Liora Alschuler
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Biography
Liora is a consultant working with vendors, providers and standards organizations on the application of structured information technology (XML) to the electronic health record. She is the author of ABCD... SGML: A User's Guide to Structured Information, ITCP, 1995. Ms. Alschuler and Dr. John Spinosa have a consulting partnership known as alschuler.spinosa which specialize in the application of structured markup to healthcare information.
Liora is currently Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee, developing document-centered, XML-based exchange specifications for heatlhcare. She is also the Board-appointed Chair of the HL7 Marketing Committee. She is Project Manager for the HL7 HIMSS demos 1999-2002 coordinating multiple applications in a Proof of Concept exchange network using the next generation of HL7 XML-based specifications. She was the Project Manager for Operation Jumpstart which created the Kona Architecture, a proposal for scaleable exchange of SGML-encoded clinical records, the prototype for HL7's Clinical Document Architecture (ANSI/HL7 CDA R1.0-2000). She has spoken on hypertext, XML and HL7 at local, regional, national, and international conferences.