The first HSPC General meeting I attended was in the spring of 2014 in Scottsdale, Arizona .... my home state! * The HL7 Working Group Meetings were at the same time over at the Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, and Dr. Stan Huff and Oscar Diaz invited me to come over to check out the meetings. So Friday morning I went over to check it out and ... yikes! There were a lot of people there and it was clear that this organization was different than the others that i had participated in - it was doing "real work". Interestingly, the Center for Medical Interoperability (C4MI) had just formed the preceding August 2013 - having been spun out of the West Health Institute, located in San Diego ... America's Finest City! - and as I learned more about the HSPC, it was clear that the two organizations had far more in common than differences.
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