AID Activities

The AID HL7 "User Group", in order to fulfill its Mission and Charter is involved in the following activities:

1. Facilitate the exchange of implementation experiences
   1. We accomplish this by organizing regular face-to-face meetings for the exchange of implementation experiences and architectural approaches between users of the HL7 standards. We focus on Patterns for Application Development. Guidance, no normative outcomes.
      • AID meets 3 times a year during the HL7 WGMs (i.e. meetings that are focused on HL7 standards development), and at so-called out-of-cycle meetings. We aim to geographically cover those areas where most of the HL7 users can be found.
      • Any aspects related to the review of HL7 standards, and the creation of whitepapers is done at WGMs, and out-of-cycles are exclusively focused on the exchange of ideas/practices.
      • See List of Scheduled Meetings
   2. We facilitate the exchange of questions and answers by means of an e-mail list and/or discussion forum
   3. We have a project to create a series of best practices documents that document the architectural and software implementation approaches.
      • See List of Whitepapers and (project plan:) Creation of a Set of AID Whitepapers
2. We provide feedback from the implementation community into the standards development process, to ensure that HL7 standards are easy to implement.
   • How (SMART) will we do this? We get ad-hoc comments during various presentations, but we'll need some structured way of 'havesting' feedback from the implementation community
3. Marketing - Public exposure of successes (of HL7 implementations)
4. Provide Education - related to software implementation