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Louisiana Primary Care Association Annual Conference June 27-30

2010 LPCA Annual Conference

Improving Community Health Center Quality & Efficiency Through Technology CE COURSE

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

from 8:00 am – 9:45 am.

Shreveport Convention Center

Presenter: Remyi Fredson-Cole, CEO ThotBox Solutions Group

(Shreveport, LA) The Louisiana Primary Care Association’s Annual Conference kicks of at the Shreveport Convention Center on June 27-30th, 2010. At the conference,ThotBox Solutions Group CEO Remyi Fredson-Cole will be teaching a course entitled “Improving Community Health Center Quality & Efficiency Through Technology.” On June 30th at 8:00 AM, the CE course will give an overview of Health Information Technology (Health IT), the considerations for planning and implementing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, as well as the benefits of utilizing Health IT in the community health center setting. Mr. Fredson-Cole will also discuss the current federal government grants through the “Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act,” (HITECH), which will subsidize physicians, hospitals and health centers to implement EMR.

This course is the first in a series of workshops and webinars that ThotBox is developing. With 10 years of active IT experience under his belt, Mr. Fredson-Cole is passionate about leading the charge in Health IT by conducting these informative workshops and seminars to demystify the new federal grants/requirements, healthcare technology and considerations for EMR systems. One set of workshops are planned for physicians/group practices, one for community health center administrators, while another track will train individuals to become Health IT technicians and specialists.

ThotBlog Project Spotlight: Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans

Ribbon cutting ceremony at DCSNO St. Cecilia center, April 30 2010

Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans (DCSNO) recently launched a new community health center in St. Cecilia, marking a successful collaboration of administrative, architectural and IT management efforts. The goal: to bring quality health care to under-served, post-Hurricane Katrina communities. DCSNO, with IT Management provided by ThotBox Solutions Group, is providing two new facilities and upgrading existing ones that will support approximately 45,000 patients, tripling their current capabilities. In this article, we examine how technology had to be carefully planned and then implemented to increase the efficiency of launching and running a large scale community healthcare center project.

(l-r) Thotbox CEO Remyi Cole and DCSNO CEO Michael Griffin

DCSNO, led by President/CEO Michael Griffin, an experienced professional in hospital administration, discusses the considerations for planning and implementation of technology. Mr. Griffin holds both entrepreneurial and public health management experience under his belt and takes an honest, direct, and practical approach to the capabilities and challenges of technology in the community healthcare center setting.

Consideration: In-House IT Staff vs. Outsourcing

At the outset of any project, the decision on whether or not to hire a consultant must be weighed upon the capabilities of current staff or the cost effectiveness of hiring dedicated staff.

Michael Griffin: “We came to that decision by knowing our own administrative limitations and saying look how much more can we squeeze into this already busy day and team? How much can we squeeze into that and when do we need to outsource it? Especially when we need a specialist that can keep up with all these things on the day-to-day. We wear a lot of hats and do a lot of different things, but we’re not specialists on the technical side of technology and we need to have that type of expertise especially when we’re building something new like we are now.”

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New Recovery Act Investments in Health IT

Vice President Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius announce the selection of 15 communities to serve as pilot communities for eventual wide-scale use of new health information technology. May 4, 2010.

DCSNO St. Cecilia Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting

Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans launches the opening of their newest community health center facility in St. Cecilia this Friday, April 30 2010 at 10AM. ThotBox will be attending and are proud to be serving as lead IT consultants on the project.

Harris County Medical Society Business Expo

ThotBox is pleased to be exhibiting at the Harris County Medical Society Business Expo for Physicians and Practice Managers. Harris County Medical Society hosts business expos for its membership twice a year. The expo offers physicians opportunities to attend complimentary CMEs focusing on the business of medicine, and to learn about products and services in the market that can enhance their medical practice, patient care, and their lives. Please stop by the Reliant Center on April 17 from 9:30am-3pm and see us at Booth 41.

ThotBox at work in New Orleans for Daughters Of Charity Services

ThotBox is pleased to be working with Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans (DCSNO) on two new community health centers and two remodeled centers. Many hospitals were damaged after Hurricane Katrina, leaving New Orleans in a health care crisis. DCSNO provides necessary and quality health services to local communities which have become increasingly challenged after the disaster. ThotBox is rolling out a set of services customized to design, build and manage the technological infrastructure. The project began at the end of the 4th quarter of 2009, with the first center anticipated to be open as soon as April 2010 in St. Cecilia.

“We see and appreciate the unique position the Daughters of Charity is embarking on to better serve the community with new service areas of dental and optical, providing more insurance and federally funded access options, as well as other new and improved services. We plan on delivering well planned, innovative tools and solutions to assist DCSNO in their mission,” says Remyi Cole, CEO/founder of ThotBox.

The large scope project requires a team of skilled architectural, technical, and administrative professionals to assess and meet the needs of the community health centers. The centers will have all the full advantages of ThotBox’s Environmental Technology Design (ETD) and Video, Audio, Network (VANGUARD) system and maintenance through Thotbox’s PCiNeed managed IT services.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization is one of the new grounds that we are attempting to tackle currently and it has been a interesting one at that. With the world online business (stores in particular) becoming so viable to companies whether its a add-on or base operations, prospective customers are gonna need to find your store. SEO is the answer to your customer needs. Whenever buyers look for things online they 9 out of 10 times will use a popular search engine to look for sellers. These search engine rank sites off of two main things: relevance and pupularity. You want your store as visible to buyers as it can possibly be to increases sales.

So far through this project, the site in question has been analyzed by its as-is state in terms of how a search spider would crawl through it from the index. Due to inconsistencies and abuse in the past, spiders no longer look at all the descriptors/meta tags for information about a page but instead look at other pages pointing (linking) to it for its description; in simple terms, you may say who you are, but I’m going to compare that to what someone else says about you for accurate results. Products and goods are things that you’re trying to sell so they should be as easily accessable as possible by users and spiders both, i.e. three click rule.The three click rule states that from home page to individual product shouldn’t take more than three clicks to navagate otherwise you risk losing customers and inaccessability by search spiders as well. The most important thing on a site from a search engine perspective is the content and that content needs to be encompassed in the hyperlink pointing to that page from all referring pages.

After analysis I’ve made these several suggestions in a report on my findings with this new endeavor with SEO. Looking forward to the to-be state we need to identify the specific goal of the site and with that in mind what structural changes could be done to make the site more user and search spider friendly. What keywords will bring users here and should they be put in the body of the page, titlebar, alt attributes, etc? These are the quieries that customers will user on google and must bring your store up within the first couple of pages to have hopes that the prospective buyer will find your store’s goods. This is the main result of proper search engine optimization and will be the main focus till the end of the project.

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