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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
Speakers
Ken Lunn
Data Standards, NHS Connecting For Health Ken Lunn is Head of Data Standards for NHS Connecting For Health, responsible for terminology services, classification services and HL7 V3 message development. He has a Ph.D. in Distributed Computing and over 25 years R&D experience in advanced IT application areas.
Daniel C. Russler, M.DVice President
Clinical Informatics
Oracle Corporation Daniel C. Russler, M.D., is vice president of clinical informatics for Oracle. His current role at Oracle includes creating strategies for healthcare standards, healthcare training, and new development. Dr Russler also played a key role in the development of the HL7 Reference Information Model for HL7 Version 3 and is a current member of the Board of HL7. He gives frequent tutorials on HL7 requirements definition and modeling.
Previously, Dr Russler joined McKesson (then HBOC) in late 1995 and became vice president of clinical technology, specializing in clinical data repositories and J2EE portal development in healthcare. Prior to McKesson, he focused on primary care including private family medicine, hospice medicine, long-term
care medicine and acute care medicine. Dr Russler held various administrative positions ranging from clinical to information systems, including associate administrator of hospital medical clinics and information systems.
In 1987, he founded MEDICALdesk, Inc., a physician workstation software development company that broke new ground in GUI development and distributed database technology.
As a former medical informatics consultant, Dr Russler’s clients included Clinical Reference Systems, Aetna Insurance, IBM Corporation, Dean Health Enterprises and Velocity Healthcare Informatics. He has been a prolific author and lecturer in the areas of guidelines management, information systems security, distributed database architecture, medical billing calculations, data modeling and medical workflow.
Dr Russler earned bachelor and medical degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., and trained in family practice at the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Practice.
Marc KoehnGordon Point Informatics Ltd.
Marc Koehn is an information systems consultant and project manager with nearly 20 years experience in helping clients leverage information systems and technology solutions to meet business objectives. As a partner in Gordon Point Informatics Ltd. he provides management consulting services to the health sector with particular emphasis on integration solutions. He presently serves Canada Health Infoway as Project Manager for the Canadian Electronic Drug ("CeRx") Messaging Standard, the pan-Canadian Laboratory Messaging and Nomenclature Standard as well as the pan-Canadian Public Health Surveillance Standards initiatives.
Marc holds a Masters of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Science, Computer Science from the University of Victoria. He holds the Canadian Information Processing Society’s Information Systems Professional Designation and is a member of HL7, the Project Management Institute, the Partnership for Health Information Standards and the British Columbia Health Informatics Management Professional’s Society.
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