New Group Advances Workflow and Process Interoperability Using HL7® FHIR®
HL7 is pleased to announce the official launch of its HL7 Business Process Modeling (BPM) Community of Practice. Now open for membership, the community is dedicated to advancing interoperability, process consistency, and process automation through the use of formal modeling techniques promoting better modeling, sharing, and execution of clinical and administrative workflows across the healthcare ecosystem.
BPM Community of Practice builds upon three open standards-based languages – referenced together as “BPM+”, and include:
The use of these standards, in concert, allows inherent ambiguities in natural-language guidelines to be clarified, providing precise, automatable guidance to improve care quality and consistency. Organizations use BPM+ to model and streamline processes, ensuring accurate and scalable healthcare delivery, process consistency, comparability, and repeatability.
“HL7’s focus is on bringing together communities to advance all aspects of interoperability, and that includes workflow and care processes,” said Ken Rubin, Community Coordinator of the HL7 BPM Community of Practice. “This launch marks an important step in providing the healthcare industry with tools, models, and frameworks to manage care processes more effectively, consistently, and collaboratively.”
The BPM Community of Practice builds on years of foundational work in clinical business process modeling and is now positioned to contribute meaningfully to FHIR®-based implementation efforts. Members will collaborate to support real-world needs like shared care planning, cross-organizational process execution, human and system interaction modeling, and automation through service orchestration and decision support.
“Welcoming the BPM Community of Practice into our organization was a natural fit. We are excited about the possibilities it brings to leverage and build upon FHIR to enable and support shared care, consistency, and reliability in healthcare practices,” said Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, CEO of HL7 International. “Moving forward, our industry needs solutions that can effectively manage interactions between humans, systems, and AI to support process portability and seamless care.”
The BPM Community of Practice offers an open environment where stakeholders from healthcare, health IT, academia, and government can collaborate to shape how workflows are represented and executed within the FHIR ecosystem. It provides a platform for those working in this space to collaborate, learn from one another, collect and document best practices, and engage with peer experts.
Information about the community and how to participate is available at https://www.hl7.org/bpm. Join the BPM Listserv by clicking here and selecting “Business Process Management” under Public Lists. For questions, email: bpm@hl7.org.
“The HL7 BPM Community of Practice is a game-changer for aligning complex healthcare workflows with the precision and scalability of FHIR,” said Dr. Thomas Chon, CEO of Tetra Fields LLC. “By uniting leading modeling standards, this community empowers collaborative, interoperable solutions that improve care coordination and execution across the healthcare system.”