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.

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers-including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies-are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

The AMA is working with physicians to advance initiatives that will help them navigate and succeed in a continually evolving health care environment.

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.

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. We are insights-driven and outcomes-based to help accelerate returns on your investments. Across hundreds of locations worldwide, we provide comprehensive, scalable and sustainable IT and business consulting services that are informed globally and delivered locally. We provide federal health agencies with services and technologies like cloud migration, Agile and DevSecOps, machine learning, data analytics and more to help achieve regulatory compliance, modernized systems and improved user experience to enhance mission effectiveness.

The DCRI is the world's largest academic clinical research organization. We combine the clinical expertise and academic leadership of a premier teaching hospital with the full-service operational capabilities of a major contract research organization.

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.

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.

Established in 1984, MAK-SYSTEM's vision is to design, develop, and deliver globally best-of-breed software to manage blood, plasma, tissue, and cells from end-to-end using the best technologies and functionalities for the patient's benefit. Our experts are at the intersection of healthcare and technology with an extended practical knowledge and experience to implement and support our software solutions. 

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.

Onyx provides healthcare interoperability products and services payers, providers, government agencies and their existing solutions providers – including health information exchanges (HIEs), vendors and application developers.

Onyx is a passionate supporter of standards-based interoperability and is a contributor to HL7 Work Groups and accelerator projects in addition to the ONC FHIR At Scale Taskforce.

We provide healthcare organizations with the ability to accelerate improved outcomes and efficiencies by making it possible to share data, via standards-based interoperability solutions, with traditional stakeholders (payers and providers) and non-traditional stakeholders (patients, family caregivers and community-based organizations).

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.

Partners HealthCare is committed to serving the community. We are dedicated to enhancing patient care, teaching and research, and to taking a leadership role as an integrated health care system. We recognize that increasing value and continuously improving quality are essential to maintaining excellence.

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."

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.

On the battlefield, every element of the Military Health System (MHS) comes together to make the difference between life and death. Army, Navy and Air Force medical professionals help ensure those in uniform are medically ready to deploy anywhere around the globe on a moment's notice. And these medical professionals are also ready to go with them. There isn't another military medical force like it in the world-with the expertise, the assets and the global reach of our health system.

he MHS, however, is more than combat medicine. It's a complex system that weaves together:

• Health care delivery
• Medical education
• Public health
• Private sector partnerships
• Cutting edge medical research and development

Exemplified by personal courage and a drive for excellence, the MHS is changing how health care is delivered throughout the United States and the world.

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.

At UnitedHealthcare, they serve millions of people from their earliest years through their working lives and into retirement. What unites them is their mission to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone.

Lighting the way - Named after a guiding star, we help healthcare organizations see their revenue cycle with greater clarity, illuminating their path to better financials. 

We also help patients understand what they're paying and why, modernizing what has been a frustrating and opaque experience.