Workstream

Co-Chairs

Objective

Progress to date

Solution Architecture

Igor Sirkovich (OMHLTC)

Ken Sinn (Canada Health Infoway)

1. Serve as a forum for all architectural questions about implemention of FHIR based solutions

2. Discuss Canadian URI (incl. mapping to OIDs), profiles and extensions

1. Currently hosting governance calls for the FHIR Profiling Stream

eReferrals

Tim Berezny (CareDove)

Caryn Harris (Orion Health)

1. Build eReferral use cases

2. Prototype eReferral use cases

3. Select Resources to include in Specifications

4. Write preliminary Specifications for broader use

1. Assembled stakeholders from across the e-referral spectrum to build a community led e-Referral specification.

2. Published an e-referral implementation guide that has been adopted by various integrations across Ontario: https://simplifier.net/guide/ca-on-ereferral-r4-iguide-v0.11.0/Index/Home/Introduction?version=0.11.0

Community Monthly Calls

Gavin Tong (Gevity Inc.)

Yaron Derman (eHealth Ontario)

1. Share progress within the workstreams within the broader FHIR community

2. Identify and promote FHIR education and implementation activities

1. Informative updates and discussions about FHIR globally and progress across the workstreams

2. Average 17 participants per call.

Canadian Baseline Profiles & Governance

Sheridan Cook (Accenture)

Michael Savage (Sunlife)

1. Create of a set of national FHIR profiles that can be leveraged by implementers and jurisdictions to promote re-use and interoperability

2. Establish a common baseline / starting point for Canadian FHIR Implementations

1. Organization of workstream into Profiling and Governance Streams, to allow for ample time to explore different types of issues

2. Total of 78 proposed changes to draft Profiles received from FHIR Community

3. Organization of Profiling Stream into sub-streams based on thematic groupings of FHIR Profiles: Entities, Medications, and Clinical

4. Average 10 participants per call

Recordings of the CA FHIR Baseline Calls can be found on the following Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm8ff1Z6HoFTzBvcjJg9iRHTrvucbqEEQ

SMART on FHIR Community of Practice

Russell Buchanan (eHealth Centre of Excellence)

Raman Dhanoa (Dogwood Health Consulting)

Irfan Hakim (Accenture)

1. Establish a shared foundation for Canadian SMART on FHIR application developers.
   

2. Serve as a collaborative forum for discussing use-cases, solving SMART on FHIR implementation obstacles, and enabling demonstrations and insights across different provinces.

This group has commenced its discussions centered on SMART Launch contexts and related parameters. The intial use-cases that are being discussed include the Ocean SMART Launch V1.0, SMART Launch v2.0 and Telus Ocean Integration.