HL7 FHIR DevDays 2019 Redmond
as the organisers put it
Numbers DevDays June 2026 (Minneapolis) 280 Attendees 120 Talks 90 Speakers 17 Countries Watch the aftermovie of DevDays 2026 What is DevDays? DevDays is the world’s leading FHIR® event, dedicated to advancing your expertise and driving the real-world adoption of… Continue reading →
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| FHIR in Clinical Research | Sebastiaan Knijnenburg | 43m |
Claim: automating EHR → research capture cuts manual transcription, reduces 10–20% transcription errors and could save about 70 FTE saved estimate at one Dutch… | ||
| SNOMED overview | Rory Davidson | 47m |
SNOMED CT is a concept-based clinical ontology with 350,000 clinical codes, immutable identifiers and FSNs, multi-language synonyms, proofed history and… | ||
| Let's build! SNOMED | Rory Davidson | 36m |
Shows an open-source SNOMED CT server (Apache 2) that is built on Elasticsearch and exposes FHIR Terminology Services; demonstrates live calls (Postman… | ||
| FHIR Server Certification with Inferno | Robert Scanlon | 39m |
Inferno is an open source FHIR test suite that tests ONC 21st Century Cures API criteria by running discovery, manual registration, SMART launches, token… | ||
| Da Vinci, Broad Update | Viet Nguyen | 45m |
Da Vinci reports concrete output and live demos: 8 implementation guides with 4 balloted, published reference implementations and HSPC sandboxes, plus a… | ||
| Tooling | Robert Winterbottom | 29m |
A code-generation pipeline ingests FHIR structure definitions, auto-fixes missing dependencies, and renders server code (JavaScript/GraphQL now, planned… | ||
| Opening Startup Track | Vadim Peretokin | 06m |
Morning offers office hours with a FHIR consultant and speakers, then at 2:00pm five-minute pitches in St. Helens with strict timing and two to three minutes… | ||
| Firely tooling for putting FHIR in production | Vadim Peretokin | 39m |
Firely provides a practical toolchain: Forge (Windows) builds profiles and custom extensions (example: change Patient.birthDate cardinality to 1), the Firely… | ||
| Implementation Guides | Toonstra, McKenzie | 33m |
Three authoring options are shown and compared over a 40 minute demo with hands‑on followup. IG Publisher is an open source Java tool that converts JSON/XML… | ||
| Keynote Day 1 | Steve Posnack | 20m |
Overview of the ONC proposed rule tying FHIR-based APIs must be deployable without special effort to new conditions of certification, plus an… | ||
| ONC Rule open API | Steve Posnack | 47m |
ONC proposes an API condition of certification that requires certified health IT to publish FHIR servers, FHIR R2 + SMART/OAuth2 support, and public service… | ||
| Mechanics of FHIR in Reporting and Referrals | Srinivasan, Loonsk | 45m |
A working platform distributes trigger code value sets and reporting rules as a FHIR Subscription using PlanDefinition artifacts so EHRs can auto-create an… | ||
| Introduction to FHIR | Simone Heckmann | 50m |
FHIR positions itself as the modern API of healthcare, started in 2011 and reached a normative R4 release in Dec 2018, built from web tech and tested via DSTUs… | ||
| The Future of Healthcare and Clinical Research Under FHIR | Ed Hammond | 16m |
Argues that FHIR as a philosophy is driving rapid adoption by Apple, Google, Microsoft and others, not just a message format; shows FHIR aggregating clinical… | ||
| Reimaging Healthcare | Peter Lee | 22m |
When a small blood vial contains millions of T cells and sequencing returns a million receptor reads, the claim is that cloud ML fed with over 100 billion… | ||
| Impementing a Personal FHIR Record | Pawan Jindal | 31m |
Pawan Jindal talks about 'Impementing a Personal FHIR record' in the FHIR projects session. | ||
| Trial Site to Sponsor Lab data exchange with HL7 FHIR | Nordo, Hartich | 44m |
The HL7 Lab Data IG specifies concrete FHIR-to-CDISC mappings and provides structure definitions and extensions plus a Java converter + HSPC test data recipe… | ||
