2nd HL7 Australia Meeting March 2003

5-6 March 2003, Hotel Conrad, Brisbane, Australia
Dear Colleagues,
The 2^nd Health Level Seven (HL7) Australia Conference will provide an effective forum for users of HL7, clinicians wishing to ensure that their e-communication needs are met by the new systems and those interested in the HL7 approach to healthcare system interoperability. Learn the HL7 methodologies, their relationship to the clinical settings and get an update on the latest developments in the HL7 domain from noted experts. Presentations, Tutorials and Workshops will give in-depth information on the core HL7 Standards and the underlying technologies. At the same time, the relevance of the technologies will be put into a clinical and a management context. The main topics of the 2nd HL7 Australia Conference are: HL7 Version 3 - a model-based standard UML, Vocabularies and Object-Modelling Clinical Templates, Archetypes and the Electronic Health Record (EHR) HL7 Version 2.x Message Implementation Practice We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane and again expect a productive atmosphere of sharing HL7 innovation as well as technical and clinical experience. By working together we can ensure that clinical information needs are met through the achievement of system interoperability.		View Program Download Brochure Registration Form Download Rego Form Register at: Conference Organiser 413 Lygon Street East Brunswick 3057 Phone: (03) 9388 0555 Fax: (03) 9388 2086
Klaus Veil Chair, HL7 Australia	Evelyn Hovenga HL7 Australia Board Member - Education	HISA@HISA.org.au

The following experts will present:		Who will benefit:
Mark Shafarman - HL7 Version 3 expert and the incoming Chair of HL7.org, USA Charlie Mead - UML expert, USA Peter Schloeffel - a Director of the openEHR Foundation and a pioneer in EHR development. David Rowlands - Dept. of Health & Ageing, Australia, Director, National InfoStructure Development David Rowed - GP and Software Engineer Wayne Tomlinson - Software Engineering Specialist, Rational / IBM, Australia Thomas Beale - Software Engineer, OpenEHR, Australia		Chief Information Officers Clinicians interested in using information technologies Health IT Managers Health IT System Architects HL7 Analysts and Implementers

The 2^nd Australian HL7 Meeting is endorsed by The Australian Computer Society (ACS), the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) and the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA).