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** IHE Australia Connectathon/Showcase 2011 Overview. **
 * Registrations Open: **

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Call for registration from Australian and International healthcare IT vendors in participation in a planned series of IHE and vendor marketing events in 2011. The purpose of early notification is to enable vendors to consider the business and marketing case for involvement and to arrange the necessary internal resources.

The 2011 marketing events will be: · HISA – health informatics conference Brisbane: 1-5th August · HIMSS Asia Pacific; Melbourne; 20-23rd September · RANZCR: Melbourne 6-9th October

In technical support of the above: · IHE Australia Connectathon: July 11th-15th Melbourne.

**On-line registrations will open on May 15th**
** Next Meeting **

A Vendor Teleconference meeting with IHE Australia Connectathon participants will be held on every **Wednesday at 8.30 AM** (Sydney time) The 8 digit Teleconference Access Code: ** Melbourne ** 03 8779 7440 **Gold Coast** 07 5560 0956 ** Adelaide ** 08 8220 0836 **Hobart** 03 6218 0647 ** Brisbane ** 07 3811 0988 **Perth** 08 9460 0829 ** Canberra ** 02 6210 0851 **Sydney** 02 9696 0774 ** New Zealand ** 0800 448 298 ** U.S.A. ** 1866 814 5210
 * ** Conference Group ** || ** Guest Access Code ** ||
 * *IHE Australia || 28489121# ||

Contact: Bernie Crowe (event manager) eventsmanager@ihe.net.au 0418487081 Chris Lindop (IHE radiology international co-chair) Christopher.Lindop@ge.com ; +1.262.649.6538


 * Overview of 2011 activities. **

Following the calling for Expressions of Interest to vendors, IHE Australia has received a number of replies as at 31 March 2011. It has been decided that the subject for the annual IHE Australia Connectathon in Melbourne will be the implementation of a PCEHR using IHE profiles. As in 2010, this year’s events will focus on how the PCEHR can be delivered using proven and already implemented standards.

IHE Australia understands that this topic of the PCEHR is of interest to many e-Health vendors given the current state of activity in this area in Australia and following the issuing of the NEHTA Draft Concept of Operations Document on 8 April 2011.

The six IHE integration profiles mentioned in the Draft Concept of Operations Document are: · IHE Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC) Integration Profile · [IHE Cross Enterprise User Assertion (XUA) · IHE Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b)   · IHE Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA) Integration Profile · IHE Consistent Time (CT) Integration Profile · IHE Retrieve Information for Display (RID)

Note: These profiles arereferenced in the PCEHR Draft Concept of Operationsas IHE2010a and can be downloaded free of charge in the IHE Infrastructure Technical Framework set of documents in three volumes – Refer - [|http://www.ihe.net/Technical_Framework/index.cfm#IT]

The IHE Australia Connectathon in July 2011 will provide an excellent opportunity for vendors to develop and test their capability in the shared EHR domain with other vendors. As in the 2010 Connectathon, there will be an opportunity for vendors to express interest to participate at an observer level which will increase their understanding of the technology, even if they are not able to participate at the technical level for this year.

Vendors who have expressed interest in participating in the IHE Australia Showcase focused on PCEHR include: GE, Oracle Australia, HP, Orion Health, Microsoft/Surity, RadLogiX, Smart Health Solutions, McCauley Software, Endosoft, Kestral, CDN and Eizo.

Vendors will be asked to provide an indication of which IHE profiles and actors they wish to showcase. The Showcase will create a virtual health care system and demonstrate the capabilities of vendors to create a complete health record exchange system such as is proposed for the PCEHR. This will include central infrastructure actors using IHE profiles to create registries (index service), repositories, identity management, and access control and audit.


 * Plan of Operation **


 * 1. Connectathon **

An IHE Connectathon is an engineering event aimed at testing and refinement of systems to comply with IHE standard profiles. In addition, IHE Australia has used Connectathons to test Australian Standards for HL7 and for NEHTA SMD profile. The Connectathon is not a publicity or marketing event; it is held under rules of confidentiality and only positive outcomes are posted on the IHE Australia website.