| Testing SMART on FHIR Apps with HSPC Sandbox 2019 | Nikolai Schwertner | 38m |
HSPC provides a cloud sandbox that lets developers spin up a personal HSPC Sandbox, load realistic clinical data via JSON import/export, and register SMART… | ||
| Storage and analytics | Nikolai Ryzhikov | 27m |
Compares storage strategies with concrete tradeoffs and working code: storing whole resources as blobs plus search parameter tables causes heavy reindexing and… | ||
| SQL on FHIR | Nick George | 42m |
Open-sourced at google/fhir, the project auto-generates protocol buffers from FHIR StructureDefinitions, hoists profiled extensions and codings into top-level… | ||
| Introduction to DICOM Imaging and FHIR | Mohannad Hussain | 38m |
DICOM handles large clinical images (often 12–16 bit, pathology files ~300 MB) and guarantees unique UIDs; FHIR mirrors that via the ImagingStudy resource… | ||
| Keynote Day 1 | Micky Tripathi | 26m |
Argonaut organizes vendors and providers to sprint on practical FHIR use cases, publishes focused implementation guides and conventions, and funnels results… | ||
| SMART on FHIR | Josh Mandel | 41m |
SMART on FHIR defines a concrete app platform: OAuth2 app-launch flows (standalone and EHR launch) + FHIR R2 resource scopes, an app gallery, sandbox server… | ||
| How to add a FHIR API to an existing database | John Stairs | 43m |
A FHIR API is added on top of an existing store by building a SQL-backed persistence provider for the FHIR Server for Azure using C#/.NET Core and targeting… | ||
| Let's build! How and when to use FHIR Terminology Service API's | Jim Steel | 04m |
Hands-on session with exercises and a public terminology server preloaded with SNOMED editions and a couple thousand code systems, step-by-step tasks to create… | ||
| How and when to use FHIR Terminology Service API's | Jim Steel | 46m |
Describes using the FHIR Terminology Service API to power real UIs and analytics by calling operations such as expand (administrative gender returns 4 codes… | ||
| Subscriptions on FHIR | Jenny Syed | 40m |
Covers the current FHIR Subscription gaps and a concrete proposal: add a Topic resource that advertises allowed filters, switch subscriptions to reference… | ||
| FHIR Profiling overview | Michel Rutten | 45m |
Overview of FHIR profiling shows what a profile actually is: a StructureDefinition that constrains resources or data types, uses canonical URLs for stable… | ||
| Packages and versioning | Martijn Harthoorn | 37m |
Packages group related FHIR conformance resources so one package version replaces many per-profile versions, using the NPM model with package.json manifest and… | ||
| FHIR Projects | Mark Olschesky | 42m |
Company uses FHIR to standardize internal data models across acquisitions, centralizing clinical records and reducing duplicated schemas by mapping legacy… | ||
| Building a Standard Health Record for oncology using FHIR | Mark Kramer | 47m |
Project defines mCODE minimal common oncology data elements as a concise FHIR profile set and exports it from a single-source clinical model using a Simple… | ||
| Customizing IG Publisher Templates | Lloyd McKenzie | 41m |
The HL7 IG Publisher now uses a template-based approach that separates layout from content so an organization can point many IGs at a single custom framework… | ||
| Profiling in practice | Lilian Minne | 43m |
Profiling Academy provides step‑by‑step courses, a profile editor and a hosted workspace that syncs with Git and an issue tracker, and shows how to build… | ||
| Opening Day 1 | Kubick, Kramer | 25m |
Seven hundred? No, about 600 people gather for the second US HL7 FHIR DevDays where the program lists tutorials, pop-up sessions that actually edit the FHIR… | ||
| Opening Day 2 | Kramer, Hammond | 11m |
Day two highlights include a group photo at 1:00, student and startup demos in St. Helens with startups at 2:30 and students at 3:30 and winners presenting… | ||
