..::.. | "SNOMED-CT Introductory Implementation Workshop" Wednesday, 13 December 2006 LaTrobe University R&D Park, Bundoora Campus, Melbourne, Australia | Dear Colleagues, SNOMED-Clinical Terms is the standard medical terminology or coding system for representing in-formation in clinical computing systems used at the “point of care” in Australia. A national licence is now available from NEHTA and work is ongoing to link a standard terminology of medicines and pathology to the core SNOMED-CT. SNOMED-CT is more complex and has functionality not present in existing terminologies  and code sets. Effective implementation will require a good understanding of SNOMED and technically advanced strategies for clinical data entry, storage and retrieval. Terminology is necessary but not sufficient alone to support standard data representation; hence the need for standard health record and message structures. While the complete national implementation of SNOMED-CT will take some years, it is important that policy makers and the health software industry start to plan and understand the issues involved. Some Australian IT companies are already implementing SNOMED. This workshop will provide a practical introduction to SNOMED with a focus on how it is intended to be used in clinical information systems. There will be some hands-on sessions so please bring your WiFi-enabled laptop. This Workshop will be headlined with a key-note address from Sarah Ryan, HL7.org USA, on the current international situation with implementation of SNOMED-CT and presentations on the business and clinical benefits to be derived from using SNOMED-CT. Sarah has worked in the US on the development of SNOMED and implementation at the Centres for Disease Control and the National Library of Medicine and NASA. She manages the HL7 Terminfo project office which is working on the standard implementation of SNOMED in the next generation of HL7 messages and document standards. We will be holding our Annual General Meeting and end-of-year drinks after the Workshop and all participants are welcome to join our members. We look forward to seeing you at our SNOMED Workshop and AGM! Klaus Veil Peter MacIsaac Chair, HL7 Australia Workshop Convener, HL7 Australia Note: This Workshop is endorsed by the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) and attendance will give HIMAA members 20 CPD points (40 for rural/remote members). Please see http://www.HIMAA.org.au/Credentialling/default.htm | | | Wednesday - 13 December 2006 | 8.00 - 9.00 | Registration - Coffee - SNOMED Demonstration Browser Software loading | 9.00 - 9.10 | Workshop Opening Klaus Veil, Chair HL7 Australia | 9.10 - 9.45 | Introductory Tutorial
"A SNOMED PRIMER" Heather Grain, LaTrobe University - Peter MacIsaac, HL7 Australia | 9.45 - 10.30 | Keynote
"SNOMED Content - A Guided Tour" Sarah Ryan, HL7.org & NLM, USA | 10.30- 11.00 | Morning Tea | 11.00 - 11.30 | Needs Analysis Session
"What do Software Venders need from SNOMED? Vince McCauley, MSIA - Hugh Leslie - Andrew McIntyre | 10.30- 11.00 | Morning Tea | 11.00 - 11.30 | Keynote
"SNOMED - What have we learnt from the Early Adopters?" Sarah Ryan, HL7.org & NLM, USA | 11.30 - 12.00 | Tutorial
"SNOMED - What comes in the box?" Peter MacIsaac, HL7 Australia | 12.00 - 12.30 | Hands-on Session
"SNOMED - Finding you way around using a Terminology Browser" | 12.30 - 12.40 | Address to Workshop Participants Prof. Hal Swerissen, A/g Dean, Health Sciences, LaTrobe University | 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch with the Speakers | 13.30 - 14.00 | Tutorial
"SNOMED Content - a Guided Tour" Sarah Ryan, HL7.org & NLM, USA | 14.00 - 15.00 | Presentation
"Mapping SNOMED to other Terminologies - getting from Here to There" Heather Grain, LaTrobe University | 15.00 - 15.30 | Afternoon Tea | 15.30 - 16.00 | Hands-on Tutorial
"Getting Stuff into SNOMED - Data Entry" Peter MacIsaac, HL7 Australia | 16.00 - 16.30 | Hands-on Tutorial
"Getting Stuff out of SNOMED - Search Strategies" Sarah Ryan, HL7.org & NLM, USA | 16.30 - 17.00 | Panel Discussion
"What can Industry get from SNOMED?" Vince McCauley, MSIA | 17.00 - 17.30 | Formal Learnings Review for
Certificate of Achievement Heather Grain, LaTrobe University & Chris Lynton-Moll, University of Ballarat | | | 18.00 - 19.00 | HL7 Australia Annual General Meeting Notice of Meeting Proxy Form Board Nomination Form
Chairman's Report Treasurer's Report Guest Speaker: Sarah Ryan, HL7.org & NLM, USA (Note: Attendance at AGM is free of charge) |
Download Registration Form: Registration Form (MS Word)
E-mail to: Admin@HL7.org.au Fax to: (02) 9475 0685 Accommodation: Rydges on Bell, Preston Call Chris or Peter on (03) 9485 0043 for the LaTrobe corporate rates:
Sleep&Go Studio: $55 Std Room: $122 Suite: $195 General Inquires: Peter MacIsaac - Peter@MacIsaacInformatics.org - phone: 0411 403 462 Note: Free WiFi will be available to Workshop and AGM participants! |
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