MedicAlert CTO to Give Opening Remarks at OMG/HL7 Healthcare Interoperability Workshop October 24-27, 2005 - Alexandria, VA.NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group (TM)), today announced that David Harrington, Vice President of Information Technology and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , MedicAlert Foundation, will provide the opening remarks at the Healthcare Interoperability workshop. Co-hosted by Health Level 7 (HL7) and sponsored by MedicAlert(R) (http://www.medicalert.org), the workshop will take place October 24-27, 2005 in Alexandria, VA, USA. Mr. Harrington's opening remarks will cover the importance of interoperability as it relates to electronically linking all members of the patient care team--including physicians, providers, payers and the patient. Each of these stakeholders has vital information regarding the patient's health stored in electronic medical records (EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. ), personal health records (PHR PHR Personal Health Record PHR Physicians for Human Rights PHR Professional in Human Resources PHR Public Health Reports PHR Partnerships for Health Reform Phr Phrygian (linguistics) PHR Presse Hebdomadaire Régionale ), hospital systems, labs, claims databases, and on paper. The goal of interoperability is to provide access to the right information at the right place at the right time while maintaining patient-centered privacy and security. "MedicAlert has developed a roadmap for implementing this kind of access to healthcare information not just nationwide but globally," said Mr. Harrington. "We hope that the joint OMG/HL7 Workshop on Healthcare Interoperability serves as the kickoff for all stakeholders to move forward with an approach for the adoption of standards-based healthcare information services and interfaces. We recognize that the effective utilization of healthcare information technology is essential to our long-term goals of improving healthcare quality, reducing the cost of healthcare and improving patient safety." Additional speakers include: --Abdul-Malik Shakir, Principal Consultant, Shakir Consulting --Ajay Asthana, Senior Business Architect, IBM --David Cardenas, Acute Communicable Disease Control, LADHS --David Hartzband, FutureSense Research --Dr. Bruce Taffel, Chief Medical Officer, Government Business and Emerging Markets, BCBS BCBS Blue Cross/Blue Shield BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision BCBS Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS Bay City Baptist School BCBS Bishop Cotton Boys School (Bangalore, India) BCBS Bar Code Business Software Tennessee --Dr. Frank F. Naemyi-Rad, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. --Dr. Robert Kolodner, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration --Eric Schripsema, ITI --George (Woody) Beeler, Beeler Consulting --Grahame Grieve, CTO, Jiva Medical & HL7 INM Co-Chair --Janet Marchibroda, CEO, eHealth Initiative Foundation --Josh Oh, Consultant Architect, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. --Kathleen Connors, Fox Systems, Inc. --Keith Cox, Acting Associate Deputy Director of Health Systems Design and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration; --Ken Rubin, Chief Healthcare Architect, EDS Civilian Government & DoD Healthcare Portfolio --Kenneth Lunn, Head of Comms and Messaging, NHS National Program for IT --Lenel James, Project Manager, Health Information Technology --Marius Mikalsen, Research Scientist, Norwegian Joint Medical Service and SINTEF SINTEF Selskapet for INdustriell og TEknisk Forskning ved norges tekniske hoegskole (The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology) --Mary Kratz, University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. Medical School --Mike Oara, CTO, Relativity Technologies --Peter van der Grinten, General Manager, dbMotion, Inc. --Philip Newcomb, CEO, The Software Revolution; --Plamen Petrov, Chief Enterprise Architect, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association --Rich DuLaney, IBM --Rini Verma, Chief Scientific Officer, CAL2CAL --Russ Hamm, Sr., Programmer/Analyst, Mayo Clinic --Stale Walderhaug, Research Scientist / Research Fellow, Norwegian Joint Medical Service and SINTEF --William Branch, Senior Consulting Engineer, CSC --William Ulrich, President, Tactical Strategy Group Inc. --Yannick Legre, President, HealthGRID The OMG invites anyone interested in Healthcare interoperability and vendors to attend. Complete agenda, hotel and registration information is available at http://www.omg.org/hc-pr-i. About MedicAlert(R) The MedicAlert Foundation is a nonprofit healthcare informatics organization dedicated to providing services to our members that protect and save lives. MedicAlert(R) services are built around a repository of health information that enables members to manage their personal health records while maintaining security, privacy and confidentiality. As the trusted third party In cryptography, a trusted third party (TTP) is an entity which facilitates interactions between two parties who both trust the third party; they use this trust to secure their own interactions. TTPs are common in cryptographic protocols, for example, a certificate authority (CA). custodian of comprehensive personal health information, the MedicAlert(R) repository can connect to and provide critical medical information between patients, providers, payers, and first responders 24 hours a day anywhere in the world. The premium we place on patient confidentiality has earned the trust of 4 million members and the healthcare community worldwide. MedicAlert(R) is committed to providing technology-based solutions and is an active member and a leader in developing interoperability standards with all the major Healthcare IT standards organizations. The MedicAlert(R) repository uses web service interfaces to support standard Electronic Health Records (EHRs), including electronic drug prescriptions and for patient record interoperability. These activities will ensure the rapid development and deployment of standards to improve the quality of care, lower healthcare costs while increasing patient safety. MedicAlert(R) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1956 with a mission to protect and save lives, is headquartered in the United States and has international affiliates in nine countries. Additional information about MedicAlert(R) is available at http://www.medicalert.org About The OMG With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. (R), include the Unified Modeling Language See UML. (language) Unified Modeling Language - (UML) A non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. The Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system (TM) (UML(R)) and Common Warehouse Metamodel For other uses of "CWM", see CWM (disambiguation). The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) is a specification for modeling metadata for relational, non-relational, multi-dimensional, and most other objects found in a data warehousing environment. (CWM(TM)). 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