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Get on Track at HIMSS Summit 07

HIMSS Summit 07 is one of the most important healthcare IT events of the year. Join HIMSS and hundreds of your peers June 25 and 26, in San Diego, for two days of high-quality education sessions, solutions-based vendor interaction and insightful peer-to-peer networking opportunities. HIMSS Summit 07 is a tremendous opportunity to gain relevant knowledge you can use everyday. Take advantage of the unique and interactive education tracks HIMSS Summit 07 has to offer, including:

Governance Structure. Framed in the context of the C-Suite perspective, this track focuses on the future of healthcare IT from strategy to practice.

Leadership Skills. This track focuses on management methods and skills needed to direct process, workflow improvement and clinical adoption.

Technology. Achieving operational business goals and improving clinical processes through the effective integration of healthcare technology.

EHR. Exploring business decisions that drive EHR adoption and implementation, from e-prescribing and data management to the automation of clinical workflow, this track will examine the impact of EHR on the healthcare IT industry.

In addition, our vendor sessions allow you to connect with the most exciting solutions available today and the leading companies that deliver them. Vendors will conduct their own sessions so you have a close-up demonstration of tools and services that your organization needs the most.

HIMSS Summit 07 is a tremendous opportunity to gain the relevant knowledge you can use everyday. Click here to register.

ONC Releases NHIN Trial Implementation RFP

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released the Request for Proposal (RFP) for Trial Implementations as phase II of the development of the Nationwide Health Information Network. First reported in December 2006, ONC is building on the lessons learned from the four NHIN Prototype Architectures that have been underway since October 2005. The RFP requires the proposal lead to be a Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), state, or other qualifying organizations. Proposals must be submitted by July 9, 2007, and must include the following functions:

• Incorporates the core services identified in the NHIN Prototyes.
• Implements summary patient record exchange outlined in the American Health Information Community Emergency Responder EHR Use Case.
• Addresses two of the existing breakthrough use cases.

For additional information, HIMSS members should contact Tom Leary, HIMSS Director of Federal Affairs.

HITSP Announces Comment Period on RDSS Documents

The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), a multi-stakeholder group facilitating the development of interoperable healthcare data standards for the United States, has announced the opening of a four-week comment period for two Requirements, Design and Standards Selection (RDSS) documents. Once reviewed, these documents will form the basis of the panel's second set of Interoperability Specifications to be delivered to the American Health Information Community (AHIC) later this year.
The following RDSS documents are available via the HITSP Web site for public review and comment through June 14, 2007:

• HITSP Requirements Design and Standards Selection: Security and Privacy Capabilities for the Version 2.0 Biosurveillance, EHR-Lab and Consumer Empowerment Use Cases

• HITSP Requirements Design and Standards Selection: Emergency Responder Electronic Health Record (ER-EHR) Use Case

HITSP members and public stakeholders alike are encouraged to review the RDSS documents and to register for the HITSP automated tracking system to record comments. All submissions will be assigned to the appropriate HITSP Technical Committee for action.

The HITSP delivered its first set of Interoperability Specifications to AHIC in October 2006 in the areas of electronic health records, biosurveillance, and consumer empowerment. The Interoperability Specifications provide detailed implementation guidance for standards that satisfy the requirements for data exchange across a shared, health information network. The panel’s recommendations will facilitate the secure exchange of patient data which is consistent with President George W. Bush’s call for the widespread availability of electronic health records by 2014.

 

Tools & Resources

Presentation on HIT Contracting

At a recent meeting of the HIMSS Enterprise Integration Task Force, task force member Brent Friedman, Esq., provided an educational update entitled “Top 10 Strategic Mistakes That Hospitals Make in HIT Contracting and How to Avoid Them.” When entering into HIT contracts, he spoke about the importance of obtaining the required approvals before signing a contact and the importance of forming a Contracting Team to review all aspects of the contract before signing. Further insights are offered on defining a strategy as well as using a term sheet.  Click here to view the entire presentation.

HIMSS White Paper on Emergency Response Now Available

The HIMSS HIT First Responder Work Group has published a white paper to educate and inform HIMSS members regarding the issues surrounding the use of HIT in emergency response. In addition to the staggering increase in volume of health data, there are increasing demands for access to and analysis of health data outside of clinical settings, specifically during small- and large-scale emergencies. Access to data is a critical factor in the provision of care and analysis of condition. The need to deploy and analyze information is readily apparent. Availability of information in an emergency setting helps ensure the success of efforts to provide care to victims who may be unconscious or immobilized, or to patients with pre-existing medical conditions. For more information, contact David Collins.

