·        Safe Sharing Of Documents and Images across Healthcare Domains – Tuesday 13th October

09.30 Registration and Coffee

Session 1 An Introduction to IHE and XDS


10.00 Meeting the challenge of efficient sharing of documents and images in healthcare – Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

Dr Nicholas Brown, Chair IHE UK Steering Committee


10.30 Why do we need IHE profiles? What is missing with existing standards?

Dr Philip Scott, University of Portsmouth and HL7 UK board member


11.00 IHE document sharing and its contribution to electronic health record interoperability

Dr Dipak Kalra, Centre for Healthcare Informatics and Multi-Professional Education


11:45 Coffee Break


Session 2 - Case Studies


12.00 Membership announcement
Miss Sophie Erpicum, British Institute of Radiology


12.05 Austrian implementation of IHE XDS

Mr Martin Tiani, CEO Tiani-Spirit, Austria


12.35 The US nationwide health information network Connect project

Mr Malcolm Newbury, MD Guildfoss, IHE-UK Marcom Director


13.05 Lunch


Session 3 - Current Data Sharing initiatives in the NHS


13.35 Work on integration profiles and document sharing

Ms Ann Wrightson, Informing Health Care Wales and Chair of HL7 UK Technical Committee


14.05 Image and document sharing project in the multi disciplinary team setting

Dr Richard Harries and Dr Stephen Trowell, North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Hospital Trust


14.35 The role of the CfH ToolKit in information sharing

Mr Keith Naylor, Head of Implementation, Data Standards and Products, Technology Office, NHS Connecting for Health

15.05 Coffee Break


15.20 Guest speaker: Liam Maxwell, author of “Its Ours” - Centre for Policy Studies White Paper


15:50 Panel discussion


16:00 Close