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FHIR Infrastructure

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Testing as an Integrated Component of the FHIR Implementation Guide Authoring and Publishing Process (PSS- 2770) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Electronic Health Records Work Group
h1. *Executive Summary* The ability to exchange healthcare data reliably depends not only on well- specified Implementation Guides, but on *demonstrable evidence* that those specifications have been implemented correctly. Today, the FHIR community lacks. . . Mario Hyland Awaiting Approval Awaiting Approval Active Project (Resources assigned to pjt)
1,996
SMART Application Launch Framework PSS Update (PSS- 2263) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
This project is to bring the SMART (Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies) Application Launch specification to Health Level 7. This specification enables applications to launch from within diverse health IT systems including EHRs, pers. . . Brett Marquard Awaiting Approval Sep 13, 2023 Active Project (Resources assigned to pjt)
1,970
FHIR Bulk Data Implementation Guide (PSS- 2815) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
*Original Scope from 2019 Approved PSS:* The existing FHIR standard is an excellent method to make atomic and small sets of healthcare data accessible via API. In addition to atomic data for individual patients, a major use case in health care is the tran. . . Brett Marquard Awaiting Approval Awaiting Approval Active Project (Resources assigned to pjt)
1,969
SMART Imaging Access (PSS- 2803) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Imaging Integration Work Group
The SMART Imaging Access Implementation Guide defines a standardized, profiles- and- interactions framework that enables patient- and provider- facing applications to discover, search, and retrieve diagnostic medical imaging studies and associated DICOM data. . . Brett Marquard Awaiting Approval Awaiting Approval Active Project (Resources assigned to pjt)
1,956
SQL on FHIR (PSS- 2716) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
SQL on FHIR provides a standard, implementation- agnostic method for defining views that produce tabular data from FHIR resources. The specification uses FHIRPath expressions to describe how to transform FHIR's nested JSON or XML structures into simple tab. . . John Grimes Awaiting Approval May 4, 2026 Active Project (Resources assigned to pjt)
1,906
HL7 Cross- Paradigm Specification: FHIRPath, Release 2 (Jira PSS- 2430) Sponsor(s):
Implementable Technology Specifications Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Clinical Decision Support Work Group; FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
FHIRPath is a path based navigation and extraction language, somewhat like XPath. Operations are expressed in terms of the logical content of hierarchical data models, and support traversal, selection and filtering of data. Its design was influenced by th. . . Bryn Rhodes Awaiting Approval Sep 19, 2024 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,879
SMART Health Cards & Links (Jira PSS- 2309) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
This project focuses on advancing the SMART Health Cards (SHC) and SMART Health Links (SHL) through the HL7 ballot process, employing a collaboration model akin to SMART App Launch and CDS Hooks. The scope of this project encompasses the integration an. . . Josh Mandel Awaiting Approval May 7, 2024 STU - Reconcile
1,843
Enhancing FHIR to address Social Services and Social Determinants (Jira PSS- 2248) Sponsor(s):
Human and Social Services Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group; FHIR Management Group
The objective of this project is to determine the best path forward for implementing FHIR- based solutions that need to address Social Determinant needs and work with organizations that provide those services while retaining the current FHIR capability to . . . Ken Lord Awaiting Approval Oct 31, 2023 Active Project (Resources assigned to pjt)
1,812
FHIR Capability Statement Implementation Guide (Jira PSS- 2200) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Clinical Decision Support Work Group
This project proposal is for the creation of a new Implementation Guide to support the [Capability Statement2](http://hl7. org/fhir/5. 0. 0- snapshot1/capabilitystatement2. html) functionality, including operations, test it at connectathon and bring it to ballo. . . Rick Geimer Awaiting Approval Jun 7, 2023 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,804
Standard Personal Health Record (Jira- PSS 2125) Sponsor(s):
Patient Empowerment Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Electronic Health Records Work Group; FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
This FHIR Implementation Guide operationalizes the PHR- S Functional Model providing best practice guidance for FHIR Apps based on the PHR- S functional model, a FHIR- based file format to support PHR data portability, and provides patient app developers wit. . . Abigail Watson Awaiting Approval May 16, 2023 STU - Balloting
1,757
Content Management Infrastructure IG (Jira PSS 1959) Sponsor(s):
Clinical Decision Support Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Clinical Quality Information Work Group; FHIR Infrastructure Work Group; Public Health Work Group; Terminology Infrastructure Work Group
This project will define a FHIR Implementation Guide that supports domain- and realm- independent concerns across the content management lifecycle, including authoring, review, publication, distribution, and implementation. The IG will define patterns for . . . Bryn Rhodes Awaiting Approval Apr 8, 2022 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,721
