CIO David Taylor

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State Government of Florida Information Technology Management and Policy:  Issues and Strategies

 A Francis Eppes Lecture

February 26, 2009 • 2:00 – 3:30, Louis Shores Building Auditorium 006

David W. Taylor

Executive Director of the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology, and State Chief Information Officer

Background

The information technology (IT) environment for the state government of Florida encompasses a broad array of equipment, resources, and services in which the overall success of state government is heavily dependent.  Increasingly state government IT provides not only the support infrastructure to operate government (Florida being the 4^th largest state in the nation), it also is the means by which government conducts its business and residents in Florida communicate with that government.  The budget for state government IT and its various infrastructures is significant and a range of management strategies and policies are in place to operate this IT environment and to prepare it for the future.  Additional background information about initiatives in Florida government IT and IT infrastructure can be found at:  http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/cabinet/aeit/.  This Eppes lecture is sponsored by the Information Institute at the College of Information and the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy.

Topics to be Discussed

• Overview and description of the current state government IT environment, management structure, and policy environment
• Role of IT in conducting government business and providing user services
• Current challenges facing state government IT
• The politics of IT planning, deployment, and management
• Role of user services in IT
• Strategies for meeting future IT needs in state government
• Audience question/answers

For Directions to the Eppes Lecture:  http://www.ii.fsu.edu/contact.cfm

Additional Information 

The College of Information will webcast the program with access instructions to be announced on the College’s webpage at http://www.ci.fsu.edu/. There will be a live simulcast of the presentation (access link at http://www.ci.fsu.edu/) and the presentation will be archived for future viewing. Contact Dr. Charles R. McClure, Francis Eppes Professor of Information Studies, and Director of the Information Institute cmcclure@lis.fsu.edu for additional information.

About the Speaker

David Taylor has been the State Chief Information Officer and Executive Director for the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology since July of 2008. He reports to the Governor and Cabinet members for the State of Florida.  

Mr. Taylor was previously the Chief Information Officer of the Florida Department of Health beginning in 2003.  This position entailed overall authority for IT services and management for a 17,000 employee organization with $2.5 billion budget.  The agency’s IT expenditures exceed $60 million per year. 

Through an interagency partnership, Mr. Taylor was appointed Enterprise Information Officer for the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) from March 2006 through December 2006.  He was responsible for overseeing all Enterprise Information Technology Services operations and providing strategic direction and technical oversight in the restructuring, focusing, and rebuilding of the DMS IT enterprise services. 

During 2006, Mr. Taylor was the Chairman of the State of Florida CIO Council. In fiscal year 2006-2007, he served as State of Florida representative to the National Association of State CIOs.  In 2005-2006 he was the Chairman of the National Association of Public Health Information Technology (NAPHIT).

Mr. Taylor holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts – Lowell.  He also holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Central Florida.

COLLOQUIUM – Project STEER: An Information Tool to Support Breast Cancer Care, Feb. 11

Dr. Mia Liza A. Lustria will present a research colloquium on Project STEER (see info below) on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 from 1:00-2:00 p.m., Room 2006, Shores Building, Florida State University Campus. A Web Simulcast will be available using RealPlayer on the Florida State University College of Information homepage (http://ci.fsu.edu).

Following the presentation a recording of the webcast will be available at http://ci.fsu.edu/Research/Archived_Colloquia/default.asp.

About Project STEER:

Participatory Design & Evaluation of STEER:  A Clinic-Based Tool to Help Health Providers Support Breast Cancer Care Needs in Rural Florida Principal Investigator(s):  Mia A. Lustria, Michele Kazmer, Ebrahim Randeree (FSU College of Information) with Robert Glueckauf and Curtis Stine (FSU College of Medicine)

Sponsor:  Florida Department of Health Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program
Dr. Mia A. Lustria received $348,510 of funding for three years to help healthcare providers support the breast cancer care needs of rural Floridians. The research project will create an automated reminder system called STEER (System for Tracking, Empowering, Equipping, and Reminding) to:

• send regular alerts to physicians to provide timely referrals in accordance with breast cancer screening guidelines;
• generate screening reminders that will include information and recommended actions tailored to patients’ specific needs or perceived barriers to cancer care;
• provide a tool to collect information from at risk patients and enable better tracking of patients throughout the cancer care continuum; and
• provide a tool to help monitor physician and patient adherence to breast cancer screening guidelines.

This system will be comprehensive and sustainable in rural settings, and will enhance our understanding of how to design health information technology systems. Underserved populations will have improved access and reduced disparities for delivery of effective treatment and preventive interventions.

Presented by: Mia A. Lustria

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