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WellFlorida Art Director and Communications Manager Jill Dygert recently earned a Gold Award from the 23rd Annual National Health Information Awards for a pregnancy and baby planner she designed and edited for Healthy Start and the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Education Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) in 2015. The award honors the nation’s best consumer health programs and materials. Other recipients of the Gold Award include AARP, March of Dimes, Mayo Clinic and Parents Magazine. The planners are currently being distributed by MIECHV to program participants […]

Marion County residents are invited to join a focus group in September to answer questions about marketing messages and how they contribute to the community’s health. Participants will earn $20 for roughly two hours of their time. Below are the dates, times and locations for each focus group. Please contact Lindsey Redding at WellFlorida Council at 352-313-6500, ext. 110 or email LRedding@WellFlorida.org if you are interested in participating.

Focus Groups
Sept. 12, 2016 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Headquarters Public Library
2720 E. Silver Springs […]

Patientresource.com has recently come out with a new publication titled, “Understanding Cancer Immunotherapy.” PatientSource is a cancer resource organization that provides cancer patients and survivors with free patient resource guides covering all types of cancers. The organization also provides free subscriptions to their sister magazines, CURE and HEAL, which contain helpful information on current cancer treatments and research. Those interested can receive their free subscription by visiting CureToday.com/subscribe or by calling 1(800) 210-2873.

Individuals can also visit www.cancerresourceguidencf.org for additional cancer resources. The Cancer Resource Guide of […]

Cancer Connections and WellFlorida’s North Central Florida Cancer Control Collaborative (NCFCCC) are teaming up for a Lunch and Learn on the the topic “Triple Negative Breast Cancer” with guest speaker Dr. Tina Lam. The Lunch and Learn will be held on Oct. 19 from 12 to 1 p.m. at HealthStreet, 2401 SW Archer Road, Gainesville. It is made possible by a grant from the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation.

Attendees are invited to stick around after the Lunch and Learn for the NCFCCC meeting which will include a […]

When: Wednesday, September 28 & Thursday, September 29, 2016
Where: Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, 1 Grand Cypress Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32836

Registration is now open for invited participants of the Florida Healthcare Workforce initiative (FHW). Members of the Leadership Council, Regional Councils, and State and Professional Advisory Resource Groups for the FHW are invited.

The Statewide Healthcare Workforce Summit brings together key stakeholders with a vision to provide quality healthcare talent and innovation to meet the needs of Forida’s healthcare industry. The summit is convened to assemble […]

FreeDOM Clinic in Ocala held a two-day mega-clinic in July where it provided FREE medical, dental and eye care using volunteers to over 1,500 patients. Community Health Workers collaborated with MyHealthStory Technology Evolution Specialists to help patients register for MyHealthStory on iPads at the event. Patients who registered will be able to receive online, securely and privately, their health information from the FreeDOM Clinic visit. They are also now connected to over 11,000 doctor-approved patient health education videos and other educational media to help them […]

Over 60 healthcare professionals and their guests attended CommunityHealth IT’s free Health IT Boot Camp sponsored by Measure Up Marion. The boot camp was approved for 2.5 contact hours of CE by Suwannee River Area Health Education Center. At the boot camp, the Agency for Health Care Administration taught attendees how they can maximize payments from Medicaid and Medicare by leveraging health technologies available in Marion County. MyHealthStory—a […]

Steering Committee Members are encouraged to invite two community members to participate in in the Forces of Change Assessment on Monday, August 15th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St., Gainesville. Please RSVP to Lindsey Redding with the names and contact information for each community member. Also, be sure to complete the worksheets required for the upcoming meeting and submit them to Lindsey by noon […]

The Health Resources and Services Administration is teaming up with Florida Health and Montana DPHHS to present the webinar “Money Matters in Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT): Increase Your Reimbursement.”

The webinar is designed to help healthcare professionals who furnish DSMT, billers and claim coders, finance, administrative personnel and quality management personnel. 

Mary Anne Hodorowicz, RD, MBA, CDE, Certified Endocrine Coder, will present on Medicare’s most current coverage guidelines with emphasis on areas that create the most confusion including beneficiary eligibility criteria for Medicare DSMT, additional reimbursement rules for […]