Dear Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Partner, COCA (from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is providing you advanced notice of an upcoming COCA Conference Call we feel would benefit you and your organization's members!
Upcoming COCA Call Leveraging the Electronic Health Record for Public Health Alerting Date: (Tuesday) June 22, 2010 Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (Eastern Time) Presenters: Nedra Garrett, MS (CDC) Call-in: 1-888-790-6180 Passcode: 1281914 With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and its focus on Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, public health has an unprecedented opportunity to leverage the information, technologies and standards enabled by this effort to support critical public health functions such as alerting and surveillance. Please join us for this informative COCA conference call where a CDC subject matter expert will discuss strategies to increase compliance with public health recommendations and guidelines, and discuss the role of EHR systems in improving dissemination of public health information at point-of-care. For more information on this call visit: http://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/callinfo.asp Continuing Education credit/contact hours will be available for this call! Feel free to share this information with your colleagues, partners, and peers! On behalf of the Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Joint Information Center (JIC) Clinician Communication Section Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listser vs.pdf). If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX <https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX> ) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS <http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS> ). Thank you.
