This March, HL7 International announced the launch of the Caliper FHIR® Accelerator, a new implementation community focused on improving how data from medical and personal health devices is exchanged, integrated, and used across healthcare systems.
The Caliper Accelerator builds on the organization’s 2025 initiative to help founding members define a collaborative implementation community addressing long-standing challenges in device interoperability across acute care settings and emerging care environments.
Healthcare organizations increasingly rely on high-frequency data generated by devices in operating rooms, intensive care units, ambulatory settings, and patient homes. Yet this information often remains difficult to integrate into enterprise health IT systems in ways that support clinical decision-making, operational workflows, and advanced analytics. By leveraging HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) alongside existing device communication frameworks, the Caliper Accelerator will enable more consistent integration of device data into EHRs, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled applications, helping organizations move beyond fragmented connectivity toward scalable, real-time interoperability.
“Healthcare systems are entering a new phase where access to high-quality, real-time data is essential to safely deploying advanced analytics and AI,” said Rachel Dunscombe, CEO of HL7 International. “The Caliper Accelerator represents an important step forward in ensuring that device-generated data, whether from critical care equipment or patient-facing technologies, can be shared and used consistently across care environments worldwide. This kind of foundational interoperability is critical to improving both clinical outcomes and operational resilience.”
As founding members of the Caliper FHIR Accelerator, organizations such as Dexcom and GE HealthCare have helped shape the community’s early priorities and bring real‑world implementation experience to its development.
“Interoperability has long been core to Dexcom’s vision, and we’ve helped lead its advancement across our industry, ultimately translating into real-world benefits for users and the clinicians who treat them,” said Girish Naganathan, Chief Technology Officer at Dexcom. “Following our successful collaboration with HL7 International to develop the Continuous Glucose Monitoring FHIR Implementation Guide, we’re proud to continue to set the standard as a founding member of Caliper and enable the next generation of connected care.”
Building on decades of collaboration across the global device informatics community, the Caliper Accelerator will align with complementary standards from organizations including IEEE, ISO, IEC, and IHE to support more seamless integration of medical device data into enterprise systems.
The initiative also draws on prior work from the HL7 Devices Working Group and the joint HL7–IHE Gemini Device Interoperability Program, which have advanced the implementation of service-oriented device connectivity standards in clinical environments.
“For clinicians, the promise of digital health has always depended on having the right information at the right time,” said John Beard, MD, anesthesiologist, and Chief Medical Officer of Patient Care Solutions at GE HealthCare. “The Caliper FHIR Accelerator is critical because it moves medical device interoperability from theory into practice, ensuring that high‑fidelity device data can flow seamlessly into clinical workflows which contributes to more confidence that the data guiding decisions is complete, timely, and actionable.”
“With the launch of the Caliper Accelerator, we now have a dedicated implementation community focused on turning device interoperability from a technical aspiration into an operational reality,” said Todd Cooper, Technical Director of the Caliper FHIR Accelerator. “This work will help clinicians, health systems and technology developers better utilize high-fidelity device data achieve new levels of safety, quality and innovation for individuals around the world.”
To learn more or to get involved with the HL7 Caliper FHIR Accelerator community, visit https://www.hl7.org/caliper, or follow @Caliper-Accelerator on LinkedIn.
