Using FHIR for real world problems – recording Allergies & Intolerances
The latest standard from HL7 – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) – is generating enormous excitement internationally in the Clinical and Health IT communities alike. We have already hosted a number of technically-focussed seminars on FHIR in New Zealand, but this session is also aimed at the clinical user. We will present a background to FHIR profiling in the morning, and then we will have a workshop on a real-world problem in the afternoon – the recording of allergies and intolerances. The clinicians will create FHIR profiles that suit the New Zealand requirements, while the technical folk will work on prototypes that collect and present that information to users.
WHEN: Monday 19 October, full day (as part of the annual HINZ conference and exhibition)
WHERE: Ballroom, Wigram Base
INCLUDES: morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea
COST: $249
Interview with Grahame Grieve
Some particularly interesting comments about clinical interoperability see HERE
HL7 New Zealand Mid-year Seminar: Fire and Ice
FHIR and SNOMED are the new standards for interoperability that promise to help us create a connected health ecosystem for New Zealanders, who are now starting to use patient portals and personal health apps to manage their health and wellness. FHIR and SNOMED are also essential technologies for new mobile clinical apps at a time when models of care are changing rapidly in the face of escalating medical knowledge, consumer expectations and societal change. This seminar held on Friday 24th July built on the foundations of last year’s education on FHIR to deliver a new level of understanding and capability to software practitioners and also offered an update on SNOMED awareness and understanding in the health informatics community ahead of the IHTSDO conference and expo to be held in New Zealand in October 2016. The Board of HL7NZ would like to thank all the presenters and delegates who attended this successful seminar. Just under 100 people gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland for a full day of informative technical and practical sessions on FHIR and SNOMED.
VIEW THE PRESENTATIONS AT THE LINKS BELOW
HL7 FHIR resources and SNOMED CT terminology working together will enable us to create a world class connected health ecosystem.FHIR and SNOMED presentations PLUS videos of presentations. Your questions answered. HL7NZ would like to thank Board members Ray Murakami, Dave Fallas and Koray Atalag for assisting with the posting of these important presentations.
HL7 Australia Events
Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and HL7 Terminology.
If you want to get up to speed with FHIR, mark June 17 in your diary. Grahame Grieve, the father of FHIR, has generously donated a day to tell the HL7 Australia Community about this world-wide phenomenon that he kicked off a few short years ago in Melbourne. He will be ably assisted by David Hay, Chair of HL7 New Zealand, member of the FHIR International Governance Board and leader of the FHIR implementation efforts in New Zealand.
FHIR represents a fundamental change in Health IT and a huge opportunity for Australia. In order to make this day as accessible as possible, there will be no charge for current members but it will be “no frills”! Generous support by CSIRO (venue) and the speakers has made this possible.
As part of this day, HL7 Australia will be initiating the process to localise FHIR requirements (profiles) for Australia.
At the end of the day there will be a brief update about other HL7 Standards initiatives from attendees at the recent HL7 International meeting.
Day 2 – June 18 will have two streams – a FHIR Connectathon for developers and implementers with Grahame Grieve as presiding oracle.
In parallel there will be a tutorial on Terminology by Heather Grain, Co-Chair of the HL7 International Vocabulary Working Group, Chair HL7 Terminology Authority, Convenor ISO TC215 WG3 (Terminology). The focus will be on implementation of terminology across the full range of HL7 standards including current tooling and near-future initiatives.
To Register: http://ehe.edu.au/events/33/hl7-australia-the-way-forward-symposium-and-tutorials/
First hackathon to foster health solutions
Software developers, healthcare professionals and people with long term health issues such as diabetes, asthma and heart problems, will gather in Auckland to create novel health technology solutions next month.
The Health Hackathon: Solving Self-care is hosted by Health Informatics NZ and The University of Auckland and will be the most significant event of its kind in New Zealand.
According to Wikipedia, a hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects.
However, Health Hackathon: Solving Self-care will focus more personal issues rather than those on computers and networks. In other words, it is aimed for lifting the health of real people. The artefacts we will work will include interoperability projects utilising health IT standards like HL7, SNOMED and openEHR. For more information on this Health Hackathon at Tamaki Innovation Campus, The University of Auckland, February 13 to 15 go to the website, ‘Health Hackathon: Solving Self-care’, or Karen’s blog on the hackathon at Day by Day or chat on Twitter using #hacknz2015.
