Vulcan Making Progress on FHIR Adoption in Clinical Research

Vulcan Interoperability Bridge Program Manager Sandy Vance discusses plans to launch a second cohort

Hosted by HL7’s Vulcan FHIR Accelerator, the Vulcan Interoperability Bridge (VIB) brings together clinical research stakeholders using the FHIR standard to enable faster and more connected clinical research. Program manager Sandy Vance recently spoke with Healthcare Innovation about the VIB’s plans to launch a second cohort while eyeing the creation of VIB programs in Europe and Japan.

Vulcan is one of eight FHIR Accelerators created to speed up FHIR adoption for specific healthcare needs. The other seven include Argonaut (early data exchange), CodeX (oncology/genomics), Da Vinci (payer/provider), FAST (infrastructure), Gravity Project (social care), CARIN Alliance (consumer access), and Helios (public health). A ninth accelerator focused on medical device interoperability is planned for 2026.

Vulcan was established to help speed up things such as clinical trial feasibility assessments and subject searches, monitoring protocol execution, pre-populating case report forms and collection of patient-reported outcomes.

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