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| − | The following is the unedited text of an email from Brazilian delegate Beatriz de Faria Leao in response to questions about how the mentoring experience went, and what she felt the affiliate had gained from participating in the January '07 WGM. | + | The following is the unedited text of an email from Malaysian delegate Dr Badrulhisham Bahadzor in response to questions about how the mentoring experience went, and what he felt the affiliate had gained from participating in the January '07 WGM. |
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| − | ''Received 21/02/2007'' | + | ''Received 23/02/2007'' |
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| − | "The Brazilian delegation comprised four people: Marivan Abrahão, MD, | + | "I would like to wish my most sincere appreciation to those who made it possible for us, the Malaysian delegates to be there for the HL7 Working Group meeting in San Diego. |
| − | coordinator of the Brazilian HL7 Group, Jussara Macedo P. Rötzsch, MD -
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| − | Manager of Standards at the Brazilian Regulatory Agency for Supplementary
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| − | Health, Claudio Giulliano da Costa, MD - CIO of São Paulo City Health
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| − | Department and I, a health informatics consultant, presently working with
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| − | Claudio and Jussara on two very interesting projects. The first relates to TISS -
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| − | the Brazilian standard for exchanging billing information
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| − | between health care providers and payers. The project is coordinated by Dr.
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| − | Jussara.
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| − | The other project, with Dr. Claudio aims at integrating SIGA Saúde | + | The meeting marked a significant step towards the establishment of our local HL7 chapter. We were introduced to some of the key figures and experts within the HL7 international community and had useful discussions with them on some HL7 issues which were not very clear to us. The meeting was definitely "an eye opener". |
| − | - the Health Information System of São Paulo city, to 4 clinical labs that
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| − | produce 1.5 million lab tests a month. The integration is to be achieved by
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| − | using LOINC and HL7 version 3, SIGA Saúde has been deployed in some 400
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| − | primary care units and 30 specialized clinics, with 11 million patients
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| − | registered. The integration project started two weeks ago with the first
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| − | LOINC translations to Portuguese with Chemistry and Hematology Exams.
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| − | First we'd like to thank John Ritter, from Intel, who had the idea of taking
| + | The interest to establish our local chapter has gained a lot of momentum ever since we came back. We are currently conducting a membership drive and the response has been encouraging. We also hope to organize an educational seminar on HL7 before the end of this year and kick start a pilot project on Discharge Summary based on CDA. |
| − | us to the HL7 San Diego meeting and, of course Stevens Winkates from the
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| − | USTDA that sponsored our trip.
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| − | The HL7 meeting was very important for us and we're very thankful to all
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| − | HL7 staff and specially our hosts Cheryl Warner and Jim Leach of Computer | |
| − | Frontiers. They were superb guardian angels and took really good care of us.
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| − | They were there for us for anything we needed or wanted and they made our
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| − | days at the HL7 very useful and worthy.
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| − | On the day we arrived in San Diego, Jim was at the airport waiting for us
| + | It is going to be a busy and exciting year to all of us." |
| − | and told us "Don't worry HL7 is a big family - you're gonna see that."
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| − | It's really amazing because we really felt so comfortable, so well treated,
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| − | so among friends that I must say HL7 meetings have the warmest atmosphere
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| − | I've ever seen in an international meeting.
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| − | Besides the new friends we made, it were very impressed to see the HL7
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| − | standard being constructed. The working groups meetings were very enticing
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| − | and gave us trust and confidence on the HL7 standard and its processes for
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| − | reaching consensus. It was very impressive to see an international group of
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| − | people with different roles (vendors, government and users) making the
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| − | standard evolve.
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| − | Another issue worth mentioning is that the most important topics in Health
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| − | Informatics were discussed in HL7 - privacy, EHR functional model, software
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| − | certification and the harmonization with international standards, as well
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| − | as, the new initiative on clinical vocabularies.
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| − | Apart from attending sessions, we had very productive meetings with
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| − | experts: Audrey E. Dickerson from HIMMS and ISO-TC 215, Don Mon from the
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| − | CCHIT, Clem McDonald from NIH and LOINC. With Clem we had an almost 2 hours'
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| − | talk about the São Paulo lab integration project - he gave us all the
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| − | information to start the Portuguese translation and mapping of LOINC codes
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| − | to the Brazilian vocabularies and with HL7 Educational Working Group. | |
| − | We also had very useful meetings with international HL7 affiliates - Helen
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| − | Love and Mark Kohen from Canada Health Infoway and Sam Heard from Ocean
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| − | Informatics. These meetings were very useful and we 'd like to thank all of
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| − | them for their time and willingness to share their experience with us.
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| − | The San Diego HL7 meeting convinced us of pushing HL7 ahead in Brazil. Brazilian HL7 bylaws have been discussed and we shall have the first assembly meeting to officially create the group on February 27th. The São Paulo city integration project using HL7 v3 is moving fast and we shall have
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| − | results by October 2007.
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| − | At last, we're very happy that our good friend Ed Hammond is again HL7
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| − | Chair. We wish him all the best and again would like to extend our gratitude
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| − | to all HL7 Community. Maybe in the near future, not so far away, we can have
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| − | a meeting in Brazil!!!
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| − | All the best and thanks for the opportunity to talk about our impressions.
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| − | Beatriz"
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The following is the unedited text of an email from Malaysian delegate Dr Badrulhisham Bahadzor in response to questions about how the mentoring experience went, and what he felt the affiliate had gained from participating in the January '07 WGM.
Received 23/02/2007
"I would like to wish my most sincere appreciation to those who made it possible for us, the Malaysian delegates to be there for the HL7 Working Group meeting in San Diego.
The meeting marked a significant step towards the establishment of our local HL7 chapter. We were introduced to some of the key figures and experts within the HL7 international community and had useful discussions with them on some HL7 issues which were not very clear to us. The meeting was definitely "an eye opener".
The interest to establish our local chapter has gained a lot of momentum ever since we came back. We are currently conducting a membership drive and the response has been encouraging. We also hope to organize an educational seminar on HL7 before the end of this year and kick start a pilot project on Discharge Summary based on CDA.
It is going to be a busy and exciting year to all of us."
