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

Conference will be held June 2-4, 2009 in Chicago, IL, USA
NEEDHAM, Mass. & ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(Business Wire)--
OMG, Health Level Seven® (HL7), Open Health Tools 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 moderating a panel
session at the SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change, conference. The
conference will be held June 2-4, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency O`Hare in Chicago,
IL. Registration details may be found online at
http://www.omg.org/soa-healthcare.

Featured Sessions:

* Lynn Vogel, Ph.D., Vice-President and CIO, The University of Texas M. D.
Anderson Cancer Center on: "The Business Case for SOA and the Critical Role of
Architecture in the Interoperability Challenge"
In this presentation, Dr. Vogel will discuss M. D. Anderson`s experience with
developing an Electronic Medical Record in-house on a fully implemented Service
Oriented Architecture. While the technical aspects of this effort are of
interest, more important are the business reasons behind M. D. Anderson`s
decision to carry out their internal software development activities within the
SOA framework, including their EMR, their foundation for the integration of
patient-derived research data and clinical data, and the integration of genomic
medicine into cancer research and cancer care. Cancer, as a disease based
primarily on molecular changes, provides an early example of both the challenges
and the promise of personalized medicine. Dr. Vogel will also contrast the
historical and currently prevailing views of software architecture with the
promise of SOA, and draw on M. D. Anderson`s experience with successfully
implementing SOA to respond to their interoperability challenges.
* Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink will be moderating the panel session
"Which SOA Services are Needed to Accelerate Healthcare Integration." Panelists
include:

* Manish Mandelia, Director, Application Development SOA, CIGNA
* Joshua Painter, Healthcare Solutions Architect, SOA Products, Software and
Services Group, Intel Corporation
* Dave Shaver, CTO/Founder, Corepoint Health - The Next Generation of NeoTool

"One of the classic challenges facing any industry, and healthcare is no
exception, is to determine a strategy on how to start. Deciding which services
are the 'low hanging fruit' and would add the most immediate impact is not
necessarily self-evident," said Ron Schmelzer, managing partner, ZapThink. "The
purpose of this panel is to explore this, eliciting input from industry experts
and the conference attendees to determine which SOA services are most needed,
and which standards would add the most value to the industry."

Conference Overview

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption is viewed as a key enabler for the
21st century enterprise due to increased opportunity for productivity and
integration, and requires significant changes for both business and IT
executives. The focus of the SOA in Healthcare conference is to convey
real-world experiences, assembling a community of peers to exchange ideas and
discuss what has worked, what did not work, and review best practices for
attendees to benefit from lessons learned faced in real implementations. Not a
"tech industry" event, this conference is exclusively healthcare focused, and
will highlight the challenges unique to healthcare organizations and emphasize
cross-industry solutions that are viable within the healthcare domain. It is
targeted primarily to a health-IT savvy audience. Everyone with an interest in
SOA in healthcare is invited to attend.

Registration & Information

This workshop is sponsored by Annual Sponsors No Magic, SPARX Systems, Intel and
Model Driven Solutions as well as Event Sponsors Gold Sponsor EDS, an HP
company; and Silver Sponsor Appian. The early-bird registration discount is
available until May 11, 2009. The registration cut-off for the Hyatt Regency
O`Hare is May 11, 2009. Hotel and registration information is available at
http://www.omg.org/soa-healthcare. Exhibit space is available; for more
information contact Mike Narducci at marketing@omg.org +1-781-444 0404.
Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at kenberk@omg.org or
+1-781-444 0404.

About Health Level Seven (HL7)

Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven, Inc. (www.HL7.org) is a not-for-profit,
ANSI-accredited standards development organization dedicated to providing a
comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration,
sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical
practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. HL7`s
more than 2,300 members represent approximately 500 corporate members, which
include more than 90 percent of the information systems vendors serving
healthcare.

About The SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and
technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government
agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include
Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and
Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7
Technologies, NEC Sphere, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and
non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium.
The SOA Consortium is managed by OMG.

For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/ or email
info@soa-consortium.org.

Note to editors: SOA Consortium, OMG and Object Management Group are trademarks
of Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

About Open Health Tools

Open Health Tools is an open source community with a vision of enabling a
ubiquitous ecosystem where members of the Health and IT professions can
collaborate to build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care
providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time
and place it is needed. Open Health Tools will generate a vibrant active
ecosystem involving software product and service companies, medical equipment
companies, health care providers, insurance companies, government health service
agencies, and standards organizations. For more information please visit
www.openhealthtools.org.

About OMG

OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry
consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide
range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and Specialized Systems,
Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven Modernization and Middleware and an even
wider range of industries, including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I,
Finance, Government, Green Computing, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance,
Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based
Communications and Space.

OMG`s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and
Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and
maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and
Business Process Management. OMG`s middleware standards and profiles are based
on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide
variety of industries.

More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org. OMG is headquartered in
Needham, MA, USA.

Note to editors: MDA, Model Driven Architecture, OMG Logo, XMI, UML, UML logo
and CORBA are registered trademarks, and OMG, Object Management Group, MOF, MDA
Logos, BPMN and Unified Modeling Language are trademarks of Object Management
Group. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

OMG
Stephanie Covert, +1-843-737-0637
pr@omg.org
or
Health Level Seven
Andrea Ribick, +1-734-677-7777
andrea@hl7.org

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