FHIR Implementers' Quarterly Community Call - May 26, 12-1pm EST

Attendees:

Paula Lee
Michael Savage
Tim Berezny
Thomas Zhou
Rita Pyle
Yaron Derman
John Wills
Igor Sirkovich
Nosir Nickolas
Jason Lin
Gavin Tong

FHIR North 2021
• Registration open for FHIR North 2021 (October 13 - 14). Call for speakers open until June 30.
• fhirnorth.mohawkcollege.ca/

Any new projects to share;
• Immunization Passport at a federal level rather than provincial? Some jurisdictions working on this, but question remains if it will be a federal approach or each jurisdiction will go its own way to meet individual timelines
• Alberta Patient Summary
- based on the International Patient Summary (IPS) collect from EMR - challenge is to engage EMR vendors to implement a FHIR API approach
• OntarioMD has created a FHIR mapping for its Core Data Set and it has been drafted as profiles on Simplifier.net (simplifier.net/omd-cdss)
• Telus PSS, Med Access, Wolf, Microcrest, QHR, Well Health and QHR have announced they are moving towards to HL7 FHIR
• Virtual care collaboration with Infoway

SMART North - Paula Lee
• 3 meetings
• Starting with use cases:
o eReferral launch
o eForms
• cross-Canada representation and broad vendor attendance
• Russ Buchanan is working on updates to SMART on FHIR launch for eReferral, which can be leveraged for SMART North.

eReferral - Tim Berezny
• 2nd publication of iGuide, being clarified and updated by Russ Buchanan (contracted by eServices Program)
• Some potential breaking changes around the messageHeader event codes - to be discussed if it is necessary
• End of June publication target
• This will also be the basis of a future eConsult iGuide
• Ongoing work on HealthcareService API, leading to a working API in June to collect
• Alberta hasn’t finalized the messaging standard that will be used;

Canadian HL7 FHIR Baseline Profiles - Michael Savage
• Profiling sub-stream: Due diligence review comparing to International Patient Summary to existing profiles
• Governance sub-stream: Working towards getting endorsement with jurisdictional groups that would mandate the use of these profiles for net new FHIR iGuides
• Principles for OntarioMD core data set is to align with the Canadian Baseline Profiles. Anecdotal review indicates there is strong alignment.
• Consider using these profiles when/if SMART North gets to the point where data generated from a contextual launch is sent back to the SoF Server.
• Conformance/validation key too

Anyone have an efficient approach / tool to get data out of a FHIR format into a serialized data format e.g. spreadsheet?
• Use case: compare two implementation guides
• JSON - to - CSV conversion
• XSLT
• Table view in Forge lends itself to copy & paste
• IGPublisher creates a .csv zip file that is in Excel file format

Hi all!

A reminder that we have our Community-wide Quarterly Call coming up on Wednesday May 26th, 12-1pm EST. Here's the draft agenda for the meeting:

General Updates
1. Welcome / Intros from New Folks
2. FHIR North 2021 – Call for Speakers is Open!
3. Any Exciting FHIR Implementations in the Community for our Radar?

Updates from Leads
1. eReferral
2. SMART North (SMART on FHIR Community of Practice)
3. HL7 Canada
4. CA Baseline

Thank you!