2 key events downunder on EHRs, CIMI, FHIR, CDA, openEHR and the future of e-health standards

HINZ, 21 June 2012

Two days of strategic events on healthcare interoperability in June in New Zealand (programme):

Thurs 21 June - Bringing the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to Life - Emeritus Professor Ed Hammond. Ed will present EHR - The Killer App. His key message is that the time has now come to develop a full-blown EHR as technical, societal and other barriers have substantially been dealt with (day programme). Hosted by HINZ (Health Informatics NZ) and partners HL7 New Zealand and The University of Auckland.

Fri 22 June - Tutorial on openEHR - Drs. Hugh and Heather Leslie (Ocean Informatics). The tutorial will cover the full continuum of the methodologies described in the New Zealand Reference Architecture for Interoperability from clinical requirements through modelling to machine-generation of compliant CDAs. Hosted by HL7 NZ.

HL7 Australia Seminar on Future HL7 Standards - 2 July, Sydney

This HL7 Australia “Future of eHealth Standards” Seminar will outline the recent developments in the use of openEHR Archetypes in HL7, the FHIR work (an Aussie development that is taking the global HL7 community by storm) as well as the Clinical Information Modeling Initiative (CIMI). Programme.

Keynote - FHIR? CIMI? openEHR? What’s the Future of the HL7 Standards? - Prof Ed Hammond, Duke University, USA

2 July 2012, 9am to 5:30pm - Standards Australia, 20 Bridge St., Sydney, Australia