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HIMSS Honors Nursing and Physician Leaders with Award
Patricia C. Dykes, RN received the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award and Peter Basch, MD received the HIMSS Physician IT Leadership Award
ORLANDO (Feb. 24, 2008) – Recognizing the contributions of nurses and physicians to the implementation of health information technology, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society honors two clinician leaders with its annual volunteer awards. The recipients will be honored at the annual HIMSS Awards and Recognition Banquet on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando, Fla.
Patricia C. Dykes, DNSc., MA, RN received the Nursing Informatics Leadership Award, which is presented to one individual who, in the judgment of the HIMSS Board of Directors, has demonstrated significant leadership in the area of nursing informatics within the Society and the industry. Dr. Dykes is Senior Nurse Informatician with the Clinical Informatics Research & Development group at Partners HealthCare where she works as consultant for acute care documentation and conducts informatics & patient safety research.
She greatly contributed to the formation of the HIMSS nursing informatics community with the establishment of the Nursing Informatics Task Force in 2004. She served as chairperson of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Task Force from 2004-2006 and with the formation of the Nursing Informatics Committee in 2006, served as the first chairperson (2006-2007).
She has led several HIMSS nursing informatics initiatives and served in several collaborating initiatives on behalf of the HIMSS nursing informatics community. These include serving as a Governing Director of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) from 2005 to 2007 and recently completed serving as co-chair of the nursing track for the AMIA 2007 Spring Congress.
She has also widely presented and published her work on nursing documentation, integration of guideline knowledge into workflow, survey development and is author of several books on interdisciplinary clinical pathways.
“This award recognizes the valuable role nurses’ play in our efforts to improve healthcare through IT,” said Victoria M. Bradley, RN, DNP, FHIMSS, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer for Eclipsys Corporation, and recipient of the first Nursing Informatics Leadership Award in 2004. “I’m delighted that she has received this much- deserved honor. Patti epitomizes the position of the dedicated expert nurse informaticist. She leads, mentors and motivates, which has led to new discoveries in the field of nursing informatics.”
Peter Basch, MD, received the HIMSS Physician IT Leadership Awardthat honors an individual who, in the judgment of the Board of Directors, has demonstrated significant leadership in the area of applying information technology (IT) to the needs of physicians, serving the Society and/or the industry.
Dr. Basch practices general internal medicine in Washington, DC, and is the Medical Director for Ambulatory Clinical Systems at MedStar Health, a seven-hospital, not-for-profit health system in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, where he is providing the clinical leadership for the system’s ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) implementation. He is a frequent speaker, author and expert panelist on topics such as, electronic medical records (EMRs), interconnectivity, the transformation of healthcare through health IT, and the necessity of creating a sustainable business case for information management and quality
He is currently chairman of the Maryland Task Force on EHRs and co-chair of the Physicians’ EHR Coalition. He is a board member of the eHealth Initiative. He is a member of the American College of Physicians’ Medical Informatics Subcommittee and Medical Services Committee. Dr. Basch also serves on the Advisory Committees to the DOQ-IT Projects for both DC and Maryland, and on the Confidentiality, Security, and Privacy Workgroup of the American Health Information Community.
"ACP is extremely pleased that Dr. Basch is receiving this esteemed recognition from HIMSS,” said Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP, vice president, practice advocacy and improvement division of governmental affairs & public policy, American College of Physicians. “Peter is an active volunteer member of two ACP committees, and his perspectives are highly valued. HIMSS' selection of Peter as physician of the year is a wonderful acknowledgment of his ongoing contributions to health care and information technology advancement."
Both Dr. Dykes and Dr. Basch will be honored at the annual HIMSS Awards and Recognition Banquet on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando, Fla.
Visit http://www.himss.org/asp/awardshome.asp for more information on the HIMSS Awards program.
