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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Greetings,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">TAO's Annual Meeting and Summit is just 2 months away. Have you registered? This year's Summit is packed full of great speakers for you to interact with and workshops with so much information for you to use. You can see an updated version of the preliminary program on the Summit webpage at <a href="http://www.ortelehealth.org/content/2018-summit">http://www.ortelehealth.org/content/2018-summit</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Let me tell you about one of the highlights of this year's Summit. Each year TAO has a Policy Forum on Friday morning. This year we have shaken it up a bit and we are very excited about the agenda. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_jdgbue560_1617c0c8b768afd0" width="89" height="124" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br>Leading off with our keynote is <b>Nate Lacktman. </b>Nate <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">is a partner and health care lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is the Chair of the firm’s Telemedicine Industry Team</span> and is a well known and respected national telehealth policy leader.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The policy plenary session will focus on the telecommunication issues that have come to light recently and could have a significant impact on telehealth. Issues like raising the cap on the Healthcare Connect Fund, FirstNet (the national first responders network), new technologies for delivering broadband to rural areas, Oregon's CyberSecurity Advisory Council, and much more. The panel that will lead us in this discussion are:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_1617c2404b2fbe6f" alt="Inline image 1" width="83" height="100" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The Honorable Pam Marsh, State Representative, District 5 (invited)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><img src="cid:ii_jdgczw8c2_1617c2a1714618a6" width="83" height="104" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Steve Noel, First Net Regional Lead supporting Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_jdgd8rnl3_1617c3069cda42ba" width="96" height="113" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br>Christopher Tamarin, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Telecommunications Strategist for the Oregon Business Development Department, "Business Oregon".</span>
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