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:
- BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation): For prescriptive workflows
- CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation): For reactive activities
- DMN (Decision Model and Notation): For complex decision-making rules
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.”