FHIR Implementers' Quarterly Community Call - November 25, 12-1 EST

FHIR North 2020 Key Takeaways
• Mike provided a recap of the conference, and some of the broad feedback received
• Overall very positive response
• Virtual format afforded ability to engage far beyond Ontario and Canada in terms of both attendees and speakers
• Networking is still the experience that everyone in the virtual event space is working on improving
• Large benefit to FHIR North being very topic-focused and concrete, keeps audiences more engaged

Community Shout-outs – FHIR Implementations for the Community’s Radar
• Denis / Trisotech working on integrating FHIR into BPM+ health (check out his plenary session from FHIR North 2020 if you attended!)
• Integrating FHIR into healthcare business processes
• Clients are more and more frequently looking for integration with FHIR in their services
• iGuide for OneAccess Gateway and Viewlets – leverages FHIRcast for context management part of the spec
• Ocean / CognisantMD will be working to implement based on the eReferral spec in new year
• Will be implementing the SMART on FHIR client

Community Shout-outs – Thoughts on New Opportunities for FHIR Implementers Community
• Would be great to build or get connected to a Canadian SMART on FHIR ‘community of practice’ / learning group for Canadian SoF app developers
• Also would be a big step to have a formal tool in place for validation and conformance testing; should be something that is accessible to everyone in the FHIR Community; something that could validate that an implementer had implemented the Spec properly

Updates – eReferral
• Currently on v0.1 of eReferral Spec
• Ocean will be implementing the eReferral Spec in the new year
• Working toward a HealthcareService API
• Folks can look at the current HealthCareService profile work here: docs.google.com/document/d/1YRlghtBx9Pwi6o13lvX26esKaR2S8OLRdc-MIIVeM5s/edit

Updates – Canadian FHIR Baseline Profiles
• Good progress and momentum on the profiles continues
• 3 main work efforts right now
• Clinical Profiles Reviews: meeting weekly on Mondays to review the more clinical profiles, currently the remaining profiles for review in this group are the lab-related profiles
• Due Diligence Reviews: meeting every other Friday, comparing the draft CA Baseline Profiles to their counterparts in existing Canadian FHIR iGuides, to determine if the CA Baseline profiles’ constraints are too strong, or if there are common constraints in the other iGuides that the CA Baseline profiles should inherit
• Governance: meeting every other Friday (alternate to the above meetings), working on how to best surface the Profiles to the larger community for review, and how to best get the CA Baseline adopted by a national group who can mandate its use for any net-new FHIR implementations in Canada

Hi all!

Our last quarterly Community Call for 2020 is coming up on Wednesday November 25th, 12-1pm EST. Please see below for the draft agenda. Pending availability to join the call, it would be great to have representatives / leads from the eReferral stream and HL7 Canada Council on the call to provide updates on their work!

1. Welcome

2. Updates
a. FHIR North 2020 – Some Key Takeaways
b. Community Shout-outs – Any Exciting FHIR Implementations for our Radars?
c. Thoughts from Community – Next Step(s) for FHIR Implementers Community?

3. Updates from Streams (Pending Availability)
a. eReferral
b. Canadian FHIR Baseline Profiles
c. HL7 Canada