartis Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services Oracle Corporation - Healthcare OTech, Inc. N.A.A.C.C.R. Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Professional Laboratory Management, Inc. National Association of Dental Plans Pfizer Inc. Ray Heath, LLC National Center for Health Statistics/CDC Philips Healthcare SabiaNet Inc National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated SEC Associates, Inc. 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Executives The MITRE Corporation Deloitte Consulting, LLP Com of Mass Department of Public Health U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Diagnostic Radiology and Oncology Services Contra Costa County Health Services U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Dinalex Technology Solutions Inc. Delta Dental Plans Association University HealthSystem Consortium Eastern Informatics, Inc. Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Edifecs, Inc. Department of Developmental Services USDA APHIS VS CIO eGeeks, LLC Department of Health Utah Department of Health eHealth Workflow Analytics, LLC DGS, Commonwealth of Virginia Utah Health Information Network Evolvent Technologies Duke Translational Medicine Institute Washington State Department of Health FEI.com ECRI Institute Wayne State University School of Medicine Forward Advantage, Inc. Emory University, Research and Health Sciences IT WEST WIRELESS HEALTH INSTITUTE Frank McKinney Group, LLC Estonian eHealth Foundation WNY HEALTHeLINK Gartner European Medicines Agency Gensa Corporation Georgia Medical Care Foundation 20 SEPTEMBER 2011 HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, continued Payers Mayo Clinic American Data Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama MedStar Health Information Systems American Health Care Software Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina Meridian Health American HealthTech, Inc. BMS Reimbursement Management Milton S. Hershey Medical Center AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group CIGNA MultiCare Health System Amtelco Health Care Service Corporation National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatic Anasazi Software, Inc. Highmark, Inc. Nationwide Laboratory Services, Inc. Andalusia Health Business Solutions Magellan Health Services New York-Presbyterian Hospital Anvita Health MedSolutions, Inc. Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Apelon, Inc. Premera Blue Cross Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Applied Informatics for Health Society TriWest Healthcare Alliance Patient First Applied Statistics & Management, Inc. UnitedHealth Group Qliance Medical Management, Inc. Arthrex, Inc Wellpoint, Inc. Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated ASG Software Solutions Wisconsin Physicians Service Ins. Corp. Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center Askesis Development Group Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Aspyra, LLC Pharmacy Rheumatology and Dermatology Associates PC Atirix Medical Systems Bristol-Myers Squibb Rockford Health System Aurora MSC Eli Lilly and Company Rockingham Memorial Hospital Availity, LLC Food and Drug Administration SA Tartu University Clinics Axolotl Corporation Genzyme Corporation Saudi Aramco - Healthcare Applications Division AxSys GlaxoSmithKline Secon of New England Axway Merck & Co. Inc. SG NATCLAR SAC Beeler Consulting LLC Novartis Sharp HealthCare Information Systems Benchmark Systems Pfizer Inc. South Bend Medical Foundation, Inc. BIO-NUCLEAR, S. A. Pharmaxo Pharmacy Services Spectrum Health Boston Life Labs LLC. Sanofi-Aventis R&D Stanford Hospital & Clinics Bradoc Data Management, Inc. Sapphire Health, LLC Steven Porter, MD BrightEHR, LLC Summa Health System BusinessOn Providers Tallahassee Memorial Hospital C7 Technologies Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) SA Texas Health Resources CareCam Innovations Akron General Medical Center The North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. CareCloud Corp Alamance Regional Medical Center Trinity Health Carefx Corporation Albany Medical Center TriRivers Health Partners Carestream Health, Inc. ARUP Laboratories, Inc. Tuomey Healthcare System Cellcura IHMedical Ascension Health Information Services US Department of Defense, Military Health System Cerner Corporation Aspirus - Wausau Hospital US Department of Veterans Affairs Certify Data Systems Athens Regional Health Services, Inc. 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City of Hope National Medical Center Computer Technology Corporation Cleveland Clinic Health System Vendors Computrition, Inc. Community Reach Center //SOS/Corporation COMS Interactive, LLC Correctional Medical Services 3M Health Information Systems ConexSys, Inc. David Lawrence Center 4Medica Consilience Software Diagnostic Laboratory Services Abarca Health LLC Constitution Medical Investors Dovetail Health Abbott Core Sound Imaging, Inc. East Alabama Medical Center ABELSoft Corporation Corepoint Health Emory Healthcare Accent on Integration Cortex Medical Management Systems, Inc. Endocrine Clinic of Southeast Texas Accumedic Computer Systems, Inc. Covisint Health Network Laboratories Aceso Health Information Management CPCHS Hill Physicians Medical Group ACS CPSI Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) ACS