Open Health Tools Membership Presentation

July 28 2004

Phast

Phast is an Association of Healthcare Professionals that delivers interoperable terminological solutions concerning medication and medical devices at a national level in France

Statement of Company / Organization’s Primary Business

Company Overview•Association of Healthcare professionals, mandated by the French Ministry of Health to assure the basis for unambiguous exchange of information in hospital, clinics and long-term care facilities concerning medications and their management, extending to medical devices.

•Terminology services (content and distribution) – 85% of France

Internationally:•Co-leader with Lantana (USA) in the normative version of SFM CTS2 in the HL7 Vocabulary and SOA Working Groups (HSSP).

•Part of the Finalization Task Force, now Revision Task Force in OMG

Type of Business•Hybrid =Terminology services and product

Motivation for Joining Open Health ToolsOur CTS2 terminology server is based on the HL7 SFM and currently being aligned with the OMG specs. With this goal in mind, we would like to make our console (tool used to populate our data base; also used as a testing and conformance tool) open source

Solutions ImplementedNone at the moment.

Involvement with Open Health ToolsCTS2 Project Charter

Links to Products or Services•http://wiki.phast.fr (English)•http://www.phast.fr (French, a few paragraphs in English)