What is a Working Group Meeting?

HL7 International working group meetings (WGMs) are held three times per year at varying locations and serve two important purposes:

1. To provide HL7 International work groups a chance to meet face to face to work on the standards as well as the opportunity to network with industry leaders from around the world.
2. To provide an invaluable educational resource for the healthcare IT community.

Standards Development

More than 40 HL7 work groups are dedicated to specialized areas of interest such as Mobile Health and Electronic Health Records. These work groups are directly responsible for the content of the standards and spend much of their time at the WGMs hard at work on standards development.
Attending a WGM can be a great way to keep up-to-date on what is happening in a particular area, and everyone attending an HL7 WGM is invited to attend any of the work groups.

Here you will find recordings of the Plenary session:

AI in Healthcare: Opportunities & Challenges

9:00 am
Introduction by Charles Jaffe MD PhD, Chief Executive Officer, HL7 International
9:05 am
Speaker: Peter Lee PhD, Corporate Vice President, Research & Incubations, Microsoft
9:45 am
Speaker: John Halamka MD MS, President, Mayo Clinic Platform
11:00 am
Introduction by Julia Skapik, MD, Chair-Elect, HL7 International; Medical Director for Informatics, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
11:05 am
Government Perspective Panel
Moderator: Julia Skapik
Speakers: Steve Posnack, MS, MHS, Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC); Jose Galvez MD, Deputy Director of Strategic Programs, FDA; Colonel Thomas Cantilina, MD, Defense Health Agency Chief Health Informatics Officer
11:25 am
Speaker: Dr. Michael Pencina, Vice Dean for Data Science; Chief Data Scientist, Duke
11:45 am
Speaker: Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE, Director Ethics Programs, Director Institute for Ethics and Health Policy, University of Miami
12:15 pm
Panel Q & A
12:30 pm
HL7 AI Standards - Laying the Foundation
Speakers: Gary Dickinson FHL7, EHR WG Co-Chair, Co-Facilitator of the AI Focus Team; Mark Janczewski MD, EHR WG Co-Chair, Co-Lead of the AI Data Lifecycle Project



Chuck Jaffe, MD, PhD| Health Level Seven International, CEO


John Halamka, MD, MS| Mayo Clinic Platform, President


Peter Lee, PhD| Microsoft, Vice President Research & Incubations


Julia Skapik| National Association of Community Health Centers


Steven Posnack| Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Director of Standards and Technology


Kenneth Goodman, PhD, FA| University of Miami, Director Ethics Programs


Gary Dickinson| Health Level Seven International, Member


Mark G Janczewski MD, MPH| Medical Networks, LLC, President & CEO