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Conspicuously absent from the meeting were Chuck Jaffe, MD, CEO of HL7, and Micky Tripathi, manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry-wide effort to accelerate the development and adoption of HL7\u2019s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard.

Significant momentum continues to build for FHIR, demonstrating that it has reached a critical point as a mature standard for the electronic exchange of health information. In fact, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released data in October on the growing use of the standard.

Also See<\/b>: FHIR standard adoption in the U.S. is at a turning point<\/a>

Despite FHIR\u2019s expected role in interoperability, neither Jaffe nor Tripathi were invited to the White House for this week\u2019s meeting or the previous \u201clistening sessions\u201d organized by the Office of American Innovation, which is directed by President Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The White House was not immediately available for comment. Both Jaffe and Tripathi declined to comment.

However, attendees invited to participate at Tuesday\u2019s White House event noted the absence of Jaffe and Tripathi\u2014two prominent interoperability experts who have been instrumental in the success of FHIR as a standard for addressing the challenges of achieving interoperable health IT.

\u201cI think they did a good job of getting good representation at the forum\u2014the one group I wish had been there is HL7, since we were talking a lot about FHIR,\u201d says Doug Fridsma, MD, president and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, who attended the meeting.

\u201cMicky Tripathi has done some great work with the Argonaut Project, and taking the FHIR specifications and making them useful from an interoperability perspective\u2014I think that\u2019s been tremendous,\u201d Fridsma adds.

\u201cThere were people there at the meeting who are knowledgeable about FHIR, but it\u2019s odd that you wouldn\u2019t have the CEO of HL7 there, given the importance of FHIR,\u201d observes Stan Huff, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Intermountain Healthcare, who was also at the event.

\u201cI can\u2019t explain why Micky and Chuck weren\u2019t there,\u201d adds Huff. \u201cI don\u2019t know the process for who they decide to invite.\u201d

At the same time, Huff notes that National Coordinator for Health IT Don Rucker voiced his strong support of the FHIR standard at Tuesday\u2019s White House meeting.

Some industry observers have suggested that partisan politics are behind the White House\u2019s exclusion of Jaffe and Tripathi from the Trump administration\u2019s series of interoperability meetings.

Fridsma contends that \u201cit\u2019s hard to know\u201d what\u2019s behind Jaffe and Tripathi being shut out of the White House meetings. However, Huff says he \u201csaw no evidence that there was a Republican bias.\u201d

Mariann Yeager, CEO of The Sequoia Project, a non-profit dedicated to solving health IT interoperability, who attended Tuesday\u2019s White House event, also does not see an obvious political agenda at work. \u201cI have no political ties at all,\u201d remarks Yeager.","saveContent":"Tuesday\u2019s interoperability forum at the White House brought together stakeholders from across the healthcare industry, but neither the head of the Argonaut Project nor HL7 were invited to attend.

Conspicuously absent from the meeting were Chuck Jaffe, MD, CEO of HL7, and Micky Tripathi, manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry-wide effort to accelerate the development and adoption of HL7\u2019s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard.

Significant momentum continues to build for FHIR, demonstrating that it has reached a critical point as a mature standard for the electronic exchange of health information. In fact, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released data in October on the growing use of the standard.

Also See<\/b>: FHIR standard adoption in the U.S. is at a turning point<\/a>

Despite FHIR\u2019s expected role in interoperability, neither Jaffe nor Tripathi were invited to the White House for this week\u2019s meeting or the previous \u201clistening sessions\u201d organized by the Office of American Innovation, which is directed by President Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The White House was not immediately available for comment. Both Jaffe and Tripathi declined to comment.

However, attendees invited to participate at Tuesday\u2019s White House event noted the absence of Jaffe and Tripathi\u2014two prominent interoperability experts who have been instrumental in the success of FHIR as a standard for addressing the challenges of achieving interoperable health IT.

\u201cI think they did a good job of getting good representation at the forum\u2014the one group I wish had been there is HL7, since we were talking a lot about FHIR,\u201d says Doug Fridsma, MD, president and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, who attended the meeting.

\u201cMicky Tripathi has done some great work with the Argonaut Project, and taking the FHIR specifications and making them useful from an interoperability perspective\u2014I think that\u2019s been tremendous,\u201d Fridsma adds.

\u201cThere were people there at the meeting who are knowledgeable about FHIR, but it\u2019s odd that you wouldn\u2019t have the CEO of HL7 there, given the importance of FHIR,\u201d observes Stan Huff, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Intermountain Healthcare, who was also at the event.

\u201cI can\u2019t explain why Micky and Chuck weren\u2019t there,\u201d adds Huff. \u201cI don\u2019t know the process for who they decide to invite.\u201d

At the same time, Huff notes that National Coordinator for Health IT Don Rucker voiced his strong support of the FHIR standard at Tuesday\u2019s White House meeting.

Some industry observers have suggested that partisan politics are behind the White House\u2019s exclusion of Jaffe and Tripathi from the Trump administration\u2019s series of interoperability meetings.

Fridsma contends that \u201cit\u2019s hard to know\u201d what\u2019s behind Jaffe and Tripathi being shut out of the White House meetings. However, Huff says he \u201csaw no evidence that there was a Republican bias.\u201d

Mariann Yeager, CEO of The Sequoia Project, a non-profit dedicated to solving health IT interoperability, who attended Tuesday\u2019s White House event, also does not see an obvious political agenda at work. \u201cI have no political ties at all,\u201d remarks Yeager.","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

Argonaut, HL7 heads absent from White House interoperability meeting

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