| 90 min. | Helios Update | Craig Newman | - Craig provided an overview of Helios
- Helios launched as a FHIR accelerator during Sept. 2021 WGM
- joint sponsorship from ONC and CDC
- recognizing that FHIR adoption has been minimal in the Public Health space
- ensure Public Health is informed and involved in discussions about data access and modernization (while minimizing burden and cost for all stakeholders)
- initial scope intended to be accomplishable within a year
- prioritize and address Public Health-specific deviations for FHIR
- initial ideas for initiatives were gathered and curated into 3 priority areas for 2022:
- deliver aggregate information to Public Health
- reviewing existing standards (e.g., SANER, DEQM, Measures / MeasureReports)
- making data in Public Health systems accessible in bulk
- focusing on immunization data in IIS
- will evaluate / develop guidance how existing Bulk FHIR IG can be applied to Public Health
- discussing how to identify and authorize cohorts of patients to query
- also how to deal with matching issues (e.g., no match, multiple matches)
- align / optimize Public Health data sharing
- potential to leverage key paradigms from other FHIR use cases (e.g., RESTful APIs, messaging, subscriptions)
- goal is to create content that can help jurisdictions broadly
- no formal membership structure / fees at this time
- the same "usual suspect" jurisdictions typically participate in HL7 work – there are challenges (including funding) for engaging others
- HL7 education for those other jurisdictions will be important
- potential for creating a tool to help jurisdictions assess business needs and suggest how FHIR might help
- participation (including as pilot implementations) wanted!
- Craig also reviewed a presentation slide deck for CDC's Public Health FHIR Implementation Collaborative
- focused on education and initial FHIR use cases specific to STLT operations
- "pre-cursor" work in tandem with Helios
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