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Plan will examine Georgia’s leadership in healthcare details technology and how we will construct and sustain our premier Healthcare IT workforce

ATLANTA (September 1, 2010) – The Metro Atlanta Chamber, TAG Wellbeing and the Georgia Department of Economic Development announced right now that they will jointly host the Healthcare Info Technology (HIT) Leadership Summit on November 9, 2010. This event, which will run from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, will look at the national spotlight on healthcare, accessible federal funding, latest economic circumstances and the urgent require for jobs in Georgia. This vital occasion will also supply an possibility to showcase Georgia’s HIT market and occupation development in one particular of the country’s quickest developing industries.

Georgia ranks as the major state for total HIT revenues according to the Healthcare Informatics HCI-100 checklist. Above the previous decade, Georgia has attained the premier nationwide leadership place as an HIT cluster. This notable achievement is due to the huge assets of the state’s quite a few HIT corporations and healthcare companies, served and supported by the diverse resources of many companies located in Georgia. Another important part of this recognition is the highly skilled expert HIT workforce offered by nationally prominent university health-related colleges, technical colleges and other training applications all through Georgia.

The major goal of the November 9th occasion is to unite organization neighborhood leaders, healthcare companies and educators to further advance Georgia as the nationwide leader in HIT. The particular focus of the event is to address present and long term industry needs essential to increase, equip and sustain the specialist workforce needed to maximize HIT development in Georgia.

Registration and info is now available on the web at http://www.tagonline.org/HIT-11-9-ten.php. The event will be held at the historic Fox Theatre in Midtown Atlanta.

About The Metro Atlanta Chamber:
The Metro Atlanta Chamber mobilizes and connects the organization neighborhood to drive economic development and public policies that promote sustainable development. Our board of directors draws from Atlanta’s leading business leaders. We have a professional employees of 90 and serve four,000 member organizations who make use of practically 1 million workers. We generate value in return for our members’ time and investment by producing outcomes on each and every concern we pick to tackle.

In economic growth, our project managers attract the very best businesses and jobs. In the final decade, we have recruited over 500 companies creating over 85,000 direct and indirect jobs. We concentrate on recruiting headquarters and worldwide enterprise — and businesses in the provide chain, healthcare IT, bioscience and technology sectors.

In public policy, we tackle crisis issues and critical top quality-of-daily life issues. In 2010 we achieved an historic “3 for 3” victory by passing all 3 of our key legislative priorities – transportation, water and school board reform.

For members, we supply 150+ occasions and activities every 12 months to support them connect and make essential enterprise contacts.

For much more data on the chamber’s healthcare IT initiatives please make contact with: David Hartnett, 404-586-8443, dhartnett@macoc.com Molly Taylor, 404-586-8461, mtaylor@macoc.com

About TAG Wellbeing:
TAG Well being is a single of 27 unique interest groups that make up the Technologies Association of Georgia, which is a ten,700-member organization. TAG Health’s mission is to create an environment that fosters economic advancement by means of health technology in the state of Georgia. That mission is fulfilled through plans and events for our members and guests, which incorporate corporate, government, education and entrepreneurial leaders during the state. As the federal government helps make funds available for the adoption of healthcare technology, TAG Health is primary the way by bringing collectively providers, payers, vendors, as nicely as government and schooling leaders.

About The Georgia Department of Economic Improvement (GDEcD):
The Georgia Department of Financial Improvement (GDEcD) is the state's sales and advertising and marketing arm, the lead agency for attracting new organization investment, encouraging the expansion of present sector and small organizations, locating new markets for Georgia products, attracting visitors to Georgia, and marketing the state as a location for film, video and music tasks, as nicely as preparing and mobilizing state resources for financial advancement.

About The Technologies Association of Georgia (TAG):
TAG is a leading technology industry association committed to the promotion and economic advancement of the state's technology industry. TAG offers leadership in driving initiatives in the regions of policy, capital, training and providing, and also brings the technology community with each other by means of activities, initiative applications and networking possibilities. TAG serves as an umbrella organization for 27 unique interest groups, or societies, including Girls in Technologies (WIT). In addition, TAG’s charitable arm, the TAG Training Collaborative, is focused on helping science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) training initiatives thrive. For far more information go to the TAG internet site at http://www.tagonline.org or TAG’s nonprofit networking organization and technology neighborhood at http://www.TAGthink.com.
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