An Overview of healthcare interoperability standards

Number of Days: 1 day, 09:00 to 16:30. Your instructor is available during lunch and after 16:30 for informal discussions about your specific area of interest or applications.

Dates:

September 30, 2010 (in Dutch)	Utrecht the Netherlands	Info/Registration:MedicalPHIT
November 30, 2010 (in Dutch)	Utrecht the Netherlands	Info/Registration:MedicalPHIT

This training is also provided on-site upon request. Call +31 318 589 789 (+49 700 74644656) for additional information.

Who Should Attend: This training is ideal for those who'd like to understand the key characteristics of a number of, and the relationships between, commonly used interoperability standards.

What is covered: The training describes the key areas in which standardization is needed (e.g. workflows, messages, documents, terminologies and identification schemes) in order to achieve interoperability between software applications in healthcare. It also provides an overview of the key characteristics of some of the existing standards in this area (e.g. CDA, DICOM, HL7 v2, HL7 v3, IHE, SNOMED).

Agenda

• Introduction
• Healthcare workflows: the need for standardization
  • IHE: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
• Messaging: the exchange of structured data
  • HL7 version 2 - within hospitals
  • HL7 version 3 - between organizations
  • EDIFACT - between organizations
  • DICOM - images
• Documents: the exchange of textual data
  • HL7v3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
• Unified terminology and identification schemes
  • SNOMED - clinical terms
  • ICD-10 - clinical terms for invoicing
• Relationships between the standards & summary

Number of Attendees per Class: Min 3, Max 15.

Course Materials: Ringholm will provide each participant with handouts containing all materials covered in the training as well as other support materials.