What is the Student Track?

HL7 FHIR DevDays is all about healthcare interoperability, a place where hundreds of like-minded people come together to talk about FHIR and how it can improve healthcare.

The Student Track provides a unique opportunity for students to not only join and interact with the FHIR community, but to also go hands-on with the standard and learn from fellow students and FHIR experts. 

Student teams from across the globe are joining the international FHIR community to showcase their creativity, skills, and teamwork. Over the course of the event, teams will present innovative projects that explore how FHIR can help solve real-world healthcare challenges.

This year’s student track brings together a diverse group of participants with fresh perspectives and bold ideas. Join us throughout the day to support the next generation of digital health innovators and see what they’ve been working on!

Teams & Jury

The members of the jury for the student pitches are:

• James Agnew, Smile Digital Health
• Gino Canessa, Microsoft
• Mirjam Baltus, Firely 

7 Universities will participate

• Team 1: Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Team 2: Indiana University Indianapolis & Columbia University, US
• Team 3: University of Victoria, Canada
• Team 4: College of St. Scholastica, US
• Team 5: Dakota State University, US
• Team 6: University of Minnesota, US

Schedule Wednesday, June 17

09:15 – 10:00 Student Track Kick Off

Welcome to the Student Track at FHIR DevDays 2026! In this kick-off session, you will receive all the essential information about the schedule, meet the jury, and hear tips for making the most of your DevDays experience.

This session is exclusively for Student Track participants.

10:30-11:15 Student Career Session

In this informal student career session, Rachel Dunscombe and Imran Qureshi will share their career journey with the student track participants and answer any questions they might have about a career in digital health. They’ll discover what a typical day looks like, discover other roles beyond academia, and hear how careers often come together through unexpected
opportunities.

This session is exclusively for Student Track participants.

11:30 – 12:15 Student Track Hackathon

Use this time to put the final touches on your project! This session also offers a chance to test interoperability with other teams and ensure your solution is ready for the demos.

This session is exclusively for Student Track participants.

12:15-13:30 Student Track Demos & Lunch

Show off your work! During lunch, students can present their projects to other DevDays attendees, exchange ideas, and receive valuable feedback before the final pitches.

This session is open to all DevDays attendees—join us to see their work.

14:30 – 15:15 Student Pitches

It’s showtime! Student teams will pitch their projects to the jury and anyone else who is interested. Bring your best presentation skills and demonstrate the innovation and teamwork behind your solution.

This session is open to all DevDays attendees—join us to see their work.

17:30 Announcement of the Student Track Winners & Presentation

Join us for announcement of the winner of the 2026 Student Track. The winners will take the spotlight one more time to showcase their project on DevDays’ main stage.

This session is open to all DevDays attendees—join us to see their work.

Student Projects

Discover the innovative projects the student teams are bringing to DevDays 2026. From improving interoperability to tackling real-world healthcare challenges, these solutions reflect the creativity, collaboration, and technical skills of the next generation of digital health leaders.

Team 1 — FHIRPOT: A FHIR Honeypot for Standardized Healthcare API Threat Intelligence
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
FHIRPOT is a healthcare API honeypot that observes and classifies attacks against FHIR servers, proxying legitimate traffic to a real backend while detecting suspicious activity in real time. It identifies common attack patterns, and maps each to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and OWASP API Security categories. These detections are emitted as standardized FHIR AuditEvent resources conforming to the project’s companion ATT&CK2FHIR Implementation Guide, which encodes MITRE ATT&CK as native FHIR terminology and profiles. This project, bridges cybersecurity threat intelligence and health-IT data exchange.

Team 2 — Exploring LLM-Assisted Triage for Electronic Case Reporting
Indiana University Indianapolis & Columbia University, USA
eCR-Triage explores how a large language model might support local health departments in prioritizing electronic case reports. The project is investigating a range of possible approaches from ranking reports within shared urgency tiers to surfacing context that helps investigators decide what to work first; while keeping humans in the loop throughout.

Team 3 — RosettaFHIR: Bidirectional Conversion Between Synthetic Clinical CSV and FHIR R4 Bundles
University of Victoria, Canada
RosettaFHIR is a local prototype conversion tool that supports bidirectional transformation between synthetic clinical CSV records and FHIR R4 Bundles. The project uses a staged pipeline that parses structured CSV data, normalizes it into an internal patient model, and generates interoperable FHIR R4 resources such as Patient, Encounter, Condition,
MedicationStatement, AllergyIntolerance, Observation, and Immunization. It also includes a reverse export path that converts selected FHIR R4 resources back into reviewable CSV tables, making the transformed data easier to inspect, compare, and reuse. For this Student Track submission, I will focus on a reproducible CSV-to-FHIR R4 and FHIR R4-to-CSV
workflow using synthetic clinical data, with future work focused on broader resource coverage, terminology mapping, and formal FHIR validation.

Team 4 — Mobility Readiness Algorithm: Clinical Decision Support for Safer Inpatient Mobilization
College of St. Scholastica, USA
This project presents a prototype Mobility Readiness Algorithm (MRA) designed to support safer and more efficient inpatient mobilization decisions in acute care settings. The tool uses structured EHR-style inputs such as activity orders, vital signs, lab values, medication exposure, sedation status, and mobility-related contraindications to generate clear readiness indicators for clinicians. By translating complex patient data into interpretable decision-support flags, the project aims to reduce communication gaps, improve workflow efficiency, and support earlier, safer mobilization. The prototype also explores how clinical informatics,
workflow design, and AI-assisted logic can be combined to improve frontline decision-making.

Team 5 — CKD Dash
Dakota State University, USA
The CKD Dash is a one-stop dashboard that facilitates the complex management of chronic kidney disease. Using FHIR, health information sharing is automated between remote monitoring devices, the dashboard, and the individual’s EHR. The dashboard visually displays current vital statistics, medications, and upcoming appointments while also updating
the individual’s EHR with the most recent vital statistics, facilitating patient monitoring.

Team 6 — Deterioration on FHIR: R4 implementation of a validated clinical deterioration definition
University of Minnesota, US
Early recognition of in-hospital clinical deterioration is a persistent challenge in acute care. This project implements the Byrd et al. (2024, Critical Care Medicine) revised deterioration definition as a portable FHIR R4 application that can run against any compliant server. Given a patient encounter ID and a FHIR base URL, the app queries standard resources
(Observation, Procedure, MedicationAdministration, Encounter) to evaluate seven clinical triggers across predefined time windows relative to ICU transfer, returning a structured DetectionResult with the deterioration timestamp and full trigger timeline.

Questions?

Not sure yet if you want to participate or absolutely sure and don’t want to miss out on any updates regarding the student track? Do you still have burning questions? Are you still looking for a teammate or mentor to sign up with? Please reach out to us by sending an email to devdays-students@fire.ly.