Immunization Focus Group

Meeting

Date

Friday, October 9, 2026

Time

11:00 AM America/New_York

Status Finalized

Meeting Information

All Immunization Focus Group Meetings

Meets every other Friday at 11 am US Eastern Time. Meeting open for all who are interested.

Chair: Nathan Bunker

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Topic / Time	Agenda	Presenter(s)
Welcome and Introductions Current topic 11:00 AM–11:05 AM 5 min	Welcome Small Group Principles o Everyone is an SME and has something unique to contribute o Assume positive intent, we are all here to help make things better o Dare to make mistakes o Give your ideas away don't own them o Don't let perfect be the enemy of good o Say it once, all perspectives are being captured Notes Reviewed small group principles
FHIR Open Tickets Current topic 19 following · 6 here today 11:05 AM–11:55 AM 50 min	Review 17 FHIR tickets organized as follows: - Previously reviewed by an IFG subset—confirm direction with the full IFG - What is being recommended or evaluated: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-58655, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-58952 - Series and season representation: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-59485, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-59486, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-59487, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-59488, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-59489 - Recommendation authority: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-56990, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-57247 - Tickets needing initial full-IFG review - Evaluation authority: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-56989 - Dose-number and series-dose datatypes: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-54327, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-58387, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-58388 - Immunization reactions: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-58403, https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-58404 - AI and Device participation: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-59304 - Status confirmation - Resolved editorial correction: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-51700 Notes FHIR-58655 Comment so far - Only need vaccine, not vaccine group Similar to preferable vaccines in V2 Target disease is functionally equivalent to vaccine group FHIR-58952 Only one target disease but consider expanding to allow multiple target diseases FHIR-59485 Make it codable concept but still can do a string no concerns raised by the group for this direction FHIR-59486 Same as evaluation - no concerns FHIR-59487 For evaluation adding a season no concerns raised with this direction FHIR-59488 For recommendation adding a season FHIR-59489 On recommendation can now say which does number you are on but no way of saying how many doses remain can move forward as proposed	Nathan Bunker
Wrap Up Current topic 11:55 AM–12:00 PM 5 min	Next steps Next topics