FHIR Implementers' Community Call - October 25, 12-1 EST

Open Action Items Summary

• ACTION ITEM – Savage – Conduct bi-monthly Review of content on FHIR working group landing page (November/January/March/etc.)
• ACTION ITEM – Tim – Draft plan for promoting and socializing FHIR-based eReferral work (ideas discussed: COACH Webinar
Wednesdays/Non-developer events&contexts / Event at FHIR North / Event at Health Achieve / Create IHE Profile)
• ACTION ITEM – Attila – Send shout-outs on InfoCentral to gauge interest from community for potential new eScheduling Work Stream
• ACTION ITEM – Savage – Add new Work Stream(s) to Landing Page content
• ACTION ITEM – Savage – Send out ‘1 week reminder’ to community regarding FHIR Working Group experience survey, closing EOD
November 1st

Attendees

Michael Savage
Gavin Tong
Yaron Derman
Dat Nguyen
Attila Farkas
John Wills
Sisira De Silva
Thomas Zhou
Igor Sirkovich
Ron Parker
Natalya Pogrebetsky
Radhika Verma
Shamil Nizamov
Kris Lewis
Joel Francis
Smita Kachroo
Ken Sinn
Lloyd Mckenzie
Danna Dobson
Alex Goel
Mary Byrnes

Agenda & Action Items Review

• Reviewed the 5 open action items
• CLOSED – Gavin to attach/map FHIR working group solutions and items to activities for the FHIR North Conference
o Increased FHIR WG relevance during hackathon
o Reference WG products and implementations at conference (UID, eReferral, architecture)
• CLOSED – Yaron to update the landing page content with a summary of the progress over the past 6 months
• CLOSED – If community is interested in learning more about eReferrals, email Tim Berezny to request access to the
Asana project team site
• NEW – Savage to send out ‘1 week reminder’ to community regarding FHIR Working Group experience survey, closing EOD November 1st

Registries Work Stream Status

• Kris provided status of Registries work stream and proposed new status for the stream
• 2 active projects (Provider Registry and eHealth Ontario’s DHIR)
• Will no longer be part of work stream updates during monthly Community Call but will still provide updates in the general updates portion of these calls

New Work Stream(s) Proposals

• UPDATE – New Work Stream – SMART on FHIR + CDS Hooks
o Attila and Gavin co-chairing the work stream
• ACTION ITEM: Attila to send shout-outs on InfoCentral to gauge interest from community for eScheduling Work Stream

HL7 Canada Council Election

• FHIR community continues to cross-promote broader HL7 community news and updates
• Results from HL7 Canada Council Election are available, have been cross-posted in FHIR forum

World Standards Day

• eHealth Ontario was one of the main hosting organizations for WSD celebrations/dialogue
• The focus of EHO’s presentation was the Digital Health Immunization Repository (DHIR), which is built on the FHIR standard

FHIR Implementation WG Landing Page

• Main page for the FHIR Working Group has been updated to reflect all of the work accomplished by the work streams and the larger
community thus far
• ACTION ITEM: Savage to add new Work Stream(s) to Landing Page content

eReferral

• Gavin provided updates on eReferral work stream progress
• Work continues on implementation guide being published on FHIR Registry (Simplifier.net)
• Continues to have good vendor representation

Tooling

• Attila provided updates on FHIR Tooling work stream progress
• Canadian FHIR Registry Launched, on Simplifier.net
• Proposal to plan a webinar series to gain (potential/existing) user feedback and increase adoption of the Registry

Solution Architecture

• Igor provided updates on the Solution Architecture work stream activities
• Have received presentations on FHIR testing and tools (i.e. Touchstone) to support FHIR testing and connectathons; links from presentations to be posted soon
• DHIR specification is posted on eHealth Ontario website, open for review until November 16th; recording of DHIR Spec Webinar to be posted soon

Other Updates: HL7 International Ballot Plans

• Need to review FHIR Standard especially from a Lab perspective, re: Observation resource
• Who are the implementers in Canada that will be most affected?

The draft agenda for the FHIR Implementations Community Call is below. As a reminder, the calendar invite with connection details can be found on the event calendar here:

infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/monthly-calendar/month.calendar/2017/10/16/1268

Draft Agenda:

1. Agenda & Action Items Review
a. Action Item Progress

2. Updates:
a. Registries Work Stream Status
b. HL7 Canada Council Election
c. World Standards Day
d. FHIR Implementation WG Landing Page

3. Updates From Stream Leads
a. eReferral
b. Tooling
c. Solution Architecture

If there are any additional items, please comment in this thread in advance of the meeting (Wednesday October 25, 12-1)