Vulcan Interoperability Bridge
Vulcan Interoperability Bridge Event: A Webinar to Enable Clinical Research Infrastructure
EVENT POSTPONED - New date coming soon
Join nearly thirty industry organizations who have adopted HL7 Vulcan standards into their systems to enable the clinical research infrastructure. Watch as these Vulcan stakeholders weave together the technical protocols and solutions that will advance cancer use cases, clinical trial readiness projects, health equity, and together build a stronger clinical trials infrastructure.
See nearly 30 organizations share live demonstrations of pre-pilot implementations using HL7® FHIR®
Join the clinical research community to provide feedback, questions and comments on end to end FHIR workflows
Learn where to find the resources you need to use FHIR APIs to improve data quality, efficiency, and overall cost to conduct research
Q1 2025: The next step
The Vulcan Interoperability Bridge Event Demonstration Focus Areas are:
Internal Sponsor Systems:
This focus area is dedicated to life sciences organizations who are focused on research and development information exchange. Demonstrating the use of HL7 FHIR to digitize clinical protocols and structure schedules of activities within a life sciences company or other clinical trial sponsor organization.
Research Site to Sponsor:
Watch as two different implementation teams demonstrate how to enhance data accessibility, streamline processes, and accelerate research timelines to deliver substantial ROI for clinical research sites and sponsor organizations by improving interoperability among electronic data capture systems.
Product Labelling:
As a first step toward streamlining the ability to support rapid investigation of new or increased adverse events related to medical products, structured drug labeling information is a critical advancement. With structured labels that include sections such as structured adverse reaction section and ingredients, adverse events related to medical products can more easily be updated and discovered.
Patient Driven Information Exchange:
Explore ways to engage patients to allow them to directly share their RWD (EHR data, PROs, AE, etc.) with clinical research. Patient engagement gives sponsors and CROs an opportunity to gain invaluable data input and feedback from stakeholders who have traditionally not been viewed as a core part of the study team – patients.
Health Information Exchanges:
Data is often contained in separate sources utilizing different schema and coding, requiring significant workload to harmonize the data, creating a longitudinal record across various systems. This team of HIEs will demonstrate how they allow federated data compilation into a single set that can be used for real-world research questions that are approved by an honest broker.
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Jul-Dec 2024 - How it all began…
The Vulcan FHIR® Accelerator, in coordination with the US Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/ Office of the National Coordinator (ASTP/ONC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is organizing the Vulcan Interoperability Bridge (VIB) event.
The VIB event aims to accelerate the adoption of healthcare data standards for research – underscoring the value of using HL7 FHIR® to solve existing challenges and explore novel opportunities in research data interoperability.
The August 21 webinar was the first information event and was designed to share information on how we will convene clinical research sponsors, including pharmaceutical companies and academic medical centres, EHR providers, clinical research sites and technology solutions providers to work together to demonstrate how clinical care and research interoperability is achievable utilizing existing HL7 FHIR® standards and Implementation Guides.
You can find the slides and video recording by following this LINK.
This information webinar was well attended 250 registered, 155 attendees (88 organizations attended, of which 57 were non-Vulcan members, majority US attendees, with attendance from Argentina, Belgium, Canada, India, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and UK)
Who attended?
Technology Solution Providers who want to better support clinical research with FHIR APIs: Electronic Health Records or Data Capture Systems, Intermediary systems, and Clinical Trial Management Systems
Clinical Research Sponsors who initiate, manage, or finance clinical studies or trials and want to improve the efficiency of their data collection: Pharmaceutical Companies or Academic Medical Centers
Clinical Research Sites who wish to improve their compatibility with Clinical Research Sponsors: Clinical Research Hospitals or Academic Medical Centers
Get involved
Contact the team at vib@HL7Vulcan.org