The Homer R. Warner Healthcare Interoperability Award; Call for Nominees.

Business/Technology Editors and Health/Medical Writers

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) has launched an annual award competition in which the not-for-profit, vendor-neutral software consortium will recognize those organizations providing excellence in the implementation of OMG(TM) interoperability standards (including CORBA(R) and UML(TM)) in the field of Healthcare.

The OMG's Healthcare Domain Task Force is coordinating the competition. The Healthcare Domain Task Force has worked on developing healthcare-specific interoperability standards through the OMG, including a Person Identification Service (PIDS), a Technology Query Service (TQS), a Content Observation Access Service (COAS), a Resource Access Decision (RAD) Service, and a Clinical Image Access Service (CIAS).

The judging panel is comprised of professionals who have extensive experience in the healthcare industry especially as it pertains to the use of medicine and computer science in bringing solutions to the forefront of these two domains. Judges include; Ms. Carol Burt, president and CEO of 2AB, Inc., Mr. Jim Demetriades, chief enterprise architect of the Veterans Health Administration's Office for Information and Mr. Sam Heard, director, General Practice Education and Research Unit at Flinders University. All judges will be profiled in the annual Healthcare Interoperability Award issue and on OMG's Healthcare Award web site at www.omg.org/homepages/corbamed/award/general_info.htm.

The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2000. Criteria and applications are available online at www.omg.org/homepages/corbamed/award/nomination_form.htm. Any company in the healthcare industry may submit an application, or nominate another organization for the award. Companies need not be members of the OMG to apply. The award will be presented at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting, in New Orleans, LA, USA, February 4 through 8, 2001.

About The OMG

With the support of its membership of software vendors, software developers and end users, the OMG's CORBA is "The Middleware That's Everywhere(TM)." Since 1989, the OMG has been "Setting The Standards For Distributed Computing(TM)" through its mission to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object-oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in Bahrain, Germany, India, and the UK, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, USA. The OMG is also a major sponsor of the Integrate 2001 trade show and conference, which will be held September 19-21, 2001 in New York City.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at [phone], by fax at [phone], or by email at [e-mail]. The OMG provides current information and services for Distributed Object Computing through The Information Brokerage(R) on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and at www.corba.org. Information about OMG Japan can be found at www.omgj.org.

Note to editors: CORBA(R), The Information Brokerage(R), CORBA Academy(R), IIOP(R) and the Object Management Group logo(R) are registered trademarks of the Object Management Group. OMG(TM), Object Management Group(TM), the CORBA Logo(TM), ORB(TM), Object Request Broker(TM), the CORBA Academy logo(TM), XMI(TM), MOF(TM), CWM(TM), OMG Interface Definition Language(TM), IDL(TM), CORBAservices(TM), CORBAfacilities(TM), CORBAmed(TM), CORBAnet(TM), UML(TM), the UML Cube Logo(TM), and Unified Modeling Language(TM) are trademarks of the Object Management Group. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.