Crescendo Systems Corporation Institut Jules Bordet Advent InfoSystems LLC CS STARS, LLC Intermountain Healthcare AEGIS.net, Inc. CSAM International AS Johns Hopkins Hospital Aequor Technologies, Inc. CSC Healthcare Kaiser Permanente Agilex Technologies Curaspan Healthgroup, Inc. Kalispell Regional Medical Center Alert Life Sciences Computing, Inc. Cybernius Medical Ltd. Laboratory Corporation of America Allscripts Dansk Medicinsk Datacenter ApS Lahey Clinic AlphaCM, Inc Darena Solutions LLC Lakeland Regional Medical Center AlphaGlobal-IT Data Strategies, Inc. Lexington Medical Center Altos Solutions, Inc Dataflo Consulting Loyola University Health System Altova GmbH DATALINK SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INC Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Amazing Charts Datuit, LLC SEPTEMBER 2011 21 HL7 ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS, continued
Dawning Technologies, Inc. InfoQuest Systems, Inc. MITEM Corporation Seeburger AG Daxor Corporation Information Builders Mitochon Systems. Shared Health dbMotion LTD Information Management Associates MobileMD Siemens Healthcare DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc. Inmediata Health Group Modernizing Medicine, Inc. SilkOne Delta Health Technologies, LLC Institute for Health Metrics MPN Software Systems, Inc. Simplified Software Development LLC Dg Med Technology Corp. Integrated Healthcare Solution Sdn Bhd NetDirector SMARTMD Corp digiChart, Inc. integration AG New Health Sciences, Inc. Softek Solutions, Inc. Digital Medical Merge, Inc. Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group New Wave Software, Inc. Software AG USA, Inc. Div Media Intel-GE Care Innovations, LLC NexJ Systems Inc Software Partners LLC DNA Data Systems IntelliSys Consulting NextGen Healthcare Information SonoSite, Inc DocComply Intelliware Development Inc Systems, Inc. SOUTHERN LIFE SYSTEMS, INC DocuTAP Interface People, LP Nexus Clinical St. Jude Medical DocuTrac, Inc. iNTERFACEWARE, Inc. NitroDesk, Inc. STI Computer Services, Inc. Dolbey & Company Interfix, LLC novaHEALTH Pte Ltd Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc. DynamicDR InterSystems NRC - Illuminate Stratus EMR EasyMed Services Inc. IntraNexus, Inc. Nuesoft Technologies, Inc. StreamlineMD, LLC. echoBase Intuit Health Oakland Software Suitelinq inc eDerm Systems IQ-EQ Systems, LLC Occupational Health Research Suncoast Solutions E-Health Partners, Inc. iSALUS Healthcare OFFI-PLUS, Inc. Sunquest Information Systems eHealthCare Systems, Inc. iSOFT Nederland b.v. Omnicell, Inc. Surescripts Embla Isoprime Corporation OMNICOM srl Surgical Information Systems EMC Information Intelligence Group Jack Russell Software Open Dental Software SurgiVision Consultants, Inc. Emdat, Inc. Jackson Healthcare, LLC Openmed, LLC Swearingen Software, Inc. Empower Technologies, Inc. Jefferson Medical Associates OpenTreatment.Com Systematic Group EMRgence LLC John Wiley & Sons Optimus EMR, Inc. SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS Epic JVM Opus-ISM LLC ELEARNING ESRI Kestral Computing Pty Ltd Oracle Corporation - Healthcare TactusMD, Inc ExactData, LLC Key Management Group Orchard Software Tectura Corporation Expert Sistemas Computacionales S.A. Krames StayWell Orego Anesthesiology Group, PC TELCOR OIS DE C.V. Labware, Inc. Orion Health Teradata Corporation, GIS/AMS Explorys Lane Telecommunications, Inc OSSLLC The CBORD Group Inc. E-Z BIS, Inc. Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Inc. Ototronix The Echo Group ezEMRx Lawson OZ Systems The Shams Group FSI Lawson P&NP Computer Services, Inc. The SIMI Group, Inc. Futures Group Life Systems Software Panacea Healthcare, LLC The SSI Group, Inc. GE Healthcare IT Life Technologies Patient360 TheraDoc, Inc. GEMMS, Inc LINK Medical Computing, Inc. PatientNOW Thomson Reuters Gibraltar Technologies, Inc Liquent, Inc. PCIS GOLD TIBCO Software Inc. Haemonetics Corporation Logibec Pegasystems Tidgewell Associates, Inc. Halfpenny Technologies, Inc. Loopback Analytics Philips Healthcare Tolven, Inc. Harris Corporation LSS Data Systems Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz Tranquilmoney Inc., HCCS Lumeris County Trellix Medteam Health Care Software, Inc. MacPractice, Inc. Politechnika Poznanska Trifork Public A/S Health Innovation Technologies Manchac Technologies, LLC Positive Business Solutions, Inc. TurningPoint Global Solutions LLC Health Intersections Pty Ltd Marin Health Network PPM Information Solutions, Inc. Universal Research Solutions Health Language, Inc. Masimo Labs Practice Velocity, LLC. Unlimited Systems HealthCare Conversion Services McKesson Provider Technologies Premier Healthcare Alliance Up To Data Professional Services Gmb Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. MD Logic, Inc Press Ganey Associates Valley Hope Association - IMCSS HEALTHCAREfirst, Inc. MDofficeManager.com PrimeSource Healthcare Verizon Business HEALTHeSTATE MECTA Corporation Procentive Virco BVBA Healthland Medcomsoft ProComp Software Consultants, Inc. Virtify HealthTrio, LLC MedConnex Procura VisionShare Inc. Healthwise, Inc. Medexter Healthcare GmbH Prometheus Computing LLC Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Inc. Hewlett-Packard Enterprises Services Medflow, Inc. Prowess Inc. Wairever