HiNZ Conference and Exhibition 2014
Each year, HL7 New Zealand holds a one day workshop as part of the HINZ conference that focuses on the practical use of Standards in New Zealand. This year the theme of the seminar is about mobile applications – particularly consumer based mobile – and the standards required to support them. We’re especially excited to announce that our guest speaker is Dr Josh Mandel from the Harvard Medical School. Josh is very active in the health standards space, being one of the principal authors of the SMART platform, designed to support a secure ‘app store like’ ecosystem where independently developed applications can access clinical information in health repositories using freely available standards. He has also been involved in the US ’Blue Button’ initiative and is a core team member of the emerging HL7 FHIR standard. Join us for the one day workshop or attend whole conference. NOTE: the HL7NZ AGM will held Monday 10th November at 4.30pm, Sky City Convention Centre at the conclusion of the workshop.
HL7 Australia – FHIR Seminar
6th and 7th November 2014 hosted by HL7 Australia features both a series of presentations from local and international speakers, and a FHIR connectathon event.
See details in flier PDF below.
One Day FHIR Seminar at University of Auckland on 4 June 2014
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
One Day Seminar – 4 June 2014, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus
Many of you will be aware that there is a new interoperability standard emerging from HL7 called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources – or FHIR. FHIR grew out of a realization by HL7 that while effective, many of the current standards are difficult (and expensive) to implement, particularly when multiple parties are involved. FHIR is unashamedly aimed at the implementer. Based on standard internet technologies rather than health-specific ones yet grounded in all the design work that has gone into current standards, FHIR is generating tremendous interest worldwide – even though it is only 2 years old.
What is of particular interest to New Zealand, is that it fits extremely well with many of the strategies that the National IT Health Board has developed: The use of regional repositories, a Record Locator Service to find information, portals (patient and provider to view/update it) and so forth. And it has also been designed specifically to support mobile devices – probably the biggest trend in healthcare IT today.
This one day seminar is aimed both at the Decision Maker and the Implementer and is intended to give people the high level information they need about this important new standard which is being implemented worldwide right now and will be hosted by our own Dr. David Hay (who is a co-chair of the HL7 FHIR Management Group) and assisted by local experts:
Alastair Kenworthy – Chief Sector Architect NHITB, Peter Jordan – Solutions Architect, Patients first and Dr Koray Atalag – Researcher, NIHI
The day will cover the following topics and conclude with networking drinks at approx. 4pm:
- An introduction to FHIR: what is it and why should you care – where is it being used now
- How does FHIR fit with information modelling
- What is the relationship between CDA and FHIR
- Where could FHIR be used in New Zealand, for example:
- Laboratory information
- Record Locator
- NHI lookup
- FHIR and SNOMED
As well as presentations, there will be an opportunity in the afternoon to interact with real FHIR servers so bring your laptop! And this applies to Managers as well as implementers…
Register early to make sure you don’t miss out on this important event. We look forward to seeing you there!
Kind Regards,
Dr David Hay
Chair, HL7 New Zealand
Co-Chair, FHIR Management Group
COST:
Standard $150 (includes complimentary membership of HL7 NZ for 1 year)
HL7NZ Members $125 (current financial members)
Multi Rate $125 (per person for 2 or more non-members from the same organization)
Students $25 (scan of student ID badge required)
FREE Special Seminar Hosted by the NIHI on 15 April 2014
Clinical Decision Support: Leveraging Health Information Technology Standards to Improve Outcomes
A FREE Special Seminar Hosted by the National Institute for Health InnovationSchool of Population Health15 April 2014
Presented by: Professor Robert Jenders
Co-Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Professor of Medicine,
Charles Drew University, Los Angeles, California USA
Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) USA
Attending Staff Physician, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Dr Robert A. Jenders broadly addresses in his research the domain of clinical decision support (CDS), with a focus on knowledge representation and health information technology (HIT) standards in the context of electronic health record systems. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA, he received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Marquette University; completed his MD degree and did his medical residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; earned a master’s degree in computer science at Northeastern University; and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Outside of his home institutions, Dr. Jenders has served since 1998 as co-chair of the clinical decision support work group of Health Level Seven International (HL7), the principal international standards development organization for health information technology.
In this talk, Dr. Jenders will survey the state of the art and science regarding HIT standards that are applicable to CDS. In this analysis of the standards landscape, he will emphasize those standards concerning knowledge representation and delivery as well as convey the latest developments regarding these standards and related efforts to develop new standards.
For further information please contact Helen Gu h.gu@auckland.ac.nz
openEHR and HL7 New Zealand Statement of Collaboration
Added link to the openEHR NZ page according to “openEHR and HL7 New Zealand Statement of Collaboration” signed on the 19 March 2012.
“HL7 New Zealand and the openEHR Foundation recognise the importance of developing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems which are interoperable in New Zealand. Both parties agree that both organisations provide crucial input and facilities in this area and that close collaboration is required to achieve this goal.”
The link to the full PDF document of the statement can be found here.
Find us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter
To make HL7 NZ more social, we added links to our Facebook page and Twitter account on Contact page and the side menu bar.
HL7 New Zealand OID Version 1.2
As of 11 March 2014, the New Zealand OID Registry was updated to Version 1.2.
The registry can be viewed and downloaded in the following page: New Zealand OID Registry
These OIDs are issued by HL7 New Zealand as the registration authority for New Zealand for OIDs derived from the HL7 International trunk. The HL7NZ root is 2.16.840.1.113883.2.18 Requests for New Zealand OIDs from this root can be directed to admin@hl7.org.nz
Merry Christmas from HL7NZ
Once again it is my privilege to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year on behalf of HL7 New Zealand.
In some ways it’s been a quiet year in New Zealand, although there has been plenty of activity in the background, both nationally where members of the Board have worked on local standards, and internationally as HL7 International has worked through the issues raised by making its standards free for anyone to use.
And in addition, there has been a very significant amount of work being done on the latest HL7 standard – FHIR – that has the potential to make healthcare interoperability significantly easier to achieve. This is critical in this modern age where it is well acknowledged that a person’s healthcare information needs to be available to them – and to clinicians – in a wide range of situations and using a range of devices.
Here in New Zealand we are working towards a closer relationship with other organisations in the healthcare IT space – members of the HL7 Board also serve on the HINZ Executive, we have a strategic relationship with openEHR and representatives have also been appointed to HISO. Hopefully we will be able to help accelerate the adoption of standards in the New Year.
Next year we plan on being more active locally. We want to show that standards can facilitate interoperability and innovation, so we are planning a series of practical events that developers – and users – can participate in to showcase this. Our hope is also that we can attract new vendors into the healthcare IT space, and show that the initiatives embodied in the National IT plan will make core clinical information more accessible to those who need it in a manner that preserves the person’s privacy. More details will follow in the New Year!
So I trust that 2013 has been a good year for all of you…that 2014 will be even better and I wish you all the compliments of the season.
Kind Regards,David HayChair, HL7 New Zealand
AGM 2013
HL7NZ AGM – special meeting held 12 December 2013
IHIC 2013 Presentation “Future Directions: FHIR in New Zealand (a personal opinion)”
In IHIC 2013, Dr David Hay described a number of possible scenarios where FHIR could add value in the New Zealand context. The views are his own, and are not intended to represent the views either of HL7 New Zealand, nor of the IT Health Board.
Ihic preso v2 from David Hay