Health IT in the Latino Community–From Concept to Practice January 24, 2012
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If you are planning to attend HIMSS 2012, make sure to stop by the HIMSS Latino Community Workshop.
Learn more here
HIMSS11 – An Uber Perspective February 20, 2011
Posted by gonzalezloumiet in Uncategorized.Tags: HIMSS, HIMSS11, HIT, ONC
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My name is Eduardo Gonzalez Loumiet and I am the Managing Director at Uber Operations. For the next few days, I will be posting and Tweeting from HIMSS11 in Orlando Florida.
Also, if you too are attending HIMSS11, please feel free to contact me if you would like to meet-up and grab some coffee. I can be reached at: eddie@uberops.com or @gonzalezloumiet.
-Regards,
Eduardo
Day 1 – Sunday, February 20, 2011
HIMSS Latino Initiative Workgroup Kick Off
My participation in HIMSS11 started off with an exciting event, kicking off the newly formed HIMSS Latino Initiative Workgroup. The event, organized by Luis Belen from Medic Success and Danny Vargas from VarCom, was standing room only. Some of the speakers and panelists were:
- Dr. David Hunt, Chief Medical Officer, ONC for Health IT
- Commander David Dietz, Office of Minority Health
- Marcia Thomas-Brown, Program Manager for the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved
- Dr. Joxel Garcia, President, Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico REC
- H. Stephen Lieber, HIMSS President/CEO
The evening was spent with Brian Ramos of ThinkCreative and Shane Molinari of MTS. We spoke about innovation in health IT, medical banking, and healthcare business strategy.
More pictures can be found here.
Day 2 – Monday, February 21, 2011
The day started off at 8am by listening to 3 E-Sessions provided by HIMSS. They were a quick (30mins each) way to learn about a topic. The sessions were:
- E-Session on Ascension Health EMR demo by AllScripts
- E-Session on Integrated IT Strategic Planning in Tough Economic Times
- E-Session on Successfully selecting and integrating with an EHR.
I then attended my first session, A Project Manager’s Guide To Integration Projects. The Department of Clinical Research Informatics at NIH-CC has successfully implemented multiple interfaces between applications. They shared some of their lessons learned like dealing with technical and business project sponsors. Also, Ryan shared some advice on messages flow documentation and why project managers should know “some” HL7.
Speakers: Susan Houston and Ryan Kennedy
The slides were quite good and they can be found here: http://www.himssconference.org/docs/sphandouts/4.pdf
I spent the rest of the day walking through the exhibit halls. I met with several organizations like Orion (Uber Operations strategic partner) and AllScripts, one of the most popular EHR solution providers in the nation.
With John Dunn from Orion
More pictures can be found here.
Here is a video of my tour of the Exhibit Hall.
Day 3 – Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Day 4 – Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The day started off with talks by Health and Human Services Secretary, Sebelius and ONC leader Dr Blumenthal. Also, HIMSS announced stats from their Annual Report, like having 31,000 members and having a net income of 2.5 million.
Kathleen Sebelius
I then attended a workshop titled: CDC Informatics: Building Value at Public Health – Health Care Interface.
The rest of the afternoon was spent meeting with several people/orgs like:
- Clearwave
- MedicSuccess
- National Health Information Technology for the Underserved (NHIT)
- Tactical Management
- Former NBA player, entrepreneur
UberOps to Attend HIMSS11 and Newly Announced Latino Initiative Workgroup January 24, 2011
Posted by gonzalezloumiet in Health Care, HIT, NHIN, Technology.Tags: Health IT, HIMSS, Latino, ONC
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We are proud to announce that we will be participating at the HIMSS 2011 Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Also, Eduardo Gonzalez Loumiet, Managing Director for Uber Operations, is part of the host committee for the newly announced HIMSS Latino Initiative Workgroup reception, to be held on February 20th at the Orange County Convention Center. This program, which has been in the works for close to a year, will finally get an opportunity to facilitate the efforts of health IT in the underserved communities. The event will include several health care leaders, including Antonia Coello Novello, M.D. .
You can register here
If you would like to meet during the conference, please feel free to contact Eduardo at: eduardo@uberops.com .
