21054 What's Happening at HL7?

Tuesday, September 1, 2009: 10:50 AM
Courtland
Austin Kreisler, BS , Public Health Informatics, SAIC, Atlanta, GA
Rita Altamore, MD, MPH , EHSPHL, Informatics Office, Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, WA
In this presentation we will enter the somewhat murky and mysterious world of the HL7 Standards Development Organization. We will shed some light on the HL7 organization, revealing how it is structured as well as how it operates. As an organization HL7 has been evolving rapidly over the past few years, changing into an organization better able to quickly respond to the needs of the consumers of standards.

In this presentation we will cover the following:

  • How the HL7 organization is structured
  • How the HL7 organization operates
  • How HL7 currently develops standards and how that will change in the future
  • What public health related projects are underway at HL7
  • How to get involved – and why you should
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