HL7 UK Contributions in HL7.org

HL7 UK is an affiliate organisation to HL7 International. HL7 UK currently have several members actively involved in HL7 International leadership positions. A respectable contingent of UK members also regularly attend the Working Group Meetings, where the Technical Committees and Special Interest Groups meet.

HL7 co-chair nominations were held at the January 2012 WGM and two HL7 UK members Martin Hurrell and Rene Spronk have been re-elected as co-chairs to the GAS and RIMBAA Working Groups.

HL7 UK Members with leadership positions in HL7.org.

About my role

Rik Smithies
Clinical Statement Co-Chair
Term Expires: Jan 2013

The Clinical Statement workgroup’s objective is to establish a common and consistent model to express clinical data, regardless of the domain or communication method.

It promotes consistent use of terminology and modelling style when using the HL7 RIM and encourages standardisation across different workgroups.

Members of Orders & Observations, Patient Care and Structured Documents founded the project, with Pharmacy, Laboratory and others contributing to the work.

In 2007 we achieved a major milestone by completing the Clinical Statement draft standard that is currently in place. Work is now underway to make the pattern a normative standard. It is hoped that this will form a key component of the next release of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA).

Ian Townend
Patient Care Co-Chair
Term Expires: May 2013

I think that the committee has a number of areas of interest:

• continuing to develop the care provision messages and current ballot content
  
• working on the development of detailed clinical models
  
• working with other committees to develop HL7 templates for use