The SOA Consortium, HL7 and OMG announces the conference "SOA in Health Care: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value, and Delivery on IT's Promise." Focused on the intersection between service-oriented architecture (the technology industry’s latest “silver bullet”) and healthcare quality, the conference features real-world experiences and attendees will benefit from the lessons learned and 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.

Workshop Highlights:

	The Role of Healthcare IT in Quality Improvement, by Jon White, M.D., Health IT Portfolio Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
	Integrating Standards to Achieve Semantically Interoperable Healthcare IT Solutions, by Dr. Kenneth Lunn, Ph.D., Director of Data Standards and Products (NHS Connecting for Health, NPFIT, UK)
	Implementing SOA at the Duke University Health System - The Journey and How It Enabled Big Wins, by Boyd Carlson, Senior Director, Application Development and Integration, Duke Health Technology Solutions

The Workshop is in Three Tracks: Executive Summit, Business & Technical Tracks Presentations, Including Many Case Studies Will Cover Topics Such As:

The Role of Standards, Healthcare Quality and SOA, Impact of SOA on Business-IT Alignment, Agility, Service Quality, Delivery and Efficiency, SOA & EHRs, Preparing for SOA, SOA Governance, Interoperability Profiles, Open Source Tooling, Business Collaboration Infrastructure, ROI, Getting Started with SOA, Achieving Quality and Human Services Directories in SOA, SOA & Health Informatics, Information Modeling & SOA, Terminology Mappings in SOA, SOA Layered Healthcare Framework, Healthcare SOA Reference Architecture, Semantic Interoperability, Business Process Modeling, Interoperability of Healthcare Information, Security & Privacy, Complex Event Processing, Practical Experiences

Plus Panel Discussions:

	Panel Discussion: Can Healthcare Achieve Successes Realized in Other Industries? How can SOA Help the Industry Overcome Obstacles to Healthcare Quality?
	Panel Discussion: Achieving Value in Healthcare SOA Across Organizations, Geographies and Implementations?

Presentations by Experts from:

Apelon, BlueCross BlueShield Excellus, Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Medical Center, The Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research, Chief Health Informatics Office, VHA, CSC, CSW Group Ltd, EDS, Inpriva, Inc., Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), Intel Corporation, Intermountain Health Care, Kaiser-Permanente, Military Health System, DoD, MomentumSI, NCI Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology, Open Health Tools, Rural & Regional Health & Aged Care Services Division, Dept. of Human Services (Victoria, Australia), Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services, and Sun Microsystems, The TriZetto Group, Inc., The University of Texas -Health Sciences Center at Houston, TIBCO Software and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)

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

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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™ (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.