Dianne M. Reeves

1. Report: HL7 25th Annual Plenary and WGM September 11 – 16, 2011 San Diego, California Dianne M. Reeves

2. Plenary Session • 25th Annual Plenary Anniversary • Retrospective reviews from HL7 leadership • W. Ed Hammond – Professor Emeritus • Richard Alvarez, Canada Health Infoway • J. Marc Overhage - Siemens Healthcare • Jamie Ferguson – Kaiser Permanente • Robert Stegwee – HL7 Netherlands Chair • Daniel Pollock – CDC • Bob Dolin – HL7 International Chair • Themes • Explosion of interoperability modalities – pads, phones, tablets, devices • Need for implementation support • Need to make standards easier to understand and value • Looking back, people “get it” in reference to standards leading to interoperability • 23 out of 37 member countries represented

3. From the Board • Tooling • Much of HL7 is difficult to use • Develop standards that are easier to implement and more responsive to customer needs • Prioritize tool development as new vs. ongoing • TSC Chair Report • 20 project approvals, 3 publication approvals • In January 2012 implementation of PBS metrics to determine ability of WGs to take on more projects (Project, Ballot and Standards) • Projects: • Strategic Initiatives Dashboard • Product Visibility Project • WG Visibility Maintenance • SAIF Architecture IG

4. Work Group Health

5. HL7 Board and Leadership • Chair – Bob Dolin • Chair-Elect – Don Mon • TSC Chair – Austin Kreisler • Chief Technical Officer – John Quinn • Chief Executive Officer – Charles Jaffe • Director-at-Large • Keith Boone • Becky Kush • Doug Fridsma • W. Ed Hammond • Stan Huff • Dennis Giokas • William Braithwaite

6. Strategic Goals 2012 • Attain recognition as the lead developer and harmonizer of global technical and functional health informatics standards • Streamline the HL7 standards development process • Develop standards that are easier to implement and more responsive to customer needs • Increase the clinician representation within HL7

7. Clinical Interoperability Council • CIC provides a nexus of communication and bridge to the standards development framework, organizational processes and forums for the clinical community to define content, flow and other domain requirements necessary to the development of robust health data standards. • The Council provides a mechanism for clinical domains to develop common approaches to standards-related activities and form consensus on issues of interest among multiple groups. • Co-sponsorship of multiple groups for DAM, DIM, CDA ballots • Public Health • Anesthesiology • Cardiology • Devices • TB • Diabetes • Emergency Medical Services • Community Based Collaborative care

8. CIC Highlights • Ballot Reconciliation • Cardiology standards DAM v2.0 • Preoperative Anesthesiology DAM • Trauma Data Exchange DAM, DIM and CDA • Tooling • Model Automated Exchange (MAX) for UML Models • Analysis Models • Diabetes Data Strategy Draft White Paper • Style Guide • DAM Development – in conjunction with Patient Care • Vocabulary • Discussions of how to add clinical expert definitions of key concepts to LOINC and SNOMED

9. CIC Highlights – Fresh Look Fresh Look • Initiative from the HL7 Board to look at new and innovative ways to use HL7 services and deliverables • Meetings will include both Open Forums and closed sessions for core membership • One activity coming out of Fresh Look is the Clinical Modeling Initiative headed by Stan Huff • Consensus on foundation policies of a group or organization established to improve interoperability in health care through shared clinical information models • Other initiatives will focus on solving problems, making standards easier to understand and implement, and inclusion of more of the clinical community in HL7