[news.eclipse.technology.ohf] Re: OHF Meetings

[Grahame Grieve <grahame@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi

I'd like to have a meeting in Europe (and one in Australia too). 
It's a bit of a catch-22 - we don't have anyone in Europe, because
we don't meet in Europe. We don't meet in Europe because we don't
have anyone there.

Actually, neither of those things is actually true.
We've only had one meeting and we have this meeting scheduled. 
At our only other meeting we had 2 representatives from Europe
(Wales and Finland)

we are aware of the importance of global standards, there's several
CEN standards of importance such as 13606 and others you allude to 
outside the direct healthcare domain

Grahame


Werner Keil wrote:
> How about any meetings in Europe?
>
> I know, most stakeholders are located in the US so far, but especially 
> with healthcare it is very important to include local aspects of EVERY 
> country (or at least continent/trade unit) it should apply.
>
> E.g. issues like HIPAA are important for America (or just the US), but 
> have nothing to do with European (EU) healthcare organizations and 
> professionals.
> While the EU has other initiatives like a common European SmartCard for 
> social security (and other citizen matters in some case)
>
> Werner Keil
> MedSurvey Foundation