For today's meeting, I am extremely excited to report that Rachel Foerster of Rachel Foerster & Associates and team lead for the ebXMLT Initiative's Marketing, Awareness & Education Project Team will be presenting "ebXML - Overview & Vision". Those who can not make the meeting in person can download the PPT at: http://www.rfa-edi.com/ebXMLOverview.ppt and call into the meeting at 703.326.3001 and enter the password 4608382 to be connected via phone to the meeting. The presentation will be from 7:00 - 8:00 pm (eastern). Prior to the meeting (6:00 pm - 7:00 pm eastern) we will have discussion on our 'Checklist', GUIDE, and other topics - Bruce Rachel Foerster - Rachel is well known within the EDI arena due to her leadership positions in several industry organizations. In addition, her 22 years of experience with Baxter Healthcare Corporation, the world's leading hospital supply company, included consulting and implementation responsibilities for EDI for Baxter and its customers. Her experience includes over 15 years designing, developing and implementing a variety of proprietary and standards-based EDI systems to support Baxter's hospital customers in providing on-line, batch and interactive electronic linkages. Specific areas of focus included materials management and financial EDI implementations. Additionally, she has helped clients develop sound strategies and implementation plans for EDI that ensured the achievement of specific objectives. Rachel is a U.S. designated EDI expert to the UN/CEFACT Techniques & Methodologies Work Group where she is actively participating in the global OASIS and UN/CEFACT's joint ebXMLT Initiative's effort to provide a common framework to enable the consistent use of XML for global electronic business. Her distinguished career includes leading the effort to introduce the EDI standards to the health industry, past chair of the Health Industry Business Communications Council's EDI Technical Committee, active membership at the ANSI ASC X12 EDI Standards committee, and secretary of the ANSI ASC X12 Strategic Implementation Task Group which represents the U.S. in the International effort to develop the next generation of EDI standards. Rachel is a member of The EC Institute's Advisory Board. The EC Institute is a cooperative venture among DISA, The Colorado Electronic Commerce Roundtable, the University of Denver and other major universities, government agencies and industries to create programs that will certify the professional abilities of electronic commerce practitioners. She is also a member of the Healthcare EDI Coalition, WEDI - The Workgroup for EDI, and OASIS. Rachel has presented and conducted numerous EDI workshops and educational seminars for all levels of management for many health care providers, manufacturers, distributors, national EDI associations, as well as companies in other industries and governmental agencies. These include the annual ANSI X12/DISA, EDI in Government, HIBCC, EDI 2000, and Inside EDI conferences, seminars sponsored by hospital associations in California, Tennessee, HCFA, NEIC, HEDIC, the Mid-Atlantic Health Congress, and the New Jersey Hospital Association's Health, Research and Education Trust, and various regional Electronic Commerce User Groups. In addition, Rachel is a member of the faculty of the Data Interchange Standards Association EDI/Electronic Commerce seminars and was an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of Health Information Management, College of Associated Health Professions. Rachel is co-founder of the Healthcare Electronic Commerce Institute, an educational organization focused on providing technically accurate and unbiased implementation training for healthcare organizations that are implementing EDI, Bar Code, and the Universal Product Number for medical products. Rachel is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Healthcare Automation, and Automatic I.D. News magazine. She has published articles in Healthcare Automation, Surgical Services, Medical Industry Information Report, Medical Products Sales, Journal of the American Health Information Management Association, Healthcare Purchasing News, EDI Forum, EDI World, and the European Medical Electronic Data Interchange Newsletter. She has authored Successfully Implementing EDI: A Project Team's EDI Planning Guide, EDI: A Strategic Approach for Implementation, and An EDI Primer for Health Care. She is the co-author of An Executive Primer: Health Care Reengineering, and An Executive Primer: Information Technology Strategies for the 21st Century-How to Formulate an Information Technology Strategy to Ensure Competitive Advantage. Rachel studied at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Roosevelt University and Mundelein College in Chicago. ----- Original Message ----- From: Denise Setliff To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:38 AM Subject: Reminder Notice--Thursday Meeting XML/EDI To: XML/EDI Group Just a quick reminder that the XML/EDI Group will hold its next Washington, DC area meeting on Thursday, September 21, 2000, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. We will hold the meeting at DISA headquarters located at 333 John Carlyle Avenue, Alexandria, VA. 703.548.7005. If you have already responded please disregard this message. The proposed agenda for the meeting is *Introductions *GUIDE overview and discussion *ebXML overview and discussion *Discuss a checklist of questions for users to ask vendors about their products *New business *Action items If you have suggestions for other agenda items, please let me know. Those who are unable to attend the meeting in person, can contact the XML/EDI group at 703.326.3001 and enter the password 4608382 to be connected via phone to the meeting. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 703.518.4160 if you plan to attend in person or via phone. Location and Directions The meeting will take place at DISA, 333 John Carlyle Street, Suite 600, Alexandria, VA METRO: From National Airport, take the Metro's Yellow or Blue Lines two stops to King Street station. Exit the station, cross the parking lot and walk through the hotel/restaurant complex (outside). Cross Duke Street and 333 John Carlyle is on your right. DRIVING: From Washington, Street (GW Parkway), go west on King Street, Route 7, in the direction of the George Washington Masonic Memorial for about one mile. At Daingerfield Road, turn left. At the third light,Duke Street, (after Crate & Barrel Store) turn right. At the third light make a left on John Carlyle Street. The building is on the right and the parking garage is located behind the building. Turn right at the edge of the building and follow the signs. >From I-395, take the King Street East exit and go about three miles in the direction of Old Town and the Alexandria Amtrak/Metro station. After crossing under the railroad tracks at the train station stay in the middle lane and bear right that takes you to Daingerfield Road. At the third light,Duke Street, (after Crate & Barrel Store) turn right. At the third light make a left on John Carlyle Street. The building is on the right and the parking garage is located behind the building. Turn right at the edge of the building and follow the signs. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. J. Denise Setliff Standards Process Coordinator DISA 333 John Carlyle Street Suite 600 703.518.4160 Fax: 703.548.7927 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.disa.org ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To receive only one message per day (digest format) send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], (leave the subject line blank) digest xmledi-group your-email-address To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To receive only one message per day (digest format) send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], (leave the subject line blank) digest xmledi-group your-email-address To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm
