The Real Truth Behind SDO Collaboration. Jaffe C. eHealth week 2010 (Barcelona: CCIB Convention Centre; 2010)

1. The Real Truth Behind SDO
Collaboration
Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD
CEO, Health Level Seven International
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

2. “How much easier it is to be critical
than to be correct.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Twice British Prime Minister

3. HL7 Works…because it is International
HL7 International
• History: Nearly 25 years of building a
global presence
• Participation: Nearly 40 Affiliate countries
• Adoption: Nearly 50 countries worldwide
• Coordination: upcoming International
meetings: Rio (May 2010) & Sydney
(Jan 2011)

4. “There is nothing so useless as
doing efficiently that which should
not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker
20th Century American Writer

5. HL7 Works…because it is Collaborative
• Global Standards Development
• Joint Initiative Council (ISO, CEN, IHTSO, CDISC
and others)
• North American Standards Development
• SDO Charter Organization (NCPDP, IHE, X12, and
others)
• Educational Outreach
• Distance Learning / eLearning in nearly 20 countries
• Coordination Programs (IMIA, AMIA, Rockefeller)
• Technical Outreach
• Developing Nations (WHO, JEMBI, Rockefeller,
Gates, and others)
• Open Source: Regenstrief (OpenMRS)

6. “If you can't laugh at yourself, you
may be missing the joke of the
century.”
Dr. Michelle Hamilton
Contemporary Jamaican Researcher

7. Practical Proposals to Make it Work
• Collaboration on Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
Development (Templates & Archetypes)
• Biosurveillance and Pharmacovigilance
• Clinical summaries (EU cross-border & US)
• ePrescribing (epSOS)
• Educational Outreach
• Policy coordination (Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington & Bologna)
• Clinical caregiver participation (CIIC International)
• Technical development (eLearning w/AMIA & IMIA)
• Capacity building (WHO, Rockefeller)
• Biomedical Research
• BRIDG (Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group)
integrates data for patient care & clinical research
• ARGOS (EC Initiative & NIH/NCI)
• Regulatory submissions (FDA & EMEA)

8. The Real Truth Behind SDO
Collaboration
It’s what makes interoperability work.

9. A Closing Thought
“The difference between physicians
and pilots is that pilots realize that
they have to get into the airplane with
the people they care for.”
Dr. Lawrence Weed
20th Century American Educator

10. Thanks
CJAFFE@HL7.ORG