Working Group Meetings

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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.

Educational Sessions

HL7 International is pleased to introduce free education sessions included with registration at the May 2024 Working Group Meeting (WGM). Previously, tutorials at the WGMs were an additional cost to daily registration fees. At the May WGM, free education sessions will be offered every quarter. No additional registration is required and all WGM registrants are welcome to participate.

Topics will include HL7 FHIR and general interoperability and the following categories are expected:

Informational Sessions

Designed to support new member involvement and help existing members become more effective in their participation in the HL7 standards development process. Examples are First Timer's Orientation, Introduction to the HL7 Organization and Processes, and the HL7 Certification and Credentialing Programs.

Special Topics

Includes presentations that may involve multiple standards product families. Topics such as Overview of Interoperability or How to Exchange Data Between Electronic Health Records would fall into this category.

HL7® FHIR®

Focused on HL7's Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. This includes interactive presentations intended to bring decision makers and implementers up to speed and ready to use the standard in their own environment.

Interested in attending but short on funds?

Apply for the The Woody Beeler Memorial Scholarship for Healthcare Interoperability. Scholarships are awarded annually to partially cover travel, accommodation and registration expenses enabling at least one individual to participate in an HL7 WGM. Funding will be sufficient to enable attendance but will require a meaningful and achievable contribution by the award recipient. Awards are anticipated to be $1500-2500 USD per WGM, depending on meeting and award recipient location. Information about the next application period will be posted soon. Learn more.