HL7NZ Webinar: Medtech Global FHIR® Platform ALEX
Thank you to those who attended the HL7NZ midyear Webinar on June 23rd – if you did not manage to attend on the day here is the link to the presentation kindly delivered by Medtech Global, Managing Director- Dr Geoff Sayer who discussed the development of Medtech’s new Platform ALEX (Application Layer EXchange) that allows third-party applications to securely integrate with the Medtech32 and Evolution Practice Management systems, via APIs built on HL7 FHIR.
A report of the Webinar is available to subscribers of Pulse+IT.
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HL7 New Zealand – Annual General Meeting 2020 Report
The 2020 Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 26th November at 3:00pm at the offices of the Clanwilliam Group in Auckland. Eight members of the previous Board Members were re-elected along with Derek Buchanan, Michael Hosking, Anna-Marie Scroggins (Health Alliance) and Matt Valentine. The outgoing Board Members – who all voluntarily stepped down after huge contributions – were Karen Blake (Health Alliance), Martin Entwistle, David Fallas and David Hay (Chair Emeritus).
The Chairman’s Annual Report, presented to the Meeting, can be found here.
At the first meeting of the new Board, held directly afterwards, the following officers were unanimously elected for two-year terms: Peter Jordan (Chair) and Linda McKay (Secretary). Peter Sergent (Vice Chair) and David Moorhouse (Treasurer) will continue to serve in their current positions having been elected for two-year terms in November 2019.
HL7 NZ mid-year seminar 2020 – Via WEBINAR
Many thanks to everyone who attended this Webinar on April 28th, we hope that you found it an informative and enjoyable event.
All the presentations are now available for you to download and view at your leisure. The last two hours of the event can also be viewed here.
We are hoping to offer further Webinars in the coming months and would be delighted to hear suggestions as to the topics that you would like us to present.
SNOMED CT® Events
International: SNOMED International Business Meetings and Expo: 27 Oct – 1 Nov 2019 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
New Zealand Events
SNOMED CT® Developer Training Day: 6 Nov 2019 – Christchurch. Contact standards@health.govt.nz for free registration NOW FULLY SUBSCRIBED
SNOMED CT® Developer Training Day: 7 Nov 2019 – Auckland. Contact standards@health.govt.nz for free registration NOW FULLY SUBSCRIBED
NZHIT Event: FHIR for Implementers in New Zealand
NZHIT hosted the one-day workshop in Christchurch, “FHIR for Implementers in New Zealand” on 29 August 2019.
The event information below is from the event website:
You need to attend this one-day workshop if you’re planning, undertaking or want to know more about FHIR implementation.HL7 FHIR is the healthcare interoperability standard that has achieved global recognition.It is also endorsed locally by the New Zealand Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO), along with SNOMED, as the national terminology standard.
The Ministry of Health is fully behind this initiative, prescribing FHIR as the primary interface to the nHIP programme, and with projects underway to add FHIR interfaces to the NHI and the HPI.
This free workshop is sponsored by the Ministry of Health to help increase implementer knowledge about FHIR. There is no charge for you to attend BUT you must register quick as numbers are limited to 30 attendees.
Details
This full day workshop is being held in Christchurch on Thursday 29th August 2019 and will be delivered by Dr David Hay. David has been involved with FHIR from the very beginning and is currently a co-chair of the FHIR Management Group and HL7NZ Chair emeritus.
It is intended for anyone who is planning, undertaking or wants to up their game when it comes to FHIR implementation. It is particularly for – developers, clinicians, consumer representatives, project managers or any other member of the implementation team.
You do not need previous experience with FHIR.
This will be an interactive workshop. You’ll be able to get hands-on in a supportive environment so will need to bring your laptop (you just need a modern browser, such as chrome, installed).
The workshop’s programme will be published closer to the time, but the following is an overview of what you’ll be involved with on the day –
The morning session will include an overview of FHIR, explore more advanced topics like profiling and terminology then review the tooling available to help understand how FHIR is used to represent real scenarios, and exchange information.
This will lead you into the afternoon session where you’ll dig deeper into the technical aspects of building FHIR clients and servers with a deep dive into the RESTful interface, including security aspects such as SMART.
You’ll be able to play in a sample ecosystem that includes prototypes of the NHI & HPI interfaces as well as conformance, data, terminology and authentication servers.
You’ll also have time for exercises to show just how easy it is to build with FHIR (you’ll need an IDE of some sort, or a REST client, for these).
The workshop will wrap up at the end of the day with a discussion on the next steps – how can we realise the patient-centered ecosystem in New Zealand.
This event is limited to 30 people, so be in quick to guarantee your place.
Venue to be confirmed in Christchurch shortly.
Thanks to –
Ministry of Health for sponsoring this event
NZHIT as the organisers
HL7NZ for their on-going support and promotion of interoperability standards