Archive for April, 2007

04.01.07

OIO 2007

Posted in Architecture, Conferences, SOA at 8:43 pm by kkj

Ouch. It’s been another couple of months with no activity on this blog. I’ve been under siege by massive amounts of work, all of which decided to have a deadline just before Easter. Anyway, there’s a small pause right now, which I’ll hastily exploit to catch up a bit on my vapor trails.

Last week had representatives from the better part of the Danish Public Sector descend upon Ã…rhus at the annual OIO conference for a Tuesday and Wednesday packed with sessions. My schedule was interleaved with meetings so I only caught about half of what was going on (max). Not surprisingly, the keynote and the first couple of talks in the big hall focused at a high level on the status of what’s happened during the past year. Fine. Then a meeting and lunch.

Well fed I went to hear about the health of the Health Sector with some anticipation that plans or at least hints for the future of EHR in Denmark would be revealed. That would have been prudent now that a director has been found for the National EHR Organization. No so, and no word from the organization at all. Of course the new director doesn’t start until the 15. of April, but still …


Jens Rahbek Nørgaard / MedCom in vivid action

More meetings and day one ended with a party, with way too much beer, and with a slight intoxiaction at 2 in the morning. For that reason I had to start Wednesday rather late with lots of water and coffee, and the first session I attended was the ubiquitous DGWS presentation by none other that yours truly and Jens Rahbek Nørgaard from MedCom.

Jens put on a great performance, and despite all odds even my presentation went rather well, I thought.

I attended one more presentation, which featured a rather extreme case from Denmark`s Road Safety and Transport Agency, illustrating how tons of paperwork can be replaced by efficient digital processes. Very interesting and highly illustrative of the potential.

Another meeting, coffee and I must confess to leaving the conference early … Overall I had a great time and will be back next year.