Identify areas of opportunity.

Pursue standardized approaches to healthcare data interoperability that strengthen clinical trials and other categories of clinical research, accelerating drug development and generating insights into patient care.

Convene the research community.

Coordinate strategy between industry, healthcare and government, leveraging existing HL7 infrastructure to build consensus and drive alignment.

Achieve more together.

We are a diverse, member-driven community of healthcare, pharma, academic researchers, implementers, government, standards organizations, consortia and more – employing a multi-stakeholder approach to standards development.

Develop FHIR Implementation Guides (IG) for Research.

Support our member-led project teams through end-to-end use case development, implementation and adoption. Mature the necessary FHIR Resources to enable the research community at-large to leverage secondary use of EHR data in their development of tools and solutions.

Educate the community.

Grow community awareness of the potential of FHIR for research through conferences, connectathons, roundtables and members-only events such as Vulcan 101* and regular implementation showcases*