We feel delight to share that HL7 Pakistan has successfully completed its first ever four day training session, 20-24 May, 2011. The purpose of this training was to provide knowledge and support to healthcare industry in making use of healthcare standards and to help professionals achieve industry-recognized levels of proficiency. We received active participation from various healthcare system providers, healthcare system vendors, healthcare organizations and academia across various cities of Pakistan. The participants took keen interest in learning this course, and therefore, helped in completing our training session in true means.
The four day session covered the following topics along with various interactive sessions:
The participants were given different case studies for their evaluation and also practice for the HL7 International RIM Certification Exam, held on the last day of the training session.
HL7 Certification has high value for securing job in the healthcare sector and is launched in Pakistan for the first time. In the exam, 16 out of 30 participants appeared for certification. The participants were in high spirits which really encouraged us to plan new training sessions at various metropolitan cities of Pakistan in near future. This learning activity helped us in achieving our mandate of promoting eHealth culture across Pakistan.
We are thankful to ICT R&D and NUST for their continuous support in this progress. We hope to bring more innovative and learning activities in future as well.