| Bridging the Gap | Judy W Gichoya | 15m |
Describes two concrete FHIR projects: a mobile X-ray truck serving ~60 clinics weekly that sends radiology text into a point‑of‑care view using only the… | ||
| A Synthetic FHIR Dataset | Jason Walonski | 39m |
Open-source Synthea generates realistic but synthetic patient histories and writes FHIR DSTU2/STU3/R4 bundles (transaction or bulk formats) using JSON module… | ||
| Hooks with SMART messaging | Janet Campbell | 33m |
Proposes a concrete pattern that pairs CDS Hooks semantics with SMART-on-FHIR embedded apps using HTML5 window.postMessage for bi‑directional messages and… | ||
| FHIR Projects | Simone Heckmann, Ward | 40m |
A FHIR-backed document registry is built to index scanned patient records, convert daily metadata files into FHIR resources, and run rule-based validation… | ||
| Questionnaire | Haas, Postlethwaite | 45m |
Shows how to build FHIR Questionnaires with open source editors (Smart Q, NLM/LHC FHIR builder or simple export from internal form tools), render them, and… | ||
| The Biden Cancer Initiative | Greg Simon | 23m |
Argues for turning cancer data into real-time usable information by forcing hospitals to stop hoarding records and flip the switch to export data as it’s… | ||
| Managing patient merge | Grahame Grieve | 42m |
Duplicate patient records appear in every institution at variable rates—4–5% duplicate rate is typical though vendors sometimes cite up to 20%. Published… | ||
| Graohql & GraphDefinition | Grahame Grieve | 47m |
GraphQL sits as a lightweight facade over the FHIR REST API, letting clients request exactly the JSON fields they need which reduces bandwidth and latency and… | ||
| FHIR 5 | Grahame Grieve | 40m |
Roadmap targets publishing R5 around October 2020 target and focuses on maturing resources to normative status so implementations remain forward compatible… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Grahame Grieve | 18m |
Summarizes actions and specific asks: establishes a patient advocacy work group at HL7 and proposes adding a short patient rationale to every specification… | ||
| Managing multiple versions | Grahame Grieve | 43m |
FHIR runs R2–R4 in production (about nine visible deployments) and conversion is brittle: a mapping language plus Java conversion libraries power… | ||
| FHIR and Genomics | Gil Alterovitz | 43m |
Introduces the FHIR R4 Genomics Reporting IG and shows concrete tools and demos: SMART on FHIR apps (Smart Cancer Navigator, Precision Cancer Medicine), CDS… | ||
| Opening day 3 | Ewout Kramer | 08m |
Opening remarks cover logistics and a few concrete asks: drinks from 3:50–5:00 pm, the conference book and e‑book at 20% off, and a tree fundraiser at 486… | ||
| Argonaut Data Query on FHIR R4 | Eric Haas | 44m |
Argonaut Data Query migrates into the US Core R4 implementation guide reusing existing Argonaut profiles and adding clinical notes support and pediatric BMI… | ||
| FHIR Projects | Jeff Danford | 38m |
Demonstration of a working proof of concept that turns published care guides into computable templates using FHIR R4 planDefinition and activityDefinition and… | ||
| Modeling a clinical scenario | David Hay | 47m |
Live demo builds a FHIR resource graph with clinFHIR using the graph builder to create Patient -> Condition (asthma, diabetes) instances, a List with two… | ||
| FHIR for clinicians | David Hay | 42m |
FHIR claims to make clinical data exchange simpler by using minimalist, linkable resources and references (about 20 properties each) that get adapted with… | ||
| Using LOINC with FHIR | Dan Vreeman | 40m |
FHIR serves as the delivery vehicle for LOINC which provides ~90,000 variables and is present in systems covering hundreds of millions of patients with… | ||
| FHIR Bulk Data API | Dan Gottlieb | 42m |
