W. Ed Hammond, PhD, a founding member of HL7, has served three terms as the chair
of the HL7 Board of Directors and is one of the most astute observers of the international
healthcare
standardization scene.
At the 25th Plenary and Working Group Meeting in San Diego in September 2011 he spoke
about 25 years of HL7's history: The good, the not so good and lessons learned.
At the 25th HL7 Plenary and Working Group Meeting in San Diego, California (USA),
the HL7.tv team had the opportunity to speak to Charlie Mead, MD, MSc, Chair of the
HL7 Architectural
Review Board. He gave an introduction about HL7's Service Aware Interoperability Framework
SAIF.