Cindi Cordova, Recruiter for CONNECT: The Knowledge Network attended the Colorado Medical Society Technology Fair.

Blackford Middleton was the keynote speaker at the fair. Dr. Middleton is the Chair of the Center for Information Technology Leadership, Partners Healthcare System, Inc., and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Barbara Drury of Pricare Inc. has over 20 years consulting experience to medical offices and is a well-known speaker and consultant.

Pictured above is Blackford Middleton (left) with Colorado HIMSS members Cindi Cordova, and Barbara Drury (to the right).

The CMS Tech Fair showed medical office personnel what tools are available, how to pick the tools appropriate for their offices, how the tools will improve their practices, and how these technologies are being used in other medical practices. Break-out sessions included topics such as Electronic Medical Records and Practice Management Systems. The sessions also included methodologies to evaluate these packages and actual implementation case studies. This conference was sponsored by HIMSS and a booth was staffed by CHIMSS members for the purpose of introducing these individual physicians’ offices to the services provided by HIMSS/CHIMSS.