Happy New Year everyone! We are looking forward to a great 2010 - this is YOUR meetup so please speak up and contact myself of Lynn with any suggestions for topics, presenters or improvements in how the meetups are organized. As usual, I want to thank PRNewswire for continuing to sponsor us in the year ahead!

As most of you have seen, ONC has published "interim final" rules for meaningful use. By 2015, according to the ruling, we will start focusing on "patient access to self management tools, access to comprehensive patient data
and improving population health". Next few years will be exciting times for the healthcare ecosystem and our meetup is in the epicenter of these discussions.

January meetup is dedicated to " enabling better care by enabling clinical staff" and we have just the presenters for that.

January 2010 Presenter:
1. YourNurseIsOn - Matthew Browning, CEO
Your Nurse Is On was developed in 2000 by a trained Family Nurse Practitioner in response to the inefficient relief staffing procedures found in healthcare today. With today's challenging environment of cost savings and instant communications it became apparent that calling replacement staff one at a time was no longer an adequate solution.

2. OmniPACS - Chris Chua, Founder and Managing Director
OmniPACS® empowers Healthcare professionals to share bio-imaging data in a way that is practical, safe, and easy to use. OmniPACS Inc. provides all of the services and system infrastructure necessary to conduct professional diagnostics and consultation, allowing Healthcare providers and consumers to harness the power of “Cloud Computing.”

Agenda for January Meetup:
6:30 - 7:00pm Networking (Some healthy snacks and drinks)
7:00 - 7:30pm Demos & Group Q&A
7:30 - 8:00pm 2010 Healthcare resolutions

See you all next Wednesday!