Andrea Ribick
Health Level Seven
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SOA Consortium, OMG and HL7 Announce Program for SOA in Healthcare Workshop: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value, and Delivery on IT’s Promise
Conference will be held April 15-17, 2008 in Chicago, IL, USA

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – January 31, 2008 – The SOA Consortium™, Object Management Group™ (OMG™), and Health Level Seven (HL7), today announced the program for the “SOA in Healthcare: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value and Delivery on IT’s Promise,” workshop to be held April 15-17, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Chicago, IL. Registration details may be found online at http://www.omg.org/hc-ws-program. 

The SOA in Healthcare conference features real-world experiences and attendees will benefit from the lessons learned and challenges faced in these implementations. The workshop intentionally integrates the themes of SOA and health quality, and is targeted primarily to a health-IT savvy audience. This event is focused on healthcare’s challenges and SOA’s role in meeting them.

The workshop will be experientially focused, and will be presented in three tracks.

Workshop Highlights

Keynote Presentations

• The Role of Healthcare IT in Quality Improvement, by Jon White, M.D., Health IT Portfolio Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Integrating Standards to Achieve Semantically Interoperable Healthcare IT Solutions, by Dr. Kenneth Lunn, Ph.D., Director of Data Standards and Products (NHS Connecting for Health, NPFIT, UK)
• Implementing SOA at the Duke University Health System - The Journey and How It Enabled Big Wins, by Boyd Carlson, Senior Director, Application Development and Integration, Duke Health Technology Solutions

Executive Summit (Day One)

• Topics Include: The Role of Standards, Healthcare Quality and SOA, Seven Case Studies Covering: Impact of SOA on Business-IT Alignment, Agility, Service Quality, Delivery and Efficiency
• Presentations and Case Studies by Experts from: Blue-Cross Blue-Shield Association, Canada Health Infoway, Center for Healthcare Management, IBM Research, EDS, Federal Signal Corporation, Intermountain Health Care, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), and Partners Health Care
• Panel Discussion: Can Healthcare Achieve Successes Realized in Other Industries? How can SOA Help the Industry Overcome Obstacles to Healthcare Quality?
  • Panelists: Vish Sankaran (ONC), Kenneth Buetow, Ph.D. (NCI), Steve Flammini (Partners Health Care), Jonathan White (AHRQ), Plamen Petrov (BCBSA) and Michael Wons, (Federal Signal Corporation)
  • Moderated by Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., Executive Director, SOA Consortium and CEO, Object Management Group

Business Track (Days Two and Three)

• Topics Include: SOA & EHRs, Preparing for SOA, SOA Governance, Interoperability Profiles, Open Source Tooling, Business Collaboration Infrastructure, ROI, Getting Started with SOA, Achieving Quality and Human Services Directories in SOA
• Presentations by Experts from: BlueCross BlueShield Excellus, Boston Medical Center, The Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research, The University of Texas -Health Sciences Center at Houston, EDS, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), Military Health System, MomentumSI, Open Health Tools, Rural & Regional Health & Aged Care Services Division, Dept. of Human Services (Victoria, Australia), Sun Microsystems, The TriZetto Group, Inc., and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)

Technical Track (Days Two and Three)

• Topics Include: SOA & Health Informatics, Information Modeling & SOA, Terminology Mappings in SOA, SOA Layered Healthcare Framework, Healthcare SOA Reference Architecture, Semantic Interoperability, Business Process Modeling, Interoperability of Healthcare Information, Security & Privacy, Complex Event Processing, Practical Experiences
• Presentations by Experts from: Apelon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Chief Health Informatics Office, Veterans Health Administration, CSC, CSW Group Ltd, Inpriva, Inc., Intel Corporation, Intermountain Health Care, Kaiser-Permanente, Military Health System, Department of Defense, NCI Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology, Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services, and TIBCO Software

General Session (Day Two)

• Panel Discussion: Achieving Value in Healthcare SOA Across Organizations, Geographies and Implementations
  • Panelists: Don Mon, Ph.D., Vice President, AHIMA; Andy Bond, Ph.D., General Mgr-Interop., National e-Health Transition Authority (Australia); Jody Pettit, M.D., Health Information Technology Coordinator, Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research
  • Moderator: Ron G. Parker, Group Director, EHR Solutions Architecture, Canada Health Infoway

Anyone with an interest in SOA in healthcare is invited to attend.

Registration & Information
This workshop is sponsored by Gold Sponsor BEA Systems, Inc. The early-bird registration discount is available until March 17, 2008. The registration cut-off for the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare is March 25, 2008. Hotel and registration information is available at http://www.omg.org/hc-ws-program. Exhibit space is available; for more information contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404. Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at kenberk@omg.org or +1-781-444 0404.

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About The SOA Consortium
The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corporation, SAP AG and Sparx Systems. Participants in the consortium to date include: Aberdeen Group, Inc., Adaptive, Inc., American Red Cross, Avis Budget Group, Bank of America, Bunge Agribusiness, Cambridge Technology Enterprise, Capability Measurement, Cape Clear Software, Inc., CellExchange, Inc., Center for Public-Private Enterprise, CGI Federal, Computer Sciences Corporation, Daugherty Business Solutions, ebizQ, eCube Systems, LLC, EDS, Equally Keen, Ltd., Evans Data Corporation, Federal Signal Corp., Fidelity Investments, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Forestay, LLC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, General Services Administration, H2O GmbH, Helm Solutions Group, HP, Hitachi Consulting, Hurwitz & Associates, ICW Group, Integration Consortium, Insurance Corp. of British Columbia, Interoperability Clearinghouse, iWay Software, Kohl's Department Stores, Lake Trail Partners, LLC, MAKE Technologies Inc., Maryfran Johnson & Associates, Mercury Interactive, MITRE, Model Driven Solutions, MomentumSI, Monsanto, OMG, Penn National Insurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers , SAIC, PHS Operation, Schlumberger Technology, SDG Corporation, Software AG, Sonoa Systems, TethersEnd Consulting, Thomas & Hebert, Torry Harris Business Solutions, TPP Global Services LLC, WebEx, Wells Fargo, and ZapThink, LLC. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org. 

About Health Level Seven (HL7)
Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven, Inc. (www.HL7.org) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards development organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. HL7’s more than 2,300 members represent approximately 500 corporate members, which include more than 90 percent of the information systems vendors serving healthcare.

About the Object Management Group
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries, including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based Communications and Space.

OMG’s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG’s middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries.

More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org. OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.

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