Daniel Vreeman Email & Phone Number

Dr. Daniel Vreeman is a physical therapist, biomedical informatician, and expert in health data standards. His work aims to create a global health ecosystem where data is available with open standards that unlock the potential for information systems and applications to improve health decision-making and care. Dr. Vreeman is the Chief Standards Development Officer at HL7 International where he leads the development of standards to advance health data interoperability. He also serves as President of the HL7 FHIR Foundation Board of Directors.Dr. Vreeman is an interoperability expert who has developed internationally adopted health data standards, implemented them in multi-institutional health IT systems, evaluated their use, and provided strategic advice to interoperability initiatives of numerous U.S. federal agencies and national eHealth efforts in several other countries. He previously served as the Senior Clinical Data Standards Lead at RTI International. From 2006 to 2019, Dr. Vreeman was the Director, LOINC and Health Data Standards with the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the inaugural Regenstrief–McDonald Scholar in Data Standards at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In those roles, he led the development of LOINC, an open vocabulary standard for health measurements, observations and documents that is now used in more than 185 countries.Dr. Vreeman’s leadership on health data standards is globally recognized. He has published numerous scientific papers, guides and articles, and has presented over 275 invited lectures worldwide. He is the author of the book LOINC Essentials: A step-by-step guide for getting your local codes mapped to LOINC. His innovative work has been recognized through notable awards, including being elected as fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and a John Quinn HL7 Fellow. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Duke University Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, the Technology and Innovation Award from the American Physical Therapy Association Health Policy and Administration Section, and the LOINC Award for Distinguished Contributions from the Regenstrief Institute. He has also been recognized with an honorary LOINC code 101000-8 for his lasting legacy as a perennial advocate of health data standards.

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