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Sprint 6 Communications

You are invited to register to participate in Sprint 6 of the Clinical and Technical Assurance process of a set of components for inclusion in the candidate 'HL7 FHIR UK Core Implementation Guide R4' in development.

The 'HL7 FHIR UK Core Implementation Guide R4' is proposed to form a foundation for derivative FHIR Implementation Guides in development in a UK context and is based on the international standard that is common in other countries such as Canada, the US and Australia.

The scope of Sprint 6 is Diagnostics and includes the following resources:

Existing Draft Profiles

  • Specimen
  • DiagnosticReport*
  • Observation*
  • Consent

* Some sub-profiles may be required.

Existing Active Profiles

  • ServiceRequest. NB: Previously went through C&TA for Booking and Referral Standard (BaRs) use case in Sprint 5.

New Profiles

  • ImagingStudy
  • FamilyMemberHistory

along with other associated FHIR conformance assets such as Extension, CodeSystems, ValueSets and ConceptMaps.

The following FHIR resources will be discussed as to whether UK Core specific profiles are required or appropriate:

  • Endpoint
  • Subscription

The purpose of the Sprint 6 is to assure the development of all FHIR assets required to support Diagnostics use cases and any other use cases that may make use of these Resources. This will ensure a standard way of handling interactions between different systems with the use of the same FHIR structure to greatly improve interoperability and therefore safer outcomes for patients. This will then build on a Minimum Viable Product release of a candidate 'HL7 FHIR UK Core Implementation Guide R4' which would be published via HL7 UK and would ultimately go through an HL7 UK ballot process.

The key value of this Clinical and Technical Assurance process is to have a multi-disciplinary collaboration in an agile team and provide the ability to improve the quality of the product for all. It helps stakeholders, including vendors, to understand the rationale and details behind the design based on use cases. Implementation issues can be raised, and collaborative resolution of these issues can be obtained before the specifications are published. The process promotes consistency in FHIR assets across different programmes and use cases to support interoperability.

The current schedule for Sprint 6 is as below:

  • Proposed review pack review
    • Initial kick off call: 15th Feb 2023: 11:00-13:00
    • Second call: 16th Feb 2023: 11:00-13:00
    • Third call (Contingency): 21st Feb 2023: 11:00-13:00
  • Publication of final review pack: 24th Feb 2023.
  • Wider community review period of final review pack: 3 weeks, 27th Feb - 20th March 2023
  • Consolidated feedback review and disposition call: 28th March 2023: 9:30-11:30
  • Retro/Lessons Learned call: 4th May 2023:10:00-11:30
  • Publication of pre-release: Late April 2023 (proposed)
  • Pre-release review period: 2 weeks post-publication

If you would like to register your interest to be involved, please email us at interoperabilityteam@nhs.net and we will send you the invites. Please send us any Diagnostic use cases you would like to be considered in the Sprint.

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HL7 UK have announced the opening of the next UK Core Ballot, to get involved visit https://confluence.hl7.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=175611042
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Following a proposal from the UK Core Development Team, prompted by consultation and feedback from the FHIR Community, the UK FHIR Board has agreed to the creation of an Implementation Group for the UK Core. Register your interest now!
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The 1.6.0 version of UK Core is available for the Sprint 6 of Clinical and Technical Assurance three-week review period. The review runs from 27th February 2023 until 20th March 2023.
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You are invited to register to participate in Sprint 6 of the Clinical and Technical Assurance process of a set of components for inclusion in the candidate 'HL7 FHIR UK Core Implementation Guide R4' in development.
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This notice is to inform the UK FHIR Community regarding the next UK Core C&TA sprint. Following feedback received from sprint 5 of Clinical & Technical Assurance and the progress of the UK Core through the first HL7 UK Ballot, the decision has been agreed at the HL7 UK FHIR Board to temporarily pause adding further UK Core content, to allow a technical sprint to take place.
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