Implementing ITK

Number of Days: 2 days, 09:30 to 17:00. Lunch is included. Your instructor is available during lunch and from 17:00-18:00 for informal discussions about your specific area of interest or applications.

Dates:

Jun 14/15 (in English)

London UK

Info/Registration: www.hl7.org.uk

This training is also available on-site upon request.

Additional Information: Call +31 318 589 789, or e-mail us at Training@Ringholm.com.

Number of Attendees per Class: Max 25.

Summary of course content: The ITK describes how one can leverage HL7/IHE standards, and Spine Mini Services, to provide local interoperability. This training course focuses on the two workflow-areas detailed in the ITK: patient demographics and correspondence. It also covers the infrastructure that is used to exchange the messages or documents that are part of these two workflow-areas.

Who Should Attend: This training course is aimed at NHS users/trusts and vendors, i.e. those that need to implement ITK, and/or those that intent to bid as a response to the NHS calls bids for project funding.

Goals of the training course: Upon completion of this training course, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the key components of the ITK.
• Use the documentation to locate relevant content, and be able locate the associated NHS e-learning materials.
• Create a bid in response to the NHS's calls bids for project funding.
• Prepare for the implementation of the ITK.

Prerequisites: The attendees are assumed to have a working knowledge of HL7 version 2. The attendees should download the ITK prior to the course. You are referred to TRUD and the NHS TRUD self-teaching video for details. Knowledge of HL7 version 3 (and CDA) is not required, the first 2 hours of this training course will cover the core elements of the HL7 version 3 standard.
Attendees may wish to attend the companion HL7 version 3 und CDA training course (should they require more detailed knowledge of HL7 version 3), and/or the HL7 version 2 training course (should they not posess the prerequisite knowledge of HL7 version 2).

Agenda:

1. HL7 version 3 introduction and overview - preparation to understand CDA (2 hours)
2. Overview and introduction of the ITK
   • History of the ITK and its role in terms of providing local interoperability
   • ITK organisational aspects
   • Role of the ITK (and IHE/HL7) in supporting trust workflows
3. Patient identity management and demographics
   • Overall view on demographics requirements/workflows, IHE PIX/PDQ profiles
   • HL7 version 2 messages as used by PAS/MPI, notifications and queries
   • HL7 version 3 based ITK Mini Services, mapping to HL7 version 2
4. Finding your way around the documentation
   • Structure of the documentation, walkthrough
   • Exercise
5. Infrastructure
   • Core architecture
   • The ITK messaging stack (Transport, Distribution Envelope, Payload)
   • The end-to-end infrastructure acknowledgement framework
6. Correspondence
   • Overall view on e-Document/correspondence requirements/workflows, IHE XDS profile
   • Generic overview of CDA and greenCDA
   • ITK CDA implementation guides
   • Infrastructure: ITK "SendDocument" message
7. Conformance and Accreditation
   • HL7 conformance testing
   • Testbench and other conformance testing tools
   • General principles of the accreditation process

Course Materials: Ringholm will provide each participant with handouts containing all materials covered in the training as well as other support materials.

Faculty: Rene Spronk (and/or other tutors, depending on the location and the number of attendees of the training course).