New Web Tool Provides Samples of Health Care Quality Report Cards

With rising interest in information about the quality of care delivered by healthcare providers, AHRQ has developed a new Web tool demonstrating a variety of approaches for health quality report cards. The new Health Care Report Card Compendium is a searchable directory of more than 200 samples of report cards produced by a variety of organizations. The samples show formats and approaches for providing comparative information on the quality of health plans, hospitals, medical groups, individual physicians, nursing homes, and other providers of care. The purpose of the AHRQ Report Card Compendium is to inform and support the various organizations that develop health care quality reports, to provide easy access to examples of different approaches to content and presentation, and to meet the needs of health services researchers. It also provides related Web sites and sample pages where available. Read our press release and select the Health Care Report Card Compendium.

Clinical Perspectives on Enterprise Information Technology

The latest from the Enterprise IS Steering Committee is a white paper entitled “Clinical Perspectives on Enterprise Information Technology.” The paper focuses on enterprise-level information systems, with particular attention on the clinical sphere of interests.  The definition of an EIS is explored, in addition to how an EIS is used, a review of the needs that drive organizations to adopt an EIS, and examination of the possible barriers that might prevent adoption. Click here to read the paper.

Presentation on IT Implementation Available Online

At a recent educational update to the Management Engineering and Process Improvement Task Force, Mr. John Hansmann, MSIE, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, DSHS, Region Manager, Management Engineering, Intermountain Healthcare and member of the HIMSS Board of Directors, gave a presentation on “IT Implementation and Operations Improvement: Where Will We Get the Resources?” Topics discussed included the national focus on healthcare information technology goals, typical resources needed in HIT, and the future predictions on the impact to the workforce. View the slides here.

HIMSS Summit 07 Exclusive

Anna Slomovic
Chief Privacy Officer
Revolution Health Group LLC

 

When AOL co-founder Steve Case created Revolution Health Group, he had in mind an ambitious mission to transform healthcare by putting patients at the heart of the healthcare system with better choices, more convenience and more control.

To deliver on that promise, Revolution Health has created for patients and employers a number of Web- and telephone-based services. A cornerstone of Revolution Health Group is RevolutionHealth.com, the free consumer health and medical website that marries expert content with the power of social networking. Telephonic services give consumers access to experts who can help find answers to health questions, help resolve claims issues, and assist with appointment scheduling. Certainly, privacy, security and trust are paramount to the success of all these programs. That’s where Anna Slomovic comes in. As the organization’s first chief privacy officer, her primary responsibility is to ensure that consumers are able to exercise control over the information they choose to share or disclose with Revolution Health, the health communityor the healthcare system.

“It’s my job to help all of our internal groups—our product groups, our technology groups—understand individual’s privacy choices and build products that embody those choices,” she explains. “It is also my mission to make sure everyone understands the need to be sensible and sensitive with personal information and to use that information responsibly.”

Ms. Slomovic will be addressing the issue of privacy at HIMSS Summit 07, on June 26, in San Diego. We asked her a few questions about her presentation; the role of privacy in Revolution Health’s mission; and the new privacy challenges patients, providers and organizations face as information technology advances.

HIMSS: Privacy is your topic at HIMSS Summit 07. Can you give us a peek at the trends and challenges you’ll be discussing?

Ms. Slomovic: There is real concern by individuals about who has access to their health information and how their health information is used. This kind of concern is not helped by the fact that there has been a fair amount of publicity—a lot of which is not all that great—about HIPAA and HIPAA compliance and about data breaches in all kinds of organizations. All this makes people nervous. If privacy is implemented well, if it’s built into new technologies and new systems, there’s a tremendous amount of promise that these new technologies and systems bring to healthcare and to each of us as individuals. It’s very important to address privacy issues from the start, so we can reap these promises.

HIMSS: Revolution Health Group considers itself a “consumer-centric” organization. What are some of the primary ways your group is working to give patients more control over the kind of care they receive?

Ms. Slomovic: There are three ways in which we are pursuing our mission. The first is creating better-informed consumers. We have a public portal at wwww.revolutionhealth.com with a vast amount of content from various organizations. The site features a large number of tools that allow people to apply current medical information to their own particular situation.

We also are taking advantage of new technologies—generally referred to as Web 2.0—to give an opportunity for consumers to interact with and learn from each other. We have communities that provide mutual support and allow consumers to learn from other people with similar experiences. We have tools that let people to rate their doctors, so they, as consumers, have yet another way of sharing experiences with others.

The second way is providing off-line services that help consumers navigate the healthcare system. Those are paid services that consumers can access over the telephone. We have folks who have experience with health coaching so consumers can get help understanding what their doctor actually said to them. These services also provide help with understanding why a claim was or was not paid, and help with finding the right doctor and scheduling an appointment.

