Welcome to the HL7 BPM Community
We are a multi-disciplinary global collective dedicated to improving the 'how' of healthcare w advanced Business Process Modeling (BPM+). We envision a future where technology enables us to solve healthcare's most persistent challenges.
Our community provides an open environment where we learn, collaborate, and innovate to solve the industry’s most persistent healthcare delivery challenges. We are applying industry-leading knowledge, skills, and tools to make our vision a reality today.
Who We Are
Healthcare Providers
Academic Researchers
Informaticists
Data Scientists
Software Developers
UX/UI Designers
What We Do
Tacit Knowledge Capture
Document, review, and iteratively improve workflows using standard notations that are human readable and inherently computable.
Utilize multiple modeling notations to reliably capture the decisions and case management inherent in healthcare delivery.
Advanced Workflow Modeling
Process Efficiency
& Agility
Adapt current workflows to incorporate proven approaches, best-in-class enhancements, and innovation .
Tacit Knowledge Capture
Document, review, and iteratively improve workflows using standard notations that are human readable and inherently computable.
Advanced Workflow Modeling
Utilize multiple modeling notations to reliably capture the decisions and case management inherent in healthcare delivery.
Process Efficiency
& Agility
Adapt current workflows to incorporate proven approaches, best-in-class enhancements, and innovation .
Automation
& Innovation
Empowering caregivers and patients through AI and intelligent automation to improve transparency, enhance quality of care, and reduce burden.
7
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OPERATION
10
PUBLICATIONS
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WORKING GROUPS
REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATIONS
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BPM Community Goals
Improved Care Outcomes
Accelerate the adoption of healthcare best practices and enable vendor-neutral automation for better patient outcomes.
Visibility & Transparency
Beyond data standardization, enable process sharing to evolve, align, and standardize processes for care delivery.
Knowledge Sharing Ecosystem
Provide a knowledge base for solving persistent industry challenges through standards-aligned best practices.
Peer Community
Foster a global collective of expert practitioners seeking peer collaboration to improve healthcare information technologies.
BPM Community Leadership
Ken Rubin - Community Coordinator
Ken is a Standards Strategy and Interoperability Senior Advisor to the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration. An interoperability architect with 25+ years in HIT, with extensive work in HL7 and other global standards groups, Ken helped conceive of and establish HL7's BPM Community of Practice.
Denis Gagne - Ambassador Program Lead
Denis Gagné is the CEO , CTO and Co-Founder of Trisotech, a global leader in decision-centric orchestration that help healthcare organizations improve patient outcomes through decision and process management. With over two decades of expertise in business process modeling and standards development, he has played a key role in initiatives that streamline clinical workflows and enhance care delivery.
Lorraine Constable - Process Lead
Lorraine's background includes diverse standards development and standards implementation initiatives in Canada, the US and internationally, gained over 30 years of consultancy practice. She has nearly 20 years of experience with HL7 and HL7 processes, including roles on the Standards Governance Board, the Architecture Review Board, FHIR Governance and Management Groups, Technical Steering Committee, Electronic Services and Orders and Observations. Lorraine has been involved with the BPM community since its formation within the OMG and is pleased to help facilitate the community's integration into HL7.
Lynn Laakso - Community Program Manager
Lynn serves as HL7's Director of Technical Publications and is the HL7 Staff liaison to the HL7 BPM Community of Practice. With over 15 years of experience at HL7 International, Lynn helps our community integrate and navigate within HL7 processes and supports BPM COP operations.
Nichole Miller - APE Workgroup Co-Chair
With and advanced degree in Health Information Management and IT leadership, and formal training in Health Informatics, Nicole has worked across the spectrum of healthcare including positions from clerk and code through to Director of Health Information. She presently serves as a consultant focused on strategic planning, program management, and documentation audits. Nicole has been involved in the BPM community for several years, and presently serves as co-chair of the BPM Academic and Professional Education group.
