IHE North America Connectathon and Conference 2007

January 15-19, 2007
Hyatt Regency - Chicago

The IHE Connectathon is the healthcare IT industry's only large-scale interoperability testing event. Connectathons are held annually in Asia, Europe and North America.  At the 2007 North American Connectathon more than seventy-five healthcare IT companies tested the conformance and interoperability of over 150 systems.  Results from all Connectathons can be viewed online at http://ihe.univ-rennes1.fr/con_result/

Organizations interested in participating in future Connectathons are encouraged to refer to the Connectathon Fact Sheet that describes the process and timeline for the Connectathon, as well as the IHE North America General Rules.

Conference and Tour

For the first time at the 2007 North American Connectathon, over 120 leaders of the healthcare community attended a one-day conference and tour of the event. The conference included the presentations linked below from leaders in deploying national health information networks and an introduction to IHE and the Connectathon process.

• Conference Agenda
  
  
• The National HIT Agenda and HIE - 2007
  John Loonsk, MD, Director of Interoperability, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
  
  
• CCHIT Update
  Alisa Ray, Executive Director, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
  
  
• Architecture and Standards at Infoway
  Dennis Giokas, Chief Technology Officer, Canada Health Infoway Inc.
  
  
• IHE: Achieving Interoperability through Implementation of Standards
  Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP, Chief Medical Information Officer, Associate Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University
  
  
• The Connectathon: IHE’s Conformance Testing Process
  Mike Nusbaum, M.H. Nusbaum & Associates Ltd./Mike Glickman, Computer Network Architects, Inc.