1. International Council Report
Baltimore, MD
September 18, 2016
Melva Peters
HL7 International Council Co-Chair

2. Thank you! Leadership Current Co-Chairs Recent elections
Diego Kaminker
Francisco Perez
Melva Peters
Recent elections
Line Saele
Thank you to Paco Perez for serving since January 2013!
HL7 International Board – Affiliate Directors
Beat Heggli
Frank Oemig
Thank you!

3. 31 HL7 Affiliates HL7 Argentina Fernando Campos HL7 Australia Nat Wong
HL7 Austria
Stefan Sabutsch
HL7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Samir Dedovic
HL7 Brazil
Marivan Abrahão
HL7 Canada
Melva Peters
HL7 China
Li Baoluo
HL7 Croatia
Miroslav Koncar
HL7 Czech Republic
Libor Seidl
HL7 Denmark
Lene Alsbæk Nielsen
HL7 Finland
Juha Mykkanen
HL7 France
Francois Macary
HL7 Germany
Sylvia Thun
HL7 Greece
Alexander Berler
HL7 Hong Kong
Chung Ping Ho
HL7 India
Dr. Chandil Kumar Gunashekara
HL7 Italy
Giorgio Cangioli
HL7 Japan
Michio Kimura
Hl7 Korea
Byoung-Kee Yi
HL7 Netherlands
Bert Kabbes
HL7 New Zealand
David Hay
HL7 Norway
Line Saele
HL7 Russia
Sergey Shvyrev
HL7 Serbia
Filip Toskovic
HL7 Singapore
Adam Chee
HL7 Spain
Francisco Perez
HL7 Sweden
Mikael Wintell
HL7 Switzerland
Marco Demarmels
HL7 UK
Philip Scott
HL7 Uruguay
Julio Leivas
HL7 USA
Ed Hammond

4. Attendance Affiliates represented (in person and by proxy)22
Registered Attendees for International Council meeting 43
US vs. Non US Attendees
549 total registrants (404)
459 US registrants (294)
90 Non US registrants (109)
24 countries represented at this WGM!

5. HL7 Around the World HL7 France
Review of existing specifications in V2, V3 and CDA and comparing to FHIR
Hospitals & clinics
Assessment for medication workflow, as opposed to the widespread French standard
Medication order check against patient condition and history
Clinical laboratories
Assessment for sharing secondary laboratory catalogs, as opposed to V2 master files
FHIR Terminology services to provide value sets for lab test ordering

6. HL7 Around the World HL7 Finland
National implementation guides: social services messaging
Education: Finnish CDA implementation guides, FHIR + IHE (x2)
FHIR demo with 19 participating organizations in major national health ICT conference ”Terveydenhuollon atk-päivät” in May
Successful satellite seminar on FHIR
Increased number of member organizations (57 in 2013, now 72!)
Active projects for several active groups and joint efforts
Personal Health SIG
IHE Finland
National PHR support through PH SIG

7. HL7 Around the World 2016: A TranNZformational Year Out With the Old…
Incremental Change
National Health IT Board
Regional Systems
eHealth / Health IT
In With the New…
Disruptive Change?
Digital Advisory Board
“Single Electronic Health Record”
Digital Health…

8. Yes…We’re (also) Becoming Digital!
PHYSICAL – robotics, 3d printing, new materials, autonomous platforms
BIOLOGICAL– genomic, proteomic, metabolomic, microbiomic
DIGITAL – Cloud Computing, Big Data, Bitcoin, Blockchain

9. IHIC 2016
More than 60 attendees (academia, industry and graduate / postgraduate students) from 10 countries
7 tutorials
4 key notes,
11 presentations of full papers
4 presentations of technical reports
4 short presentations of technical abstract
1 Workshop with 10 panelists (identification of medicinal products].

10. IHIC 2016
The Joachim W. Dudeck Award
Co-sponsored by HL7 International and HL7 Germany
Awarded to Abderrazek Boufahja, France
“Model-Based Validation of HL7 CDA R2 Documents and Implementation Guides Using Gazelle ObjectsChecker And ART-DECOR®,
co-authored by Kai Heitmann and Eric Poiseau.
HL7 Italy sponsored two awards for graduated students on health informatics
High level scientific full papers were published on a Special Issue of European Journal for Biomedical Informatics (EJBI) entitled “Interoperability is more than just technology”
Technical reports and Technical Abstracts were published on a locally printed Proceedings books (ISBN ).

11. New Book

12. FHIR

13. All of the presentations will be posted on the International Council webpage
Thank you!