Quality, Cost and Safety Committee
HIMSS Annual Call for Committee Applications opens January 2, 2012 through March 2, 2012.
Purpose:
The use of healthcare information and management systems, standards and interoperability are essential to patient safety. The HIMSS Quality, Cost Safety Committee guides HIMSS efforts for this initiative. The Committee provides direction concerning all HIMSS projects, policies and other matters related to the application of health information technology toward improving the safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of health and healthcare.
Patricia Johnson, MAT
Manager, Healthcare Information Systems
312-915-9264
pjohnson@himss.org
Jonathan French
Director, Healthcare Information Systems
Phone: 703-562-8822
jfrench@himss.org
Chair:
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chair
Chief Medical Information Officer
Texas Health Resources (THR)
Ferdinand Velasco
Maggie Lohnes, RN, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Vice Chair
Principal
MITRE Corporation
Committee Members
Anne Bobb, RPh
Director, Informatics Quality
Children's Memorial Hospital
Kathleen A. Catalano RN, JD, FHIMSS
Catalano and Finch Compliance Advisors
Cort Garrison, MD
CMIO
Salem Health
Karl F. Gumpper, RPh, BCPS, FASHP
Director, Section of Pharmacy Informatics & Technology
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists®
John Maese, MD, FHIMSS
President
Quality Physician Services
Ginny Meadows, RN
Exec Director. Program Office
McKesson
James Morrow, MD
Owner/Provider
Morrow Family Medicine
George Reynolds, MD, MMM
VP, CMIO, CIO
Children's Hospital & Medical Center
John Zaleski, PhD, CPHIMS
VP of Clinical Applications & amp, CTO
Nuvon, Inc
Task Forces
Clinical Decision Support
Medical Devices Patient Safety Task Force
National Quality Forum (NQF) Task Force
Work Groups
Stories of Success Work Group
Quality, Cost Safety Ad Hoc Public Policy and Advocacy
Quality 101 Work Group
Task Forces
Clinical Decision Support
Purpose:
Promote scalable, validated guidance for provider organizations on optimizing Clinical Decision Support (CDS) to drive measurable local performance improvement on targets of high local and national priority.
Chair Person:
Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, FACMI, FHIMSS
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Elsevier
Medical Devices Patient Safety Task Force
Chair Person:
Steve Grimes, FACCE, FAIMBE, FHIMSS, Chair
Chief Technology Officer
Linc Health
Work Groups
Stories of Success Work Group
Purpose:
Develop an HIT Roadmap for the industry, to support the goals of the NQF National Priorities Project and Joint Commission Safety Goals.
Lead:
Louis H. Diamond, M.B.Ch.B., F.A.C.P., F.C.P. (S.A.), FHIMSS
President
Quality Healthcare Consultants
Rockville, MD
Quality, Cost Safety Ad Hoc Public Policy and Advocacy
Purpose:
Representing all Quality, Cost Safety (QCS) stakeholders, this workgroup will support HIMSS in participating in public comment periods and other related activities focused around QCS content
Lead:
Maggie Lohnes, RN, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Principal
MITRE Corporation
Quality 101 Work Group
Purpose:
Publish tools on best practices in leveraging HIT to capture and report pricing and clinical outcomes data. The National Quality Hub will construct an inventory of organizations creating, endorsing, and implementing quality measures.
Lead:
Louis H. Diamond, M.B.Ch.B., F.A.C.P., F.C.P. (S.A.), FHIMSS
President
Quality Healthcare Consultants
Rockville, MD
