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Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup
With charter approval in mid-March, the Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (HC-SIG HIS) has not yet had its first meeting, but preliminary membership interests are high. Steven Elliott serves as the HIS Lead.
The Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup has completed its charter and will begin regular meetings July. Initial work will be to deliver a roadmap that will culminate with a working POC that will demonstrate how a consortium of health systems and patients might store and access clinical information on a distributed ledger. This bottom-up approach will focus on the assets, transactions and policies needed to ensure clinical artifacts stored on the ledger have the same semantic meaning across members. One of the goals of the subgroup will be to complete a working system that at some level could be reused as a service by other healthcare related blockchains. The HIS will also engage with industry and clinical SME's to solve and discuss work already done towards interoperability in the medical field. Work already done by groups at HL7, HSPC and Reginstrief will be leveraged by HIS and invitations to present will be extended to individuals from these institutions as SMEs who can help guide the processes and modeling needed to achieve our goals. Contact has been made with individuals including Stan Huff of HSPC and Claude Nanjo of HL7 for initial presentations of FHIR and alternative interoperable modelsno new progress to report at this time. Work is still being done to prepare for the first meetings anticipated to be held towards the end of July. A general announcement will be made with the meeting date, roadmap and agenda.
Planned Work Products
General Group
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