May 3, 2022, ROCKVILLE, MD — The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Health Level Seven® International (HL7) announced a two-year partnership to jointly collaborate and focus efforts to extend comprehensive standards for interoperability in the healthcare community.
AMIA is the leading professional organization for informatics professionals with more than 5,000 members advancing healthcare through informatics. AMIA's core purposes are to advance the science and profession of informatics, promote the education of informatics, and assure that health information technology is used most effectively to promote health and health care.
The mission of HL7 is to provide standards for interoperability that improve care delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity, and enhance knowledge transfer among all stakeholders. HL7 is shaping the future of healthcare by making their standards and implementation guides freely available.
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"AMIA and HL7 have a long history of collaborating together," said AMIA Board Chair and President Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MD, PhD, FACS, FACMI, FAMIA, Vice President and Scientific Medical Officer, Intuitive Surgical and Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "As an organization of members who created and implemented technologies for the electronic health record, our partnership with HL7 is essential in moving forward with advancing health and healthcare with standards for interoperability."
"As a longtime member of AMIA, I see collaboration as essential to advancing interoperability across the stakeholders," said HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD. "HL7 and FHIR® have become global resources and working alongside AMIA will bring us closer to our mutual goals of ensuring healthcare and health information technology are efficient and effective."
AMIA and HL7 have had significant collaborations over the past several years, most notably with the FHIR® Application Competition held the last four years at the AMIA Annual Symposium. This sponsored competition gives the opportunity for participants to showcase their app at a session during the largest informatics meeting worldwide. The FHIR® App Competition includes approximately 10 applications presented in a competitive setting with a panel of judges and voting by the audience. Cash prizes are given to the top three applications.