Inc Hill Associates MedFrame, Inc. PsyTech Solutions, Inc. Warren Lamb & Associates, Ltd. Hira Ben, LLC MEDfx Corporation QS/1 Data Systems, Inc. Watermark Research Partners, Inc. Hi-Range Technologies, Inc. MEDHOST, Inc. QuadraMed Corporation WebMD Health Services Hi-Tech Software, Inc. Medical Office Online Razor Insights, LLC WellCentive, LLC Holt Systems, Inc. Medicity, Inc. Recondo Technology, Inc. WellDoc, Inc. Honeywell HomMed MediServe Information Systems, Inc. Reed Technology and Information Wellsoft Corporation HospiServe Healthcare Services Pty) Ltd. MediSwitch (Pty)Ltd Services Inc. Wolters Kluwer Health Hyland Software, Inc. Mediture ReLi Med Solutions Workflow.com, LLC i2i Systems MediVault, LLC Remcare Inc. Xeo Health i4i Inc. (Infrastructures for Information Medivo Inc. Rice Lake Weighing Systems XIFIN, Inc. Inc.) MEDIWARE Information Systems Rosch Visionary Systems XPress Technologies Iatric Systems MedMagic LLC RTZ Associates, Inc Yak Digital Corp. IBM MedVirginia Sabiamed Corporation ZetaSys Dental Enterprise Solution IBS Mellon Consulting Group, LLC Sage Zoho Corp. ICANotes, LLC Meta HealthCare Solutions SAIC - Science Applications Zynx Health ICLOPS MGRID International Corp iConnect Consulting MicroFour, Inc. Sandlot, Inc. Ignis Systems Corporation Microsoft Corporation SANTEOS SA Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI) Mighty Oak Technology, Inc. SAS Institute ImageTrend INC Mirth Corporation Scantron Corporation Info World Mitchell & McCormick, Inc Scientific Retail Systems, Inc. 22 SEPTEMBER 2011 2011 TECHNICAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
CHAIR Ravi Natarajan STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN Austin Kreisler NHS Connecting for Health CO-CHAIRS Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Phone: 44-113-6520 Calvin Beebe Phone: 404-542-4475 Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-284-3827 DOMAIN EXPERTS CO-CHAIRS Email: [email protected] CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER Austin Kreisler John Quinn Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Patricia Van Dyke HL7 International Phone: 404-542-4475 Delta Dental Plans Association Phone: 216-409-1330 Email: [email protected] Phone: 503-243-4492 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Edward Tripp ArB CO-CHAIRS Charles Mead, MD, MSc Edward S Tripp and Associates, Inc. TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES 3rd Millennium, Inc. Phone: 224-234-9769 CO-CHAIRS Phone: 510-541-8224 Email: [email protected] Patrick Loyd Email: [email protected] ICode Solutions FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY Phone: 415-209-0544 Ron Parker CO-CHAIRS Email: [email protected] HL7 Canada George (Woody) Beeler Phone: 902-832-0876 Beeler Consulting, LLC Ken McCaslin Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-254-4810 Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6692 INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Email: Jay Zimmerman Anthony Julian [email protected] HL7 Canada Mayo Clinic Phone: 250-391-0040 Phone: 507-266-0958 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
STEERING DIVISIONS
DOMAIN EXPERTS FOUNDATION & TECHNOLOGY STRUCTURE & SEMANTIC DESIGN Anatomic Pathology Conformance & Guidance for Arden Syntax Anesthesiology Implementation/Testing Clinical Context Object Workgroup Attachments Implementable Technology Specifications Clinical Decision Support Child Health Infrastructure & Messaging Clinical Genomics Clinical Interoperability Council* Modeling & Methodology Clinical Statement Community Based Collaborative Care RIM Based Application Architecture Electronic Health Record Emergency Care Security Financial Management Government Projects Service Oriented Architecture Orders & Observations Health Care Devices Templates Patient Administration Imaging Integration Vocabulary Structured Documents Patient Care Patient Safety TECHNICAL & SUPPORT SERVICES Pharmacy Education Public Health & Emergency Response Electronic Services Regulated Clinical Research International Mentoring Committee Process Improvement Committee Information Management *Voice only; no vote Project Services Publishing Tooling
SEPTEMBER 2011 23 HL7 WORK GROUP CO-CHAIRS
Affiliates Council Craig Gabron Howard Strasberg Richard Thoreson Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Wolters Kluwer Health SAMHSA Catherine Chronaki—Affiliate Carolina Phone: 408-746-9958 Phone: 240-276-2827 Liaison Phone: 803-763-1790 Email: howard.strasberg@wolter- Email: richard.thoreson@samhsa. HL7 Hellas/FORTH-Institute of Email: [email protected] skluwer.com hhs.gov Computer Science Phone: 30-2810-391691 Jim McKinley Clinical Genomics Max Walker Email: [email protected] Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Department of Health Alabama Joyce Hernandez Phone: 61-3-9096-1471 Robert Stegwee, MSc, PhD—HL7 Phone: 205-220-5960 Merck & Co., Inc. Email: [email protected]. International Liaison Email: [email protected] Phone: 732-594-1815 gov.au HL7 The Netherlands Email: joyce_hernandez@merck. Phone: 31-30-689-2730 Child Health com Conformance & Guidance Email: robert.stegwee@capgemini. for Implementation/ com David Classen, MD, MS Kevin Hughes, MD Alliance for Pediatric Quality Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Testing Phone: 801-532-3633 