Making Interoperability Work

Date: November 21-22 2007

Location: Hotel Russell, London 
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Many thanks to the sponsors of this event

HL7 UK 2007 Conference (photo by Keith Naylor)

HL7 UK 2007 Conference

HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe addresses the audience 

Group discuss Infrastructure Issues

Conference Programme: Wednesday 21 November 2007

09:00-09:45

Registration and Coffee

09:45-11:15

Session 1: Making Interoperability Work (Chair Charlie McCay, Chair HL7 UK)

• Welcome and Introduction

• HL7 Today and Tomorrow - Ed Hammond, Chair HL7, USA

• Delivering interoperability in England - Michael Thick, Chief Clinical Officer, NHS CFH

• HL7 messaging within NHS Wales - Karen Winder and Peter Nicklin, North Glamorgan NHS Trust and Informing Health Care

11:15-11:45

Tea and Coffee

11:45-13:00 

Session 2: Implementing CDA (Chair Charlie Bishop, iSOFT)

• CDA profiling by IHE - Keith Boone, GE Health Systems, USA

• Putting the pieces together – EHR Application, Interoperability and the HL7 v3 CDA Data Model - Ohad Greenshpan, IBM, Israel

• Using CDA in the NPfIT - Keith Naylor, Chief Interoperability Architect, NHS CFH

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Session 3: Testing and Conformance (Chair Rik Smithies, NHS CFH)  

• Experiences in operating a national integration test centre - Matthew Barrow, NHS CFH

• Supplier view of testing integration with national system - Conan Ask & Jean-Philippe Lemoussu, Cerner

15:30-16:00

Tea and Coffee

16:00-17:30

Session 4: Hot Topics (Chair Andrew Hinchley, Cerner UK)

• Meaningful records and meaningless boxes - David Markwell, The Clinical Information Consultancy

• The role of middleware - what is possible and what are the pitfalls - Tony Mottram, Indigo4

• HL7's Value Proposition - Charles Jaffe, CEO HL7, USA

18:30-21:30

Evening Event on the RS Hispaniola, Victoria Embankment

Conference Programme: Thursday 22 November 2007

08:30-09:00

Registration and Coffee

09:00-10:45

Session 5

STREAM A: Implementation Case Studies. (Chair Phil Scott, Portsmouth NHS Hospitals)

• Building a HL7 CDA R2 Level 3 message-based system using conceptual design specifications and XML/XSLT for code generation. Tim Benson, Abies & Timur Cevik, DataSel, Ankara

• CDA Profiles used in NHS CFH. Ian Townend, NHS CFH

• Systems integration in an NHS Hospital Trust using HL7 V2 and XML - Andrew Sergeant, Portsmouth NHS Hospitals

• Standard based interoperability middleware helps fight AIDS. Yardena Peres, IBM, Israel.

STREAM B:  Mini-Tutorial The NHS CFH Message Implementation Manual (MIM) for Beginners - Ann Wrightson, CSW Group

10:45-11:15

Tea and Coffee

11:15-13:00

Session 6

STREAM A: Which Standard and When? (Chair Martin Whittaker Touchstone Consultancy)

• NHS CFH approach to standards interoperability. Laura Sato, NHS CFH

• Progress towards interoperability standards for anaesthesiology. Martin Hurrell

• Standards strategy - what/why/where - ISO/CEN/BSI and HL7. Stephen Kay, University of Salford

• Report on the HIMMS international standards survey. Dave Nurse, CSW Group

STREAM B: Mini-Tutorial IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) XDS (Cross-enterprise Document Sharing) and PCC (Patient Care Coordination) profiles using CDA. Keith Boone, GE Healthcare USA

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30 

Session 7

STREAM A: Vendor Panel (Chair Hugh Glover, Blue Wave Informatics)

Topics include experiences from:

• the GP2GP programme

• ETP (Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions)

STREAM B : Infrastructure Issues (Chair: Andrew Hinchley, Cerner)

• How Infrastructure issues affect implementation and testing. Joe Waller, BT

• The new ITS and Wrappers (Release 2). Charlie McCay, Ramsey Systems

• Single sign-on: Implementing Clinical Context Management at Great Ormond Street Hospital - David Bowen, GOSH & Paul Malcolm, Sentillion Ltd

15:30-16:00 

Tea and Coffee

Accommodation

• Hotel Russell   

There are many other less expensive hotels near the conference venue - use the postcode "WC1B 5BE" in a hotel search engine. Some suggestions - 

• Travel Lodge, Kings Cross

• Comfort Inn, Kings Cross 

• Imperial London Hotels

• Lancaster Hotel, WC1

Conference Sponsors & Supporters:

BT Health is one of the world's biggest providers of network IT services to the healthcare market. In the UK it has around 2,000 staff dedicated to NHS projects. It is playing a pivotal role in the National Programme for Information Technology, the world's largest civilian IT project. This includes delivering N3, the secure national broadband network that is connecting all NHS sites in England and the Spine, a national electronic patient record database and messaging system. Also as the Local Service Provider for London, BT is helping the NHS to manage patient information more effectively by updating the IT systems across hospitals, GP surgeries and clinics at around 2,600 different sites. Beyond the National Programme for IT, BT continues to introduce new and innovative services that are helping healthcare providers meet the daily challenge of delivering modern and efficient healthcare.

InterSystems is proud to be a Benefactor member of HL7. At the HL7 UK conference, InterSystems will be demonstrating ENSEMBLE, the award-winning integration platform recently deployed at NHS Lothian, Barts & The London NHS Trust and two of the country's leading Cancer Registries.

Oracle Corporation, the first to deliver an HL7 Version 3 compliant architecture, remains one of the leaders in delivering large scale healthcare solutions across the healthcare community. Integrating clinical information through our normalised clinical repository. Oracle Corporation one of the eight leading companies that came together as the Interoperability Consortium.

Orion Health has been involved in HL7 development for more than 10 years, and in 1996 produced Symphonia, one of the world's first HL7 messaging toolkits. Orion Health's easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision making by providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By enhancing existing healthcare information systems, Orion Health's Rhapsody integration engine, Concerto clinical portal, and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer. For more information, visit www.orionhealth.com/uk

For ten years Sentillion has been revolutionising healthcare IT in the US, becoming the largest provider of identity and access management technology to the sector. Our solutions are used daily by over 275,000 clinicians in leading healthcare organisations throughout the UK and North America. We have introduced these award winning solutions into the UK, where we have successful deployments at Great Ormond Street, City Hospitals Sunderland and Portsmouth hospitals. Sentillion combines patented technology with a deep understanding of the healthcare industry to deliver the most comprehensive set of products for single sign-on, context management, user provisioning and virtualised remote access.

HL7 UK is the UK national affiliate organisation of HL7, the leading worldwide standard for healthcare interoperability. HL7 is the lingua franca of NHS Connecting for Health. HL7 develops and supports standards for electronic communication of healthcare information in ways that allow the receiving system to use the information safely and effectively.

View presentations from previous HL7 UK Conferences:

• 2006 HL7 UK Conference - "The Future of Integration"
• 2005 HL7 UK Conference - "HL7 Connects"
• 2004 HL7 UK Conference
• 2003 HL7 UK Conference