Trillium II: a global community for the practice of innovation in digital health

The Trillium II project has currently reached the halfway mark. Started in January 2017, it is expected to end in June 2019.

Trillium II’s main objective is to create a global community for the practice of innovation in digital health, extending the adoption of patient summaries around the world for the benefit of individuals everywhere.

Trillium II’s main objective is to create a global community for the practice of innovation in digital health, extending the adoption of patient summaries around the world for the benefit of individuals everywhere.

The aim is to move forward with an international patient summary standard to which will allow access to and sharing of information on people’s health in case of emergencies or unplanned treatment in any part of the world, starting with immunizations, allergies, medications, problems and clinical procedures.

The project involves the participation of 20 partners from different regions of Europe and the United States (plus six organisations that are participating in the project without being beneficiaries).

The ICT Social Health Foundation is collaborating on four of the seven work packages that make up the project. The main actions and tasks that we are working on are the following:

• Analysing the domain of patient problems, together with procedures that need to be performed, in order to represent them in a structured way.
• Identifying and comparing the main controlled vocabularies used to represent the concepts of these two domains.
• Elaborating the reference model where the data set is represented in the context of the general scenario of unplanned medical attention.
• Preparing the FHIR profiles in order to obtain the resources to be exchanged between information systems.

FHIR, which is the new standard developed by HL7 in an attempt to overcome the barriers created by HL7 V2.x and V3 to current technologies and to cover the new use cases that are currently emerging, such as web-based and mobile technologies, new personal health records and the cloud.