Some Exciting Opportunities!!!

Following a very successful  National Health IT Week Technology Showcase, the Institute for e-Health Policy will again convene, on October 5, a panel of experts to discuss -  “Unlocking the Value of Health Data.”

The recent FCC Broadband plan concluded that: “Data is becoming the world’s most valuable commodity. In multiple sectors—including finance, retail and advertising—free-flowing and interoperable data have increased competition, improved customer understanding, driven innovation and improved decision-making.” Innovative uses of advanced health data could lead to better treatment evaluation, personalized medicine, enhanced public health, empowered consumers, and improved policy decisions.

Join us for the next Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics health IT lunchtime briefing on Wednesday, October 5^th, Noon-1:45 p.m. in the Senate Visitors Center, Room  SVC 208-209,  to discuss,  “Unlocking the Value of Health Data: Transforming Care Using Information Securely to Improve Efficiency and Quality, Advance Biomedical and Health Systems Research, and Promote Population-health.”

Attendance is complimentary and open to the public, with lunch served.  For more information, please visit www.e-healthpolicy.org or contact me at asimmons@himss.org.

You many also want to consider two exciting pre-conference workshops at the 2012 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, February 20-24, 2012, in Las Vegas, Nev. 

Conducting these workshops are two co-chairs of the HIMSS Diversity Business Roundtable:

• Peggy McShane, President and CEO, Net New Growth, LLC; 
• Keith Moore, Senior Partner, Martin Blanck & Associates; and
• Kathy Minchew, President, Federal Insights.

These all-day pre-conference events (Monday, February 20, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.)  (Basic 101 and Advanced 301) will help small, medium and large businesses entering the federal health IT market as well as firms with more experience in the federal health IT market.

In the Basic workshop you will learn:

• How to develop your “elevator speech,”
• A concise overview of the market and funding sources for contracts, and
• Strategies for establishing target relationships while attending HIMSS12.

If you are new to the federal health IT market space and want to maximize your investment at HIMSS12, this workshop is for you.  Be one of the limited few to attend this very popular workshop, as first introduced last year at HIMSS11 in Orlando.

If you are an alumnus of the HIMSS11 Federal Health IT Business Development Workshop, or if you have at least one year of experience selling into the federal government market, then the advanced workshop is for you. 

In the Advanced workshop, you will gain insights into the more complex challenges facing business developers today, including:

• understanding cost strategies,
• winning the business over an incumbent contractor,
• selling innovative solutions by shaping the market, and
• developing high value relationships with influencers and buyers within the federal government. 

Both workshops are one-day events and cover the topics mentioned above and much more…Register today to secure your Early Bird price for either of the Federal Health IT Business Development Workshops.