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 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. 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.
Since that time, I have had the opportunity to participate in almost all of the HSPC meetings, with an eye toward how the two organizations could form a closer working relationship - joining forces around shared passions and objectives to give the power back to care providers and to effect fundamental change in the healthcare informatics and information technology industry. The creation of this Confluence space, then, represents a milestone along this journey, and I am confident that great things lay ahead for both organizations!
*Note: Just to be clear, I am a Wildcat from Tucson ... so please do not hold it against me if I am sometimes challenged by the relative proximity to ASU when I am in the Phoenix / Scottsdale area!
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