Upcoming HL7 Australia Seminar

Nov 20, 2012

There’s an HL7 Australia seminar next week:

Come and join us in Brisbane to gain valuable insight into some of the hot questions faced by those implementing CDA here in Australia.  As the national installed base of HL7 CDA grows and systems need to be certified, those implementing this technology have been seeking further information about the following:

  • **  Presentation and Rendering of CDA Documents** Grahame Grieve of Health Intersections, HL7 International’s Volunteer of the Year, will summarise feedback on the experience to date around the content, presentation and rendering of CDA documents, and will lead discussion and provide advice on the major issues arising and how to address them. Grahame Grieve of Health Intersections, HL7 International’s Volunteer of the Year, will summarise feedback on the experience to date around the content, presentation and rendering of CDA documents, and will lead discussion and provide advice on the major issues arising and how to address them. Grahame Grieve of Health Intersections, HL7 International’s Volunteer of the Year, will summarise feedback on the experience to date around the content, presentation and rendering of CDA documents, and will lead discussion and provide advice on the major issues arising and how to address them. Grahame Grieve of Health Intersections, HL7 International’s Volunteer of the Year, will summarise feedback on the experience to date around the content, presentation and rendering of CDA documents, and will lead discussion and provide advice on the major issues arising and how to address them.
  • ** Open and Closed CDA Templates ** Sarah Gaunt (Lantana Consulting Group) was a technical lead for NEHTA’s development of the Australian CDA implementation guides and will reveal the black arts of managing a family of CDA templates and making CDA a useful tool for real world.interoperability. Sarah Gaunt (Lantana Consulting Group) was a technical lead for NEHTA’s development of the Australian CDA implementation guides and will reveal the black arts of managing a family of CDA templates and making CDA a useful tool for real world.interoperability. Sarah Gaunt (Lantana Consulting Group) was a technical lead for NEHTA’s development of the Australian CDA implementation guides and will reveal the black arts of managing a family of CDA templates and making CDA a useful tool for real world.interoperability. Sarah Gaunt (Lantana Consulting Group) was a technical lead for NEHTA’s development of the Australian CDA implementation guides and will reveal the black arts of managing a family of CDA templates and making CDA a useful tool for real world.interoperability.
  • ** CDA Implementation Lessons Learned** Paul Carr, Managing Director of Genie Solutions, will discuss some of the lessons learnt when a software developer with a large installed base is confronted by a new world of CDA documents, rendering, and conformity assessment. Paul Carr, Managing Director of Genie Solutions, will discuss some of the lessons learnt when a software developer with a large installed base is confronted by a new world of CDA documents, rendering, and conformity assessment. Paul Carr, Managing Director of Genie Solutions, will discuss some of the lessons learnt when a software developer with a large installed base is confronted by a new world of CDA documents, rendering, and conformity assessment. Paul Carr, Managing Director of Genie Solutions, will discuss some of the lessons learnt when a software developer with a large installed base is confronted by a new world of CDA documents, rendering, and conformity assessment.Grahame Grieve will also give a**FHIR Status Check**, bringing us right up to date with FHIR, where it has been and where it is heading, with a focus on how FHIR is being implemented.

So, as well as providing an update on where we are with FHIR (shorter-version: busy like the bottom end of a rocket), I’m going to be discussing CDA Presentation and Rendering. Some of the specific issues that I’ll be discussing:

  • How is clinical safety maintained in a mixed system of data and narrative?
  • When can you ignore the data or narrative portions?
  • How should you go about populating both?
  • Why does NEHTA provide and mandate it’s own stylesheet?
  • Why is there a rendering specification? What does it actually do?
  • Why is there yet another document forthcoming called “Best Practices for Presenting CDA documents”? What does that do?

A lot of this is dealing with the questions that Eric Browne raised at the beginning of this year, but doing so based on actual implementation experience.

What I’m making is more than just a presentation - there’s a lot of consternation about various parts of the landscape here amongst actual implementers, and I’ll be laying out the foundations, and the ground work, and explaining the current situation, and then I’m expecting an open - and possibly stormy - discussion about the strengths and weakness of the current approach, and where we might go from here.