Save the Date: SOA Consortium, OMG and HL7 Offer Workshop - SOA in Healthcare: Realizing...

Save the Date: SOA Consortium, OMG and HL7 Offer Workshop - SOA in Healthcare: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value, and Delivery on IT's Promise

Conference will be held April 15-17, 2008 in Chicago, IL, USA
NEEDHAM, Mass. and ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(Business Wire)--The SOA Consortium(TM), Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), and
Health Level Seven (HL7), today announced that the "SOA in Healthcare:
Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value and Delivery on IT's
Promise," workshop will be held April 15-17, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza
Chicago O'Hare in Chicago, IL. Registration details may be found
online at http://www.omg.org/hc-ws-std-pr.

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 IT and business executives. The goal of the workshop is to raise
the dialogue about SOA and its use in healthcare, especially as
pertaining to healthcare quality.

The focus of the SOA in Healthcare conference is to convey
real-world experiences to show what worked and did not work to help
attendees benefit from lessons learned and real challenges faced in
these implementations. The workshop intentionally integrates the
themes of SOA and health quality, and is targeted primarily to a
health-IT savvy audience. This event is focused on healthcare's
challenges and SOA's role in meeting them.

A wide cross-section of the health industry will participate
including healthcare providers, payers, public health organizations,
vendors, and pharmaceutical companies. In addition, a select number of
international invitees will be presenting. The sessions include
presentations from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Intermountain Health
Care, Partners HealthCare, the (UK) National Health Service, the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Blue-Cross
Blue-Shield Association, among many others.

The workshop will be experientially focused, with speakers
bringing their personal and organizational experiences to what will be
a presentation and discussion-oriented forum. The event will host
three tracks:

-- An "Executive Summit" targeting key decision-makers, CxO's,
and technical leads

-- A "Business Track" focused on the business rationale behind
SOA, and organizational change to support it

-- A "Technical Track" addressing how to succeed with SOA in a
health setting

Anyone with an interest in SOA in healthcare is invited to attend.

Registration & Information

This workshop is sponsored by Gold Sponsor BEA Systems, Inc. The
early-bird registration discount is available until March 17, 2008.
The registration cut-off for the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare is March
25, 2008. Hotel and registration information is available at
http://www.omg.org/hc-ws-std-pr. Exhibit space is available; for more
information contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404.
Sponsorship opportunities are available; contact Ken Berk at
kenberk@omg.org or +1-781-444 0404.

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 BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corporation, SAP AG and
Sparx Systems. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA
Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

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

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 Object Management Group

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, Healthcare, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences
Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based
Communications and Space.

OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling
Language(TM) (UML(R)) and Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)),
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(R)) 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, SOA Consortium, MOF, MDA Logos, OMG SysML and
Unified Modeling Language are trademarks of Object Management Group.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Object Management Group
Stephanie Covert, 843-737 0637
pr@omg.org
or
Health Level Seven
Andrea Ribick, 734-677 7777
andrea@hl7.org

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