March 23 & 24, 2004, Radisson on Flagstaff, 380 William St. , Melbourne, Australia

(Special rate $145 per night, call (03) 9322 8000 quoting "SAI Conference")

*** 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.

I look forward to seeing you in Melbourne.

David Rowlands - Chair, IT14

IT-014 Committee
"Health Informatics"

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On-line Registration

Coffee

- 10:30

Signal Room

Committee Meeting

IT-014
(IT-014 members only)

IT-014 Chair: David Rowlands

Flagstaff Room 2

Workshop Demonstrations

Healthcare Terminology

l Introduction  (Peter MacIsaac)

l CATCH  (Rosemary Roberts)

l SNOMED-CT  (Don Walker)

l Docle  (Kuang Oon)

l Terminology Toolkit  (Don Walker)

Session Chair: Peter MacIsaac

Morning Tea

Panel Discussion

Secure Electronic Communications

l Protocols for messaging

l Secure e-mail

l Secure Web access

l Digital signatures

Session Chair: Ian Cheong, GPCG & IT14-06-04

Healthcare Terminology

(... continued ..)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Flagstaff Room 1

Panel Discussion

eCommunications

(Topic: Security)

l The story so far ...

l Linking patient with providers

l Putting consumers in the loop

Session Chair: Evelyn Hovenga

Signal Room Committee Meeting
IT14-04
(Topic: Security)

l IT 14/4 Work-plan

l AS4400 amendments

l Archiving

IT14-04 Chair: Mark Mynott

Flagstaff Room 2

Committee Meeting
IT14-06-05
(Topic: HL7 Pathology Messages)

l Agenda and Minutes

l .....

l Other business

IT14-06-05 Chair: Michael Legg

Afternoon Tea

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

Joint Meeting Closing Session
"Australian Health Informatics Standards - our Way Forward"
David Rowlands, Chair IT-014

This open meeting will explore the adoption of professional standards/guidelines for health informatics education.

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