Health Evidence Knowledge Accelerator (HEvKA) Daily Progress September 15, 2025
Brian Alper
There are not HEvKA meetings this week as we are attending the HL7 Work Group Meeting in Pittsburgh and the Guidelines International Network meeting in Geneva.
Today’s update is a brief summary of the HL7 FHIR Connectathon EBMonFHIR-StudyRegistryRecord-EU CTIS Track.
- Our first major goal was to demonstrate conversion of an EU CTIS study record to a StudyRegistryRecord Profile with mappings of translations of titles and medical conditions. The EU CTIS-to-FEvIR Converter was successfully adapted to handle translations of titles and medical conditions. An example was demonstrated at https://fevir.net/resources/ResearchStudy/399843
- Our second major goal was to demonstrate compatibility of a study record using both the M11ResearchStudy Profile (in the Vulcan UDP Implementation Guide) and the StudyRegistryRecord Profile (in the Evidence Based Medicine on FHIR Implementation Guide). We combined an example derived from the Vulcan UDP IG and the ClinicalTrials.gov-to-FEvIR Converter and created it at https://fevir.net/resources/ResearchStudy/399864 – successfully built in in the EBMonFHIR IG and errors/warnings related mainly to not listing Vulcan UDP IG in the EBMonFHIR IG, se we achieved our second major goal.
Feature releases to related software resulting from the Connectathon Track:
FEvIR®: Resource Viewer Release 1.1.0 (September 14, 2025) displays translated content values for Coding datatype values with translation extensions in the text element.
FEvIR®: ResearchStudy Viewer Release 1.1.0 (September 14, 2025) simplifies the display of title types for ResearchStudy.label values and displays the language for ResearchStudy.label values with language data.
FEvIR®: ResearchStudy Builder Release 1.1.0 (September 14, 2025) improves the editing of ResearchStudyl.label values by placing the Label Value data entry before the Label Type data entry and by adding Label Language data entry.
Computable Publishing®: EU CTIS-to-FEvIR Converter Release 0.7.0 (September 14, 2025) adjusts the mapping of 'shortTitle' to ResearchStudy.label of type "Protocol code", adjusts the mapping of 'publicTitle' to ResearchStudy.label of type "plain language", adjusts the mapping of title translations to use the ResearchStudy.label.language element, and adds medical condition translations with translation extensions in ResearchStudy.condition.coding.text.
Computable Publishing®: ClinicalTrials.gov-to-FEvIR Converter Release 4.35.0 (September 13, 2025) corrects the creation of Location.contact.name element data to provide arrays of name values, used in contained resources for the ResearchStudy to represent study sites.
Quote for Thought
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” –Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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