The **IHE Australia Connectathon focused on the PCEHR** will be held in Melbourne on 11-15 July 2011. In accordance with the operating rules of IHE International, vendors who successfully demonstrate completion of the IHE Australia Connectathon tasks will then be able to: · Publish an IHE conformance statement that applies to individual products · Proceed to IHE Australia Showcase activities where they can demonstrate the results from the Connectathon and their proven capabilities in this area to a wider audience.

The Showcase scenarios may include interoperability of IHE profiles with other communication standards (e.g. HL7 v2, SMD, IHI web services or Continua). Vendors who are participating in the Showcase using other communication standards are also required to participate in the Connectathon as part of the Showcase rehearsal. Participant options for the Connectathon include: 1. Participants (either testing against IHE profiles or undertaking Showcase rehearsal) 2. Supportive systems (as described below) 3. Observers who may undertake training in implementation of IHE profiles and attend the education

Open Day. The opportunity for training and development support alongside the Connectathon would need prior discussion with IHE management.

An important development in the IHE Australia Connectathon operation is the introduction this year of the concept of “Supportive System”. IHE Australia recognizes that there are over 400 vendor organisations that have participated internationally at IHE Connectathons in USA, Europe and elsewhere and that many of these organisations are represented in the Asia-Pacific region. While IHE Australia recognizes that for a variety of reasons, these vendor organisations may not wish to participate in the specific PCEHR related 2011 Connectathon, nevertheless, IHE Australia is keen to have these major vendors participate with their systems in both the Connectathon and Showcases as a “Supportive”. For a relatively modest cost, these vendors will be able to participate and contribute to the critical mass of certified systems for group testing, meet and network with the technical staff from other organizations, and if desired, use the Showcases to demonstrate to a new and wider audience their overseas experience in managing IHE profiles. This participation will enable local engineers, marketing and sales staff to become familiar with the IHE interoperability capability of their products and enable local marketing of this capability. Being a Supportive System is about deployment, and should not required in-depth engineering input from international development teams. To qualify a system as “Supportive”, the product must be able to demonstrate successful participation on a internationally recognized IHE Connectathon event and have published an IHE Integration Statement claiming Conformance for those Integration Profiles.

In association with the Connectathon, IHE Australia will hold a public Education – Open Day during the event to enable industry and stakeholders to learn about IHE and view the Connectathon in action.

** 2. IHE Showcase **

IHE Interoperability showcases are marketing and demonstration events held in conjunction with major health IT conference exhibitions to enable IHE capable vendors to demonstrate to the market their capabilities. In doing so it becomes clear that health care interoperability is achievable by a wide group of vendors using existing technology, IHE Profiles and standards.

Showcases can also include other vendors who use recognized health IT standards, with a focus on integration with IHE enabled vendors. Showcases demonstrate that there is capability to work with existing and legacy systems and communication standards.

Showcase Participation Options: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 68pt; text-indent: -50pt;">1. Participant: Vendor playing a role in the showcase scenario as “an actor” <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 68pt; text-indent: -50pt;">2. Leadership Participant: Vendor who is a participant and also provides sponsorship in return for additional publicity and leadership status. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 68pt; text-indent: -50pt;">3. Supporter: Vendors who are not playing a role as actors or leaders, yet want to recognised in Showcase publicity, support the Showcase, and may also participate in front of house roles as demonstrators and educational speakers.

