John Moehrke
Founder at HL7
Oostburg, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Moehrke is a founder and principal standards architect with over two decades of leadership in health informatics, specializing in interoperability, security, and privacy across FHIR, HL7, IHE, DICOM and related standards. He has shaped international policy and technical detail as co-chair of HL7’s Security Workgroup, an appointed member of the FHIR Management Group and core FHIR editor, and as IHE ITI planning co-chair, driving real-world HIE and Direct Project deployments. At GE Healthcare and beyond he architected enterprise security frameworks—applying Privacy-by-Design, NIST guidance and federated identity—and holds patents in identity and workflow that reflect that applied innovation. An active open-source contributor to the official HL7 FHIR repo, his commits strengthen the specification’s security and privacy guidance and practical examples. Based in Wisconsin, he also shares insights widely through an internationally read healthcare security/privacy blog, combining standards authorship with hands-on implementation experience.
8 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing Education Adhoc, Continuing Education Adhoc at CourseraCS&E Computer Science, CS&E Computer Science at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
smart-on-fhir10
privacy10
hl7-fhir10
security10
documentation9
text-mining6
nlp6
information-extraction6
xml4
json4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
HL7/fhir
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 298 commits, 230 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the security and privacy aspects of the HL7 FHIR specification. The user's commits focused on updating the security considerations section, including the addition of Security and Privacy Considerations, and providing example code snippets related to security. The user also worked on fixing broken links in the security-related documentation, ensuring the integrity of the specification. The user also made updates to the security labels page.
hl7-fhirhl7fhirspecificationtla
IHE/ITI.NPFS
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Non-Patient File Sharing (NPFS) defines how to enable sharing of non-patient files such as clinical workflow definitions, domain policies, and stylesheets. Those files can be created and consumed by many different systems involved in a wide variety of data sharing workflows.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 2 years
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