[IEEE-bhpjobs] Fw: National Health Information Network Progress Report 2007 - Joint ComSoc/EMBS Meeting 12/3

[Esther Lumsdon]

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>From: Thomas Jepsen <tjepsen at MINDSPRING.COM>
>Sent: Nov 18, 2007 10:13 PM
>To: tjepsen at IEEE.ORG
>Cc: encs-excom at IEEE.ORG
>Subject: National Health Information Network Progress Report 2007 - Joint ComSoc/EMBS Meeting 12/3
>
>The Eastern North Carolina chapters of the IEEE Communications Society and
>the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society will sponsor a presentation
>on the status of the National Health Information Network  by Thomas Jepsen,
>vice chair of the IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee.
>
>Date:   Monday, December 3, 2007
>
>Time:    6:00-8:00 pm
>         Refreshments 6:00-6:30
>         Presentation 6:30-7:30
>         Q&A following presentation
>
>Place:  MCNC Auditorium
>        3021 Cornwallis Rd 
>        Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3910
>        Directions: MCNC is located on Cornwallis Road in Research Triangle
>Park. From Highway 54, take T.W. Alexander Drive north to Cornwallis
>Road. MCNC is on the left side of Cornwallis Road going east/southeast.
>From Highway 40, take the Durham Freeway (Highway 147) north. Take the
>Cornwallis Road exit (exit 6).  MCNC is on the right side of Cornwallis
>Road going west/northwest.
>
>Cost:   no charge
>
>RSVP:   Please RSVP for this (tjepsen at ieee.org)
>
>Featured Topic: National Health Information Progress Report - 2007
>
>Executive Order 13335, issued in April 2004, called for the establishment of
>the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
>(ONCHIT) to promote the development of a nationwide interoperable health
>information technology infrastructure.  Since then, considerable progress
>has been made on defining the architecture of the National Health
>Information Network (NHIN), and prototypes have been developed to
>demonstrate its feasibility. A strategy for implementing the NHIN has been
>developed in which regional Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are first
>created and then merged to form a nationwide network. While much work has
>been done on defining the standards needed to ensure interoperability across
>the network, much additional work is needed to translate the architectural
>vision into reality.  This presentation is an update on the presentation I
>gave in November 2005, and highlights the progress that has been made.
>
>Speaker: Thomas Jepsen, Vice Chair, IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee
>
>Thomas Jepsen is an IT consultant who chaired the Interoperability Working
>Group of the IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee (MTPC), and edited
>the white paper authored by the group, "Interoperability for the National
>Health Information Network," in 2005. He also was a contributing author to
>the Health Level Seven Interoperability Work Group's white paper, "Coming to
>Terms: Scoping Interoperability for Healthcare," in 2007.  He is Programming
>Languages Editor for IEEE ITPro Magazine, and is Guest Editor for their
>forthcoming special issue (March/April 2008) on healthcare information
>technology.
>
>best regards
>Thomas C. Jepsen
>Chapter Chair
>IEEE Communications Society
>Chapter Chair, 
>IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
>Vice Chair
>IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section
>tjepsen at ieee.org
>Pnone: 919-933-0377


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