Germany

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Year of establishment

1993

Number of members

300

Current Chair

Mathias is the newly elected chair.

Technical Lead and working groups

Alexander Zautke

Work Groups (+ Lead)

• CDA and Version 3 / XML: Dr. Christof Geßner
• Messaging and V2: Dr. Frank Oemig
• Terminologies: Elisabeth Pantazoglou
• FHIR: Simone Heckmann

Some highlights and major achievements - since establishment

Cooperation with government institutions

• BMG health innovation hub, BFARM, RKI
• BMBF (Projects Medical- informatics initiative, NFDI4Health.de), TMF

Project Highlights

Profiles on National Level:

• v2-Messaging:
  • German National Extension to IHE ITI PAM
• CDA
  • a lot of IGs leading to a harmonized set specifications:
    • discharge letter
    • referral letter
    • discharge management
    • eprescription
    • infection control
    • pathology report
    • rehabilitation report
    • wound management
    • certificate of disability
  • contributions to IHE activities:
    • PaLM APSR2
• FHIR
  • German Base Profiles
    • contribution to national activies: KBV, MII, cocos.team, GECCO, ...

Events, e.g. IHIC

• annual plenary meetings
• 4 WGMs per year as an open platform for interoperability
• IHIC
• DIT
• GMDS/MIE

Other

• wiki as a publication and cooperation platform
• ZULIP for discussing open topics
• interoperability platform as an anchor for open transparent processes
• awareness for interoperability aspects up to our government
• (coming) membership to SNOMED

What are the plans for the future?

• establishing a national standardization body including an according infrastructure
• stronger involvement in national activities and projects
• More engagement in HL7 int.
• FHIR-a-thons
• More members
• FHIR in nat. Infrastructure