HL7 Webinar:Mobile Health

Chuck JaffeAustin Kreisler

John Quinn

19 March 2012

Agenda

• Introduction: Opportunities for HL7 in the Mobile Health landscape

• HL7 Specifications & Mobile Health: Current standards, significant

gaps, and areas for collaboration among WGs

• Developing an HL7 Workgroup: Requirements, Governance,

and Projects

• Q&A

• Next steps

Webinar Objectives

• Introduce membership to the opportunities in the mobile health

• Gauge the interest of members for participation in a mobile

health initiative

• Demonstrate a need for a distinct WG

• Discuss a framework for process and governance

• Assess interest among individuals for leadership roles

Ongoing Mobile Health Discussions

•Non-profit healthcare organizations

•EHR vendors

•Device manufacturers

•Technology developers

•HIT organizations

•Developers of standards & profiles

•Academia

•Healthcare systems

•Professional societies

•Professional support organizations

•Government organizations

•Regulatory agencies

•Patient advocacy groups

•HIE & ACO organizations

Next Steps

• Define the objectives of the WG

• Create a formal WG, as outlined in the GOM, to support specific

deliverables

• Elect co-chairs

• Enable opportunities for collaboration, both within HL7 and with outside entities

• Provide meeting times in Vancouver

• Establish guidelines for work prioritization

• Support outreach and networking

Looking Forward

• Map the landscape, both in North American & in the international community

• Coordinate efforts with other HL7 WGs and Committees

• TSC & Technical committees

• Education

• Marketing & Communication

• Ambassador Program

• Establish external partnership

Mobile Health and

HL7 StandardsAustin Kreisler

Chair – Technical Steering Committee

Foundational and Technology Focused Standards

• V3 Reference Information Models

• V3 Data types

• Model Interchange Format

• V3 Implementation Technology Specification

• V3 Common Terminology specification

• SAIF Canonical Definition

• And many others

Technology Focused Workgroups• Implementable Technology Specifications (ITS)

• Conformance and Guidance for Implementation and Testing (CGIT)

• Infrastructure & Messaging (InM)

• Modeling & Methodology (MnM)

• RIM Based Application Architecture (RIMBAA)

• Security (SEC)

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Templates

• Vocabulary

What’s All This Have to Do With Mobile Health?

None are focused specifically on Mobile Healthcare

Mobile Health

• Allows healthcare data to be captured and provided any where and any time

• Healthcare data on mobile devices is healthcare data on the move

• HL7 Standards are all about moving data from one point to another

• HL7 is a natural fit for mobile devices

What’s Missing?• Many HL7 Standards developed with

“controlled” secure environments (such as healthcare enterprise networks) in mind

• Mobile devices often operate outside of these secure, controlled environments

• Mobile devices often provide integrated services such as GPS, image/audio/video capture & display, etc. in a hand held package

• HL7 needs to think through the impact of all these technologies on HL7 Standards

HL7 Mobile Health Work Group

Potential questions for the new work group:

• What are the security & privacy implications for mobile devices and the impact on HL7 Standards

• What sort of impact would Geo-coding of all healthcare data have on HL7 Standards?

• Where are all the HL7 Apps?

• What impact will mobile devices have on healthcare workflow?

Collaboration• Work with existing work groups to update

existing standards for the mobile environment

• Collaborate with the Education WG and Ambassador program to educate people inside and outside of HL7 regarding mobile health

• Work with the Marketing WG to promote use of HL7 Standards in the mobile computing market place

Writing Standards that support Mobile

Health Interoperability

within HL7

John Quinn, HL7 CTO

Volunteers

• HL7 is an organization of volunteers. Volunteers exclusively create, ballot and maintain the content of the HL7 Standards

• HL7 is looking for existing and new volunteers with knowledge and expertise:

• Domain knowledge the technical and mobile communications;

• The clinical and administrative processes that are and will be supported by the information and communications technologies.

Organization in HL7

• HL7 Technical Committee Organization contains a Steering Division Domain titled Foundation and Technologies that contains “vertical” supporting technologies that support HL7 standards.

• Examples include Modeling and Methodology, Implementation Technology Specifications, SOA and more.

• We would consider organizing Mobile Health as a Work Group in this Steering Division

Thanks

cjaffe@hl7.org

austin.j.kreisler@saic.com

john.f.quinn@accenture.com