Benefactors

Accenture's Health & Life Sciences professionals deliver innovation and insight to both the private and public sectors of the marketplace, which includes integrated healthcare providers, health insurers, managed care organizations, public health organizations and pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical products companies.

The mission of the CDC is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. As the nation's prevention agency, we accomplish our mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world to: monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote healthy behaviors, foster safe and healthful environments, and provide leadership and training.

Edifecs is a leading healthcare technology company with the mission to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce costs and accelerate innovation. We empower healthcare organizations to scale the partnerships required by payment, care delivery and access reform initiatives that are redefining the healthcare industry.

We are disruptors, scientists, data nerds, doctors and artists. And we believe information technology can revolutionize healthcare.

Epic makes software for mid-size and large medical groups, hospitals and integrated healthcare organizations – working with customers that include community hospitals, academic facilities, children's organizations, safety net providers and multi-hospital systems. Our integrated software spans clinical, access and revenue functions and extends into the home.

The mission of the European Medicines Agency is to foster scientific excellence in the evaluation and supervision of medicines, for the benefit of public and animal health in the European Union (EU). EMA is protecting human and animal health by facilitating the development and access to medicines, evaluating applications for marketing authorisation, monitoring the safety of medicines across their life cycle, and providing reliable information on human and veterinary medicines in lay language. The Agency also plays a role in supporting research and innovation in the pharmaceutical sector, and promotes innovation and development of new medicines by European micro-, small- and medium-sized-enterprises.

Providing our Service members, Veterans, and their families with world-class health care is of the utmost importance for both the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A key component of this mission is ensuring interoperability between the Departments and their private partners. The DoD/VA Interagency Program Office (IPO) jointly oversees and monitors the efforts of the Departments in implementing national health data standards for interoperability. Additionally, the IPO serves as the single point of accountability for identifying, monitoring, and approving the clinical and technical data standards and profiles necessary to ensure seamless integration of health data between the DoD, VA, and the private sector.

The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health.

For more than 30 years, Healthfirst has been serving New Yorkers. We helped pioneer the value-based healthcare model—where hospitals and physicians are paid based on patient outcomes—because our company was founded on the belief that insurers need to be true partners in the health system.

Highlights of Products and Services

Established in 1978, InterSystems is a leading provider of technology for extremely critical data in the healthcare, finance, and manufacturing and supply chain sectors. Its cloud-first data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organizations around the globe. InterSystems also develops and supports uniquely managed services for hospital EMRs, unified care records for communities and nations, and laboratory information management systems. InterSystems is committed to excellence through its award-winning, 24×7 support for customers and partners in more than 80 countries. Clients include the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, and thousands of other successful organizations. Leading software providers also leverage InterSystems high-performance technology in their own products. These organizations include Epic Systems, Optum, 3M Health Information Systems, and hundreds of others. Privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems has 25 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit InterSystems.com.

Our solutions and technology are designed to seamlessly meet the interoperability needs of health and life science organizations:

• InterSystems IRIS for Health™ is a data platform which supports the rapid development of highly scalable healthcare solutions and advanced healthcare interoperability technology. To learn more, go to https://www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris-for-health/
• HealthShare^® Unified Care Record provides industry-acclaimed data aggregation, normalization, deduplication, and care management capabilities to create a unified, community-wide health record as the foundation for coordinated, value-based care and population health management.  https://www.intersystems.com/products/healthshare/unified-care-record/
• HealthShare^® Health Connect is the high-performance integration engine delivering proven process management monitoring and support for massive transaction volumes to keep your critical healthcare applications running. https://www.intersystems.com/products/healthshare/health-connect/
• InterSystems TrakCare^® unified healthcare information system transforms care delivery and the patient experience, and provides clinical, administrative, and financial information as a single source of truth for each patient in one electronic patient record (TrakCare is available outside the U.S. only). https://www.intersystems.com/products/trakcare/#what-sets-trakcare-apart

Highlights of the Use of the HL7 Standards

At InterSystems we invest time and resources to stay on the cutting edge of the HL7 standards and build HL7 FHIR into a common technology stack for all our products. Some of the common use cases include:

• Bridging between FHIR and other standards and document formats such as HL7v2 and CDA
• Enabling new applications to access legacy data by transforming the data to FHIR resources
• Providing a FHIR server implementation supporting a standard FHIR RESTful API
• Provisioning a FHIR resource repository supporting all FHIR resource types

InterSystems has been be a Benefactor Member of HL7 for two decades, in addition to our active membership in the HL7 Da Vinci Project, Project Vulcan, and the Carin Alliance. We're proud to support many of our application partners who use InterSystems technology and are also members of HL7. We actively participate in HL7 affiliates in many of the 38 affiliate countries.

