May2006 WGM early adopter lunch

There was useful discussion at the Lunch, with three projects being asked to speak for no more than two minutes each, saying what they liked aabout HL7v3, what they did not like, and what they wanted to see HL7 do for them.

Discussion

During discussion a number of themes were raised:

• It was suggested that implementation workshops would be useful, where longer could be spent discussing implementation issues with the standard, and how they could be resolved. These sessions would focus on how to use the standard now, rather than on development of the standard which is what we focus on at the WGM
• There were questions about how to implement V3 with Snomed and who was doing it (a number were doing something with live interfaces now, but no-one claimed to be doing full post-co-ordination with Snomed and V3 yet)