Phoenix WGM Report

International Affiliates

Representatives form 17 countries are present at the WGM. Two new affiliates have been created: HL7 Chili and HL7 Sweden. The Strategic Planning Comittee gave an update on the status of their work. The European Affiliates will consider creating an "European HL7 Ambassador" position to represent the HL7 affiliates in contacts with the European Union.

The Affiliates present at the meeting gave a status update about activities in their respective realms; Chuck Meyer presented the USA Realm activities.

The May 2007 EGM will be held in Berlin, Germany. The exact dates and location will be announced at a later point in time. The international interoperability meeting (formerly known as the international affiliates meeting) will be held in Cologne, Germany, on August 24 and 25 2006.

Normative Edition 2006

The v3 Normative Edition will be published latest february of 2006. New normative content was created for the Master File/registry domain, Personell Management and CMETs.