In This Issue

April 30, 2009

• Call for Nominations for HL7 Officers, Directors and Affiliate Directors Opens Tomorrow, May 1

• HL7 HIMSS Exhibit Presentations Now Available Online

• On-site Registration Available for HL7's May Working Group Meeting in Kyoto, Japan, May 10-15, 2009

• Call for Participation-XML-in-Practice 2009

• Wes Rishel to be Featured Speaker at SOA in Healthcare Conference: Value in a Time of Change

Call for Nominations
for HL7 Officers, Directors and Affiliate Director Opens Tomorrow, May 1

The 2009 nominations period for officers, directors, and affiliate director will open tomorrow, May 1, and will remain open until the end of the day, June 15, 2009, EDT.

The positions up for nomination/election are the Treasurer, two HL7 Directors and one Affiliate Director.

HL7 Officers must be members of HL7 Inc. All current individual members and the designated voting representatives of organizational and Affiliate members may cast a vote for HL7 Officers. To nominate yourself and/or other HL7 members, please complete and submit the nomination form by the end of the day, June 15, 2009, EDT.

The nomination form and nomination package for HL7 Officers is available on the HL7 homepage or by clicking this link: HL7 Officer Nominations

HL7 Directors must be members of HL7 Inc. and shall be elected by current individual members and the designated voting representatives of current organizational members. To nominate yourself and/or other HL7 members, please complete and submit the nomination form by the end of the day, June 15, 2009, EDT.

The nomination form and nomination package for HL7 Directors is available on the HL7 homepage or by clicking this link: HL7 Director Nominations

The Affiliate chairs, casting on vote per Affiliate, will elect the Affiliate Director. Please submit all nominations for the Affiliate Director by the end of the day June 15, 2009, EDT. The nomination form and nomination package for the HL7 Affiliate Director is available on the HL7 homepage or by clicking this link: HL7 Affiliate Director Nominations

HL7 HIMSS Exhibit Presentations Now Available Online

The HL7 HIMSS exhibit presentations are now available in PDF format. The link to the presentations is available under the "Announcements" section on the HL7 homepage or you can click here to download the presentations.

On-site Registration Available for HL7's May Working Group Meeting in Kyoto, Japan
May 10-15, 2009 ● Kyoto, Japan

VENUE INFORMATION

HL7's May WGM will convene May 10-15, 2009 at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan (www.icckyoto.or.jp/en/index.html).

DATE TO KNOW

Registrations can now only be made onsite at the Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto) beginning Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 4 p.m. 

REGISTRATION FOR THE MEETING

For more information about this meeting, go to www.HL7.org and click on the May Working Group Meeting graphic at the top of our home page to get the meeting information. You can also click here to be taken directly to the meeting information page.

HOTEL INFORMATION

Working Group Meeting attendees are free to stay at the hotel of their choice for the Kyoto meeting. Hotel reservations will be handled by the Japan Travel Bureau (JTB) Western Japan Corporation. JTB has secured rooms at a discount rate at five hotels in Kyoto, ranging from luxury to budget accommodations. Please click here to make your hotel reservation.

THE MEETING BROCHURE

A copy of the WGM brochure in PDF format, which contains all meeting information and course descriptions for your convenience, is available at our online document center via the following link:

May Working Group Meeting Brochure.

We look forward to seeing you in Kyoto, Japan!

Call for Participation-XML-in-Practice 2009

IDEAlliance and HL7 invite your participation at the XML-in-Practice 2009 conference which will offer an unparalleled opportunity to connect and apply the learning from leaders in government, publishing, business, healthcare, and technology.   XML-in-Practice 2009 will present TWO NEW SUMMITS that focus on healthcare and business issues:

• XML for Healthcare:  Electronic Medical Records and Obama's Economic Plan

• XML for Executives:  Leveraging Existing Infrastructure Using XML: Go Global, Get Connected, Generate New Revenue Streams

More information about this conference is available by clicking here.

Link directly to the Call for Participation for submission instructions by clicking here. 

Please submit via email by 5:00pm Eastern on Friday, May 8 to: Joy Donat at jdonat@idealliance.org. Preferred formats are Word and PDF. If you have questions, contact Joy at 910-200-4117.

Wes Rishel to be Featured Speaker at SOA in Healthcare Conference: Value in a Time of Change

Conference hosted by OMG, HL7, OHT and SOA Consortium will be held June 2-4, 2009 in Chicago, IL, USA

OMGT, Health Level Seven^® (HL7), Open Health Tools and the SOA ConsortiumT today announced that Wes Rishel, Research Vice-President and Distinguished Analyst, Healthcare Provider Team of Gartner, will be a featured business track speaker at the "SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change," conference. The conference will be held June 2-4, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago, IL. Registration details may be found online at http://www.omg.org/soa-healthcare.

At the SOA in Healthcare conference, Rishel will be presenting "An Evolutionary Approach to SOA in Healthcare Enterprises." SOA offers the potential for better-designed applications and more integrated and agile enterprises. Realizing the potential is difficult in enterprises that are struggling to make do with existing applications and will never get a fresh start. This talk examines incremental approaches to achieving SOA and the corresponding requirements for companion technologies, technical skills, and governance.

"Any healthcare enterprise that limits its view of application integration to message passing is on the wrong side of the technology curve," said Wes Rishel. "This conference is a way to update and inform enterprise integration architectures."

About the Speaker

Wes Rishel is a vice-president and distinguished analyst in Gartner's healthcare provider research practice. He covers electronic medical records, interoperability, health information exchanges, the nationwide health information network and the underlying technologies of healthcare IT, including application integration and standards.

Rishel is a commissioner of the CCHIT, a past chair of HL7 and has served on the boards of WEDI and HIMSS. He was the primary author of the Gartner report summarizing the NHIN Prototype Architecture contracts of the NHIN.

Conference Overview

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption is viewed as a key enabler for the 21^st century enterprise due to increased opportunity for productivity and integration, and requires significant changes for both business and IT executives. The focus of the SOA in Healthcare conference is to convey real-world experiences, assembling a community of peers to exchange ideas and discuss what has worked, what did not work, and review best practices for attendees to benefit from lessons learned faced in real implementations. Not a "tech industry" event, this conference is exclusively healthcare focused, and will highlight the challenges unique to healthcare organizations and emphasize cross-industry solutions that are viable within the healthcare domain. It is targeted primarily to a health-IT savvy audience. Everyone with an interest in SOA in healthcare is invited to attend.

Registration & Information

This workshop is sponsored by Annual Sponsors No Magic, SPARX Systems, Intel and Model Driven Solutions as well as Event Sponsors Gold Sponsor EDS, an HP company; and Silver Sponsor Appian. The early-bird registration discount is available until May 11, 2009. The registration cut-off for the Hyatt Regency O'Hare is May 11, 2009. Hotel and registration information is available at http://www.omg.org/soa-healthcare.

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