The HL7 Working Group is composed of volunteers who give their time on a personal basis or under sponsorship of their employers. Membership in the HL7 Working Group has been, and continues to be, open to anyone wishing to contribute to the development and refinement of Level 7 Interface Standard for network technology in healthcare.Return to Outline

The main reason you should join the Working Group is to support the effort. Membership fees are the primary source of funds that support the work of writing, publishing, and providing information about the Standard. Joining as an individual members is the cheapest way to get a copy of the spec and the only way to get the implementation guide. It is possible to buy the spec at the same price without becoming a member.

It is critical that these people be intimate with the purpose of HL7 and be familiar with some of the details of the current HL7 specification

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a watchdog environmental organization, has been conducting environmental investigations since 1993. Its team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers carries out research to expose threats to our health and the environment, and works to find solutions (see We’re Loaded with Toxins: Analyzing the Toxic Body Burden of Americans by Judy Chinitz Gorman).

One of the provisions of the Executive Order established an Interagency Working Group (IWG) on environmental justice chaired by the EPA Administrator and comprised of the heads of eleven departments/agencies and several White House offices.

HL7 is a standard for electronic data exchange in healthcare environments. It endeavors to standardize the format and protocol for the exchange of certain key sets of data among healthcare computer application systems. HL7 is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to write these standards. with almost all United States standards, HL7 standards are voluntary, consensus standards. There is no governmental mandate to use HL7, except in very limited circumstances.

A Special Interest Group is a sanctioned group that meets under the auspices of HL7 but is not authorized to write and ballot draft chapters. The home healthcare SIG, for example, is a group that meets to discuss the application of HL7 to home healthcare and to provide coordinated input into the work of the various chapters. Occasionally a special interest group meets and makes the case for a new chapter and is reconstituted as a Technical Committee. Return to Outline

To participate you need to join the Austin Group. See http://www.opengroup.org/austin/lists.html for more information. Since the material contained in the existing POSIX 1003.1 and POSIX 1003.2 standards is merged into the revision, POSIX 1003.1-1990 and its amendments, and POSIX 1003.2-1992 and its amendments were administratively withdrawn by the IEEE.

Go see http://www.web3d.org/technicalinfo/process.htm to learn about the Working Group process. The Consortium's formal role is to review the formation, charter, progress and results of working group. Informally we act as individuals to provide a lot of advice and encouragement. Getting public comment and participation from the www-vrml@web3d.org mail list is HIGHLY recommended. That is the process that has made VRML strong.

A Working Group (WG) session is an open forum. This means that anyone can join and take part as an equal. You do not have to be a member of the RIPE NCC to join in discussions. RIPE Working Groups deal with various issues and topics related to the work of its members and the Internet community. Each Working Group has a mailing list where topics related to the group are discussed between RIPE Meetings.

It depends on the class. Students in Digital Video Editing and Screenwriting work solo. Students in Art of Filmmaking and Shooting Digital Video do both group and solo work. Students in Documentary Production work in groups. Most students find working in a small group and the experience of collaborating with class members to be very beneficial, as classmates can crew and grow their creative ideas together. top

A Technical Committee, often called a "chapter committee" is the basic specification-writing entity in HL7. Its members are charged with developing and balloting proposed chapters in the HL7 specification. For example, the ADT/Finance committee writes chapters 3 (ADT) and 6 (Finance.) One special Technical Committee which does not write a chapter is the "QA/Data Modeling Committee.

Contact HL7 Administrative Headquarters for information about membership or to be placed on the HL7 mailing list. You will receive meeting announcements and a quarterly newsletter which contains authoritative summaries of the work of the Technical Committees. The HL7 Implementation Guide, only available to members, provides significant information about how to implement HL7. The best tutorial information can be seen by attending HL7 meetings.

Sometimes, instead of working with the whole company or department, we have been hired by one individual within a company to come in and work with him or her alone. We also work with single business owners and with home offices. We literally start with the first piece of paper in front of us on the desk, figure out what the next step is, and set up a location for that activity.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group is an industry group which collects phishing reports and distributes the reports to its paying members. We applaud their efforts; there is no single solution to fighting phishing and the Internet Bad Guys. (Don't worry, that site is just a demo run by OpenDNS.) However, we would encourage the APWG to share their learnings with the rest of the anti-phishing community.

You bet! See the link in the left frame for details and/or to sign up. The groups will work on the same platform as last year, the University of Michigan's CTools system.

The May 2005 letter requesting this working group was signed by Senators Chafee, Clinton, Inhofe, Jeffords, Crapo, and Lincoln.

Three meetings were held: The first one in Keystone, CO in November 2005; the second in Shepherdstown, WV in December 2005; and a third in Washington, DC in January 2006.

No, but you do have to be a member to ballot on standards, or a per-ballot fee is required. Unlimited balloting means savings for you as an IEEE-SA member. Comment and ballot on as many standards projects as you wish by accepting invitations to ballot on standards that impact your industry or company. A web-based balloting sign-on sheet allows you to select an unlimited number of balloting pools that you wish to participate in at no additional charge.

ECE practitioners work with children from birth to eight years of age. The ECE Program focuses on this age-group.

You can find complete agendas for each Working Group in your RIPE Meeting packet, on the RIPE Meeting website and at the registration desk. The agenda tells you about the topics that will be discussed within each session. If you wish to add an item to an agenda please contact the Working Group Chair. You will find the name of each Working Group Chair by selecting the relevant Working Group web page from: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/

This information includes minutes from previous RIPE Meetings and mailing list archives, where you can read recent discussions. By reading previous minutes and discussions you will:

Once you are a Standards Holder, you are entitled to put your name forward or to be nominated to become a member of a Group. All Origo Standards are produced according to a methodology that splits the development activity into a number of phases. To find out more about our approach to developing Standards, please refer to the "Standards Development Methodology and Documentation" on our website.

Yes, the public will be able to swap pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and rodenticides within limitations. As with all materials placed in the Swap Shop, we will need to limit the materials to those that can be safely placed there and that meet several criteria. For example, the container must be in reasonably good condition and the label must be fully readable. Also, materials placed there must fall within state and federal regulations.

Yes! We encourage staff from member organizations to join as many working groups as time/interest permits.