Vulcan

About Vulcan

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The vision for an Accelerator dedicated to connecting clinical research and healthcare was solidified in September 2019 by a group of invested representatives from government agencies, academia, technology companies, standards development organizations, patients, and industry consortiums. Vulcan will bring together stakeholders across the translational and clinical research community in order to bridge existing gaps between clinical care and clinical research, strategically connect industry collaboratives, maximize collective resources, and deliver integrated tools and resources.

Growing Digitization in Healthcare: The growing digitalization in healthcare brings along modernized electronic health record standards such as HL7 FHIR. Maturity in this space varies across the markets; however, it is already happening.

Standard data elements and controlled terminology for data collection forms have been in use by many organizations for multiple decades. Common data models for regulatory decision-making and secondary use of EHR data are not new. However, the acquisition and use of EHR data for prospective clinical research has remained largely separate from routine care. This then requires manual chart review to collect data, increasing study timelines and creating opportunity for error. Through standards these processes can be modernized. All stakeholders across the research enterprise stand to benefit from accelerating further development, refinement, and use of these standards toward optimizing the design, conduct and reporting of clinical studies.

1. Bridge Existing Gaps: Work to close gap between clinical care and clinical research to improve patient lives, decrease costs and improve efficiency
2. Strategically Connect Industry Collaborations: Coordinate strategy between stakeholders and leverage existing work within HL7 and other groups
3. Maximize Collective Resources: Leverage shared community and resources to be able to communicate the return on investment and return on value that a unified network could realize to various parties, and provide comprehensive recommendations to global regulators
4. Deliver Integrated Tools and Solutions: Develop necessary FHIR Research Resources to maturity. Accelerator program will handle identified and prioritized use cases for secondary use of EHR data that meet interested parties needs and goals

Clinical and Translational Clinical Research Community

Vulcan Updates

• Vulcan on HL7's Confluence– information shared among the Vulcan community including upcoming Meetings & Events
• For upcoming and past Vulcan events Click here to learn more!
• Vulcan: An HL7 FHIR Accelerator Transforming Clinical/Translational Research | OHDSI Community Call July 2023
• Vulcan – boldly going? Two years of Vulcan | DevDays June 2022
• Transforming Clinical Research through HL7 FHIR Standards | JIS November 2021

Vulcan Contacts

Please do not hesitate to get in touch. You can reach the Vulcan team via email at Vulcan@HL7.org.