Rik Smithies

Owner, NProgram Ltd., HL7 and Health Architectures Consultant, HL7 UK
Biography: 

Rik Smithies is an independent integration consultant with over 20 years medical informatics experience.
He is currently Technical Chair of HL7 UK (and a past Chair), as well as serving on the HL7 International Standards Governance Board.
An active member and committer on the FHIR development team, Rik created the first UK FHIR demonstration server. He is a regular "Connectathon" participant, international FHIR tutor and FHIR Certified Implementer.

Tutorials: 

TUTORIAL 5

Tutorials: 
FHIR overview
Sunday, 22 October, 2017
13:30
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16:00
Place: 
Purifier Building

This tutorial will provide the attendees with an overview of the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources) standard: the characteristics and contents of the core FHIR information models (resources); the various exchange paradigms (documents, messages, real time APIs); profiling of FHIR artifacts, as well as usage examples (e.g. SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks). The aim is to provide the attendees with sufficient knowledge to help their organization to determine if, when, where and how they might use the FHIR standard.

TUTORIAL 6

Tutorials: 
Hands-on FHIR
Sunday, 22 October, 2017
16:30
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19:00
Place: 
Purifier Building

This tutorial is a continuation from the "FHIR Overview" tutorial, and provides the attendees with hands-on experience with FHIR, as well as a discussion of a number of advanced topics not covered during the preceding tutorial. The FHIR standard is easy to implement (the F in FHIR stands for Fast-to-implement); some basic hands-on exercises will help the attendees to come to grips with the standard. This tutorial is aimed at an audience with a diverse technical background – no programming will be done. Attendees are requested to bring a laptop with a HTTP debugger (e.g. Postman, a Chrome extension, or Fiddler2 (http://www.fiddler2.com).

HL7 FHIR®Datathon

Tutorials: 
Datathon
Monday, 23 October, 2017
10:00
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18:00
Place: 
Purifier Building 2

This Datathon will provide an introduction to the use of HL7® FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) to access clinical data to support informatics research activities and allow participants to evaluate how FHIR can support research. Examples of research questions that could be explored include:

  • Can you find patients in the test data set that match eligibility criteria for a clinical trial?
  • Can you match phenotypic characteristics of a patient (medications, demographics, problem lists, physical examination findings, labs, etc.) to identify patients who might be good candidates for genetic testing?
  • Can you link demographic and GPS information to determine possible clustering of diseases or of risk factors?