Trish Williams - APE Workgroup Co-Chair
Trish is CISCO Chair and Professor in Digital Health Systems at Flinders University in South Australia, and is also co-director of the Flinders Digital Health Research Centre. As International Co-Chair of HL7 Security, and the Australian expert on security, software and safety health informatics ISO standards (ISO Technical Committee 215), she builds on over 30 years' experience in healthcare computing including 15 years industry experience in general practice and pharmacy computing, before joining academia in 2001. Trish co-leads the BPM Academic and Professional Education group.
John Svirbely - Authoring Workgroup Co-Chair
John is the CMIO for Trisotech, a global leader in decision-centric orchestration that help healthcare organizations improve patient outcomes through decision and process management. An experienced pathologist and medical microbiologist, he has over four decades of professional experience in clinical practice. He has been instrument in Trisotech's development of a comprehensive Clinical Decision Services library, and for the BPM community serves as co-chair for the Authoring group.
Pawan Goyal, MD - Authoring Workgroup Co-chair
Presently works as Executive Advisor at InnoVet Health, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) serving as physician informatician for the US Department of Veterans Affairs projects related to Data, AI, Standards Strategy and Interoperability. An ENT Surgeon by training with 25+ years in HIT, with extensive work in clinical workflow optimization, Fellow of AMIA, AHIMA, HIMSS, and US National Library of Medicine (NLM) BioInformatics Program. Pawan is an educator with AMIA 10x10 Informatics Graduate Certificate Program and Authoring Workgroup Co-Chair with HL7's BPM Community of Practice.
Thomas Chon - OACM Workgroup Co-Chair
Thomas is CEO of Tetra Fields LLC, an SBA certified SDVOSB based in Rockville, Maryland. Tetra Fields is a 2024 Veterans Affairs AI Tech Challenge Finalist, and delivers specialized expertise in health IT, health informatics, interoperability, IT, data science, and research. Prior to founding Tetra Fields, Thomas worked as a senior program manager for the Defense Health Agency overseeing more than $400M in the health IT portfolio. Earlier in his career, Thomas served as a direct commissioned Army Officer in the Medical Service Corp for six and a half years.
Ken Allgood - PAE Workgroup Co-Chair
Ken is the CEO of HealthFlow, a company focused on advancing interaction between people/patients and their health teams through the use of AI/ML and process automation to remove barriers adversely impacting health and outcomes. Ken is strategy executive with 20+ years of experience as the leader, architect, and designer of context-driven digital products. An advocate of open standards and architecture, Ken applies client-driven knowledge and information management, service-oriented architecture to create custom solutions using best-practice methodologies. He serves as a co-chair of the BPM Process Automation and Enablement group.
Ben Cushing - PAE Workgroup Co-Chair
Ben has been a leader in emerging technology solutions across multiple industries and is committed to radical innovation in healthcare. Before joining Red Hat, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for MDLogix, a behavioral health IT firm supporting Johns Hopkins Medicine. In addition to supporting analytics and operations at the National Institutes of Health for 6 years, Ben had the opportunity to practice a scaled agile framework with Accenture where he led the technical architecture and design for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Electronic Health Management Platform, an industry leading Health Management and Care Coordination platform serving 9 million patients. He is a passionate advocate technology solutions that serve patient needs, is heavily involved in AI and process automation, and has been involved in the BPM community since its inception.
Robert Lario - Methods Workgroup Co-Chair
Robert brings over 30 years of experience to his role in leading the development of clinical pathways and care delivery models for the Indian Health Service (IHS) IT modernization efforts. Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, he focuses on enhancing patient care through advanced healthcare informatics. He is a recognized expert in knowledge representation, a key component in creating effective clinical pathways and care delivery models. Robert holds a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics, an MBA from the Wharton Business School, and a Master's in System Engineering from the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his work at IHS, Robert is actively involved in developing and adopting healthcare standards through his participation in organizations such as OMG, HL7, and HL7 BPM.