Team Member Profile: Linda Nelson December 12, 2011
Posted by gonzalezloumiet in Data Integration, EMR, Health Care, HIT, Stimulus Plan, Team Member Profile, Technology, Uber Operations.Tags: FDOH, Florida, Linda Nelson, Tallahassee, Uber Operations
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Linda Nelson joined Uber Operations a little over a year ago. Linda Nelson’s experience includes executive, program management, policy development, technical, leadership, commercial, and governmental roles throughout her highly successful career. Her diverse resume includes commercial, local, state, and national expertise in management and consulting in organizational development, health care, telecommunications, information technology, education, infrastructure development, and statewide and national safety.
She has served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Florida Department of Health, Management Services and the Palm Beach County District Schools, the State of Florida Telecommunications Director, Executive Director of the Florida Distance Learning Network, and Director for Center for Educational Technology for the Department of Education.
Linda has presented internationally, nationally, and at the state and local levels on areas as diverse as infrastructure development, FCC deregulation, economic development, telemedicine and electronic health records, bio-terrorism, privacy, security, and product and service development for emerging markets.
Specific areas of expertise include information management (security, user access controls, data integrity and integration), data and system integration, telecommunications (data, voice, video, image, and Internet protocols), and infrastructure (hardware, software, e-business systems/software), regulatory compliance, quality management (LEAN, Six-Sigma), public policy, strategic project and program management, enviro-consulting, sustainability (SPARK/SCORE, LEED, DSM), and strategic business/project development.
Linda is a graduate of Leadership Tallahassee Class 24 and founding member of College Leadership Tallahassee. She is a Board Secretary of Rotary International, Tallahassee Sunrise Chapter. She is Vice-Chair for the Board Directors for Big Bend Community Based Care (corporation), Secretary and Executive Board Member Early Learning Coalition, President of the Board of Directors for the Office of Public Guardian, President of Big Bend Crime stoppers, and President and CEO of EarthSTEPS, LLC. She is an appointed member of the Leon County Schools External Audit Committee and serves/or has served on a variety of other committees including the 2007 Community Human Services Partnership committee. She is a Team Member at BCMPros. Linda volunteers for many community based initiatives including providing meals for the local homeless shelter. She continues to serve on national workgroups and presents on related Information Technology, Privacy and Security, Health, Social Service and Environmental issues.
At Uber Operations, she is currently working on a project for Hillsborough County, Florida.
Linda on LinkedIn.
PHLIP Florida Route-not-Read Hub (UPDATE) September 21, 2010
Posted by gonzalezloumiet in APHL.Tags: ELR, FDOH, HIE, PHLIP, RNR, TDSHS
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Government Health IT article: http://www.govhealthit.com/news/flu-outbreak-circle-labs
Original Blog Post: http://blog.uberops.com/2009/09/29/rnr-hub-presentation-at-the-cdcs-phin-conference-2009/
Over the past 2 years, Uber Operations, along with the other PHLIP RnR Hub Workgroup team members have enrolled several state public health laboratories (SPHL) on the RNR Hubs. In addition to SPHLs, we have also enrolled a RHIO and several private laboratories. Below is a listing of the trading partners on the RnR Hubs. As mentioned before, once on the RnR Hub, the trading partner has the capability to exchange information with all others on the Hub, minimizing certificare management and infrastructure needs. If you are interested in joining the RnR Hub, please contact Eduardo Gonzalez Loumiet at eduardo@uberops.com
State Public Health Labs on the Route-not-Read Hub:
1. Alabama
2. Alaska
3. Arizona
4. Arkansas
5. California
6. Colorado
7. Florida
8. Hawaii
9. Indiana
10. Iowa
11. Maine
12. Maryland
13. Minnesota
14. Missouri
15. Nebraska
16. Rhode Island
17. South Carolina
18. Texas
19. Utah
20. Wisconsin
Other Trading Partners on the Route-not-Read Hub:
- CDC
- Cerner
- LabCorp
- Big Bend Regional Health Organization
- Mercy Hospital Miami
- Quest Chantilly
- Specialty Laboratories
Uber Operations To Manage Florida & Texas ELC Projects September 7, 2010
Posted by gonzalezloumiet in CDC, Florida Dept of Health, Interoperability.Tags: APHL, CDC, ELC, FDOH, Florida Department of Health, PHLIP
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Update: October 1, 2010
TALLAHASSEE – September 7, 2010 – Team members from Uber Operations will participate in the State of Florida and Texas CDC ELC Project.
Official Project Name: Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) Infrastructure and Interoperability Support for Public Health Laboratories Project.