The third way we are pursuing our mission is by providing a place for people to keep their health data in one place. We are creating an evolving set of tools that will allow consumers to take action on the basis of the information they are storing.

By the way, by creating better informed patients, we are also creating a benefit for providers. Because providers are such an important part of what we do, we have just launched a pilot program called Physician Health Pages, in which physicians are able not only to create profiles that tell patients about their practices, they can select health-related content for their patients to read. This way, patients come in with the right information instead of 300 pages of printout from the Internet that a provider doesn’t have time to look at and doesn’t know whether the information is good, bad or indifferent. Physician Health Pages are a place where physicians can send their patients for trustworthy information outside of the examining room. Physicians understand that they need to provide their patients with an “information prescription;” and that they need better-informed patients to make treatment more effective.

HIMSS: You are the first Chief Privacy Officer for Revolution Health Group. What can you tell us about your role in the organization?

Ms. Slomovic: Steve Case has talked about giving consumers control, convenience and choice. People have different comfort levels when it comes to sharing information. What we are trying to build is a service that includes the choices and the control people need to meet their own comfort level. For example, consumers can choose how much information they disclose to us, and then they can set controls around that information regarding what can be disclosed to other people. It’s my job to help all of our internal groups—our product groups, our technology groups—understand individual’s privacy choices and build products that embody those choices. It is also my mission to make sure everyone understands the need to be sensible and sensitive with personal information and to use that information responsibly.

HIMSS: What are some of the most pressing challenges you face with new technologies, such as biometrics, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices and data mining?

Ms. Slomovic: New technologies like RFID and new analytics technologies like data mining make people nervous about their ability to maintain a shield around sensitive information. The question is: if everything is in an electronic database, am I still going to be able to control what others know about me? We collect, store and analyze data that can go back years, and there is a concern that patients may not be able to leave the past behind. Will something that happened years ago show up in every record because it is part of this giant database? New information technologies can be spectacularly useful in healthcare, but we need to build privacy protection into the way we use them.

HIMSS: What do you hope attendees take with them from their experience at HIMSS Summit 07?

Ms. Slomovic: We have a great opportunity ahead of us to take advantage of advancements in technology, but we have to address some very complex trust issues. The more we can get patients to trust the system, the more we can take advantage of the opportunities offered by these technologies.

Meet Our Members

David M. Cheli
CIO
Gateway EDI Inc.

David M. Cheli is CIO for Gateway EDI Inc., a healthcare clearinghouse that provides e-commerce services to more than 30,000 physicians nationally. In his role, he is responsible for systems development, computer networking and operations, and payor integration. Since joining Gateway EDI in 2003, Mr. Cheli has led the company through a major system upgrade and the efforts for it to achieve EHNAC accreditation.

Mr. Cheli has more than 14 years of healthcare IT industry experience, and his primarily areas of expertise include healthcare electronic data interchange, HIPAA, project management and software development. Prior to joining Gateway EDI, Mr. Cheli served as director of IT at WellPoint Health Networks, a large national insurer, and served in various IT management roles at other healthcare technology firms.

Mr. Cheli joined HIMSS through the Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions transition in 2006. As a member of the AFEHCT Advisory Council, he accepted the position as chair of the HIMSS AFEHCT Education Work Group. He said, “It was an honor being asked to chair this work group. Being able to work with such a high-caliber group of people has been very valuable in increasing my understanding of the issues that concern us most and opening my eyes to new perspectives.”

During this short time, Mr. Cheli has led the work group through many deliverables and activities to promote business information systems content within the HIMSS community. Specifically, he has led the charge to add content and improvements to the HIMSS Financial Systems section online, including:

• Guide to Vendor Assisted NPI Solutions, a guide for selecting a NPI vendor solution.
• Are You Ready for the UB–04?, a Q&A document on the UB-04.
• HIPAA: Implementing X12 Version 5010, a presentation highlighting the expected benefits and major changes from Version 4010A1.

Several more HIMSS AFEHCT Education Work Group deliverables are anticipated for completion by the end of the fiscal year.

“We are following up with the NPI Solutions document with a NPI matrix that shows NPI capabilities of various vendors as to allow people to evaluate the commercially available NPI solutions,” Mr. Cheli explained. “We are also working on developing a Standards Tracker, much like HIMSS’ State Legislative Tracker II.

“Additionally, we are working on ways of educating the industry on the capabilities of clearinghouses and the value they can bring to various industry initiatives such as the formation of RHIOs, NHIN and exchanging clinical data,” he said. “Clearinghouses have been around for a long time and have extensive infrastructures that can be leveraged to move all types of data: clinical, administrative and financial.”

