FHIR Implementers' Quarterly Community Call - November 24, 12-1 EST

Attendees:

Michael Savage
Ron Parker
Elliot Silver
Frederic Laroche
Igor Sirkovich
Paula Lee
Shamil Nizamov
Thomas Zhou
Nosir Nickolas

Community Shout-outs:
• Canada Health Infoway has just released a preview of the Pan-Canadian Patient Summary; FHIR Profiles are accessible via Simplifier: simplifier.net/PS-CA-R1
• Not confirmed, but may have a ‘connectathon’ opportunity coming up for the above; a chance for Vendor involvement
• ‘Smart’ health cards for vaccine credentials / immunization information; working on extensions for exemptions; would be great to continue to hear from involved folks on this; for more information: spec.smarthealth.cards; build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-shc-vaccination-ig; www.commontrustnetwork.org/verifier-list
• From HL7 Canada / Int’l side, this FHIR Implementers Group has been mentioned to the global execs; overall, we’re getting great visibility for the work we’re doing; HL7 Int’l going through a period of ‘revisioning’; looking like there will be 3 main branches: Standards Development, Implementation, and Operational

eReferral
• eReferral Spec is now in version 0.10.1, with some updates being made to the narrative

SMART North
• Focus shift of workstream toward awareness of significant Canadian SMART on FHIR implementations / projects
• Upcoming meeting with SMART Health IT from the US
• Working to drive toward a vendor-agnostic space for Canadian SoF content
• Main needs are to get GitHub/IG Publisher/Simplifier tooling approaches up and running for this stream, and to have people to work on the content

Canadian FHIR Baseline Profiles
• Profiling sub-stream: Great progress led by Sheridan and the team on working through the errors/warnings in the CA Baseline iGuide; this moves the CA Baseline very close to being at Maturity Level 1 and in a good place for wider audiences to review and provide feedback
• Governance sub-stream: We are very close to finalizing the content for our ‘pitch deck’ on the CA Baseline and what our ask of them as ‘adopters’ / endorsers of the CA Baseline is (are), and we hope to be reaching out to jurisdictional groups shortly to start/continue these conversations with them (be they formal meetings or asynchronously over email)

HL7 Canada
• See above for other HL7 Canada updates
• Also, keep in mind that there are opportunities to join the HL7 Canada Council; newsletter will be coming out and circulated soon

Hi all!

Here's the draft agenda for this Wednesday's Quarterly Community Call, from 12-1pm EST:

1. Welcome / Intros from New Folks

2. Open Mic – Any Updates / New Projects to Share from the Community?

3. Updates from Stream Leads
a. eReferral
b. SMART North (SMART on FHIR Workstream)
c. HL7 Canada
d. FHIR Canadian Baseline Profiles

Thank you!