This post celebrates the ICD-10 PlayBook’s 1st birthday!
One year ago on May 25, 2011, we launched the ICD-10 PlayBook at the HIMSS G7 with the support and collaboration of the many participants, Medical Banking and Financial Systems Committee and ICD-10 Task Force. Our goal was to create relevant and impactful content stakeholders need for this sea of change in healthcare transformation. Continue reading
Please join @HIMSS for a very special Twitter Chat with the Honorable Aneesh Chopra (@AneeshChopra) next week. I am happy to announce Shahid N. Shah (@ShahidNShah) will moonlight as @HIMSS and moderate the #AskAneesh Twitter Chat on Wednesday, May 30, at 1 pm CT (2 pm ET). Continue reading
Last week, the HIMSS and mHIMSS Social Media Teams were offered the opportunity to moderate and guide the discussion during HL7 Standards’ weekly #HITsm chat. As usual, the chat as a whole was filled with great insights from a number of health IT leaders and influencers. The chat’s productivity was catalyzed early on with the first of five questions:
#HITsm T1: Who is the most powerful driver in the implementation of mobile health technologies? Clinicians? Patients? Providers?
— HL7 Standards (@HealthStandards) May 18, 2012
While the question was originally purposed around clinicians, patients, and providers, a number of #HITsm participants relished in several nuances of the question, including the aforementioned three in conjunction with Technology, Vendors, and a few all-encompassing responses.
One of the reasons I love my job is regular interaction with the smart, accomplished people who are truly dedicated to making the American healthcare system better—better for providers, for payers, and most importantly, for patients.
Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on Health IT as a Policy Change Agent with three people whose passion for positive change is truly infectious: former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James Peake, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, and ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy (and liaison to the HIMSS Board) Judy Murphy. Continue reading
What a week this has been! It’s wonderful to celebrate National Nurses Week – to enjoy conversations with the nurses in our nursing community, learning about their current activities and reading their blog posts. Continue reading
by Marianela ”Nelita” Zytkowski, DNP, MS, RN-BC
My older sister was my inspiration to go into nursing. She was my inspiration for most things growing up, as the younger sibling who wanted to be just like her, from the clothes she wore to the activities she joined. Continue reading
by Sally Schlak, RN, MBA
How did you decide to become a nurse? I always had an interest in science and the study of health. When I was in high school, I became a nurse’s aide, and I found the work extremely interesting. From there on, I never questioned what I wanted to do. I was one of those few students who go to college and never change their major! Continue reading
by Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, DPNAP
Why did you become a nurse? My immediate response when anyone asks me this question is “divine intervention.” I was in high school when I was called out of class one afternoon by a high school guidance counselor. He informed me that I fit the profile perfectly for a new nurse co-op aide program with a local hospital, and before he could say any more I exclaimed, “I don’t want to be a nurse!” He encouraged me to consider this unique opportunity and after discussing it over with my parents I decided to enroll in the program. Continue reading
The HIMSS13 Annual Conference & Exhibition Call for Proposals is a peer-reviewed process that is highly structured, rigorous and competitive: our volunteer reviewers look for those proposals that have the most promise of being an exceptional presentation at HIMSS13. Continue reading
by Kairsten Thies
I am a student nurse who is just about to graduate; my pinning ceremony is May 10, 2012. Nursing is a second career for me; I have a BS in computer science and worked in that profession before realizing it wasn’t right for me (don’t worry, NI community: my CS background is serving me very well as I enter the healthcare field). Continue reading
Cari McLean
Joyce Lofstrom, MS, APR
Adam Bazer
Carla M Smith, MA, CNM, FHIMSS
Christel Anderson
Dave Roberts
Thomas S. Keefe, MA, FHIMSS
JoAnn W. Klinedinst, CPHIMS, PMP, FHIMSS
Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, FAAN
Elinore Boeke
Mary Griskewicz MS, FHIMSS
H. Stephen Lieber, CAE
Lisa A. Gallagher, BSEE, CISM, CPHIMS
John Casillas
Juliet A. Santos, MSN, CCRN, FNP-BC
Tom Leary, MALA, FHIMSS
Karen Malone
Nancy Vitucci
Lauren Brown
David Collins, MHA, CPHQ, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
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Mary Beth Micucci
John. H. Daniels, FHIMSS, FACHE
John P Hoyt FHIMSS FACHE
Jennifer Horowitz
Richard M. Hodge, MBA, MPA
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Liz Anderson
Ed Larsen
Arnol Simmons
Helen Figge, RPh, PharmD, MBA
Amanda Griffith
James (Jim) St. Clair, CISM, PMP, SSGB
Shelley Price, MS, FHIMSS
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Michelle Glenn
Zahid Butt MD, FACG
Amy Thorpe, FHIMSS
Michael A. Gaspar
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Edna Boone, MA, CPHIMS Senior Director mHIMSS
