Object Management Group and HL7® International Announce the Transition of BPM+ Health Community to HL7
June 25 2024 - 9:00AM
Today, globally recognized standards development group Object
Management Group® (OMG®) and leading standards-development
organization Health Level Seven International (HL7®) announce the
transition of OMG’s BPM+ Health® Community into the HL7 family as
the HL7 BPM Community. Established in 2019 under OMG, the BPM+
Health Community was created to advance sharable workflows,
processes, and care practices across sites and settings of care
through the leveraged use of open standards and formal notations.
The move into HL7 was made as an evolutionary step closer to the
center of the mainstream of the health sector.
OMG’s Business Process Management® (BPM®) is a discipline
focused on capturing, documenting, and applying models to
promulgate workflow processes, which may also address opportunities
for process automation, often integrating human-performed and
automated tasks. It represents processes in visual languages that
are understandable to both people and machines. It is solid in its
ability to represent complex activities, providing enhanced
transparency into processes underway, improving discovery of
activities not performed, and managing status as activities
progress under the guidance of an intended workflow.
"We are delighted to welcome BPM+ Health as part of the HL7
International community, where industry stakeholders convene to
solve real-world challenges in global health data
interoperability,” said Charles Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D., HL7 CEO.
“Adding this dedicated group of experts will further bolster the
advancement of HL7 FHIR and our implementation process. Moreover,
it will support our vision of a world where everyone can securely
access and use the right data when and where they need it.”
"Healthcare requires care traffic control systems that use best
practices to deliver quality outcomes. To solve these challenges,
our community applies closed-loop, process automation standards to
ease the burden of clinical and patient-focused workflows," said
Shane McNamee, MD, and co-lead of the community. “The resulting
models better reflect business needs, and thus accelerate learning
health systems.”
Ken Rubin, Senior Advisor for Standards and Interoperability for
the US Department of Veterans Affairs is active and holds
leadership roles in HL7 and BPM+ Health. “Having the BPM+
Health Community join forces under the HL7 umbrella is a big step
for us. Process modeling naturally depends on HL7’s Fast Healthcare
Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) for data, and BPM+ Health
complements major activities within HL7. Moreover, with its
unparalleled reputation and reach as a global center for health
interoperability, joining forces under the HL7 banner made
sense.”
With the BPM+ Health Community coming under HL7 governance, the
work is ideally positioned to advance FHIR synergies, align with
HL7 FHIR Accelerator programs, and better meet the challenges most
affecting healthcare process interoperability. The coming months
will focus on those synergies and operationally integrating into
HL7, with work continuing to discover and publish best practices
for authoring workflow models, workflow implementations in concert
with FHIR, and adoption guidance to help institutions take
advantage of this approach.
The BPM+ Health Community was initially established to take on
several key challenges facing healthcare delivery institutions,
namely:
- Advance techniques
to promote consistency in care delivery within healthcare delivery
organizations across settings of care
- Foster a seamless
patient care experience, even when that care spans institutions or
care settings
- Improve
organizational agility to adopt and deploy changing and emerging
care practices
- Leverage commercial
tooling and open standards in widespread use in many verticals but
not well adopted within the health sector
“A key part of what OMG does is bring communities together, and
we are proud to have helped the BPM+ Health Community get their
start and nurture them to this point,” said Bill Hoffman, Chairman
and CEO of OMG. “The BPM+ Health Community believed that moving
closer to the mainstream health IT industry was needed to maximize
their impact, and we were happy to support that direction. We have
enjoyed a long-standing, very positive relationship with HL7 and
look forward to that continuing.”
Denis Gagne, CEO and CTO of Trisotech and one of the
participants at the initial exploratory workshop on this topic
eight years ago, said, “I am ecstatic that the BPM+ Health
Community is now part of HL7. This significant step forward
presents an outstanding opportunity to enhance healthcare
interoperability and advance the field of healthcare
orchestration.”
Access HL7’s BPM Community website here:
http://bpm.hl7.org
For the remainder of 2024, HL7’s BPM Community Membership is
included with HL7 membership. Join here:
http://www.hl7.org/participate/membership/index.cfm?ref=nav
About HL7Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) is an
ANSI-accredited, not-for-profit standards-developing organization
with the mission of empowering global health interoperability. With
affiliates in over 30 countries, HL7’s global membership envisions
a world where everyone can securely access and use the right data
when and where needed. Widely implemented by vendor and healthcare
systems and required by governing bodies around the world, HL7
standards deliver solutions for health information technology,
including HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®),
Version 2 (V2), and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®). For more
information, visit HL7.org. www.HL7.org.
About OMGWhen tech organizations, governments, and academia must
solve discrete pieces of a technology puzzle or discuss matters of
common interest, they often seek to join or form a consortium.
Since 1989, Object Management Group® (OMG®) has created and
nurtured a productive community with common technology interests
and problems to resolve. OMG communities include Augmented Reality
Enterprise Alliance (AREA), BPM+ Health, Consortium for Information
and Software Quality™ (CISQ™), Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC), OMG
Standards Development Organization (SDO®), and Responsible
Computing (RC™). OMG is global, not-for-profit, and
vendor-neutral.
Visit https://www.objectmanagementgroup.org/ for more
information.
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Karen Quatromoni
Object Management Group
978-855-0412
Karen@omg.org
Health Level Seven® International
Andrea Ribick
+1 (734) 677-7777
andrea@HL7.org