Phone: 617-724-0048 Helen Stevens Love—Secretary Wendy Huang Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Canada Health Infoway Inc. Phone: 250-598-0312 Phone: 416-595-3449 Email: [email protected] Gaye Dolin, MSN Amnon Shabo IBM Email: whuang@infoway- Lantana Consulting Group inforoute.ca Anatomic Pathology Phone: 714-744-4152 Phone: 972-544-714070 Email: [email protected] Email: Frank Oemig David Booker, MD [email protected] HL7 Germany Mollie Ullman-Cullere College of American Pathologists Agfa Healthcare Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Phone: 706-736-0991 Joy Kuhl Phone: 49-208-781194 Email: [email protected] Alliance for Pediatric Quality Phone: 617-582-7249 Email: [email protected] Phone: 818-308-7063 Email: mollie_ullman-cullere@dfci. Victor Brodsky, MD Email: [email protected] harvard.edu Education College of American Pathologists Phone: 646-322-4648 Andy Spooner, MD, FAAP Clinical Interoperability Mike Henderson Email: [email protected] Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Council Eastern Informatics, Inc. Phone: 513-803-0121 Phone: 301-585-5750 Jeffrey Karp Email: [email protected] Sam Brandt, MD Email: College of American Pathologists Siemens Healthcare [email protected] Phone: 847-832-7358 Feliciano Yu, MD Phone: 610-219-5701 Email: [email protected] St. Louis Children’s Hospital Email: [email protected] Diego Kaminker Phone: 314-454-2808 HL7 Argentina Architectural review Email: [email protected] Meredith Nahm Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 Board Duke Translational Medicine Email: [email protected] Clinical Context Object Institute Charlie Mead, MD, MSc Workgroup (CCOW) Phone: 919-668-8339 AbdulMalik Shakir 3rd Millennium, Inc. Email: [email protected] City of Hope National Medical Phone: 510-541-8224 David Fusari Center Phone: 626-644-4491 Email: [email protected] Microsoft Corporation Dianne Reeves Phone: 978-749-0022 National Cancer Institute Center for Email: Ron Parker Email: [email protected] Bioinformatics [email protected] HL7 Canada Phone: 301-435-5602 Phone: 902-832-0876 Michael Russell, MD Email: [email protected] Electronic Health Records Email: Duke Translational Medicine [email protected] Institute Clinical Statement Gary Dickinson Phone: 919-684-2513 CentriHealth Phone: 951-536-7010 John Quinn Email: [email protected] Hans Buitendijk Siemens Healthcare Email: gary.dickinson@ehr-stan- Health Level Seven International dards.com Phone: 216-409-1330 David Staggs Phone: 610-219-2087 Email: [email protected] US Department of Veterans Affairs Email: hans.buitendijk@siemens. Phone: 858-826-5629 com Don Mon, PhD Arden Syntax Email: [email protected] American Health Information Patrick Loyd Management Association Phone: 312-233-1135 Clinical Decision Support ICode Solutions Peter Haug Email: [email protected] Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 415-209-0544 Guilherme Del Fiol, MD Email: [email protected] Phone: 801-442-6240 John Ritter University of Utah Email: [email protected] College of American Pathologists Phone: 919-213-4129 Rik Smithies Phone: 847-832-7732 Email: [email protected] Robert Jenders, MD HL7 UK Email: [email protected] National Library of Medicine NProgram Ltd. Phone: 301-435-3192 Robert Jenders, MD Phone: 44-7720-290967 Helen Stevens Love Email: [email protected] National Library of Medicine Email: [email protected] Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 310-435-3192 Phone: 250-598-0312 Attachments Email: [email protected] Community Based Email: [email protected] Collaborative Care Durwin Day Kensaku Kawamoto, PhD Patricia Van Dyke Health Care Service Corporation Duke Translational Medicine Suzanne Gonzales-Webb Delta Dental Plans Association Phone: 312-653-5948 Institute US Department of Veterans Affairs Phone: 503-243-4492 Email: [email protected] Phone: 919-684-2340 Phone: 858-366-2008 Email: Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] [email protected] 24 SEPTEMBER 2011 HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued
Electronic Services Mitra Rocca International Mentoring Lorraine Constable Food and Drug Administration Committee Constable Consulting Inc. Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD Phone: 301-796-2175 Phone: 780-951-4853 Email: [email protected] Equifax Email: [email protected] Diego Kaminker Phone: 202-543-6937 HL7 Argentina Robert Hausam, MD Email: [email protected] Health Care Devices Phone: 54-11-4781-2898 OntoReason Email: [email protected] Lorraine Constable Todd Cooper Phone: 801-949-1556 Email: [email protected] Constable Consulting Inc. 80001 Experts, LLC John Ritter Phone: 780-951-4853 Phone: 858-435-0729 College of American Pathologists Patrick Loyd Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 847-832-7732 ICode Solutions Email: [email protected] Ken McCaslin Patty Krantz Phone: 415-209-0544 Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated Medtronic Marketing Council Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6692 Phone: 763-526-0513 Email: [email protected] Ken McCaslin Email: kenneth.h.mccaslin Catherine Chronaki @questdiagnostics.com Quest Diagnostics, Inc. John Rhoads, PhD HL7 Hellas Phone: 610-650-6692 Emergency Care Philips Healthcare FORTH-Institute of Computer Science Phone: 978-659-3024 Phone: 30-2810-391691 Outreach Committee