Festive greetings from HL7 New Zealand
Once again it is my pleasure to wish you the compliments of the season on behalf of HL7NZ
It has certainly been an exciting year for Healthcare interoperability both internationally and within New Zealand. When I wrote last year, I talked about how the new HL7 FHIR standard was showing great promise, and during this year it has matured swiftly. Currently in a ‘DSTU’ stage (Draft Standard for Trial Use), it has already been adopted by many organizations and countries world wide, with the most recent activity being that a number of the larger American PMS vendors are directly funding the development effort (Project Argonaut) – it’s hard to imagine a better show of confidence than that!
Here in New Zealand we have hosted a couple of seminars – the most recent being at the HINZ conference where we were privileged to have Josh Mandel – lead architect for the SMART project – talk to us. This is another ‘leading edge’ standard which is part of the FHIR effort, and keeps New Zealand at the forefront of these important new developments.
Next year we intend to follow on from the Application Showcase at the recent HINZ Workshop, by hosting more practically-focused events including a connectathon. I’d also like to call out an event being sponsored by the University of Auckland – the ‘HealthCare’ hackathon – which will see developers creating real applications to help solve health care issues. More details here
So.. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, trust that you have a Happy New Year, and look forward to an exciting 2015!
Dr David Hay
HL7NZ Chairman
HL7NZ Annual General Meeting 2014
The 2014 AGM was held on Monday 10th November at Sky City Convention Centre in Auckland
HiNZ Conference and Exhibition 2014
Each year, HL7 New Zealand holds a one day workshop as part of the HINZ conference that focuses on the practical use of Standards in New Zealand. This year the theme of the seminar is about mobile applications – particularly consumer based mobile – and the standards required to support them. We’re especially excited to announce that our guest speaker is Dr Josh Mandel from the Harvard Medical School. Josh is very active in the health standards space, being one of the principal authors of the SMART platform, designed to support a secure ‘app store like’ ecosystem where independently developed applications can access clinical information in health repositories using freely available standards. He has also been involved in the US ’Blue Button’ initiative and is a core team member of the emerging HL7 FHIR standard. Join us for the one day workshop or attend whole conference. NOTE: the HL7NZ AGM will held Monday 10th November at 4.30pm, Sky City Convention Centre at the conclusion of the workshop.
HL7 Australia – FHIR Seminar
6th and 7th November 2014 hosted by HL7 Australia features both a series of presentations from local and international speakers, and a FHIR connectathon event.
See details in flier PDF below.
One Day FHIR Seminar at University of Auckland on 4 June 2014
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
One Day Seminar – 4 June 2014, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus
Many of you will be aware that there is a new interoperability standard emerging from HL7 called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources – or FHIR. FHIR grew out of a realization by HL7 that while effective, many of the current standards are difficult (and expensive) to implement, particularly when multiple parties are involved. FHIR is unashamedly aimed at the implementer. Based on standard internet technologies rather than health-specific ones yet grounded in all the design work that has gone into current standards, FHIR is generating tremendous interest worldwide – even though it is only 2 years old.
What is of particular interest to New Zealand, is that it fits extremely well with many of the strategies that the National IT Health Board has developed: The use of regional repositories, a Record Locator Service to find information, portals (patient and provider to view/update it) and so forth. And it has also been designed specifically to support mobile devices – probably the biggest trend in healthcare IT today.
This one day seminar is aimed both at the Decision Maker and the Implementer and is intended to give people the high level information they need about this important new standard which is being implemented worldwide right now and will be hosted by our own Dr. David Hay (who is a co-chair of the HL7 FHIR Management Group) and assisted by local experts:
Alastair Kenworthy – Chief Sector Architect NHITB, Peter Jordan – Solutions Architect, Patients first and Dr Koray Atalag – Researcher, NIHI
The day will cover the following topics and conclude with networking drinks at approx. 4pm:
- An introduction to FHIR: what is it and why should you care – where is it being used now
- How does FHIR fit with information modelling
- What is the relationship between CDA and FHIR
- Where could FHIR be used in New Zealand, for example:
- Laboratory information
- Record Locator
- NHI lookup
- FHIR and SNOMED
As well as presentations, there will be an opportunity in the afternoon to interact with real FHIR servers so bring your laptop! And this applies to Managers as well as implementers…
Register early to make sure you don’t miss out on this important event. We look forward to seeing you there!
Kind Regards,
Dr David Hay
Chair, HL7 New Zealand
Co-Chair, FHIR Management Group
COST:
Standard $150 (includes complimentary membership of HL7 NZ for 1 year)
HL7NZ Members $125 (current financial members)
Multi Rate $125 (per person for 2 or more non-members from the same organization)
Students $25 (scan of student ID badge required)