CMS Announcement of HL7 Training

CMS has made an official announcement of the HL7 Workgroup pre-conference training session to be held next week.

Here is the announcement:

On December 11, 2007 from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (EST), you are invited to attend a CMS Webinar. The purpose of the Webinar is to explain Health Level 7 (HL7) and its relationship to MITA activities, and why you may want to attend the upcoming January, 2008 HL7 Working Group Meeting. The December 11th Webinar will:

Inform you of the objectives of the upcoming January 15 – 18, 2008 HL7 Working Group Meeting to be held in San Antonio, Texas that will be of interest to business/program staff, and State MITA representatives, as well as staff who are planning to, or are already building, MITA business/information models. More about the HL7 Working Group Meeting can be found at this site: http://www.hl7.org/index.cfm (early registration closes on December 14, 2007).

Invite you to attend orientation sessions in San Antonio for 1st time HL7 attendees, to be offered jointly by the National Medicaid EDI Health Workgroup (NMEH), and CMS, to orientate principally State folks about HL7 and the HL7 MITA sub-workgroup (SWG).

Introduce you to the collaborative activities of the HL7 MITA SWG, which is a subset of the general HL7 meeting, and their on-going activities, and demonstrate how your role in this activity can help.

Provide justifications, and explain allowable funding, for Medicaid State staff attendees.

The WEBINAR will provide you with high-level information about the HL7 meeting, how MITA fits within HL7, and reasons why you should think about attending the HL7 meeting in San Antonio, Texas in January 2008. We promise that the terms “UML” and "WSDL" will be excluded from the conversation!

Please join us on December 11, 2007 from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST). Webinar details will be sent to you the week of December 3rd.