Mark your calendars for January 16 & 17, 2019!

Come and join fellow healthcare technology professionals as we advocate to create safer and more efficient healthcare systems through the use of technology. We'll kick off Texas Health IT Day activities on Wednesday evening at the iconic Stephen F. Austin Hotel with a networking social and training. Thursday will include morning visits with Texas legislators and their staff where we will ntroduce, educate, and discuss important topics. In the afternoon, we will hear from keynote speakers and will wrap up with panel presentations on key Texas issues.

Join us and participate in talks, walks, calls and planning that include everything from meetings with our legislators to helping with programs and social outreach. We look forward to having you and your colleagues join us for a productive day in our state's capitol. As a HIT Professional and Texas citizen, your role in Advocacy will be to educate and advocate for critical important issues. You will not be representing your organization that you are employed, you will be representing HIT Professional across Texas through your Texas HIMSS Chapter.

Topics of critical importance to Texans include:

• Interoperability
• Opioid Crisis
• Virtual Health

Please contact your Texas Chapter Advocacy Leader to learn more and to join our growing group of Advocacy committee members and HIT Day volunteers across Texas.

Austin Advocacy Chair: Sarah Churchill Llamas (sllamas@winstead.com )

DFW VP of Advocacy: A. Lee Lavergne (dfw.advocacy@himsschapter.org )

Houston Advocacy: Joseph Kunisch (Joseph.Kunisch@memorialhermann.org )