Speaker 1: But we would like to ask you all to speak up when we ask questions, okay? Thanks.

Speaker 2: Okay. Good morning. I had the very difficult task of trying to read your mind and decide how you are going to design the different categories between one through five. And what would we have to do to meet timelines to establish goals and identify resources, identify areas of legislative change, identify areas where we might need to enhance IT infrastructure within the agency.

And so on the outset or the finalization of our working group, we decided what we needed to hear fact from you all. What were your prime worries prior to actually making the timeline of implementation of the unique different swim lanes as we call them in our work group.

Joining me in the work group was Harry Spring, Cathy Coltzer from Florida Hospital Association and who am I missing? Jim Rocker was with us. But we looked at a provider-consumer relationships and quite differently from the report-out we've got from the team A. And based on that, how can we facilitate communications between AHCA and our other sister agencies on some of those theme issues that your groups discussed Dr. Orban and Jerome in relationship to how is AHCA going to be a facilitator.

The goals that we have established was working with DOH in a physician database. Maybe identify the number and assessibility to specialty positions. And how that relates to disease treatment in state retention and within the region. And our goal for you all was to pull this out or to accomplish this by 6-08. But what I would like encourage the group to do at this point in time is without understanding your design implementation when we try to put together a timeline.

I'm going to ask the groups to go back and prioritize within your design plan. What are some of those elements that you would like to see within the next six months, within the next year, within the next three years or within the next five years.

And when prioritizing, how are you going to roll out your design and in your particular plan. Things that you should consider or will help you consider. Are there additional resources that are going to be needed to accomplish your goal? If there are additional resources that are going to be needed, we need to be able to plug-in the timeline of our budgetary process as it relates to legislative process.

In some cases, in Bob's group with a number of data sources that you were referencing for AHCA to collect. We would, in some cases, require some statutory changes or some legislative changes. So billing it to the timeline, we were going to bill pass this up coming session to accomplish your goals by 2000 or 2012.

How would that implement the data collection process once we got the data? A time frame for the analytical process and then a publishing of what would be the goal or the deadline for actually publishing that type of information.

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Speaker 2: We talked in broad spectrums on pricing, quality for over and over again, on information about hospitals. We talked a little bit about information regarding physicians. What I'm not hearing from the group and from the long-term strategic planning process is that all we're going to limit our information to?

Do we want to look at information regarding ancillary services such as labs or radiological services? And if so, where does that fall into the design plans within your own group. And how do we collect that data without creating corruptions on the individual providers? Would it be helpful as AHCA as a facilitator to, for example, provide an EMR to all medicare providers to reduce the cost of collecting certain data in those private physician offices to facilitate public recording.

So those types of questions are my challenge to this group. And we're going to ask that you go back with these particular thoughts in mind on how you can refresh, refine, okay.

Speaker 3: We'll go on a more detailed introduction to what we want but...