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Hi HL7 Canada members, The May 6th, 2025 HL7 Canada Community meeting presentation is available here: ... A recording of the meeting can be found through the following YouTube link: ... If you have any questions related to the meeting, please feel free to contact us. Thank you!

Hello HL7 Canada Community, I’m running for the Digital Health Canada Board of Directors – and I would love your vote! With over 15 years of experience in digital health, data standards development and health data analytics at the pan-Canadian level, I have a unique understanding of Digital Health Canada members’ needs from coast to coast. I’ve led the development and implementation of pan-Canadian standards, championed health data interoperability and built strong cross-sector partnerships. I’m also a proud HL7 Canada Council member and co-chair of Canada Health Infoway’s Sex and Gender Working Group. I’m ready to bring this passion and experience to the Digital Health Canada Board of Directors and to represent the diverse voices of the Canadian digital health community. Are you a Digital Health Canada member? If so, you are eligible to vote between May 5th and 16th. Please consider supporting me and let’s continue to build a strong Digital Health Canada community and enable digitally connected health care for all Canadians. To find out more about me and why I am running, please check out my ...on the Digital Health Canada website. You can also find me on .... If you have any questions or would like to know more about me and my vision, please reach out. I would love to connect with you! Thank you in advance for your support. I am so lucky to be a part of this amazing community! Shannon O’Connor Manager, Data Standards Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) [email protected]

Hello HL7 Canada Community. A reminder that comment spreadsheets for the current HL7 International May 2025 Ballot items are due Wednesday, April 30th Follow the instructions below for downloading, reviewing, and commenting on any of the items currently being balloted using the HL7 Balloting processes. Here is the... This compressed folder contains an Excel spreadsheet that provides an index to all of the content for this ballot, as well as the spreadsheets you can use to provide your ballot comments. Most of the ballot content is from the FHIR website, however there is other downloaded content that has been extracted from their individual ZIP files and then consolidated here in this package for your convenience. At the very top of the Excel index is a link to the description of all of the items in the ballot package. Simply download the Ballot Package ZIP file, create a folder for the extracted files, and then extract all to that folder. Then use the hyperlinks in the Excel ballot index file to access ballot items content and related comment spreadsheets. Each comment spreadsheet has an extensive explanation of how to record your comments. Comments on of the ballot items are due for consolidation by the HL7 Canada Council on or before Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Once you have completed a ballot comment spreadsheet, use the | Contact US | link at the top of this page to submit the spreadsheet file or files. Thanks very much. If you have any questions about the ballot or the comment submission process contact [email protected] Ron G. Parker, HL7 Chair

Hello everyone, Join us April 28–30, 2025, from 4:00 – 6:30 pm PT for the 2025 Pan-Canadian Health Information Exchange (HIE) Standards 3-Day Virtual Workshop, hosted by the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. Hear from guest speakers across Canada on topics including the ..., ..., ..., and .... You’re welcome to attend any—or all—sessions! Visit the ... for the full agenda and .... We look forward to seeing you there!

Hi all, As previously communicated, the Terminology Gateway will be partially retired on April 30, 2025. After this date, all core terminology resources, including SNOMED CT CA, pCLOCD, CCDD and ValueSets, will be accessible exclusively through our newly upgraded .... PrescribeIT® content will remain on the Terminology Gateway. Any new requests for ValueSets, updates, or changes (excluding PrescribeIT®) will be processed through the new FHIR Terminology Server. Since its launch, the Terminology Gateway has provided a trusted way to browse, download, and implement standardized terminologies across Canada, helping to improve interoperability and consistency. Building on this success, our new cloud-based FHIR Terminology Server delivers enhanced scalability, security, and reliability and is designed to be the central hub for managing and distributing high-quality international and pan-Canadian terminologies and ValueSets, ultimately supporting data standardization and interoperability. Action Required: Update Your Terminology Gateway Endpoints To avoid disruptions to your workflow, please download any necessary content from the Terminology Gateway before April 30th. While we are implementing backend changes to automatically redirect ValueSet canonical and defining URLs, we strongly recommend that you directly update your system endpoints as well as FHIR Implementation Guides/ Interoperability Specifications referencing a Terminology Gateway URL (e.g. any application system links, documentation, user guides, or websites, etc. that reference the Terminology Gateway, such as the Subset Defining URL (e.g. https://tgateway.infoway-inforoute.ca/vs/XX)). For detailed information on the migration timeline and new features on the FHIR Terminology Server, please check out our news article: .... Thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact us at [email protected].