Peter MacIsaac wrote: >Web Services in Health - Where Do We Start? > >1st Australian Workshop - Sponsored by HL7 Australia > >Tuesday, 28th March at the Stamford Plaza Sydney Airport Hotel. > > > >Web Services and Service Orientated Architecture are new buzz words in the >health IT space. Are these the new direction for health communication? Where >are we on the famous GARTNER Hype Cycle? Web Services are one form of >communication protocol to enable collaboration between different >applications. This approach has been recommended by the National E-Health >Transition Authority in their recent discussion papers. Both are well worth >reading and open for public comment. > >http://www.nehta.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,129/ ><http://www.nehta.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,129/> > > >HL7 Australia is convening a one day workshop on Web Services on Tuesday, >28th March at the Stamford Plaza Airport Hotel in Sydney. It is no >coincidence that this is the day following the NEHTA Health Executives >briefing. Last year a HL7 workshop examined the problems of communication in >the pathology and diagnostic imaging sector which resulted in a challenge to >communication vendors to "interoperate". The 2005 interoperability >demonstration showed what can be done with existing standards and >communication technology. HL7 believes there is a need for education and >discussion to assist the health IT industry understand the communication >problem that Web Services will solve and to consider why other options, many >of which are currently being used with varying degrees of success, are not >recommended ways forward for health. > >How will we transition from what is here to the future? Are web services the >preferred communication medium for all applications? Do they guarantee >interoperability? What exactly are they and why are they different to using >a web-browser? What is the place of existing efforts within HL7, Standards >Australia and NEHTA to develop common message structures, data groups, >archetypes and vocabularies? > >The keynote speaker is Professor Michael Georgeff (Monash University), a >well known proponent of the use of the internet in healthcare. He is >supported by Michael Czapski (Sun Microsystems). Robert Wood and Hoylan Sue >(authors of the NEHTA reports) will provide an update and participate in >discussion time. Tom Bowden (HealthLink), Mark Gibson (Extensia >Solutions/DSTC) and Ross Davey (ArgusConnect) and Grahame Grieve (Kestral) >will participate in a forum for health industry players who have experience >with Web Services to share their experiences and views. Expressions of >interest are sought from the HL7 and Health IT Community to be included in >the program. > > Hey Andrew McI, are you going to this?
>Opportunities for industry sponsorship are available to promote your >interest and support workshop attendees and ongoing HL7 education efforts >(HL7 is only able to keep our membership and conference fees at an >affordable level for small to medium enterprises due to our volunteer and >industry support) > >This workshop will provide both a high level overview of the technology as >well as dealing with technical and implementation issues. It is targeted at >CEOs, CIOs and systems developers. For queries or comments please contact >the workshop facilitator: > >Peter MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 0411 403 >462 > > Thanks Peter I am trying to get my head around all this webservices stuff and I guess all will be revealed at the workshop. However, I am still not clear how webservices will allow specialist A to get his letter to GP B using it. It seems to me that GP B needs a webservices interface that will accept data based on certain criteria. Since GPs are not a very technologically advanced group they are unlikely to be running their own interface. If others run a proxy interface for them, is there much advantage in this over plain old email? Also who is charged with creating the medical webservices interface standard? Is that NEHTA? Is there a timeframe? David -- SIP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NodePhone +61 7 31290168 Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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