9th HL7 Australia Conference & Annual General Meeting

November 8 & 9, 2005

Central Queensland University Campus, 7/333 Kent Street, Sydney, Australia

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to the 9^th HL7 Australia Conference on November 8 & 9 in Sydney.

Day One: HL7 and OpenEHR
Following on from discussion at the Jul7 2005 HL7 Conference in Melbourne and in collaboration with the OpenEHR Foundation this workshop will have a further look at OpenEHR and HL7 issues

OpenEHR is a structure for the representation of information in the Electronic Health Record and is being considered as a standard approach by the National E-health Transition Authority and is a component of the European standard on EHR. At the same time much work is underway via HL7 (mainly in the USA) looking at the functional requirements and structures of the EHR using the HL7 version 3 models and approaches.

The use of Archetypes from the OpenEHR model to describe mid level information components is gaining acceptance and several trials in Australia have used this approach. On the other hand HL7 version 3 is based on a multi level model structure which includes “clinical statements”, CMETs (common and re-useable message elements), and document templates and the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) for clinical documents.

There has been much discussion about the relative roles of EHR and messaging architectures and the use of terminology with both. This workshop will commence with an introduction to OpenEHR, and HL7 components and explore the tasks that each is attempting to address. The key outcome of this meeting will be a better understanding of OpenEHR and HL7 Version 3 approaches, and an exploration of where they are complementary and also where they might overlap.

Who should attend?

• Clinical information systems architects and implementers
• Anyone who has heard about "OpenEHR" and wants to know more
• Anyone who has heard about HL7 "Version 3" and wants to know more
• Health Informatics students

Day Two: HL7 Implementers Workshop

This day is intended to the unsung heroes of health informatics – those who actually design and build the systems and cut the code.  This session will involve many of the HL7 V2.x "gurus" (including Clem McDonald)  and provide a practical opportunity to see how others are doing it, tricks of the trade, controversies, pitfalls and traps for the young players (and older ones). It will be a place to bring your problems and issues with V2.  This session is not primarily designed for the policy makers and managers (who are of course welcome) but for those who have to do the work! So get your boss to help you make it happen!

Please see the program below for more details and register soon! Note that HL7 Australia members in good standing enjoy a reduced registration fee of $300 - and only $550 if attending both days!!

We look forward to welcoming you to share knowledge and experiences in Sydney.

 Klaus Veil                                                 Evelyn Hovenga

 Chair, HL7 Australia                                    Board Member - Education, HL7 Australia

5pm: HL7 Australia Annual General Meeting

Notice of Meeting    Proxy Form    Nomination Form

Main Agenda Items:

Chair's, Secretary's and Treasurer's report

Review of direction for 2005-06

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Wednesday - November 9, 2005 8.00 - 9.00 Registration 9.00 - 9.05 Day Opening 9.05 - 10.00 Keynote Address "LOINC and Terminology Implementation in HL7 Version 2.x" Clem McDonald, Regenstrief Institute, USA 10.00 - 11.00 Hands-on Workshop - part 1 "HL7 Version 2.x Implementation Tools" Live demo of AHML message testing service (Jane Darby, AHML) An object oriented HL7 Framework (Andrew McIntyre & Jared Davison, Medical Objects) The Itemfield XML Tools (Moni Stern, ItemField) HL7 V2.x XML Tools (Russell McDonell) (Facilitator: Klaus Veil) 11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea 11.30 - 13.00 Hands-on Workshop - part 2 "HL7 Version 2.x Tools" Moving from HL7v2.3 to v2.3.1  Moving from HL7v2.3.1 to v2.4 Acknowledgement protocols  Datatypes Expert Panel: Dick Harding, Vince McCauley, Russell McDonell, Max Walker and others (Facilitator: Klaus Veil) 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 15.00 Hands-on Workshop - part 3 "HL7 Version 2.x Tools" Open Source HL7 message generator (Jane Darby, CCeH) Moving from home grown V2.x to Australian Standard V2.x (Simon Winter, SESAHS) (Facilitator: Klaus Veil) 15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Tea 15.30 - 16.00 Information Session "HL7 Contracting - Revisited" Russell McDonell & Richard Dixon-Hughes 16.00 - 16.30 Round Table Session "Standards Australia Implementation profiles – why all the fuss?" Facilitator: N. N. 16:30 - 17:00 Planning for 10th HL7 Australia Conference Conference Close

Note: Free WiFi will be available to Conference participants!
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Please print out this form to register, become a member and/or book accommodation:

 Registration Form (MS Word)         Registration Form (PDF)

Conference Logistics & Information:

Phone: 0413 138 024      Fax: (02) 9475 0685     e-mail: HazelCondon@bigpond.com

Accommodation: The Grace Hotel, Sydney
Contact: Sandy Tseng
 Phone: 1800 682 692     Fax: (02) 9272 6677     E-mail: sandy.tseng@gracehotel.com.au

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