for Email: [email protected] Laura Heermann Langford Email: [email protected] Clinical Research Intermountain Healthcare Jill Kaufman, PhD Ed Helton, PhD Phone: 801-290-6674 Imaging Integration College of American Pathologists Email: [email protected] National Cancer Institute Center for Phone: 847-832-7163 Bioinformatics Helmut Koenig, MD Email: [email protected] Donald Kamens, MD Siemens Healthcare Phone: 919-465-4473 XPress Technologies Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 Rene Spronk Email: [email protected] Phone: 904-296-1189 Email: [email protected] HL7 The Netherlands Email: [email protected] Phone: 31-318-553812 Patient Adminstration Harry Solomon Email: [email protected] James McClay, MD GE Healthcare IT Alexander deLeon University of Nebraska Medical Phone: 847-277-5096 Grant Wood Kaiser Permanente Center Email: [email protected] Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 626-381-1455 Phone: 402-559-3587 Phone: 801-408-8153 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Implementable Technology Email: [email protected] Specifications Jay Zimmerman Peter Park Modeling and Methodology HL7 Canada US Department of Defense, Paul Knapp Phone: 250-391-0040 Military Health System Email: Continovation Services, Inc. George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD Phone: 202-762-3055 Phone: 604-987-3313 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Beeler Consulting, LLC Email: [email protected] Phone: 507-254-4810 Email: [email protected] Patient Care Financial Management Dale Nelson Squaretrends LLC Jean Duteau Stephen Chu, PhD Kathleen Connor Phone: 916-367-1458 National eHealth Transition Authority Microsoft Corporation HL7 Canada Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-937-8991 (NEHTA) Phone: 360-480-7599 Email: [email protected] Email: Email: jean.duteau@gpinformatics. Andy Stechishin com [email protected] Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. William Goossen Phone: 780-903-0885 HL7 The Netherlands Beat Heggli Grahame Grieve Email: [email protected] Health Intersections Pty Ltd Results4Care B.V. Amersfoort HL7 Switzerland Phone: 31-654-614458 Phone: 41-1-806-1164 Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Infrastructure & Messaging Email: grahame@healthintersections. com.au Anthony Julian Ian Townend Mary Kay McDaniel Mayo Clinic NHS Connecting for Health Markam, Inc. Lloyd McKenzie Phone: 507-266-0958 Phone: 44-113-280-6743 Phone: 602-266-2516 HL7 Canada Email: [email protected] LM&A Consulting, Ltd. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-993-9501 Patrick Loyd Email: [email protected] Klaus Veil Generation Of Anesthesia ICode Solutions HL7 Australia Standards Phone: 415-209-0544 Ravi Natarajan Phone: 61-412-746-457 Email: [email protected] NHS Consulting for Health Email: [email protected] Martin Hurrell, PhD Phone: 44-113-390-6520 Phone: 44-7711-669-522 David Shaver Email: [email protected] Patient Safety Email: [email protected] Corepoint Health Phone: 214-618-7000 Ioana Singureanu Nick Halsey Terri Monk Email: Dave.Shaver@corepointhealth. Eversolve, LLC European Medicines Agency Duke Translational Medicine Institute com Phone: 603-870-9739 Phone: 44-0-20-7523-7100 Phone: 919-286-6938 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Sandra Stuart Kaiser Permanente Orders and Observations Ali Rashidee Government Projects Phone: 925-924-7473 Quantros Email: [email protected] Hans Buitendijk Phone: 408-514-4804 Nancy Orvis Siemens Healthcare Email: [email protected] US Department of Defense, Military Phone: 610-219-2087 Health System Phone: 703-681-5657 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2011 25 HL7 Work Group Co-Chairs, continued
Mead Walker Publishing Committee Amnon Shabo, PhD Austin Kreisler Mead Walker Consulting IBM Science Applications International Phone: 610-518-6259 George (Woody) Beeler Jr., PhD-V3 Phone: 972-544-714070 Corp. (SAIC) Email: [email protected] Beeler Consulting, LLC Email: [email protected] Phone: 404-542-4475 Phone: 507-254-4810 Email: [email protected] Pharmacy Email: [email protected] Rene Spronk HL7 The Netherlands Templates Tom de Jong Jane Curry-V2/V3 Phone: 33-318-553812 HL7 The Netherlands Health Information Strategies Inc. Email: [email protected] John Roberts Phone: 31-6-3255291 Phone: 780-459-8560 Tennessee Department of Health Email: [email protected] Email: janecurry@healthinforstra- Security Phone: 615-741-3702 tegies.com Email: [email protected] Hugh Glover Bernd Blobel, PhD HL7 UK Jane Daus-V2 HL7 Germany Mark Shafarman Blue Wave Informatics McKesson Provider Technologies University of Regensburg Medical Shafarman Consulting Phone: 44-07889407113 Phone: 847-495-1289 Center Phone: 510-593-3483 Email: hugh_glover@bluewavein- Email: [email protected] Phone: 49-941-944-6769 Email: formatics.co.uk Email: [email protected] [email protected] Andrew Stechishin-V3 regensburg.de Robert Hallowell Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Tooling Siemens Healthcare Phone: 780-903-0855 Mike Davis Phone: 610-219-5612 Email: [email protected] US Department of Veterans Affairs Jane Curry Email: Phone: 760-632-0294 Health Information Strategies, Inc. [email protected] Sandra Stuart-V2 (Interim) Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-459-8560 Kaiser Permanente Email: Process