Grahame Grieve, the founder of HL7 FHIR and FHIR product director at HL7 International, will receive the 2019 Glaser Award from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics.
The John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society was created in recognition of the expertise and leadership of John P. Glaser, Ph.D., a thought leader in the field of health informatics. The society was created to acknowledge innovators in the field of health informatics and provide education, collaboration, and networking opportunities for the broader community of health informatics professionals, clinicians, and students.
Grieve has a background in laboratory medicine, vendor software development, clinical research and open source development. Since 2011, he has served as principal of Health Intersections, an integration/interoperability consulting firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Since becoming a consultant in 2011, he has conceived, developed, and sold interoperability and clinical document solutions and products in the Australian and global markets. He has worked to develop standards and solutions with several U.S. vendor consortiums, as well as the national programs of Canada, England, Singapore and Australia.
“In his roles as founder and active proponent of HL7 FHIR, Grahame Grieve is a true visionary,” said John Glaser in a statement. “His farsightedness, determination, and ability to marshal international intellectual capital focused on interoperability are reshaping healthcare in ways that are still being imagined. His work, and that of so many contributors to this effort, will revolutionize patient care—at the individual and population levels.”
Ivo D. Nelson, a notable health information technology entrepreneur, was accorded the 2016 Glaser Award; Dr. David Bates, Harvard’s internationally renowned patient safety expert, accepted the Glaser Award in 2017; and H. Stephen Lieber, former President & CEO of the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), accepted the 2018 Glaser Award.
On Oct. 18, 2019, Grieve will be formally inducted into the Glaser Society. The event will include a lecture by Grieve entitled “FHIR: The Power of Standards to Change Health Outcomes,” followed by a reception in his honor.
