Sweden

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Year of establishment

2005

Number of members

Current Chair

Bjorn-Erik Erlandsson PhD

Technical Lead and working groups

FHIR Basic Profiles, Arvid Thunman
Drugs on FHIR, Fredrik Ström

Some highlights and major achievements - since establishment

Cooperation with government institutions

One example, eHälsomyndigheten, a national authority with the mission to facilitate and drive the national solutions of digital health environments like National Drug Administration List etc. Establised cooperation with the Nordic countries when setting the framework for content and rules of national base profiles

Project Highlights

Creating FHIR national base profiles, started with Patient Implementing FHIR interfaces for ICU care in Karolinska Hopsital

Events

Vitalis (every year), MIE 2018

Plans for the future

Try to educate more people in HL7 basic standards and FHIR
Advocate that FHIR will be used in more of the national platforms
Be more active in the international work
Become a resource for all of the 21 regions now working with changing their information platforms (Future Care Information Environments)
Support the build of the national IT service platform to be built with FHIR

HL7 Sweden