*** No Meeting charge - sponsored by the Dept. of Health and Ageing * * *
Dear Colleagues,
Your are invited to a 2-day Joint Meeting of IT-014, its Sub-Committees and Working Groups. This meeting follows the successful Joint Meeting in June last year.
The objectives of the Joint Meeting are:
l Accelerate development in key areas of Health Informatics Standards;
l Facilitate cross fertilisation of ideas, knowledge and expertise;
l Promote resolution of current issues facing standards development;
l Identify areas of overlap and progress the affected work items; and
l Provide input to IT-014's strategic planning.
We also hope that the Joint Meeting will facilitate the closer cooperation between the sub-committee and working groups as well as drawing new participants into the health informatics standards development activities.
The Joint Meeting is co-located with the HL7 Australia Conference on March 25&26, 2004. For interested persons travelling from interstate, this will be an opportunity to also get an in-depth view of the latest in global HL7 Standards development, including the local technologies such as Archetypes and ADL that have found considerable interest internationally.
Joint Meeting Plenary Session "Australian Health Informatics Standards - what is needed?"
This session will establish the opportunities, issues and barriers for health informatics standards development and implementation in Australia and provide input to the IT-014 planning process.
Facilitator : Michael Legg
16:30 - 17:00
Joint Meeting Closing Session "Australian Health Informatics Standards - our Way Forward" David Rowlands, Chair IT-014
17:00 - 19:00
Australian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) open meeting + wine and cheese
This open meeting will explore the adoption of professional standards/guidelines for health informatics education.
HL7 Australia Conference 
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