about this session

about your webjournal
The purpose of this session is focused on accomplishing six goals:
1. Create a common awareness of the scope of the HHS award and its potential impact
    on the state
2. Create a common understanding of the other related issues major projects affecting
    participants throughout the state
3. Develop a common understanding of the technical, legal, clinical, financial, and
    organizational issues that will impact on all efforts
4. Develop an incremental road map for health care information technology that:
   - Includes the HHS activities and milestones
   - Includes other relevant clinical, technical, and public health efforts underway
     during the same period
   - Identifies critical dependencies to projects
5. Understand roles and responsibilities for the short-term (4 months) and long-term
    (1 and 2 years)
6. Leave with a high-level time-line, specific identification of roles and responsibilities,
    gaps, and resource requirements


a neutral environment
The VCBH Innovation Center creates a neutral, supportive environment where participants are encouraged to speak with candor and voice strong opinions without worry of possible repercussions. Keep this in mind as you read. As part of the event process, people are asked to model many conditions, some of which are extreme. Participants are asked to assume these are true as a brainstorming technique to gain insight. The documentation must be read whole. It must be realized that a period of investigation and analysis will be required prior to implementation of any ideas.

fiduciary responsibility
We all recognize that the participants and staff have a fiduciary responsibility to each other, their colleagues, their organizations, and their community, regarding the dissemination of the information in this website. This requires the highest possible standard of care to assure that context and completeness are transferred along with specific data and information. When you share this work with people who were not at the planning session, share with them the responsibility of not taking ideas out of context. Any non-participant using this website should assume this responsibility as well.

Vanderbilt Center for Better Health operates the Innovation Center facility under license from MG Taylor Corporation. The processes experienced at this event, as well as the design of the environment, are protected expressions of MG Taylor's intellectual property and can only be used with its expressed written consent. A number of terms, which are used during the event and are used throughout this website, are either trademarks of, or licensed to, MG Taylor and are protected under various state and federal laws: DESIGNSHOP, KNOWLEDGE WALL, GROUP GENIUS, NAVIGATION CENTER, NAVCENTER. Scan, Focus, Act is a copyright protected term of MetaSystems Design Group, which has been subsequently developed by MG Taylor Corporation. The Design Axioms, 'Spoze, Stages of an Enterprise, Design-Build-Use, Vantage Points, Business of Enterprise, and Best Case Worst Case are models of the MG Taylor Modeling Language, and are protected by copyrights, trademarks and patents issued to, or licensed by, MG Taylor Corporation. A complete description of these and all other protected terms, and the conditions of their use, can be found at www.iterations.com.


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