HL7 Canada

What is the HL7 Canada Community?

The HL7 Canada Community is a place to share and learn about the use of HL7 related pan-Canadian health information standards. HL7 Canada promotes and supports the domestic and international harmonization of HL7 standards to enable the sharing of health information in Canada. HL7 Canada also ensures that consensus positions, advice and decisions are reached with appropriate consultation and in an open, transparent, and accountable manner without a preponderance of influence by any one stakeholder group.

This community is where requests to make changes to any of the pan-Canadian messages occur and where implementers come for OID requests in Canada or find Canadian OIDs in the HL7 OID Registry.

Canada is proud to have a thriving HL7 Canada Constituency and actively participates in HL7 Ballots.

To become a member of this community select Join Group in the Group Menu.

HL7 Canada Council Members

Key Resources

• HL7 Artifacts (Standards, Release notes, Education etc)
• HL7 Canada Council
• FHIR Implementations
• HL7 Canada Membership

Upcoming Meetings & Events

August 2025

• August 8^th – HL7 International September Ballot opens
• August 14^th – CA: CSD v1.1.0 DFT-preBallot releasing
  
• August 15^th – HALO v1.0.0 DFT-preBallot open review deadline
• August 18^th – PS-CA v2.1.0 DFT releasing
• August 29^th – RA v0.2.2 DFT releasing
• August 30^th – CA: FeX v2.2.0 DFT releasing
• August 30^th – CA: eReC v1.1.0 DFT releasing

September 2025

• September 3^rd – Canadian comment spreadsheets due (End of Day Pacific Time)
• September 5^th – HL7 Canada Council review of comments and voting decisions
• September 8^th – HL7 International Step Ballot closes
• September 13^th - September 19^th – 39th Annual Plenary, Working Group Meeting and HL7 FHIR Connectathon
• September 15^th - CA Core+ v1.1.0 DFT-preBallot
• September 26^th - HALO v1.1.0 DFT-preBallot releasing

Pan-Canadian Specifications Update

The following is a list of interoperability products, their release schedules, and statuses.

To gather more information for the products, please visit https://infoscribe.infoway-inforoute.ca/display/PCI/Interoperability+Products+Status+Page

Pan-Canadian Patient Summary (PS-CA)

Pan-Canadian FHIR Exchange (CA:FeX)

Pan-Canadian eReferral / eConsult (CA:eReC)

Pan-Canadian Core FHIR Profile Set (CA Core+)

Pan-Canadian Care Services Directory (CA:CSD)

Pan-Canadian HALO (HALO)

CA: SHL / Smart Health Links

• Pending completion of IHE Verifiable Health Link IG

Upcoming events:

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