Benjamin Graham

Benji Graham, ICF’s senior Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) architect, has more than 17 years of experience in healthcare, in a variety of roles with Payers, Providers/Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Clearinghouse and revenue cycle, and government health technology. His expertise includes health data standards such as American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X12 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 2, HL7 Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (CCDA), and, most notably, HL7 FHIR.

Beginning in 2020 with HealthCare Services Corporation, Graham played a key role in architecting and implementing a FHIR application programming interface (API) to meet the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ final rule for Patient Access. This work included mapping data from internal APIs and data stores to populate required FHIR resources, providing standards guidance to internal data governance teams, performing manual source-to-target mapping for terminology value sets, and helping establish governance and stewardship structures for reference data sets.

Graham is deeply engaged in the HL7 and broader interoperability community. This involvement expanded in 2023 through work in government health information technology (IT) contracting, leading to the achievement of three HL7 FHIR certifications: FHIR Release 4 (R4) Proficiency, Foundational Implementer, and Advanced Developer. Graham is among a select group of professionals to hold all three, with the latter two earned through HL7 pilot programs. During these pilots, he provided direct feedback to HL7 Chief and Deputy Chief Implementation Officers to help improve the certification process.

In 2024, Graham was invited to join HL7’s Education Advisory Council and continues to serve as a member. Building on this leadership and experience, he became an HL7 Certified Educator specializing in FHIR, one of only five individuals in the United States to hold this distinction. Graham remains actively involved in HL7 working groups and FHIR accelerator initiatives, including the FHIR at Scale Taskforce and the Da Vinci Project, contributing to FHIR Implementation Guides and related efforts.

Graham has also developed and delivered educational programming through HL7, including multiple sessions at Working Group Meetings on topics such as FHIR certification and digital quality measurement. In 2026, he led his second virtual workshop titled FHIR for Business Analysts, which was highly successful and plans to host another in the fall. Additional work is underway to develop a workshop focused on FHIR digital quality measurement, tentatively scheduled for fall 2026.

In addition to these contributions, Graham has written blog posts and articles and appeared on leading industry podcasts. These include HL7’s Exploring Healthcare Interoperability with Diego Kaminker and Ed Hammond (Listen on Spotify) and Gene Vestel’s Out of the FHIR podcast alongside Bill Lakenan (Listen here).