Derek thanks for sharing this update and for promoting the FHIR education session at the HL7 International working group meeting in Montreal next month.

I wanted to let folks know that Infoway is hosting a free Introduction to FHIR webinar next week by Joel Francis. The webinar is free, you just need to click on the link to register. Event details can be found here: https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/news-events/event-calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2019/04/17/2919/142/an-introduction-to-fhir

This introductory session is targeted at those wishing to know more about just exactly what FHIR is and how to get involved.

Everyone is welcome.

There is also a very vibrant FHIR Implementers Working Group on InfoCentral (https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/collaboration/wg/fhir-implementations) that everyone is welcome to join.

They are looking to put together a Canadian baseline profile, so it would be great to see some of this exciting work and expertise from the IHE Canada community come to the table and inform the baseline profile work. A draft of the scope statement and guiding principles open for public review and comment can be found here: https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/forum/266-fhir-implementations/2758-canadian-fhir-baseline-profiles-draft-vision-scope-principles-for-review-and-feedback#4871

I hope that we will see some of the IHE experts join us at any or all of the activities.

Thank you.

Regards,

Andrea

IHE is working its way through the portfolio of FHIR-based Profiles and refreshing these to conform to Release 4. In parallel -- IHE and HL7 and moving forward with their FHIR-centric collaboration: the Gemini Project. Updates regarding both of these initiatives were provided in a recent IHE newsletter article. (As a happy aside, I'm proud to announce that IHE's Computable Care Guidelines work item -- which is being jointly progressed by WHO, CDC, and Canada's own Hamilton Health Sciences Corp. -- has been adopted as an official Gemini Project by the joint IHE-HL7 steering committee).

In related news, Infoway is a supporter of the upcoming HL7 working group meeting in Montreal where there will be a first-ever FHIR training session delivered in French. More information about this can be found, here.