August 24-25, 2006, Cologne, Germany
Welcome to Cologne
This year, we have the 7th event of this kind in a row. The International HL7 Interoperability Conference IHIC 2006 is formerly known as the International Affiliates Meeting. After successful and well-attended meetings in Dresden (Germany) in 2000, then Reading (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Daegu (Korea), Acapulco (Mexico) and last year in Taipei (Taiwan) we now meet in Cologne. Welcome!On behalf of the Board of Directors of HL7 Germany and HL7 the Netherlands I invite you to meet in scenic and historic Cologne, Germany, to exchange ideas and share experience of the latest international developments in HL7.
Standards in Healthcare do not live from their specifications but from their implementations. There is not only a strong contribution to the HL7 standard development process from people around the globe. All over the world a paramount interest can be recognized to really implement HL7’s healthcare information technology standards for global interoperability. Meanwhile in many countries this interest has fostered real implementation projects, with a profound conceptual and strategic background and sometimes even with financial funding. Some countries have chosen the HL7 Version 3 family of standards as a strategy for healthcare communications in their respective countries.
We want to share with you experiences with implementation of HL7, wherever, regardless of the scale of the projects or financial background. Again a warm welcome to Cologne and to this conference.
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dr Kai U. Heitmann |
International HL7 Interoperability Conference IHIC 2006