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Project List
| Project | Status | Jira Searches | Co-Chair Liaison | Project Lead | Last Work Group Update | Expiry Date | Additional Information | |
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| Development and Maintenance of Immunization-related FHIR Resources (PI 1260) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Craig Newman | Craig Newman | April 2023 | Previously-approved changes are now published in R5, there are a handful to (re)discuss that had previously been deferred for future consideration. Maturity level updates for R5 approved in Jan. 2023 WGM:
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| FHIR IG for Immunization Forecasting (PI: 1342) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Craig Newman | Nathan Bunker | April 2023 | Original STU publication expires in June 2023; extension approved by WG | ||
| HL7 v2.8.2 Immunization IG (PI: 1293) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Craig Newman | Chrissy Miner | April 2023 | December 10, 2023 | Will be allowed to expire and replaced by a new v2.5.1 IG. | |
| VCI SMART Cards | In Ballot Recon | Craig Newman | Max Mesnick | April 2023 | Balloted Sept 2021 | |||
| NHSN Adverse Drug Events | Collecting Feedback | Sarah Gaunt | April 2023 | October 2023 | Published | |||
| Longitudinal Maternal & Infant Health Information for Research | Collecting Feedback | David DeRoode | April 2023 | March 2025 | ||||
| Clinical Registry Extraction and Data Submission (CREDS) | In Ballot | CIC WG | April 2023 | Balloting in May 2023 cycle | ||||
| Medicolegal Death Investigation | Collecting Feedback | Diana Wright | April 2023 | September 2024 | ||||
| ODH in HL7 v2 and FHIR (PI: 1290) | Collecting Feedback | FHIR Open Issues | Craig Newman | Lori Reed-Fourquet | April 2023 | January 2024 | FHIR STU 1.3 published | |
| ODH in CDA | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Craig Newman | Structured Docs WG | April 2023 | June 2023 | STU 1.1 published | |
| ODH DAM | In Development | Open Issues | April 2023 | Balloting in May 2023 | ||||
| Vital Records DAM (PI: 1296) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Cindy Bush | April 2023 | May 2024 | Release 5 Published | ||
| Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR IG (PI ID: 1475) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Danny Wise | Cindy Bush | April 2023 | October 2023 | Replaces project 1278 STU 1 and 2 Published | |
| Birth and Fetal Death FHIR IG | Collecting Feedback | April 2023 | October 2023 | |||||
| NHSN Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Reports for Long Term Care Facilities (CDA & FHIR) (PI ID: 1511) | CDA - Collecting Feedback FHIR - Collecting Feedback | Erin Holt Coyne | David DeRoode | September 2020 | January 2025 | 5-11-2022 The CDA has been published and the FHIR has outstanding issues with terminology | ||
| Healthcare Associated Infections Reports | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Erin Holt Coyne | Structured Docs WG | September 2022 | |||
| MedMorph | In Ballot | Open Issues | Laura Rappleye | Maria Michaels | September 2020 | |||
| CodeX | In Development | Craig Newman | Greg Shemancik | January 2021 | Working with the MedMorph team and associated timeline - focusing on Cancer Registry Reporting piloting and specifics for supplemental IG development | |||
| CDA IG for Reporting to Central Cancer Registries (PI: 1069) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Laura Rappleye | Sandy Jones | September 2017 | March 20, 2021 | Currently collecting Comments but will not be updated further (FHIR will be the IG of choice going forward). | |
| SANER | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Erin Holt Coyne | Keith Boone | September 2022 | |||
| Bidirectional Services eReferral (PI ID: 1423) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | AbdulMalik Shakir | John Loonsk | September 2022 | FHIR IG is published, considering a second ballot (possibly Jan 2022) 5-9-2022 DAM withdrawn, no ballot recon package posted, will get updates Thurs. Q1 | ||
| HL7 CDA National Health Care Surveys (PI: 1002) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Erin Holt Coyne | Cindy Bush | September 2017 | R1 - December 31, 2019 R2 - October 2021 | Currently collecting Comments. | |
| HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) (PI ID: 1366) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | AbdulMalik Shakir | John Loonsk | September 2022 | Jan 29, 2022 | Last published September 2022 (Release 2) | |
| Public Health Case Report Update (CDA) STU (PI: 1216) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | AbdulMalik Shakir | John Loonsk | September 2022 | Jan 29, 2022 | Last published July 2022 (Release 3.1) | |
| HL7 CDA R2 Implementation Guide: Reportability Response File, STU 1.0 (PI: 1216) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | AbdulMalik Shakir | John Loonsk | September 2022 | March 11, 2022 | Last published July 2022 (Release 1.1) | |
| HL7 v2.5.1 Syndromic Surveillance IG (PI ID: 1401) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Erin Holt Coyne | Karl Soetebier (CDC) | July 26, 2019 | Currently collecting comments.
Original project (published in 2019) had an expiration date of July 26 2021. We approved (2021-09-30 Public Health Work Group Call Minutes - Public Health - Confluence (hl7.org) and submitted a late 24 month extension request in Sept 2021 The project extension was approved and extended to 10/15/2023 [TSC-208] STU Extension Request for HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Syndromic Surveillance, Release 1 - US Realm - Jira NEEDS UPDATE | ||
| HL7 CDA for Ambulatory and Hospital Healthcare Provider reporting of Birth Defects (PI: 1112) | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Laura Rappleye | Laura Rappleye | October 2019 | Nov 04, 2021 | Collecting comments, no immediate plans to either update or retire Several states are potentially interested | |
| Birth Defects DAM and FHIR IG (PI ID: 1532) | Collecting Feedback for DAM | Craig Newman | Craig Newman | September 2020 | ||||
| HL7 v2.6 Critical Congenital Heart Defects (PI: 897) | Normative | Open Issues | Laura Rappleye | Lura Daussat | September 2022 | Normative IG published | ||
| HL7 v2.6 Early Hearing Detection (PI: 898) | Normative | Open Issues | Laura Rappleye | Lura Daussat | September 2022 | Normative IG published | ||
| Diagnostic Audiology | Collecting Feedback | Open Issues | Craig Newman | Heather Morrow-Almeida | Summer 2020 | |||
| HL7 v2.5.1 LRI - Newborn Dried Blood Spot (NDBS) Orders | Collecting Feedback | Erin Holt Coyne | OO WG | February 2017 | 5-9-2022 integrated into LRI/LOI Latest version of LOI/LRI will be published by end of 2022 | |||
| HL7 v2.5.1 LOI/LRI - Public Health Profile | Collecting Feedback | Erin Holt Coyne | OO WG | September 2020 | Latest version of LOI/LRI will be published by end of 2022 | |||
| FHIR Lab Results | In Discussion in OO | Erin Holt Coyne | OO Work Group | September 2020 | Updates in R5 for parent/child relationship OO is talking about this again | |||
| HAVE 2.0 Alignment | Archived | Joginder Madra | PA Work Group | February 2017 | Confirmed with PA Sept 2020 Superseded by SANER |