Improvement Phone: 925-924-7473 John Moehrke [email protected] Committee Email: [email protected] GE Healthcare IT Phone: 920-912-8451 Tim Ireland Margie Kennedy Klaus Veil-V2 Email: [email protected] NHS Connecting for Health HL7 Canada Australia Email: [email protected] Phone: 902-926-2827 Phone: 61-412-746-457 Services Oriented Email: mkennedy@infoway-info- Email: [email protected] Architecture Andrew Stechishin route.ca Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Regulated Clinical Don Jorgenson Phone: 780-903-0855 Helen Stevens Love Research Information Inpriva, Inc. Email: [email protected] Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Management Phone: 970-472-1441 Phone: 250-598-0312 Email: [email protected] Vocabulary Email: [email protected] Ed Helton, PhD Jim Case National Cancer Institute Center for Galen Mulrooney Project Services US Department of Veterans Affairs National Library of Medicine Bioinformatics Phone: 301-594-9152 Phone: 919-465-4473 Phone: 703-815-0900 Rick Haddorff Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mayo Clinic Email: [email protected] Phone: 978-296-1462 Ken Rubin Heather Grain Email: [email protected] David Iberson-Hurst Standards Australia, Llewelyn Grain CDISC Hewlett-Packard Enterprises Services Informatics Freida Hall Phone: 44-9-7989-603793 Phone: 613-956-99443 Email: [email protected] Phone: 703-845-3277 Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-650-6794 [email protected] Email: Armando Oliva, MD Robert Hausam [email protected] Food & Drug Administration Structured Documents OntoReason Phone: 301-796-8126 Phone: 801-949-1556 Email: [email protected] Public Health Emergency Liora Alschuler Email: [email protected] Response John Speakman Lantana Consulting Group Phone: 802-785-2623 William T. Klein National Cancer Institute Center for Klein Consulting, Inc. Alean Kirnak Bioinformatics Email: liora.alschuler@lantana- Software Partners LLC group.com Phone: 631-924-6922 Phone: 301-451-8786 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Calvin Beebe Joginder Madra Mayo Clinic Beverly Knight Edward Tripp HL7 Canada Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Edward S. Tripp & Associates, Inc. Phone: 507-284-3827 Phone: 780-717-4295 Email: [email protected] Phone: 416-595-3449 Phone: 224-234-9769 Email: Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Robert Dolin, MD [email protected] Lantana Consulting Group John Roberts RIM Based Application Phone: 714-532-1130 Tennessee Department of Health Architecture Email: bob.dolin@lantanagroup. Phone: 615-741-3702 com Email: [email protected] Peter Hendler, MD Kaiser Permanente Grahame Grieve Michelle Williamson Phone: 510-248-3055 Health Intersections Pty Ltd National Center for Health Email: [email protected] Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Statistics/CDC Email: grahame@healthintersec- Phone: 301-458-4618 tions.com.au Email: [email protected]
26 SEPTEMBER 2011 HL7 FACILITATORS Steering Division Hugh Glover Ioana Singureanu Austin Kreisler Facilitators HL7 UK Eversolve, LLC Science Applications International Medication CBCC & Health Care Devices Corporation (SAIC) Phone: 603-870-9739 Rick Haddorff Phone: 44-0-7889-407-113 Orders & Observations Email: Mayo Clinic/Foundation Email: hugh_glover@bluewavein- Phone: 404-542-4475 [email protected] Structure & Semantic Design formatics.co.uk Email: [email protected] Phone: 978-296-1462 Grahame Grieve Corey Spears Margaret (Peggy) Leizear Email: McKesson Provider Technology [email protected] Health Intersections Pty Ltd Food and Drug Administration Infrastructure & Messaging EHR RCRIM Phone: 206-269-1211 Lynn Laakso Phone: 61-3-9450-2222 Phone: 301-827-5203 Email: grahame@healthintersec- Email: Email: [email protected] Health Level Seven International [email protected] Foundation & Technology tions.com.au Joginder Madra Phone: 906-361-5966 Mead Walker Email: [email protected] William “Ted” Klein Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Klein Consulting, Inc. Mead Walker Consulting Patient Safety Patient Safety; RCRIM Dave Hamill Vocabulary Phone: 780-717-4295 Phone: 631-924-6922 Phone: 610-518-6259 Email: joginder.madra@gpinfor- Health Level Seven International Email: [email protected] Technical & Support Services Email: [email protected] matics.com Phone: 734-677-7777 Publishing Facilitators Email: [email protected] Austin Kreisler Mary Kay McDaniel Science Applications International Markam, Inc. Becky Angeles Corporation (SAIC) Financial Management Modeling and ScenPro, Inc. PHER, Structured Documents Phone: 602-266-2516 Methodology Facilitators RCRIM Phone: 404-542-4475 Phone: 972-437-5001 Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] George (Woody) Beeler, Jr., PhD Email: [email protected] Beeler Consulting LLC Patrick Loyd Dale Nelson Facilitator-at-Large Douglas Baird ICode Solutions Boston Scientific Corporation Squaretrends LLC Phone: 507-254-4810 Orders & Observations CMET; Implementable Technology Email: [email protected] Templates Phone: 415-209-0544 Phone: 651-582-3241 Specifications Email: [email protected] Phone: 916-367-1458 Charlie Bishop Email: douglas.baird@guidant. com Email: HL7 UK Joginder Madra [email protected] Clinical Statement Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. Phone: 44-8700-112-866 Mike Davis