Target Topics

This year the Central & North Florida and South Florida HIMSS Advocacy Groups are focused on four main policy areas:

1. Prescription Digital Therapeutics
2. Interoperability
3. AI (Artificial Intelligence)
4. Cybersecurity

Florida Proclamation

The Garner Group is working with Florida Senator Harrell, Chair of Senate HHS Appropriations, in drafting Proclamation for the State to recognize the value of these policy issues to the state's healthcare system. The Proclamation also serve as an educational tool for policymakers about health policy issues that they may be voting on regarding Medicaid Budget needs and changes in reimbursement.

Event Agenda

Wednesday, January 24, 6 pm - 8 pm

Dinner at The Edison Restaurant, 470 Suwanee St, Tallahassee, FL 32301

Meet & Greet with:

• Senator Gayle Harrell
• Senator Ana Marie Rodriguez

How an Idea Becomes a Law with:

• Michael Garner, Ph.D., CEO, The Garner Group

Thursday, January 25, 7:30 am - 1 pm

Breakfast, Mini-Conference & Lunch at the Governors Club, Tallahassee, FL 32301

• Welcome and HIMSS Policy Update: Eli Fleet, Senior Director of HIMSS Government Relations
• The Impact of AI on Healthcare: James Case, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, and Dane Bennett, Director of Government Relations, Baptist Hospital, Jacksonville, FL
• Interoperability Empowers Population Health, Care Coordination, & Value-Based Care: Julie Burgoon, Director of Customer Success, ELLKAY & Lauren Cooke, Director of Interoperability Strategy, ELLKAY
• Prescription Digital Therapies: Critical to the value-based care, population health, personalized medicine, and health equity, as well as treating rare and hard-to-remedy disorders: Stephanie Roberts, Head of Market Access, Luminopia
• Cybersecurity - TBD

Thursday, January 25, 1 pm - 5 pm

Advocacy Days At the Capital

• HIMSS members and guest speakers meet one-on-one with Legislative Members and staff on the key policy issues: Prescription Digital Therapeutics, AI, Interoperability, and Cybersecurity.
• Presentation of the Proclamation in the Florida Senate Chamber, all HIMSS members and participants will be recognized.
• Testify/Participate in the HHS Senate and/or House Committee Meetings.

More about HIMSS

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