Project Background:
On February 17, 2009, the President signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This statute includes The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (the HITECH Act) that sets forth a plan for advancing the appropriate use of health information technology to improve quality of care and establish a foundation for health care reform. The public health focused activities being advanced under ARRA cover activities intended to carry out the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responsibilities to support meaningful use of electronic health records through two way communications between clinicians and national, state, and local public health entities. These activities focus on enhancing capabilities to advance one of the potential policy priorities of meaningful use for 2011, to “improve population and public health,” by conducting two distinct projects:
· Interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Immunization Registries
· Electronic Laboratory Reporting between Public Health and Clinical Care
While public health programs are already working in the above two areas, additional efforts are needed to enable public health programs to exchange electronic data with clinical care. Investing in these areas will allow for the more rapid advancement towards meaningful use of EHRs as intended by ARRA. The public health system is a key component of our nation’s healthcare system and without such a link to the clinical care system, the nation’s health care system is not complete. The activities outlined in these two projects will create an information sharing environment between clinical care and public health practitioners and is expected to lay part of the foundation for meaningful use of EHRs by bringing critical laboratory information and treatment history (vaccine registries) to the clinician’s desktop.
Purpose:
The purpose of the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) cooperative agreement is to assist state public health agencies in improving surveillance for, and response to, infectious diseases by (1) strengthening epidemiologic capacity; (2) enhancing laboratory capacity and practice; (3) improving information systems; and (4) developing and implementing prevention and control strategies. The focus of the activities is on naturally occurring infectious diseases and drug-resistant infections. ELC aims to enhance the ability of public health agencies to identify and monitor the occurrence of known infectious diseases of public health importance; detect new and emerging infectious disease threats, identify and respond to disease outbreaks; and use public health data for priority setting, policy development, and for prevention and control. Specifically within the Health Information Systems/National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) component of ELC, a key goal is to develop direct electronic data exchanges between sources of data (such as health care providers or laboratories – i.e., clinical care) and public health agencies.
Eduardo Gonzalez Loumiet of Uber Operations will be managing the projects. For more information, please contact Eduardo at: eduardo@uberops.com
About Über Operations:
Founded in 2004 in Tallahassee, Florida, Über Operations is a leading provider of health care IT services. They provide the integration services for several large private and public organizations, including: Florida Department of Health, Texas Department of State Health Services, Mercy Hospital of Miami, Mayo Medical Labs, Association of Public Health Laboratories, and the University of Washington. Über Operations team members are experts in various technologies, such as Orion Health’s Rhapsody, Cloverleaf, Mirth, LabWare, PHINMS, and NHIN CONNECT, to name a few. Über Operations is nationally recognized by the Association Public Health Labs (APHL) and the CDC as their choice to architect, develop, host, and support the PHLIP RnR health information exchange Hub. For more information on Über Operations please visit www.ÜberOps.com .
UberOps at the FL HIE Kickoff June 4, 2010
Posted by gonzalezloumiet in ARRA, Blumenthal, Florida Dept of Health.Tags: AHCA, Blumenthal, FDOH, FHIN
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“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
Über Operations – key to Florida Dept of Health Varicella PHIN Certification March 29, 2010
Posted by gonzalezloumiet in Florida Dept of Health, PHIN.Tags: CDC, FDOH, Florida, John Parker, PHIN, Varicella
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Tallahassee - John Parker recently led the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) to become Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Certified for the Notification/Send processes for the Nationally Notifiable Disease – Varicella. Parker has been a Data Integration Developer with Über Operations, an IT consulting firm based in Tallahassee, for the past three years. The Varicella certification is the first of several certifications for the FDOH that Parker and the Über Operations team will be a part of this year.
Varicella, commonly known as Chickenpox, became reportable in Florida in November of 2006. It is one of more than seventy conditions that are considered nationally notifiable by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The purpose of the PHIN Varicella certification is to standardize the notification and transmission of periodic disease reporting to the CDC.
To pass the certification, applicants are required to meet three functionality requirements:
- The ability to compose functional Varicella case notification messages
- The ability to securely send the messages to the CDC
- Application(s) used must be secure and available
Achieving these requirements involves acquiring the data from the FDOH Merlin surveillance system which is stored in a SQL database. A stored procedure queries the data and converts it into an XML formatted file. The XML data is then translated via the Cloverleaf Integration Broker tool into a standardized HL7 format (version 2.5) that is sent via PHINMS to the CDC for their consumption.
Parker and the Über Operations team have plans to pursue further PHIN certifications to ensure that FDOH remains a leader in healthcare information exchange.
About PHIN
The CDC Public Health Information Network (PHIN) is a national initiative to improve the capacity of public health to use and exchange information electronically by promoting the use of standards and defining functional and technical requirements. PHIN strives to improve public health by enhancing research and practice through best practices related to efficient, effective, and interoperable public health information systems.
UPDATE: John Parker and the Über Operations Team have just completed the PHIN Certification for Tuberculosis.
About Über Operations
Founded in 2004, Über Operations is a leading provider of health care IT services due in part to their exclusive IT resources, their creativity, and hard work. Their goal is to provide the highest quality in software solutions and to find and work with the best IT professionals in the industry. Über Operations provides the integration services for several large private and public organizations, such as: the Florida Dept of Health, Texas Dept of State Health Services, and the University of Washington. Über Operations team members are considered experts in open source technology such as PHINMS, NHIN CONNECT, and Mirth to name a few. For more information on Über Operations please visit www.ÜberOps.com.
Contact:
Eduardo Gonzalez Loumiet, MBA, PMP
Managing Director
Über Operations, LLC
(850) 766-5338
eddie@ÜberOps.com
