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[Esther L]

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Subject: REMINDER: National Health Information Network Progress Report 
2007 - Joint ComSoc/EMBS Meeting 12/3
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:32:04 -0500
From: Thomas Jepsen <tjepsen at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: tjepsen at IEEE.ORG
CC: encs-excom at IEEE.ORG

[NOTE: This talk will include an overview of the Federal Communications
Commission's recent announcement of $400 million funding to build out the
broadband network to support TeleHealth.]

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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