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An informative discussion on Interoperability, Community HIT Standards and how contemporaryprotocols such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and Project Argonaut will have an impact.

Presentations and discussion to be led by:

Arien Malac:

-Member of Interoperability Standards Advisory Task Force

-Member of Health IT Standards Committee (HITSC), a Federal Advisory Committee formed to advise the National Coordinator

-Vice President for Data Platform Solutions a RelayHealth

Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, PhD, HCC

-Recipient of the 2013 Critical Access and Rural Hospital Champion Award from Office of the National Coordinator of HIT

-Lead for Florida’s Health […]

WellFlorida Council has recently released health data for each county in North Central Florida and the collective region.

WellFlorida provides annual county health profiles to give residents and community leaders an overview of the health status of each county and how it compares to the state.

Categories including lifestyle, access to healthcare, and maternal and infant care are just a few examples of the type of data included in the profile.

County health profiles can be used as a starting point that may lead […]

The following diabetes self-management education (DSME) applicants have been awarded funding to expand access to people with diabetes:

The Florida Department of Health in Putnam County

The Florida Department of Health in Bradford and Union Counties

The Florida Department of Health in Alachua County

LifeStream Behavioral Center, Inc.

Oasis Community Solutions, Inc.

The Florida Department of Health, Division of Community Health Promotion partnered with WellFlorida to distribute grant funding and provide technical assistance and expert mentoring services to DSME programs in North Central Florida.

For more information, please contact Lindsey Redding at