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With the recent 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 mid May. 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.
Planned Work Products
General Group
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Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup
!!STEVEN
The HIS group plans to deliver the following work products:
- Documentation describing the requirements for a semantically interoperable healthcare ledger including:
- Policies that guarantee interoperability
- Transactions needed to complete an episode of care
- Semantically interoperable Assets that can represent clinical artifacts whether or not the actual artifact is stored on or off chain.
- Use-cases that reflect real-life episodes of care
- POC : A functional (minimally viable) blockchain
- Multiple health systems capable of storing / retrieving assets
- Software and system design documentation (SDD)
- Git code repository
- Lessons Learned and next steps
Participant Diversity
This is a very diverse membership with global representation (including, but not limited to, member participation from England, Canada, and India). The majority of membership represents corporate healthcare entities, though we do regularly see regular (and perhaps increasingly so) participation from smaller healthcare startups.
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