Health Level Seven® International
24th Annual Plenary and Working Group Meeting
Cambridge, MA October 3-8, 2010
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HL7 AMBASSADOR PROGRAM AT THE 24TH ANNUAL PLENARY AND WORKING GROUP MEETING

PHL7 and the Final Rule: Health Information Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology

Now offering CME credit!
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 1:45 - 5:00 pm
3 CME Credits

This session provides an overview of how HL7 will be used to achieve Meaningful Use and then provides high-level tutorials on HL7's Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®), Continuity of Care Document (CCD®) and its Version 2 standards, which are named in the Final Rule referenced in the session title.

This Tutorial Will Benefit:

  • Individuals who will be required to understand HL7's role in meaningful use and electronic health record technology.

Upon Completion of This Tutorial, Students Will Know:

  • How to use HL7 to achieve Meaningful Use
  • How to use the HL7 CDA® standard and the CCD® Implementation Guide
  • How to use HL7's Version 2 standards for submission to Public Health Agencies for surveillance reporting
  • How to use HL7's Version 2 standards for submission of lab reporting to Public Health Agencies
  • How to use HL7's Version 2 standards for submission to immunization registries

Prerequisites:
None

Tools Needed:
Please bring a laptop to the course

Program and Faculty:
1:45 - 1:55 PM Grant Wood (Host - Program introduction and brief HL7overview): Intermountain Healthcare Clinical genetics Institute

1:55 - 2:20 PM Gora Datta (Speaker - HL7 and Meaningful Use): Chairman and CEO, CAL2CAL Corporation

2:20 - 2:45 PM Austin Kreisler (Speaker: HL7 Version 2 and Electronic Lab Reporting): HL7 Messaging Specialist, SAIC; Co-Chair, HL7 Orders & Observations Work Group; Co-Chair, HL7 Domain Experts Steering Division; Member, HL7 Technical Steering Committee

2:45 - 3:00 PM Questions from the audience

3:00 - 3:30 PM Break

3:30 - 3:55 PM Alean Kirnak (Speaker - HL7 Version 2 and Immunization): American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA); Co-Chair, HL7 Public Health and Emergency Response Work Group

3:55 - 4:20 PM Anna Orlova (Co-Speaker - HL7 Version 2 and Surveillance): Executive Director, Public Health Data Standards Consortium, Lori Reed-Fourquet (Co-Speaker - HL7 Version 2 and Surveillance): Owner/Consultant, e-HealthSign, LLC

4:20 - 4:45 PM Keith Boone (Speaker - HL7's CDA® and CCD® Standards): Lead Interoperability Systems Designer, GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions; Co-Chair, HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Work Group

4:45 - 5:00 PM Questions from the audience