Hello,
My name is Gerard Freriks. I'm a General Practicioner in the Netherlands.
For several years I've an interest in the use of SGML in Medical Informatics.
Recently, I visited the USA.
During my stay in San Diego I attended a meeting on 20-7-96.
It was the initiation of the "HL7-SGML Technical Commity".
Present were people from Industry, Hospitals and people from the Medical
Informatics and SGML community.
Their purpose is to create a (national) standard for the use of SGML
(Structured Generalised Markup Language) in order to be able to communicate
medical information in general between applications, independent of
platforms, versions and media.
They considered it my task to promote their cause by informing people in
Europe, who I'm aware of having an interest in SGML.
A WEB-Site will be (or has been) erected:
<http://www.internet-cafe.com/drbob/HCML/hcml.htm>
Next scheduled meetings:
HL7-Meeting 21-August, Washington D.C.
25-September-1996 in Dallas, location ??
SCAMCI, 29-October-1996 in Washington D.C..
SGML 18-November-1996, Boston (probable)
My question to all interested people is:
What will we do in Europe?
My suggestion is that the Internet must make it possible to start an effort
to try to co-operate.
Reactions please!
Greetings
Gerard Freriks, MD
Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD
C. Sterrenburgstr 54
3151JG Hoek van Holland
the Netherlands (31) 174-384296/ Fax: -386249
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