Quovadx Executive to Share Strategies for Health Care Interoperability.Rey Currie to Participate in Discussion of Interoperability & Integration Challenges at Global Digital Healthcare Conference GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. -- Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), a global software and vertical solutions company, today announced that Rey Currie, vice president, product management, Integration Solutions division (ISD See IDD. ), Quovadx, will participate in a panel on healthcare interoperability and integration challenges at the Global Digital Healthcare Conference presented by Cambridge Healthtech Institute. Global Digital Healthcare will be held at the Sheraton Inner Harbor The Inner Harbor is a historic seaport, tourist attraction, and iconic landmark of the City of Baltimore, Maryland. The harbor itself is actually the end of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River and includes any water west of a line drawn between the National Aquarium in Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland "Baltimore" redirects here. For the surrounding county, see Baltimore County, Maryland. For other uses, see Baltimore (disambiguation). Baltimore is an independent city located in the state of Maryland in the United States. , on October 10-11, 2006. Mr. Currie will discuss how software applications can be extended to foster interoperability across the healthcare enterprise as part of a panel discussion entitled "Health Care Interoperability & Integration: Challenges and Issues." Key topics will include the importance of managing competing standards; the role of web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. in creating interoperability; overcoming challenges to linking private and public processes, and leveraging new technology with legacy software applications. In his remarks, Currie will provide insight based on his work with Quovadx in implementing standards-based interoperability solutions for the healthcare industry. "Interoperability is pivotal to improving the quality of care, increasing efficiency and lowering costs," said Rey Currie, vice president of product management, Integration Solutions division, Quovadx. "However, creating a truly interoperable healthcare enterprise, and extending that interoperability to the broader community, often comes with challenges. I'm looking forward to sharing our experiences in identifying and overcoming these challenges with healthcare and technology leaders." Other panelists participating in this discussion with Mr. Currie include: * John S. Celi, Senior Architect, Accenture * David A. Epstein, Director, Public Sector Solutions, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Software Group * Tom Jones, Chief Medical Officer, Tolvenhealth * Gurujeet Khalsa, Federal Healthcare Architect, Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, The panel session will be held on Wednesday, October 11 from 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. For more information about the Global Digital Healthcare conference, designed to forge connections between academic, government, and industry leaders to affect healthcare policy, please visit http://www.healthtech.com/2006/dig/index.ASP. About QUOVADX Health Interoperability Solutions Leveraging proven, award-winning Cloverleaf[R] technology, QUOVADX Health Interoperability Solutions simplify and unify technology and information standards, creating system interoperability that meets the day-to-day business needs of the modern healthcare enterprise. Supporting key interoperability implementations, such as e-prescribing facilitation Facilitation The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for large blocks of securities, such as those traded by institutions. , RHIO-enablement and provider-to-payer direct transaction and data exchange, QUOVADX health interoperability solutions produce significant financial, operational, and clinical improvements through secure data access and exchange, enhanced business process and workflow and network-wide system integration. About Quovadx, Inc. Quovadx (Nasdaq: QVDX) offers software and services for system development, extension, integration and analysis to enterprise customers worldwide. Quovadx has three divisions, including the Integration Solutions division (ISD), which offers private and public healthcare organizations software infrastructure to facilitate system interoperability and leverage existing technology, the CareScience division, which provides care management and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems and pioneered regional healthcare information organization (RHIO RHIO Regional Health Information Organization ) technology, and the Rogue Wave rogue wave n. An unpredictable, abnormally large wave that occurs on a seemingly random basis in the oceans. Software division, which provides software and services for enterprise-class application development. Quovadx serves companies in the healthcare, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , telecommunication and public sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com. QUOVADX is a trademark and Cloverleaf is a registered trademark of Quovadx, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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