21th – 25th May 2012: IHE Connect-a-thon 2012, Bern, Switzerland
Sunday May 20th, 2012
The IHE Connectathon is the healthcare IT industry’s only large-scale interoperability testing event. Connectathons are held annually in Asia, Europe and North America. During the Connectathon systems exchange information with complementary systems from multiple vendors, performing all of the transactions required for the roles they have selected, called IHE Actors, in support of defined clinical use cases, called IHE Profiles. Thousands of vendor-to-vendor connections have been tested overall, and tens of thousands of transactions passed among the systems tested. The sponsoring organizations publish the results of this testing for public review.
7th – 9th May 2012: eHealth week in Copenhagen
Thursday May 10th, 2012
The 10th edition of the ministerial eHealth conference took place 7-9 May in Copenhagen, Denmark within the eHealth week 2012 together with the World of Health IT conference and exhibition. The focus was on the continuum of care from home to hospital and back to home demonstrating how information can flow between these different settings. It included topics like patient empowerment and chronic diseases management focusing on investment and business opportunities in healthcare IT.
Extending HL7 v3 schemas using OASIS CAM and CAM Processor
Wednesday May 2nd, 2012
Traditionally, healthcare implementation projects use W3C XML Schema Definitions (XSDs) to define the Health Level Seven (HL7) messaging standard. By extending these schemas using the OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM), generating conformance messages becomes quicker and more reliable. The CAM Processor, which is part of the jCAM open source project, makes this process of extension easy, so you can focus more business effort on the business rules underlying the HL7 schemas.
13th April 2012: the epSOS pilots in operation mode
Thursday April 26th, 2012
The epSOS piloting phase has started, testing the technical, semantic and legal solutions that have been developed in the epSOS project in a real-life environment over a one-year period. Over more than three years, the members of the epSOS project, cofunded by the European Commission, have invested hours of hard work as well as enthusiasm into the development of feasible cross-border eHealth services, addressing technical, semantic and legal interoperability challenges. These tremendous efforts have now finally culminated in the large scale pilot entering into operational mode.
HL7 Publishes Implementation Guide to Extend HL7 Standard into Blood Banking
Monday April 23rd, 2012
Health Level Seven (HL7) International, the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 55 countries, and America’s Blood Centers, a national association of independent community blood centers, today announced that HL7 has published an implementation guide to extend the HL7 standard used by many hospitals into the blood center environment. The HL7 Orders and Observations Work Group approved the document during HL7’s 25th Annual Plenary and Working Group Meeting in September 2011. The blood banking specification implementation guide, informally called Blood Banking HL7 (BBHL7), was developed by a multidisciplinary project team headed by former Blood Systems CIO Jonathan Harber. The team was composed of standards experts, blood center IT and operations personnel, and representatives of blood establishment computer software (BECS) vendors.
