[openEHR-announce] SNOMED Meetings in UK June/July 2008
[The following from Tim Benson...] Three important SNOMED events are being held in the UK this summer, each aimed at rather different audiences. You may wish to attend all three, but whatever you do, don't miss out by not knowing about them or choosing the wrong one for your needs. The first event is the annual Implementing SNOMED CT on 10-11 June at Earls Court. This is a practical conference concerned with how to design, implement, deploy, migrate, support and evolve computer applications that use SNOMED CT. It is aimed primarily at healthcare IT professionals working with suppliers and healthcare organisations involved in the practicalities of implementing SNOMED CT. Implementing SNOMED CT 2008 is sponsored by BT Health, CareCom A/S, Health Language Inc, Ocean Informatics and SNOMED Terminology Solutions. It is being held in association with Smart Healthcare EXPO 2008. The early-bird-cut off date has been extended to Friday 9 May, 2008. Registration details on www.abies.co.uk. The IHTSDO 2008 Summer Conference: Community of Practice Meetings is at Birmingham NEC from 29 June to 4 July. This six-day international working conference is being hosted by NHS Connecting for Health to bring together IHTSDO's working group and project group members and members of National Release Centres from across the Globe, to progress the quality and development of SNOMED Clinical Terms, to discuss the enhanced release format and to look at better working practice in a volunteer community. This is primarily for clinical terminologists to contribute to the future development of SNOMED CT itself. Details are at http://etdevents.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/1629. SNOMED CT and Interoperable Healthcare on 2 July is a one-day conference organised by the UK Terminology Centre, as part of the IHTSDO Summer Conference, to raise awareness in both Clinicians and IT professionals about the benefits (such as reduced errors) of using SNOMED CT to support interoperability, based on UK and international experience. Details at: http://etdevents.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/all/1638. Finally, if you have not read it, I commend NHS Connecting for Health's well written 20-page booklet "SNOMED CT - the language of the NHS Care Records Service: A Guide for NHS staff in England", revised November 2007 (download from http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/data/snomed/snomed-ct.pdf). Best wishes Tim Benson Abies Ltd Implementing SNOMED CT Organisers 14 Pinewood Crescent, Hermitage, Thatcham, Berkshire RG18 9WL Tel +44 (0)1635 20 31 62 Mob: +44 (0)7855 68 20 37 email: tim.benson@abies.co.uk web: www.abies.co.uk * * _______________________________________________ openEHR-announce mailing list openEHR-announce@openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-announce