Virtual Data Standards Symposium & Hackathon 2019

21-23 August 2019

Following last year's DASSH FHIR, we are holding a second one, again a symposium and hackathon. The first day will be a 1-day educational symposium, topics below, and the following 2 days will be for a hackathon, focused on HLA & FHIR.

Registration is free.

Please contact Michael Wright, [email protected] for more details.

Agenda

Accessing talks

If you want to see the talks from this event please go here.

Report

We held a one-day symposium concerning FHIR HL7 and had 59 people attend, 12 from external organizations. Three of the 59 attended remotely. For the following two-day hackathon, we had 35 attendees, 11 of them external. Most people thought the symposium was good or very good across a range of measures (subjects presented, presenters, discussions). The aspects which were scored the worst were the time for Q&A, we had attempted to make sure there was adequate time for Q+A, but some of the presenters ran over. However, 18 of the 19 respondents scored the time as good or very good. Three people wanted a longer symposium. All of the talks were most useful to at least one of the respondents, so the agenda was well balanced. The suggestions to improve the symposium include getting more vendors, users and developers to attend. Only 17 of the 19 respondents wanted another symposium, although one of these was because they felt everything had been covered at this one, other people commented that every 6 or 12 months seemed appropriate, and there is always something to learn about FHIR. The hackathon garnered many positive responses, but it would be better if there were more external groups (TCs, vendors, labs, solid organ people). People thought the level of collaboration was a success. All respondents wanted another hackathon.