HL7NZ is the New Zealand Affiliate of Health Level Seven International (HL7®), the global developer of standards for the interoperability of health information technology with members in over 55 countries.
HL7NZ is a ‘Not for Profit’ incorporated society focused on current and emerging HL7® standards, with strong relationships to all other related healthcare IT standards used in New Zealand.
End of Year 2025 Message from HL7 New Zealand
Kia ora koutou,
As we approach the end of 2025, I want to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve achieved together this year It’s been a busy year for HL7 New Zealand which I hope that you’ll enjoy reading about in this report.
Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a successful new year!
John S. Carter
Chair, HL7 New Zealand
2025 Annual General Meeting
The 2025 HL7 New Zealand Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 2nd October at 3:00pm virtually via ZOOM.
The Chairman and Treasurer Annual Reports, presented to the Meeting, can be found in the minutes
At the meeting, the following members of the previous Board were re-elected: Koray Atalag, Prashanth Koval, David Moorhouse, Chris Royle, Peter Sergent, Daniel Thomson & Matthew Valentine.
At the first meeting of the new Board, held directly afterwards, the following officers were unanimously elected for two-year terms up to the end of September 2027: Peter Sergent (Vice-Chair) and David Moorhouse (Treasurer). John Carter (Chair) and Peter Jordan (Secretary) will continue in their roles until the end of September 2026, having been elected to serve two-year terms following the 2024 AGM.
HL7 New Zealand Executive Board
FHIR Implementation Work Group News
The Group is meeting fortnightly and working on the next version (v4) of the NZ Base FHIR Implementation Guide. The current release (3.0.1) is available at https://fhir.org.nz/ig/base/index.html.
This Guide contains the base FHIR implementation rules for New Zealand (Extensions, Profiles Identifiers, and Terminologies). It is an ‘abstract’ artefact from which all other FHIR Implementation Guides in New Zealand may be derived, and we hope that it will continue to be a valuable resource for the local FHIR community.
We would also like to extend our continued gratitude to our members at Spark Health for kindly hosting the Guide.
International News
The latest version of the HL7 FHIR standard (R5) was published on March 28th. Although it contains no new normative content, and is technically a trial release, there are a significant number of new resources (giving an overall total of 158) and the maturity level of many of the most-commonly used resources has increased. We would be happy to discuss the potential use of this new release within New Zealand with potential implementers as well as receiving feedback from the broader community on the roadmap for the next major release (R6).
For those continuing to use Release 4, please note that version of the specification is now available at http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/. The R4B sub release can be found at http://hl7.org/fhir/R4B/.
More Information on HL7NZ activities
Need more information or have questions you want answered, email us at admin@hl7.org.nz.