Immunization US Department of Veterans Affairs Frank Oemig Email: [email protected] Phone: 780-717-4295 Security HL7 Germany Email: Joginder.madra@gpinfor- Phone: 760-632-0294 German Realm Bernd Blobel, PhD matics.com Email: [email protected] Phone: 49-208-781194 HL7 Germany Email: [email protected] Security Dale Nelson Isobel Frean Phone: 49-941-944-6769 Squaretrends LLC HL7 UK Nancy Orvis Email: Implementable Technology Clinical Statement US Department of Defense, [email protected] Specifications Phone: 44-207-656-2146 Military Health System burg.de Phone: 916-367-1458 Email: [email protected] Government Projects Email: Phone: 703-681-3900 Kathleen Connor [email protected] Peter Gilbert Email: [email protected] Microsoft Corporation Covisint Financial Management Craig Parker, MD Structured Documents Craig Parker, MD Phone: 360-480-7599 Intermountain Healthcare Phone: 313-227-0358 Intermountain Healthcare Email: Clinical Decision Support Email: [email protected] Clinical Decision Support [email protected] Phone: 801-859-4480 Phone: 801-859-4480 Email: [email protected] Robert Hallowell Email: [email protected] Kevin Coonan, MD Siemens Healthcare Deloitte Consulting LLP Amnon Shabo, PhD Medication; Pharmacy John Ritter Emergency Care IBM Phone: 610-219-5612 College of American Pathologists Email: [email protected] Clinical Genomics Email: robert.hallowell@siemens. EHR Phone: 972-544-714070 com Phone: 847-832-7732 Norman Daoust Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Daoust Associates Anthony Julian Patient Administration AbdulMalik Shakir Mayo Clinic Robert Savage Phone: 617-491-7424 City of Hope National Medical Infrastructure & Messaging American Immunization Registry Email: Center Phone: 507-266-0958 Assoc. [email protected] Modeling & Methodology Email: [email protected] Immunization; PHER Phone: 626-644-4491 Email: [email protected] Helmut Koenig, MD Jean Duteau Email: abdulmalik@shakircon- Siemens Healthcare Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. sulting.com Gregg Seppala Imaging Integration Pharmacy Patient Administration Phone: 49-9131-84-3480 Phone: 780-937-8991 Email: [email protected] Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2011 27 HL7 FACILITATORS, continued
Ioana Singureanu Hugh Glover Nancy Orvis Pat Van Dyke Eversolve, LLC HL7 UK US Department of Defense, Delta Dental Plans Association CBCC CMET Military Health System EHR Phone: 603-870-9739 Phone: 44-0-7889-407113 Government Projects Phone: 503-243-4992 Email: Email: hugh_glover@bluewavein- Phone: 703-681-3900 Email: [email protected] formatics.co.uk Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Margarita Sordo Margaret Haber, BSN, RN, OCN Sarah Ryan Partners HealthCare System, Inc. National Cancer Institute Center Clinical Interoperability Council Gello for Bioinformatics Email: [email protected] Phone: 617-643-5894 RCRIM Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-594-9185 Harold Solbrig Email: [email protected] Apelon, Inc. Anita Walden Modeling & Methodology Duke Translational Medicine W. Edward Hammond, PhD Phone: 807-993-0269 Institute Templates Email: [email protected] Clinical Interoperability Council Phone: 919-383-3555 Phone: 919-668-8256 Email: [email protected] Harry Solomon Email: [email protected] GE Healthcare IT Robert Hausam, MD Imaging Integration Grant Wood Hausam Consulting Phone: 847-277-5096 Intermountain Healthcare Orders & Observations; Structured Email: harry.solomon@med. Clinical Genomics Documents ge.com Phone: 801-408-8153 Phone: 801-949-1556 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Sandra Stuart Kaiser Permanente Joyce Hernandez Infrastructure & Messaging Vocabulary Facilitators Merck & Co. Inc. Phone: 925-924-7473 Clinical Genomics Email: [email protected] Paul Biondich, MD Phone: 732-594-1815 IU School of Medicine Email: Child Health [email protected] Phone: 317-278-3466 Email: [email protected] Wendy Huang Canada Health Infoway Inc. Steve Connolly Patient Administration Apelon, Inc. Phone: 416-595-3449 Security Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Kathleen Connor Julie James Microsoft Corporation II4SM Phone: 360-480-7599 Medication; Pharmacy Email: Phone: 44-7747-633-216 [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Kevin Coonan, MD William “Ted” Klein Deloitte Consulting LLP Klein Consulting, Inc. Emergency Care Modeling & Methodology Email: [email protected] Phone: 631-924-6922 Email: [email protected] Guilherme Del Fiol, MD University of Utah Patrick Loyd Clinical Decision Support ICode Solutions Phone: 919-213-4129 Clinical Statement Email: Phone: 415-209-0544 [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Kristi Eckerson Susan Matney Emory University, Research & University of Utah Health Care Health Services IT Patient Care PHER Phone: 801-680-2161 Phone: 404-712-5086 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Robert McClure, MD Christof Gessner Apelon, Inc. HL7 Germany CBCC Health Care Devices Phone: 303-926-6771 Phone: 49-172-3994033 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 28 SEPTEMBER 2011 2011 HL7 STAFF Chief Executive Chief Technical Executive Associate Executive Officer Officer Director Director
Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD John Quinn Mark McDougall Karen Van Hentenryck +1-858-720-8200 +1-216-409-1330 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Director of Manager Web Development Director, Project Meetings of Education Coordinator Management Office
Lillian Bigham Mary Ann Boyle Joshua Carmody Dave Hamill +1-989-736-3703 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Manager of Administrative Director of TSC Project Services Technical Services Manager
Linda Jenkins Michael Kingery Lynn Laakso +1-734-677-7777 +1-919-636-4032 +1-906-361-5966 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Director of Director of Technical Director of Membership Publications Communications Services
Diana Stephens Donald Lloyd Andrea Ribick +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 +1-734-677-7777 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2011 29 2011 HL7 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Chair-Elect Treasurer Secretary Technical Steering Committee Chair
Robert Dolin, MD Don Mon, PhD Hans Buitendijk Jill Kaufman, PhD Lantana Consulting Group American Health Information Siemens Healthcare +1-847-832-7163 +1-714-532-1130 Management Association +1-610-219-2087 [email protected] Austin Kreisler Bob.Dolin@LantanaGroup. +1-312-233-1135 hans.buitendijk Science Applications com [email protected] @siemens.com International Corp. (SAIC) +1-404-542-4475 Directors-at-Large [email protected]
Keith Boone Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD Douglas Fridsma, MD, PhD Dennis Giokas, MS W. Edward GE Healthcare IT Equifax, Inc. Department of Health HL7 Canada Hammond, PhD +1-617-519-2076 +1-202-543-6937 +1-202-205-4408 +1-416-595-3415 +1-919-383-3555 [email protected] Bill.Braithwaite [email protected] dgiokas@infoway- hammo001 @Equifax.com inforoute.ca @mc.duke.edu Affiliate Directors
Stan Huff, MD Rebecca Kush, PhD Catherine Chronaki Michael van Campen Intermountain Healthcare CDISC FORTH-Institute of Computer Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. +1-801-442-4885 +1-512-791-7612 Science; HL7 Hellas BoD +1-250-881-4568 [email protected] [email protected] +30-2810-391691 michael.vancampen [email protected] @gpinformatics.com
Ex Officio Members Advisory Council Chair
Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD John Quinn Mark McDougall Richard Dixon Hughes HL7 CEO HL7 CTO HL7 Exective Director DH4 Pty Limited +1-858-720-8200 +1-216-409-1330 +1-734-677-7777 +61-02-9953-8544 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
30 SEPTEMBER 2011 HL7 EDUCATIONAL SUMMITS
Gain real-world HL7 knowledge TODAY that you can apply TOMORROW
What is an Educational Summit? The HL7 Educational Summit is a a two-day schedule of tutorials focused on HL7-specific topics such as Version 2, Version 3 and Clinical Document Architecture. Educational sessions also cover general interest industry topics such as vocabulary. Why Should I Attend? This is an invaluable educational opportunity for the healthcare IT community as it strives for greater interop- erability among healthcare information systems. Our classes offer a wealth of information designed to benefit UPCOMING a wide range of HL7 users, from beginner to advanced. EDUCATIONAL Among the benefits of attending the HL7 Educational SUMMITS Summit are: • Efficiency Concentrated two-day format provides maximum training with minimal time investment • Learn Today, Apply Tomorrow A focused curriculum featuring real-world HL7 knowledge that you can apply immediately • Quality Education High-quality training in a “small classroom” setting promotes more one-on-one learning • Superior Instructors You’ll get HL7 training straight from the source: Our instructors. They are not only HL7 experts; they are the people who help produce the HL7 standards • Certification Testing Become HL7 Certified: HL7 is the sole source for HL7 certification testing, now offering testing on Version 2.6, Clinical Document Architecture, November 15 – 17, 2011 and Version 3 RIM Embassy Suites at the Chevy Chase Pavilion Washington, DC • Economical A more economical alternative for companies who want the benefits of HL7’s on-site training but have fewer employees to train
SEPTEMBER 2011 31 Upcoming WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
September 11 – 16, 2011 January 15 – 20, 2012 25th Annual Plenary & Working Group Meeting Working Group Meeting Hyatt Regency on the Riverwalk Town and Country Resort & San Antonio, TX Convention Center San Diego, CA
May 13 – 18, 2012 September 9 – 14, 2012 January 13 – 18, 2013 Working Group Meeting 26th Annual Plenary & Working Group Meeting Sheraton Vancouver Working Group Meeting Pointe Hilton at Wall Centre Hotel Hyatt Regency Baltimore Squaw Peak Resort Vancouver, BC, Canada Baltimore, MD Phoenix, AZ
PLEASE BOOK YOUR ROOM AT THE HL7 MEETING HOTEL
HL7 urges all meeting attendees to secure their hotel reservations at the HL7 Working Group Meeting Host Hotel. In order to secure the required meeting space, HL7 has a contractual obligation to fill our sleeping room block. If you make reservations at a different hotel, HL7 risks falling short on our obligation and will incur additional costs in the form of penalties. Should this occur, HL7 will likely be forced to pass these costs on to our attendees through increased meeting registration fees.Thank you for your cooperation!
Visit www.HL7.org for more information on these upcoming HL7 meetings.