11 August 2015 Viet Nguyen, MD Chief Medical Officer Health & Life Sciences Information Systems & Global Solutions HL7 Clinicians on FHIR

History Purpose –to engage clinicians in the development and testing of FHIR resources –to test the accuracy, validity and usability of clinical resources –to identify any issues arising from clinical use of clinical resources tested –to provide recommendations to enhance/improve the clinical resources tested –to identify lessons learnt such that future FHIR resources development methodology and processes may be improved –Education

3 History Methods –Pre-WGM use case development –Tooling development – David Hay Participants –Clinicians from HL7 working groups (Patient Care, Pharmacy, Clinical Genomics, EHR, Emergency Care, others) –FHIR Core Team Challenge Day –Friday of HL7 WGM (Chicago, San Antonio, Paris) –Large group (individual) vs Small Group (team) –Tooling evolution

4 Lessons Learned Use cases –Simpler is better…initially –Let complexity emerge Tooling - clinfhir.com –3 iterations. “EHR-like”  developer/modeler –Terminology binding –Allow user to see interdependencies between resources –Focus on FHIR, not the tooling Clinicians –Terminology/modeling/FHIR expertise varies –Focused on data entry aspects –“make it real” –“edge case” concerns –Need clearer boundaries during the discussion (culture/policy/process, UI/EHR/Data models, interoperability) – all interdependent

5 clinfhir.com Demo