1. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. WELCOME The January 2013 Work Group Meeting of

2. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. 1 st Time Attendees: Introduction to the Meeting Ken McCaslin, FHL7 Quest Diagnostics – Director, HealthCare Standards HL7 - Electronic Services Work Group Co-chair HL7 – Orders Observations Work Group Co-Chair Past TSC Member, Past T3SD Co-Chair Patrick Loyd ICODE Solutions HL7 – Infrastructure and Messaging Co-chair HL7 – Orders/Observations Work Group Co-Chair HL7 – Clinical Statement Work Group Co-Chair Past TSC Member, Past T3SD Co-Chair Updated: 05/2011

3. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Agenda Deeper dive into HL7 HL7 Terms How is the WGM organized Where do I go for more information What is HL7 Mission Charter Organization Why are you here Your Questions

4. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Words to know WGM – Work Group Meeting – what we are attending this week, it includes the meeting of Work Groups, tutorials and leadership meetings Quarter – A portion of the day at the WGM – Work Group Meeting Trimester – The time between meetings Work Group – The different groups at HL7 WGM Realm – Similar to kingdom, but not this defines the rules within a government such as Australian, Germany or other country or HL7 Affiliation Domain – A portion of Healthcare – Lab, Pharmacy, Dietary, Blood Bank as examples (Does not necessarily suggest realm specific can see UK Lab Domain or Lab Domain meaning covering all realms) TSC – Technical Steering Committee – The tactical group responsible for the Technical execution of the HL7 Strategies (TBD) Steering Division – Groupings of HL7 WGs by function (TBD)

5. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Meeting – What goes on Tutorials Work Group sessions Administrative Meetings Technical Steering Committee (Saturday, Sunday evening and Monday night) Affiliate meeting (Sunday) Board of Directors (Tuesday afternoon into evening) Ribbons: Board TSC Staff Work Group Chair Facilitator Mentor Speaker Benefactor Supporter Student Guest Press

6. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. HL7 Tricks of the Trade Put your tutorial and meal tickets in your name tag pocket. Monday Lunch Your Name Tag

7. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Logistics - Quarters Daily General Session: 8:00 – 8:45 Monday General Session: 8:30 – 12:30 – September Meeting (Plenary – This WGM) Quarter 1: 9:00am - 10:30am Break – 30 minutes Quarter 2: 11:00am - 12:30pm Lunch – 75 minutes Mentor tables Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Quarter 3: 1:45pm – 3:00pm Break – 30 minutes Quarter 4: 3:30pm – 5:00pm Quarter 5: 5pm to … Co-Chair Meeting: Monday 05:30pm – 09:00pm Board Meeting: Tuesday 3:30pm – 10:00pm Updated: 05/2011

8. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Building Your Schedule DayDate TimeIconEventRoom Sunday PM Q3 Q4 Monday AM Q1 Q2 PM Q3 Q4 Tuesday AM Q1 Q2 PM Q3 Q4 Wednesday AM Q1 Q2 PM Q3 Q4 Q5

9. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. HL7 Organization

10. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. HL7 Steering Divisions Foundation and TechnologyDomain Experts Technical and Support ServicesStructure and Semantic Design Steering Divisions Anatomic Pathology Anesthesia Attachments Child Health Clinical Genomics Clinical Interoperability Council Clinical Quality Information Community Based Collaborative Care (CBCC) Emergency Care Health Care Devices Patient Care Patient Safety Public Health Emergency Response (PHER) Pharmacy Regulated Clinical Research Information Management (RCRIM) Implementable Technology Specifications (ITS) Conformance and Guidance For Implementation and Testing (CGIT) Infrastructure and Messaging (InM) Modeling & Methodology RIM Based Application Security Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Templates Vocabulary Arden Syntax Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) Clinical Decision Support Clinical Statement Electronic Health Record (EHR) Financial Management Imaging Integration Mobile Health (mHealth) Orders & Observations Patient Administration Structured Documents Education Electronic Services International Mentoring Process Improvement Committee (PIC) Project Services Publishing Tooling

11. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. HL7 web page - WWW.HL7.ORG

12. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Take a look at the black bar at the bottom of the screen

13. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. TSC Wiki - http://hl7tsc.org/wiki/

14. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Projects - http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/?

15. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. HL7 Mission HL7 provides standards for interoperability See: http://www.hl7.org/about/index.cfm?ref=navhttp://www.hl7.org/about/index.cfm?ref=nav Level Seven" refers to the seventh level of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) seven-layer communications model for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) - the application level. The application level interfaces directly to and performs common application services for the application processes. Although other protocols have largely superseded it, the OSI model remains valuable as a place to begin the study of network architecture.

16. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. HL7 Work But… HL7 work also takes place between scheduled Working Group Meetings. Most Committees also conduct some work via email, web page downloads, respective list servers and conference calls.

17. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Survey & Networking Excercise Need to be completed by Wednesday and submit at the registration desk Some ones survey will be selected to win a prize that will be announced Thursday morning during the morning session Now the real fun begins – Networking – The First Time Attendee Networking Exercise Look for the Mentor Ribbon You must introduce yourself and ask the Mentor about what brings them to HL7 – then and only then can you ask – are you the Mentor with the active award ticket Mentors can only tell you that they either are the Award Mentor or not at this time – Only one Mentor carries the reward, so do not be afraid to ask again, but you must continue the conversation before asking if they are the Award Mentor at this time. Have fun – Practice your networking skills

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19. © 2013 Health Level Seven ® International. All Rights Reserved. HL7 and Health Level Seven are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International. Reg. U.S. TM Office. Why are you Here? Learn about HL7 Standards Write HL7 Standards Influence Direction of the Standard Other …