For more information, visit https://www.intersystems.com/industries/health-and-life-sciences/

Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health plan. Founded in 1945, it is a not-for-profit, group practice prepayment program with headquarters in Oakland, California. Kaiser Permanente serves the health care needs of over 8.2 million members in 9 states and the District of Columbia. Today it encompasses the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their subsidiaries, and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups, as well as an affiliation with Group Health Cooperative based in Seattle. Nationwide, Kaiser Permanente includes approximately 136,000 technical, administrative and clerical employees and over 11,000 physicians representing all specialties.

The KHIS aims to set the standards for an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, and provide certification for the standard applications and support programs on healthcare information such as assistance for the safety and continued treatment of patients by improving the quality of the EMR system.

KHIS is a digital healthcare institution that contributes to the promotion of public health by standardizing and safely managing and utilizing medical information held by administrative and medical institutions.

Mass General Brigham is an integrated academic health care system, uniting great minds to solve the hardest problems in medicine for our communities and the world. Mass General Brigham connects a full continuum of care across a system of academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, a health insurance plan, physician networks, community health centers, home care, and long-term care services. Mass General Brigham is a nonprofit organization committed to patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. In addition, Mass General Brigham is one of the nation's leading biomedical research organizations with several Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) exists to improve the quality of health care. We work for better health care, better choices and better health.

Health information technology (health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information. Health IT includes the use of electronic health records (EHRs) instead of paper medical records to maintain people's health information.

Optum is a health services and Innovation company whose mission is to help people live healthier lives and the help make the health system work better for everyone.

We are tackling the biggest challenges in health care by partnering across the entire system. Together, we transforing health care for a better future for eveyone we serve. Our partners choose us for our combination of unique capabilities.

As a global team of 125,000+, our skill and expertise is matched only by the commitment and passion we share to transform health care.

Pfizer is a research-based global biopharmaceutical company whose purpose is grounded in our belief that all people deserve to live healthy lives. This drives our desire to provide access to medicines that are safe, effective, and affordable.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. Philips' health technology portfolio generated 2016 sales of EUR 17.4 billion and employs approximately 73,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter."

PointClickCare Technologies is a company developing a healthcare technology platform that connects care, services, and financial operations.

Quest Diagnostics, a leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, is also a leader in the innovative use of standards-based technologies for clinical laboratory services and disease management programs. Enterprise-wide deployment of HL7 and LOINC standards enable rapid interchange and integration of physician, patient, and third party data to provide unparalleled diagnostic insights.

Ready Computing ("Ready") is a full-service IT firm, specializing in software products and services that address the needs of health and social care. From health information exchange, to population health, to care coordination, to community network resource management, Ready has delivered many world class solutions to healthcare organizations around the globe.

Established in 2011 and headquartered in New York City, Ready has focused much of its efforts on the definition of healthcare interoperability standards and the implementation of those standards in the products and services it delivers to its clients. Through a continuous loop of creativity and innovation, Ready helps the standards evolve and its solutions improve through "real world" project experiences.

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is part of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). As a major healthcare provider, VHA operates more than 170 medical centers and 600 clinics and contracts an additional $1B a year to outside providers for veteran healthcare. We are directly impacted by numerous internal and external factors such as government legislation and directives, the healthcare industry, the information technology industry and internal restructuring. Like many other organizations the VHA has been charged with reducing costs in a way that systematically produces clear, measurable and improved performance that translates into improved products and services. Each of these factors generates different pressures and makes the interchange of healthcare information critical. Additionally, our size and complexity create special technical issues for us.

VHA believes a major part of the solution to these challenges is through participation in the Health Level Seven organization. We are pleased to be a benefactor member and consider the success of HL7 as strategically important to us. VHA intends to be an early adopter of the HL7 Version 3 model and is particularly excited over the possibilities of XML. We plan to be a major participant in the Government Projects SIG and look forward to partnering with other members as we expand our internal commercial off-the-shelf portfolio and develop additional provider relationships. A goal is to increase our involvement with the HL7 organization in the spirit of returning something for the many benefits we accrue.

With the largest connected community of clients in healthcare, Allscripts delivers an integrated platform of solutions to facilitate enhanced collaboration and exchange of critical patient information. We’re committed to delivering One Network, One Platform, One Patient.