OASIS Second Annual Adoption Forum in Europe: harmonising eHealth

[17 October 2005]
OASIS Second Annual Adoption Forum in Europe (London, 
England). Users, vendors, governments, and researchers from Europe and around 
the world will come together for this one-day event to examine and discuss 
advances in open standards. Hosted by OASIS, the event will feature 
presentations that profoundly affect government, healthcare, and commerce, 
delivering insight and updates on work in Web services, tax, business process, 
and localisation. The OASIS Adoption Forum will open with a keynote address from 
Ovum, the global analyst and consulting company. This keynote will offer unique 
insights into the often-but-not always complimentary roles played by open 
standards and open source efforts in today's marketplace. The event will close 
with a panel of representatives from Europe's most influential standards bodies. 
Leaders from BT, CEN/ISSS, and ITU will join OASIS CEO, Patrick Gannon, to 
discuss how their organizations are responding to user outcry for more 
cooperation in the standards development arena. 

The harmonising eHealth presentation (Presenter: Melvin 
Reynolds, Senior Partner, AMS Consulting, United Kingdom) will discuss how 
standards organizations are working to harmonize and understand the key 
differentiators when addressing healthcare issues. Much effort is being put into 
the use of information technologies to reshape healthcare sector: harmonising 
medical records across the EU; working on plans to determine and combat the 
threat of global epidemics; providing better value for money healthcare 
globally; and integrating processes in the push to reduce medical errors. It is 
now recognised that no one expert constituency has the monopoly of solutions so 
major standards organizations are making a significant effort to harmonize and 
co-ordinate to enable better informed choices by specifiers and 
implementers.

Additional Presentations Include:

Standards and Taxation by Terry Hawes, Head of Channels Architecture, HM 
Revenue and Customs

The Adoption and Evolution of the OASIS DITA Standard by Ian Larner, 
Information Architect and Software Engineer User Technologies, IBM Hursley Lab 
and Indi Liepa, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Representative/Senior Information 
Architect, Technology Platforms, Nokia

UK Leads the Adoption of e-Voting Standards by John Borras, CEO, UK Local 
e-Government Standards Body, OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical 
Committee Chair

eGovernment and Standards by Harm Jan van Burg of Netherlands Ministry of 
Finance, OASIS eGovernment Technical Committee Chair

Harmonising eHealth by Melvin Reynolds, Senior Partner, AMS Consulting

Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) by Dieter Koenig of 
IBM, OASIS WSBPEL Technical Committee Representative

Additional speaker and presentation details may be found at: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_2005/17.10.05.php

50 USD EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT is available until 5 
September.