Secretary Holly Benson to Address Innovative Public-Private Partnerships to Drive Health IT at the Collaborative Communications Summit

The CCS Health IT Summit announces that Secretary Holly Benson of the Agency for Health Care Administration for the State of Florida will present at the upcoming Spring CCS Health IT Summit taking place this June 16th -17th, 2009 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 14, 2009 -- The CCS Health IT Summit announces that Secretary Holly Benson of the Agency for Health Care Administration for the State of Florida will present at the upcoming Spring CCS Health IT Summit taking place this June 16th -17th, 2009 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.            

The presentation entitled, "Using Innovative Public-Private Partnerships to Drive Health Information Technology" will provide an overview of how states are partnering with the private sector to drive the adoption of health information technology; a review of how states are using stimulus dollars to foster health information exchange; and insight into how to work with the states to improve health care.    

"We want to be leaders in driving the adoption of health information technology, and we have worked with private- and public-sector leaders to empower providers and patients with their health care data," Secretary Holly Benson said. "We believe our Agency has an important role to play in coordinating initiatives and are excited about this summit."

Governor Charlie Crist appointed Holly Benson as Secretary of the Agency for Health Care in February of 2008. He asked her to lead the Agency charged with working for better health care for all Floridians and outlined a bold agenda of finding more affordable insurance for uninsured Floridians and of reducing the regulatory burden placed on health care providers.

The Agency for Health Care Administration is committed to better health care for all Floridians. AHCA administers Florida's Medicaid program, licenses and regulates more than 32,000 health care facilities and 37 health maintenance organizations, and promotes the exchange of and publishes health care information and statistics.

The 2009 CCS Health IT Summit presenting sponsor is Honeywell Hommed. The summit Co-sponsor is RedChip Companies and Supporting Sponsors include 4medica, ARMA, CarePrecise, DSS, Inc., EDMIS, Federal Telemedicine News, Healthcare Informatics, Health Management Technology, Interbit Data, Medicity, Minerva Advisory Group, Mobihealthnews, NetMotion Wireless, Persystent Technologies, SimulConsult, SMART Association, South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association and South Florida Hospital News.

About Collaborative Communications Summit (CCS):
The CCS Health IT Summit is designed to help top-level healthcare executives, legislators, physicians, entrepreneurs, and technologists come to grips with the swirling forces of health IT change, health 2.0 trends and changing business models. Addressing the impact of information technology, consumer/patient empowerment and health 2.0 trends on the hospital, physician and payer the CCS provides an intimate, high level forum that facilitates open avenues of communication. Attendees will walk away with timely and actionable information that can be immediately implemented in their respective organizations. www.ccsexpo.com

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