Architecture Board

The Architecture Board is responsible for the architecture of the HL7 Standards.

ArB Mission

The HL7 ArB seeks to define a coherent architecture for HL7 work that defines the relationships among the HL7 work products and how they relate to other standards and components of local implementations. This architecture includes the Business Architecture by which these work products are produced and managed through their life cycle, the governance that will be enacted on these work products, and the scope of the standardization effort itself.

ArB Scope

The scope of the ArB's work covers:

• Defining a coherent standards architecture for HL7 to strive towards.
  • Definitions for HL7 Business Architecture
• Working within the organization to market and refine the architecture
• Ongoing interaction with HL7 customers to market and refine the architecture
• Consideration of the suitability of the organisational structures to deliver the architecture
• Defining the procedures and compliance criteria that ensure the HL7 work products conform to the architecture to enable the achievement stated levels of interoperability
• Tracks developments in underlying SDO's and standards and keeps HL7 appropriately informed

Membership

Member	Affiliation	Member	Affiliation
Bond,Andy	NEHTA	Kubick, Wayne (CTO)	Health Level Seven, Inc.
Constable, Lorraine Co-Chair	Constable Consulting Inc.	Loyd, Patrick	ICode Solutions
Hyland, Mario	AEGIS.net, Inc	Milosevic, Zoran	Deontik Pty Ltd
Julian, Tony Co-Chair	Mayo Clinic	Stechshin, Andy	CANA Software and Service Ltd
Knapp, Paul	Knapp Consulting	Lynch, Cecil	Accenture

Acknowledgements

The ArB extends a "Thank you" to Jane Curry  , Bo Dagnall, Grahame Grieve, Steve Hufnagel,  
Charlie Mead, John Koisch, Ron  Parker, AbdulMalik Shakir and  John Quinn for all of the 
work they have done to progress the  work of the ArB.

Current Activities

• Meeting Schedule and Minutes
• Minute template w/directions

• Next WGM Agenda
  • ARB SanAntonio 2017 WGM

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• Previous WGM Minutes
  • ARB Baltimore WGM
  • ARB SanAntonio 2016 WGM
  • ARB Montreal 2016 WGM
  • ARB January (Orlando) WGM agenda
  • ARB Atlanta 2015 WGM

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• All previous minutes are available by date via the Arb_minutes

• Projects
  • HL7 Substantive change and documentation
  • HL7 Document Location
  • BAM
• Meeting Schedule and Minutes
• Links - those that contextualize Arb
  • TSC communications that frame our activities
    • TSC wiki
  • Terms of Reference(TBD)
• Efforts we have sunset:
  • Canonical Clinical Ontology
  • Development of computable semantic links from FHIR specs to RIM

ArB Communication Venues

The many venues ArB uses for communication are found at Communications.