Health Evidence Knowledge Accelerator (HEvKA) Daily Progress December 17, 2025
Brian Alper
Wednesday December 17
6 people (BA, CE , JD, KS, MC, SG) participated in up to 2 active working group meetings.
The Computable EBM Tools Development Working Group reviewed the ‘Create Synthesis Findings Set’ button feature and the Net Benefit Calculator tool on the FEvIR Platform, and viewed demonstrations of the use of AI to support searches on the FEvIR Platform such as asking for direct navigation to specific recommendations in a Guideline Composition.
The Communications Working Group discussed plans for the 2026 Guidelines International Network (GIN) conference, potentially proposing a workshop to help guideline developers create Net Benefit Calculator instances for their specific recommendations.
Quote for Thought
“Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits.” -Jerry Dunn
To get involved or stay informed: HEvKA Project Page on FEvIR Platform, HEvKA Project Page on HL7 Confluence, View a consolidated list of presentations, videos, posters, journal articles, and book chapter mentions related to HEvKA, COKA, EBMonFHIR and the FEvIR Platform
at https://ComputablePublishing.com/media. or join any of the groups that are now meeting in the following weekly schedule:
(The current week’s agenda can always be found at: https://fevir.net/resources/Composition/29272).
Weekly Meeting Schedule and Link:
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Day |
Time (Eastern) |
Team |
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Monday |
8-9 am |
Project Management WG |
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Monday |
11 am - 12 pm |
StudyRegistryRecordProfile WG (a BRR EBMonFHIR sub-WG) |
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Tuesday |
9-10 am |
Measuring the Rate of Scientific Knowledge Transfer WG |
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Tuesday |
2-3 pm |
StatisticsOnFHIR WG (a CDS EBMonFHIR sub-WG) |
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Wednesday |
8-9 am |
Computable EBM Tools Development WG |
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Wednesday |
9-10 am |
Communications(Awareness, Scholarly Publications) WG |
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Thursday |
8-9 am |
EBM Implementation Guide WG (a CDS EBMonFHIR sub-WG) |
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Thursday |
9-10 am |
Making Guidelines Computable WG |
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Friday |
9-10 am |
Statistic Terminology WG |
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Friday |
10-11 am |
GRADE Ontology WG |
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Friday |
12-1 pm |
Project Management WG |
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Brian Alper
Thursday December 18
4 people (BA, CE, GL, KS) participated in up to 2 active working group meetings.
The Evidence Based Medicine on FHIR Implementation Guide Working Group discussed the creation of a GuidelineMetadata Profile of Citation Resource, for use in a guideline registry where the ‘guideline registry record’ and data exchanged is really a set of metadata about the guideline, thus a different use case than StudyRegistryRecord Profile of ResearchStudy for study registries.
The Making Guidelines Computable Working Group decided not to start a new project today and noted the next set of Thursday HEvKA meetings will be January 8 as the next 2 Thursdays are holidays.
Releases Today on the FEvIR Platform:
FEvIR® Platform Release 1.15.0 (December 18, 2025) limits calling the functions to support the Invite to Edit function to the Usage View, and redirects to the Resource Viewer after accepting an invite to become an editor.
Quote for Thought
“You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.” —Unknown