The 2011 IHE Australia 2011 supported Showcases and marketing events will be: ** 1. ** Interoperability Showcase (PCEHR focus) ** HISA ** – Health Informatics Conference, **HIC** **2011, Brisbane, 1-5 August 2011** ** 2. ** Interoperability Showcase (PCEHR focus) ** HIMSS AsiaPac 11, Melbourne, 20-23 September 2011. **

The above Showcases focused on PCEHR will also demonstrate the capacity of the IHE Cross Enterprise Document Share (XDS) and Imaging (XDS-I) profiles to deliver patient healthcare records. The Showcases will use technology and models that are already implemented by many different companies and used in many overseas countries, including a major implementation in Canada.

Consumers will see a real time demonstration, with themselves potentially as "the patient", of how a consumer-centered ongoing health record can be delivered and what benefits they can gain in terms of improved healthcare, and capacity to participate in their own healthcare management.

The IHE Australia Showcases provide a demonstration for healthcare professionals of a model healthcare system showing how common services such as GPs, specialists, community health services, pathology, radiology, and hospitals can provide access to existing health records such as discharge summaries, referrals, care plans, lab and radiology results, and potentially prescription records.

** 3. **** RANZCR 2011 Interoperability Showcase, 6-9 October 2011 **
 * For vendors with a radiology focus **, an IHE Australia Showcase involving IHE Profiles for Digital Image Exchange and Mammography and other radiology profiles on request, will be conducted by IHE Australia **at RANZCR Annual Scientific Meeting 2011, Melbourne, 6-9 October 2011** (


 * Costs of Participation **

IHE Australia is a volunteer not-for-profit group and therefore the costs of mounting Connectathons and Showcases have to be recouped from participants. Charges to vendors will be in line with last year’s costs and on a sliding scale according to vendor size. 1. Connectathon
 * ** IHE Australia Connectathon 2011 ** ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Participant: ||
 * $6K (Listed Company > 100 employees )  ||
 * $4K (Vendor 11-99 employees )  ||
 * $2K ( Vendor <11 employees, Observer, Supportive System)  ||


 * 2. Showcases **


 * ** HIC 2011 ** || ** HIMSS AsiaPac 11 (Payable to HIMSS AsiaPac 11) ** || ** RANZCR 2011 ** ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">$12K Leadership Participant || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">$12K Leadership Participant || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">$12K Leadership Participant ||
 * $6K Participant (Listed Company 11- 100 employees )  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">$6K Participant ||  $6K Participant (Listed Company 11- 100 employees )   ||
 * $3K Participant ( Vendor <11 employees ) Supporter  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">$3K Supporter ||  $3K Participant ( Vendor <11employees ) or Supporter   ||


 * Please contact the event manager: Bernie Crowe by phone on +61 (0) 418 487 081 or ** EventsManager@ihe.net.au ** ) to discuss your level of involvement **
 * NB: Payment is due on registration + 7 days **
 * Preparations work on pre-testing to be completed by end June 2011. **

For further information: contact Bernie Crowe (IHE Australia Connectathon and Showcase Coordinator) EventsManager@ihe.net.au

Mob +61 418 487 081

Chris Lindop (IHE International liaison with IHE Australia): Phone: +1 262.649 6538 Christopher.Lindop@ge.com


 * Please indicate which of the following events your company would wish to attend, subject to available resources. **
 * Preference **
 * HISA HIC Yes/No **

__** HIMSS Asia Pacific Yes /No **__


 * RANZCR Yes/No __ **

For the Connectathon and Showcase which IHE profile or Australian standard would you intend to use:

Cross Enterprise Document Share - XDS Cross Enterprise Document Share – Imaging (XDS-I) Cross Enterprise Document Reliable Interchange (XDR) Cross Enterprise Document Media Interchange - (XDM) Portable Data for Imaging (PDI) Radiology Scheduled Workflow (SWF) Reporting Workflow (RWF) Radiation Exposure Monitoring REM) Mammography images (Mammo)  Australian HL7 e-Results  Australian HL7 e-Referral  Australian Secure Messaging Delivery (SMD)


 * Further information about these profiles is at: **
 * http://ihe-australia.wikispaces.com/events+2011+-+additional+profile+information **