A FHIR-based bulk export standard exposes an asynchronous $export operation that supports $export patient/group/system requests, returns NDJSON files split by… | ||
| Let's Build! A FHIR Facade | Christiaan Knaap | 43m |
Vonk FHIR Server exposes an existing system as FHIR by adding a facade plugin that maps legacy tables to resources, maps FHIR search parameters to backend… | ||
| Open mHealth OmH and FHIR | Carini, Haas | 39m |
Open mHealth supplies JSON schemas for ~20–30 mobile health data types and a shim library called Shimmer shims that pulls from Google Fit, Fitbit and Apple… | ||
| Let's build! Clinical Practice Guidelines | Bryan Rhodes | 44m |
Builds a runnable implementation of clinical guideline recommendations using cqf-ruler (a HAPI FHIR server plugin), FHIR PlanDefinition/ActivityDefinition, and… | ||
| Healthcare Directories | Brian Postlethwaite | 36m |
FHIR directory mapping now uses Practitioner, PractitionerRole, HealthcareService, Organization, Location, Endpoint and the new VerificationResult and… | ||
| Security in FHIR | Andrew Marcus | 43m |
Demonstrates a complete exploit chain against a public FHIR server that starts from reused credentials (14 million leaked logins), uses malicious JavaScript in… | ||
| The CARIN Blue Button Framework | Amol Vyas | 40m |
Defines a payer-centric FHIR implementation guide that maps a Common Payer Consumer Data Set (CPCDS) to FHIR profiles to expose EOBs and claim header/line… | ||
| Let's build! Search in FHIR | Alexander Zautke | 46m |
Practical walkthrough that demos building FHIR searches with Postman walkthrough examples and an uploaded PDF quiz against the public Vonk test endpoint. Shows… | ||
| Material UI on FHIR | Abigail Watson | 35m |
Converts FHIR resources into reusable React + Material UI components, implementing a Material-FHIR library that refactors away Meteor and is published on NPM… | ||
| Find your way around at DevDays | Mirjam Baltus | 06m |
A printed booklet gives floor plan and speaker photos and the website hosts the most up-to-date schedule; the schedule page shows a legend at the top right… | ||
| Find your way around at DevDays | Mirjam Baltus | 06m |
Deprecated DevDays orientation video from Firely outlines concrete navigation: attendees get a booklet with floor plan and speaker photos at registration, the… | ||
| FHIR Documents | Rick Geimer | 41m |
Covers how FHIR represents clinical documents with Composition + Bundle document bundle (XHTML narrative, attestations, transitive closure to meet multi‑year… | ||
| Let's Build! Patient Mediated Data Connectivity | Ricky Sahu | 43m |
Demonstration shows a cloneable Node/Next web app plus an open source React FHIR library that uses patient-mediated OAuth to connect to 300 health systems… | ||
| A Computable Guideline in FHIR Opioid Prescribing Product | Rhodes, Michaels | 46m |
CDC represents its opioid-prescribing recommendation as FHIR Clinical Reasoning resources so a system can compute total morphine milligram equivalents and… | ||
| International Patient Summary | Rob Hausam | 42m |
The International Patient Summary (IPS) offers a minimal, non‑exhaustive clinical extract for unscheduled cross‑border care and is available as a CDA IG (CDA… | ||
| Using Terminology Services: further steps | Rob Hausam | 45m |
FHIR adds two underused operations: $closure builds and maintains a client-side transitive closure table so an app can cache subsumption results instead of… | ||
| Preventing a Database Dumpster FHIR: Constraining Searches | Wilinsion | 16m |
Redox builds an internal FHIR server called Data Chateau that translates FHIR search into SQL with a dynamic query engine, but supporting full search features… | ||
| The Clinical Information Modeling and Profiling Language (CIMPL) | Kramer | 20m |
CIMPL (pronounced “simple”) is a text-first domain-specific language that produces FHIR profiles, extensions, value sets and implementation guides and can… | ||
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