Bozeman and more than 40 Georgia HIT leaders highlighted Georgia's leadership in healthcare information technology and addressed the actions needed to build and sustain a premier Healthcare IT workforce
Atlanta, Georgia October 4, 2010 - On November 9th, Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, Bob Bozeman, provided the keynote address at the HIT Summit produced by the Georgia Department of Economic Development, Metro Atlanta Chamber, and TAG Health. According to the Healthcare Informatics HCI-100 list, Atlanta is the national leader in health IT revenue and this event, brought together Georgia's leaders in a coordinated effort to strategically drive HIT revenue growth and HIT jobs. The day-long Summit, which was held at the historic Fox Theatre, had representatives from more than 100 health IT organizations in attendance.The Summit's keynote speaker, Bob Bozeman, via his partnership at Angel Investors, LP, or directly, was one of Google's first investors and made a total of 425 investments since 1998, including 35 that resulted in public offerings and 70 that were acquired by names such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. In his keynote address, Mr. Bozeman encouraged Georgia's leaders to seize this opportunity to leverage Georgia's unique environment for strategic HIT growth, and to build a pipeline of innovation and HIT employment opportunities. He'll also address the urgent need for Georgia to develop a brand and create a unified front as the state and nation gain momentum in HIT.
Following his address, there was a series of panels featuring more than 40 Georgia HIT leaders who addressed current and future industry workforce requirements necessary to expand HIT revenues and jobs. Afternoon panels specifically addressed the current and future employer workforce needs, entrepreneurial opportunities and strategies, HIT education and training programs, HIT Recruiters as well transitioning strategies for entrance into HIT.
The Summit hosted more than 70 contributors, representing Healthcare corporations, providers and suppliers, universities, medical schools, technical colleges and government entities such as the CDC and the Georgia Department of Community Health.
Participating companies include, but are not limited to, Allscripts, BL Seamon Corp, Business Computer Applications, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Clearwave Corporation, Emory Healthcare, Enterprise Innovation Institute of Georgia Institute of Technology, Ethos Partners, GE Healthcare, Georgia Board of Regents of The University System of Georgia, Georgia Department of Community Health, Georgia Hospital Association, Georgia Medical Care Foundation, Governor's Office of Workforce Development, Greenway Medical Technologies, Gwinnett Health System, Healthcare Financial Management Association, HINRI Labs and HINRI Ventures, Jackson Healthcare, McKesson, MedAssets, Morehouse School of Medicine, NASCO, Navicure, Noro-Moseley Partners, Northrop Grumman, Precipice Strategies, PRGX, RelayHealth, SoloHealth, Transcend Services, Wellstar Health System Registration and information is available online at http://www.tagonline.org/HIT-11-9-10.php.
About The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD)
The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) is the state's sales and marketing arm, the lead agency for attracting new business investment, encouraging the expansion of existing industry and small businesses, locating new markets for Georgia products, attracting tourists to Georgia, and promoting the state as a location for film, music and digital entertainment projects, as well as planning and mobilizing state resources for economic development. For more information, visit www.Georgia.org. For more information about healthcare IT in the state of Georgia, call Glen Whitley at 404-962-4066.About The Metro Atlanta Chamber
The Metro Atlanta Chamber mobilizes and connects the business community to drive economic development and public policies that promote sustainable growth. Our board of directors draws from Atlanta's top business leaders. We have a professional staff of 90 and serve 4,000 member companies who employ nearly 1 million workers. We create value in return for our members' time and investment by producing results on each issue we choose to tackle.In economic development, our project managers attract the best companies and jobs. In the last decade, we have recruited over 500 companies creating over 85,000 direct and indirect jobs. We focus on recruiting headquarters and international business -- and companies in the supply chain, healthcare IT, bioscience and technology sectors.
In public policy, we tackle crisis issues and critical quality-of-life challenges. In 2010 we achieved an historic "3 for 3" victory by passing all three of our major legislative priorities - transportation, water and school board reform.
For members, we offer 150+ events and activities each year to help them connect and make key business contacts.
For more information on the chamber's healthcare IT initiatives please contact: David Hartnett, 404-586-8443, dhartnett@macoc.com; Molly Taylor, 404-586-8461, mtaylor@macoc.com
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