UberOps at the FL HIE Kickoff June 4, 2010

“Realizing Health Information Exchange in Florida”

TALLAHASSEE, FL – June 4, 2010 – Uber Operations team members attended the Florida Health Information Exchange Kickoff Meeting held at Florida State University on June 4, 2010. As many of you know, Uber Operations is heavily involved with information exchange throughout Florida. Uber Operations provides the data integration services to the award-winning Florida Department of Health’s Division of Information Technology. Also, Uber Operations manages one of two PHLIP Route-not-Read Hubs, which facilitates the exchange of laboratory orders and results throughout the United States. Our story can be found here.

“Since 2004, we have been contributing to the success of the current public health information exchange throughout Florida and we look forward to continuing are hard work by participating in the Florida Health Information Network project,” said Eduardo Gonzalez Loumiet, Managing Director. “It was great seeing several hundred audience members today at the Kickoff. The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is doing a wonderful job in communicating with stakeholders and I believe we are on the right track to planning our statewide health information exchange.”

Several of the speakers at today’s FL HIE Kickoff included:

• Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
• Ms. Laura Adams, Chair, National eHealth Collaborative
• Mr. Thomas W. Arnold, Secretary, Agency for Health Care Administration
• Mr. David Taylor, Florida Agency for Enterprise Information Technology
• Dr. Michael Barnes, Regenstrief Institute

Below is a short clip from the event(our perspective):

Click her for an official video on the event.

Event Information: http://www.fhin.net/FHIN/FHINevents.shtml