I have the opportunity to attend a few conferences each year. One of the conferences that I have been attending regularly is the annual joint meeting of NAPHSIS and NCHS. That is the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems and the National Center for Health Statistics. This year, the meetings were held in Baltimore Maryland and although attendance was down, the meetings were still very successful
This group of public servants are a unique and dedicated group. They are the leaders in advocating, creating, and maintaining comprehensive, high quality public health information systems that integrate vital records registration, public health statistics, and other health information. Most people would not know who they are or what they do. However, they have a direct impact on all of our lives. The most obvious impact is that they provide the birth and death certificates in all of the municipalities.
Over the years I have had the opportunity to work with this group as Gold Systems has built systems to support their efforts. Specifically, we have implemented systems in Montana, Washington, DC, Arizona and Wyoming. I am always amazed at how much great work these folks do with limited budgets and amidst the politics of each state. This is not easy work and it is accomplished under varied and unique situations. I applaud their dedicated efforts. We see and communicate with our clients regularly, but is nice to see the rest of the group at lease once a year and I look forward to the annual meetings.
This year, Gold Systems focused on introduction of the new service, LearningZen.com. For those that may not know, with LearningZen, we are creating a community of learning that allows anyone to study, educate or collaborate freely. The LearningZen community provides tools to create and manage course that facilitate certified learning across any topic. There are many learning management systems available; Angel, Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodle, Sakai, WebCT, just to name a few. However, many are expensive to acquire, many are expensive to maintain, and many are difficult to learn and manage. LearningZen is FREE and EASY.
The final meeting of the NAPHSIS meeting for us was a meeting with two states. The people from these two states came together to see a demonstration of LearningZen. Now you have to realize that my colleague and I are not professional sales people. We just love LearningZen and see great opportunity for those that adopt it within their organizatins. Within the first 5 minutes of a 20 minute demo, the group had already seen where this tool could be applied to save money, time and effort in helping their agencies meet their objectives. It was very gratifying.
Over the last three days, we visited, shared, evangelized, laughed and learned. I hope those that heard about LearningZen will now return home and test it; see if it really meets the bold claims that we have made.
Dennis Phillips, Ph.D.
This group of public servants are a unique and dedicated group. They are the leaders in advocating, creating, and maintaining comprehensive, high quality public health information systems that integrate vital records registration, public health statistics, and other health information. Most people would not know who they are or what they do. However, they have a direct impact on all of our lives. The most obvious impact is that they provide the birth and death certificates in all of the municipalities.
Over the years I have had the opportunity to work with this group as Gold Systems has built systems to support their efforts. Specifically, we have implemented systems in Montana, Washington, DC, Arizona and Wyoming. I am always amazed at how much great work these folks do with limited budgets and amidst the politics of each state. This is not easy work and it is accomplished under varied and unique situations. I applaud their dedicated efforts. We see and communicate with our clients regularly, but is nice to see the rest of the group at lease once a year and I look forward to the annual meetings.
This year, Gold Systems focused on introduction of the new service, LearningZen.com. For those that may not know, with LearningZen, we are creating a community of learning that allows anyone to study, educate or collaborate freely. The LearningZen community provides tools to create and manage course that facilitate certified learning across any topic. There are many learning management systems available; Angel, Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodle, Sakai, WebCT, just to name a few. However, many are expensive to acquire, many are expensive to maintain, and many are difficult to learn and manage. LearningZen is FREE and EASY.The final meeting of the NAPHSIS meeting for us was a meeting with two states. The people from these two states came together to see a demonstration of LearningZen. Now you have to realize that my colleague and I are not professional sales people. We just love LearningZen and see great opportunity for those that adopt it within their organizatins. Within the first 5 minutes of a 20 minute demo, the group had already seen where this tool could be applied to save money, time and effort in helping their agencies meet their objectives. It was very gratifying.
Over the last three days, we visited, shared, evangelized, laughed and learned. I hope those that heard about LearningZen will now return home and test it; see if it really meets the bold claims that we have made.
Dennis Phillips, Ph.D.
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