HL7 C-CDA® Implementation-A-Thon
C-CDA® Users and Developers - We Need Your Input!
Member Price: $295 / Non-Member Price: $395
January 12 & 13, 2017
Trinity University
William Knox Holt Center - Room 300
106 Oakmont Court
San Antonio, TX 78212
The upcoming Implementation-A-Thon will be HL7's fourth IAT. Here are the wiki pages about the past three Implementation-A-Thons; each of these should give you an idea for what goes on at an IAT:
http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=C-CDA_Implementation-a-Thon_1
http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=C-CDA_Implementation-a-Thon_2
http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=C-CDA_Implementation-a-Thon_3
Some questions that have been posed so far are:
1. Does this involve actually writing of code?
2. Does this involve using your software?
3. How much detail of medical knowledge?
4. What type of equipment should we be bring?
It does involve using your software, but there is no expectation that you'd be writing code or modifying your application unless you felt it necessary. Some of the participants have modified their application while at the IaT to support some of the document types or sections that they didn't support before they arrived, but we try to publish the scenarios ahead of time so that you can come fully prepared.
The scenarios in the past have not required medical knowledge in the sense that we were looking for how people did things and not the specifics of what was coded. Having some medical knowledge will be useful and it will depend on the scenarios which we haven't finalized yet.
The only equipment you need to bring is a laptop. You should have the ability to access your application from the IaT site. We ensure that the facility has internet access and you should be able to VPN in, if you need to.
To date, we have not tested any specific exchange protocol so the applications are not connecting to each other, but rather we use Dropbox and a USB drive to share files between the participants. In all scenarios to-date, it has been all about the format of your generated CDA documents as well as any feedback on your importing/parsing of other's documents that we've been interested in.