Brett Marquard is an interoperability expert specializing in the design and development of healthcare data exchanges. He is a co-chair of Health Level Seven’s (HL7) Structured Document Working Group (SDWG) and Primary Editor of the HL7 Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Templates Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU), a standard that reconciled and consolidated 12 healthcare exchange document-types, including support for claims attachments, into a single template library. The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) named the C-CDA DSTU in their 2014, and 2015 Certification Rules. Brett is a co-editor of the Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA), also named by ONC.

Brett served as Primary Editor for the Data Access Framework (DAF) and US Core, an emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR) standard to support Application Programming Interface (API) data access. The Argonauts, an industry consortium working to accelerate FHIR adoption, relies on Brett as a subject matter expert for their Data Query, Document Query, Provider Directory, and CDS Hooks initiatives. Brett is the Vice Chair of the HL7 US Realm Steering Committee and a liaison from the SDWG to ONC’s Model-Driven Health Tools (MDHT) support team.

Brett trains new implementers, developers, and policy makers on Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), FHIR, and HL7 version 2 standards.

Qualifications Summary:

  • Expert in HL7 CDA, C-CDA, Continuity of Care Document (CCD), FHIR, QRDA, Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) components of CDA (e.g. C32), and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Patient Care Coordination Technical Framework Profiles.

  • Developer of FHIR profiles in DSTU2, STU3, R4.

  • Devised project plans, staffing recommendations, training material, and specifications for successful exchanges between electronic healthcare records and third-party applications.

  • Direct manager or adviser on the implementation of over 150 HL7 version 2 exchanges.

  • Project director for HL7 Version 3 CDA interface technology for Epic Systems Corporation.

  • Facilitated development of Epic Care Elsewhere, now included in Care Everywhere, a product to connect Epic to outside organizations through the use of IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS).

  • Proficient in MUMPS and Caché.