Time

It Takes Some Time to Turn the Ship Around

April 10, 2011

Last week, I noticed a number of tweets sent out that referenced how social media and technology is being used by various patient groups. One article in particular, retweeted multiple times by users, caught my attention. It acknowledged an increase in attention by pediatricians of social media use by children. This article, “Pediatrics Group Says [...]

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Save the Date: OMG, HL7 and SOA Consortium Offer Conference – SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change

November 2, 2010

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – February 2, 2009 – OMG™, Health Level Seven® (HL7), and the SOA Consortium™ today announced that the “SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change,” conference will be held June 2-4, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, IL. Registration details may be found [...]

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Call for Abstracts: OMG, HL7 and SOA Consortium’s Conference SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change

October 27, 2010

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – February 18, 2009 – OMG™, Health Level Seven® (HL7), and the SOA Consortium™ today announced a Call for Participation in the “SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change,” conference, which will be held June 2-4, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, IL. [...]

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OMG, HL7 and SOA Consortium Announce Featured Sessions for Conference – SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change

October 23, 2010

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – April 7, 2009 – OMG™, Health Level Seven® (HL7), and the SOA Consortium™ today announced that Lynn Vogel, Ph.D., Vice-President and CIO, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, will be a featured business track speaker and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink, will be [...]

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Program Announced for SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change

October 23, 2010

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – April 16, 2009 – OMG™, Health Level Seven® (HL7), Open Health Tools (OHT) and the SOA Consortium™ today announced the program for the Second Annual SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change, conference. The conference will be held June 2-4, 2009 at the Hyatt [...]

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Lt. Gen. James Peake, M.D. to Keynote Conference: SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change

October 22, 2010

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – April 23, 2009 – OMG™, Health Level Seven® (HL7), Open Health Tools and the SOA Consortium™ today announced that The Honorable James B. Peake, M.D., Lieutenant General, USA (Ret), will be the keynote speaker at the Second Annual “SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of [...]

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Wes Rishel, Gartner, to be Featured Speaker at Conference: SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change

October 18, 2010

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – April 29, 2009 – OMG™, Health Level Seven® (HL7), Open Health Tools and the SOA Consortium™ today announced that Wes Rishel, Research Vice-President and Distinguished Analyst, Healthcare Provider Team of Gartner, will be a featured business track speaker at the “SOA in Healthcare: Value in a [...]

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RADM Theresa Cullen, Assistant Surgeon General and CIO, Indian Health Service, to be Featured Speaker at Conference: SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change

October 16, 2010

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA – May 7, 2009 – OMG™, Health Level Seven® (HL7), Open Health Tools and the SOA Consortium™ today announced that Theresa Cullen, M.D., M.S., RADM, U.S. Public Health Service, Chief Information Officer, Indian Health Service (IHS), will be a featured speaker at the “SOA in Healthcare: Value [...]

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This Time It’s Personal…

September 24, 2010

An interesting story about annual physicals appeared recently on NPR – The Fading Art of the Physical Exam. Some physicians have been “skipping” the exam and eliminating it from the regular procedures, and instead relying only on expensive tests to react to health concerns, rather than offering a good old-fashioned physical. “…it appears that the [...]

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RIM “Effective Time”: Still confusion after 14 years

September 13, 2010

From a recent discussion on an HL7 email list. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Bob Dolin wrote: Greetings, Per the RIM, “for clinical Observations, the effectiveTime is the time at which the observation holds (is effective) for the patient”. Does this mean that the effectiveTime for a date of birth observation is [...]

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