Project to increase consistency & quality of FHIR- authored implementation guides (Jira PSS- 1807) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
CDA Management Group; FHIR Management Group; Infrastructure and Messaging Work Group; Modeling and Methodology Work Group
Work groups and accelerators are now creating a significant volume of FHIR implementation guides. The templates and tooling are also increasingly being used by organizations, SDOs and other stakeholders outside HL7 international. These guides have largely. . . Lloyd Mc Kenzie Aug 20, 2021 Aug 20, 2021 Active Project (Resources assigned to pjt)
1,642
Backporting R5 Subscriptions to R4 as an Implementation Guide (PSS in Confluence) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
The Subscription R5 Backport Implementation Guide enables servers running version R4 of FHIR to implement a subset of R5 Subscriptions in a standardized way. temporary viewer here: https://healthedata1. github. io/temp IGViewer/index. html Eric Haas Sep 22, 2020 Oct 26, 2020 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,597
SMART Web Messaging (PSS in Confluence) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Clinical Decision Support Work Group
SMART Web Messaging enables tight UI integration between EHRs and embedded SMART apps via HTML5's Web Messaging. Use SMART Web Messaging to push unsigned orders, note snippets, risk scores or UI suggestions directly to the clinician's EHR session. Built o. . . Carl Anderson May 16, 2020 Jun 1, 2020 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,540
Single Institutional Review Board Project (s IRB) (PSS in Confluence) Sponsor(s):
Biomedical Research and Regulation Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Clinical Interoperability Council Work Group; FHIR Infrastructure Work Group; FHIR Management Group
We will develop, test and evaluate data standards to move data and documents from clinical research sites to a single ethics review board in support of the 'NIH Policy on the Use of a Single Institutional Review Board for Multi- Site Research. ' The scope . . . Anita Walden and Ed Hammond Nov 22, 2019 Dec 2, 2019 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,497
Ballot the FHIR Bulk Data IG (ONC/Grant Project) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
The existing FHIR standard is an excellent method to make atomic healthcare data accessible via API. In addition to atomic data for individual patients, a major use case in health care is the transmission of bulk data among institutions and across data wa. . . Dan Gottlieb, Brett Marquard Mar 5, 2019 Mar 18, 2019 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,392
FHIRcast: Application Context Synchronization in FHIR (PSS in Confluence) Sponsor(s):
Infrastructure and Messaging Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
International Mentoring Committee; Clinical Decision Support Work Group; FHIR Infrastructure Work Group; Infrastructure and Messaging Work Group; Security Work Group
This project will investigate the creation of a decentralized, web- based context synchronization specification. This specification will enable secure integration across different devices, systems, and/or, networks - not tie the user’s session to a single . . . Isaac Vetter Feb 4, 2019 Feb 18, 2019 STU - Reconcile
1,390
Structured Data Capture Update (SDC) Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Biomedical Research and Regulation Work Group; Financial Management Work Group; Orders and Observations Work Group; Patient Care Work Group
This project will involve updating the existing Structured Data Capture (SDC) Implementation Guide. Specific objectives include: - Aligning the implementation guide with the forthcoming R4 version of FHIR - Updating profiles to reflect the experi. . . Lloyd Mc Kenzie Jan 29, 2018 Mar 5, 2018 STU - Reconcile
1,341
SMART Application Launch Framework Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
Security Work Group
This project is to bring the SMART (Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies) Application Launch specification to Health Level 7. This specification enables applications to launch from within diverse health IT systems including EHRs, pers. . . Grahame Grieve Jun 14, 2017 Aug 17, 2017 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,234
HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide: CDS Hooks, Release 1 Sponsor(s):
Clinical Decision Support Work Group, Clinical Quality Information Work Group

Co-Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group; Orchestration, Services, and Architecture Work Group
This project will investigate the use of FHIR in a Clinical Quality Framework context with the goal of identifying best practices for the use of FHIR in support of the primary use cases of Clinical Decision Support and Clinical Quality Measurement, namely. . . Bryn Rhodes Dec 1, 2017 Dec 21, 2017 STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments
1,207
Develop and maintain FHIR Infrastructure resources Sponsor(s):
FHIR Infrastructure Work Group
This project will identify and define extensions, profiles, terminologies standards and resources necessary for the support of FHIR Infrastructure. Specifically, this includes the resources under the Infrastructure and Conformance portions of the FHIR spe. . . Lloyd Mc Kenzie Awaiting Approval Awaiting Approval Active Project (Resources assigned to pjt)
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