Our Partners

The healthcare standards community’s objective is to develop and pilot standards-based healthcare automation techniques, specifically the application of Business Process Management (BPM) and related standards to clinical care pathways and workflows. As a member of BPM+ Health and the OMG Healthcare Domain Task Force, Team BZ collaborated on Version 2.0 of the "Field Guide to Shareable Clinical Pathways." The guide, leveraging standard-based methods from OMG, HL7, and HSPC, shows how business process and case modeling standards can be used to improve the efficiency, consistency, and quality of clinical care employed and shared across healthcare institutions.

“By applying IT standards to healthcare, practitioners are able to leverage and disseminate evidence-based best practices at the point-of-care to save time, reduce error, and produce better outcomes.”

Active in the consortium, Team BZ collaborates with active organizations to develop a healthcare services platform community that will enable an economy for interoperable applications in a service-oriented architecture and knowledge-enabled model. On behalf of a government agency, Team BZ contributed to integrating clinical content that brings together different terminology standards by using a single model that encompasses any customized content. This initiative garnered the 2018 Federal Health IT Innovation Award, and empowers informaticists and developers to convert user-supplied terminologies into the single model through open source software.

“Instead of spending so much time and resources on data interpretation, medical professionals can now build Health IT solutions with more reliable and shareable data.”

Team BZ subject matter experts are consistently involved in HL7® plenary and working groups, and Connectathons to continue to shape the healthcare standards community. They hold co-chair and facilitator positions in the following areas: Architectural Review Board, Community-based Care and Privacy, Conformance, Electronic Health Records, Financial Management, Implementable Technology Specifications, Infrastructure Steering Division, International Council, Modeling and Methodology, Orders and Observations, Security, and the Standards Governance Board.

“Our vision is a world in which everyone can securely access and use the right health data when and where they need it.”