The HL7® Da Vinci Project is proud to recognize five outstanding healthcare technology leaders as its 2025 Da Vinci Community Champions. These individuals have demonstrated exceptional leadership in advancing healthcare interoperability, fostering collaboration, and driving the real-world implementation of HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standards.
As an HL7 FHIR Accelerator, the Da Vinci Project brings together organizations across the healthcare ecosystem to improve care delivery through standards-based data exchange. By accelerating FHIR adoption, Da Vinci helps reduce administrative burden, automate workflows, support value-based care, and ultimately improve health outcomes.
Recognizing Leaders Advancing Healthcare Interoperability
Each year, the Da Vinci Community Champions program honors individuals whose contributions embody the collaborative spirit that drives the project forward. Nominated by their peers, these champions represent the diverse voices of the Da Vinci community—including health plans, health systems, accountable care organizations (ACOs), government agencies, and health IT vendors.
Their work helps shape and implement practical FHIR-based solutions that make healthcare more connected, efficient, and patient-centered.
The 2025 HL7 Da Vinci Community Champions are:
- Chris Cioffi, IT Business System Analyst Senior Advisor, Elevance Health
- Durwin Day, Health Information Manager, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) – Retired
- Lorraine Doo, Director, Health Informatics and Interoperability Group, Office of Healthcare Experience and Interoperability, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – Retired
- November Valentine, Software Developer, Payer Platform, Epic
- Jason Vogt, Manager, Development – Interoperability API & Structured Documents, MEDITECH
"Honorees were nominated by peers across the Da Vinci community, making the recognition especially meaningful," said Anna Taylor, chair of the HL7 Da Vinci Project Steering Committee and associate vice president of population health and value-based care at MultiCare Connected Care.
Taylor also reflected on the loss of one of this year's honorees.
"This year's announcement is bittersweet, as one of our Champions, Durwin Day, recently passed away. His decades-long leadership and foundational contributions to the HL7 Da Vinci Project leave a legacy and lasting impact on standards-based data exchange across the healthcare ecosystem as well as our Da Vinci community."
A Tradition of Service and Collaboration
Since its launch in 2020, the Community Champions program has recognized individuals who consistently put "industry above self" through their commitment to improving healthcare, supporting their peers, and advancing meaningful change across the industry.
These champions represent the collaborative leadership that has made Da Vinci a driving force behind healthcare interoperability and the successful implementation of FHIR-based solutions.
Nominations Are Now Open for the 2026 Community Champions
Do you know someone making a meaningful impact on healthcare interoperability?
The HL7 Da Vinci Project is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Community Champions program through October 31, 2026.
The program recognizes individuals who are advancing FHIR adoption and helping transform healthcare through improved data sharing, streamlined workflows, and stronger care coordination.
Submit a Nomination: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8XR57RV
View Past Community Champions: https://www.hl7.org/about/da-vinci-champion.cfm
The Da Vinci Project thrives because of the dedication, expertise, and generosity of its community members. Congratulations to the 2025 Community Champions, and thank you for helping build a more connected, interoperable healthcare system.
About the Da Vinci Project
As an HL7 FHIR Accelerator, the HL7 Da Vinci Project is a private-sector initiative comprised of industry leaders and health information technology technical experts who are working together to accelerate the adoption of HL7® FHIR® as the standard to support and integrate value-based care (VBC) data exchange across communities. Da Vinci focuses on minimizing the development and deployment of one-off solutions between partners with a goal to help all clinicians and health plans to better deliver clinical quality, value, and care management outcomes. The core focus of phase one of the project is to deliver implementation guides and reference software implementations to the public for data exchange and workflows that support providers and payers in entering into and managing VBC contracts and relationships.
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