Central & North Florida - CFHIMSS Events -

May 2008
DATE/TIME	EVENT	INFORMATION
May 9th	Inaugural Western Panhandle Central / North Florida HIMSS Meeting - Pensacola, FL	Meeting Agenda: "Community capital" needed for RHIO creation and viability: The Northwest Florida RHIO experience - Christine Isham, President, Seaside Strategies Consultants Managing Director, NWFL-RHIO and ESHIN HIT activities in Hong Kong - Lloyd Tribley, MS CAIT ATACP Principal, Tribley~Wu & Associates Medicaid EHR pilot - Jack Varga, MD, MHSA, CPHIMS, PMP Medical Director,EDS Electronic Health Records Center of Excellence Strategic Health Intelligence - Craig Dalton Armed Services Vice President, and David Floyd Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Update from the Florida Association of RHIOs - Carol Selvey, MHSA, FHIMSS Principal, The Revere Group Special thanks to the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition for hosting our meeting and the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce for arranging this location. Possible hotel locations include: Crowne Plaza – Pensacola Grand http://www.pensacolagrandhotel.com Residence Inn – Pensacola Downtown http:://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pnsdt-residence-inn-pensacola-downtown/ Marriott Courtyard- Downtown Pensacola http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pnspc-courtyard-pensacola-downtown/ IHMC is located in the heart of downtown historic Pensacola. (If you are not coming from the airport then start at number 5) 1. West on Airport Blvd. until you get to Davis. 2. Turn left heading South to the 1st light Bayou/Brent Blvd. 3. Turn Right on to Brent Blvd. 4. At the second light turn Left on to I-110 South 5. Take I-110 to the end of express way. Get in the left lane before I-110 ends and follow the Gregory St. Exit. You will be circling around the Civic Center. 6. Turn left at the light on to Alcaniz St. 7. Go 2 blocks south past the Civic Center, stay in the far left lane, yield & pass through Garden St., IHMC is the first building on the left just past St. Michael’s Cemetery Use this link to register.
Thursday May 15, 2008 @ 12:00 Eastern Time	HIMSS Chapter RHIO Liaison Roundtable Call	The May 15th, 2008, HIMSS Chapter RHIO Liaison Roundtable Call is open to ALL HIMSS members interested in State Level Health Information Exchange! Speaker: Lynn Dierker, Project Director ONC’s State Level HIE Consensus Project Topic: Recommendations from the State-Level HIE Consensus Project for state-level and nationwide HIE Governance and advancing HIE value and sustainability. Learn about this important work effort and its impact on HIE! This is an opportunity to learn about important state-level perspectives and recommendations about HIE development, especially in light of current efforts to design a permanent AHIC and advance the Nationwide Health Information Network.
June 2008
DATE/TIME	EVENT	INFORMATION
June 10th and 11th in Washington DC	National HIT Week 2008	National Health IT Week 2008, held the week of June 9-13, 2008, is the leading forum for developing common ground to advance adoption of health information technologies transforming health and care in the US. Advocacy Day - Held on June 11th this year. Let Your Voice Be Heard. Advocate! Activities begin on June 10th and last through the 11th. For more information go to this link
June 26 - 27, 2008	Central and North Floriday HIMSS Summer Meeting - St. Augustine, FL	HOLD THE DATE! CIO Panel and Golf Outing Thursday afternoon Golf Friday speakers include: CIO Panel Safety of CPOE