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IHTSDO Community of Practice Meetings & SNOMED CT and Interoperable Healthcare Event, June 30-July 3 in Birmingham, England
Please join us for Community of Practice meetings and a SNOMED CT and Interoperable Healthcare Event hosted by the UK Terminology Centre (UKTC) in Birmingham, England from Monday June 30th – Thursday July 3rd.
In consultation with Committee Chairs, meetings of several Working Groups that requested additional face-to-face time have been scheduled (Observables; Events, Conditions, and Episodes; and Pharmacy). The Management Board and the Members’ Operational Liaison Forum will also meet during this period. Please see the agenda for more details.
In addition, NHS Connecting for Health through the UK Terminology Centre will be running tutorials and a one day conference titled “SNOMED CT and Interoperable Healthcare”. They will bring together healthcare and IT professionals to explore and share experiences in the use of SNOMED CT and related standards in supporting the benefits sought from interoperability. They will enable clinicians to understand the scope and capabilities of terminology-enabled healthcare solutions, and will enable IT developers and system providers to discover the state-of-the-art terminology solutions.
The tutorials will cover the relationship of the terminology with other standards such as HL7 V3 messaging, Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and the Common User Interface (CUI). More details will be available shortly.
The one day conference will take place on Wednesday July 2nd. It will look at the importance to patient care of using SNOMED CT as part of an overall technical solution to support the delivery of health care and will provide a forum for users to consider the impacts and benefits of moving from note taking for local use to that required for a national shared electronic record. Speakers will include:
- Jennifer Zelmer, Chief Executive Officer, International Health Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO)
- Dr Mark P Davies, National Clinical Director, NHS Connecting for Health
- Dr Paul Jones, Chief Technology Officer, NHS Connecting for Health
- Representatives from UK and International organisations that are already using SNOMED CT.
A number of workshops will be held giving updates on areas such as the creation of a common user interface will also be given and suppliers and specialist organisations will be exhibiting.
Booking
An online booking facility is available on the NHS Connecting for Health website http://etdevents.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/all/book/1629
(If you haven’t used the NHS Connecting for Health booking system you will need to go through a simple registration process which can be accessed from the link above).
Please note that delegates booking onto the IHTSDO 2008 COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE MEETINGS will automatically be booked onto the one day SNOMED CT AND INTEROPERABLE HEALTHCARE conference on the Wednesday 2nd July which will also be held at the NEC in Birmingham.
For further details on the conference contact nhscfh.etdevents(at)nhs.net
