Showcase+2010+-+notice+of+event

=**IHE Australia Connectathon (July 2010) and Showcase 2010 - Notice of event.**= Colleagues and IHE members

The purpose of this note is to explore your interest in: 1. Participation in one or more product showcases, a marketing opportunity for your products and organisation in relation to the Cross Enterprise Document Share profile for documents and images, and the Australian Secure Message Delivery Profile. There will be at least __1__ and potentially 3 opportunities to reach customers and policy makers at the major Australian IT meetings in 2010. 2. Participation in an official IHE Connectathon – Australia. IHE vendors understand the role and function of a Connectathon. Generally it is to support product development against IHE profiles and gain the marketing “tick of approval” and to set vendors up to demonstrate their products in IHE showcases. Vendors who have already qualified at an Australian or international Connectathon are not required to “redo” this, however the opportunity is there for vendors to request IHE Australia to test profiles of interest to them.

For the past 5 years IHE Australia (working with HISA and MSIA) has run a e-health showcase at the HISA HIC conference, demonstrating scenarios about how healthcare can be improved though the movement of healthcare information to support patient care. Initially we focused on HL7 messaging primarily however in recent years we have run demonstrations of complete IHE profiles such as XDS and PDI (images on media). The IHE Showcases are usually the physical centre of the HISA exhibition and somewhat the centre of interest; those who where there __can’t__ forget seeing Minister Abbott walking through the healthcare services with his arm in a sling! Vendors who have conference exhibitions are also able to gain flow on exposure to attendees through the messages promoted at the Showcase.
 * A teleconference will be held on Tuesday. May 18th. at 8.30am (see below). **

IHE Australia is seeking expressions of interest to run a series of showcases in 2010 at the following meetings:

[|HISA HIC]Melbourne __24__-26th August [|Health-e-Nation] – Sydney 9th September [|RANZCR (Radiology) Annual Scientific Meeting] – Perth __14 – 17__ th Oct

While there are technology inputs, the Showcases are marketing events designed to show off the capacity of the IHE profiles and the vendors who implement them. The focus of this years event will be:


 * iEHR ** : We hope to run a demonstration of at least two federated regionally based health information and imaging exchanges. This would be a powerful demonstration of how the individually focused EHR can be delivered by vendors operating in the Aussie market, right now. All that is needed is the opportunity to do so and the specification of appropriate standards for technology.


 * Radiology image sharing and Mammography profiles: ** IHE has been asked by DoHA and NEHTA to collaborate on how to tackle this major issue. The PDI media profile is now part of the RANZCR practice standards, next step is image sharing between radiology services and with high end image users such as procedural specialists.


 * Web Service messaging ** based on the NEHTA/Standards Australia technical specification (as used at the April __2010__Connectaton)

Vendors who are interested are requested to lodge an expression of interest by email indicating their area of interest. IHE also invites organisations wishing to sponsor these events to contact us to discuss your potential involvement.

Please respond to: Connectathonmanager@ihe.net.au Further queries to: Connections Manager (Bernie Crowe) – 0418 487 081 A teleconference will be held to provide further information: ** For dial in: http://ihe-australia.wikispaces.com/Teleconference+%26+Webconference+details
 * Tuesday 18th. May 8.30 am (Canberra) **

Please RSVP even if you will not be involved, and especially if you may be interested. We are operating to a strict project timeline and need to know who is interested and who is not. If you __can’t__ make this meeting and want further information it is important to let us know of this, as involvement past this date can not be guaranteed otherwise.

Vendors invited to respond to the iEHR and image sharing showcase include the following based on known capacity to work with IHE health information sharing profiles: · Agfa · CareStream · Cerner · FujiFilm · GE Healthcare · IBM · IBM_Initiate · Intel · Intellerad · InterSystems · iSoft/IBA · McKesson · Microsoft · Oracle · Oracle/Sun · Orion · Phillips · Siemens · Toshiba

Vendors invited to respond to the webservice showcase: · Those who have tested and implemented IHE XDS-R · Successful participants at the __April__ 2010 SMD Connectathon. · Successful participants at the 2009 eResults and eReferral Connectathon.