Furthermore, Mr. Cheli identified much of the program content and speakers around business information systems programs for the HIMSS07 Annual Conference and Exhibition including the Claims Attachment Work Group, the NHIN and RHIOs: How HIPAA Can Help roundtable and a lecture on HIPAA transactions, version 5010.

He currently serves on the HIMSS Midwest Gateway Chapter Board of Directors and will assume the role of president beginning July 1, 2007. He also serves on various committees for the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission.

Prior to his extensive involvement in healthcare IT, Mr. Cheli was a freelance jazz musician and instructor. He obtained a bachelor degree from Webster University in jazz saxophone and has been part of numerous musical activities throughout his life. Currently he performs locally, in St. Louis, in both duo and trio settings with his sons.

Did You Know

In 1998, HIMSS became a member of the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), formerly the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration (ACEHSA). The organization fosters high-quality professional education for health services administration, which includes healthcare administration, health services management, hospital or other healthcare organization-specific administration and management, health planning and evaluation, health policy and other related activities.

Calling All Members

Abstracts Wanted: Winter 2008 JHIM—“The Electronic Health Record”

The Journal of Healthcare Information Management (JHIM), the quarterly, peer-reviewed publication of HIMSS is accepting abstracts for the Winter 2008 issue—“The Electronic Health Record: Uses, Approaches and Challenges and the Potential for ROI Related to the EHR’s Impact on Revenue Cycle Management Functions.” The deadline for abstracts is July 16, 2007.

Article proposals must include a 150-word to 200-word abstract and complete contact information for all potential authors. Electronic submissions are preferred and should be sent to mschlossberg@himss.org. Download a PDF of our submission guidelines, or visit JHIM on the HIMSS Web site for more information. Deadline for Abstracts: July 16, 2007.

HIMSS Accepting Nominations for Board and Nominating Committee Positions

Nominations are now being accepted for positions on the HIMSS Board of Directors and on the Nominating Committee. Nominees must be a Regular or Life Member or the senior executive representative of an Organizational Member who has achieved Senior or Fellow status. Please send all nominations to: H. Stephen Lieber, President/CEO, HIMSS, 230 East Ohio Street, Ste. 500, Chicago, IL 60611-3270. executive@himss.org. Nominations must be received by Aug. 1.

Your Skills and Talents Are Our Missing Link

The purpose of the HIMSS Linking Health Information Task Force is to develop a HIMSS-sponsored process, policy and technology roadmap that serves to establish the national framework to uniquely link patients to their health information under the current and future state of the U.S. healthcare system. In response to this purpose, the Task Force has recently delivered the Linking Health Information Principles that objectively discuss and evaluate the decisions affecting these issues. Our next steps include operationalizing the principles roadmap and identifying at least two venues to educate and update others on the research conducted with the LHI principles roadmap. We need your help to do so. We anticipate a time commitment of four hours per month (one-hour task force meeting and three hours of work) is needed to deliver this important work to our industry. If interested, please contact JoAnn W. Klinedinst, CPHIMS, PMP, FHIMSS.

Calling for JHIM Peer Reviewers

The Journal for Healthcare Information Management, the quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of HIMSS, is looking for peer reviewers. Each article in JHIM is evaluated by peer reviewers, who are selected based on their knowledge and experience within a particular topic in healthcare information technology. Such peer review enhances the status of the Journal, further improves the editorial quality, and ensures that the Journal is an authoritative source to HIMSS members, the public and the media. HIMSS encourages healthcare IT professionals to apply to become a peer reviewer for JHIM. Those with questions about the Journal’s peer review process can contact Matt Schlossberg, HIMSS Senior Editor, at 312-915-9282. Download an application here.

Go Global—Join the HIMSS Global Enterprise Task Force

The Global Enterprise Task Force is welcoming participants to its task force who have knowledge of and, preferably, experience with the design, implementation, maintenance and/or support of electronic health record (EHR) systems outside of the United States.  Specific areas of knowledge are needed for the Middle East, South Africa, Denmark, India, Malaysia, Greece and Italy. For questions, please contact JoAnn W. Klinedinst, CPHIMS, PMP, FHIMSS Director of Healthcare Information Systems.

Call for Participation – HITSP Technical Committees

The success of HITSP is dependent upon volunteer experts and we welcome and encourage HITSP members to contribute to the HITSP standards harmonization effort. There are 290 individuals participating in Technical Committees (TC), as well as three co-chairs for each TC. Please consider volunteering and actively participating in one or more of the following HITSP TCs:

• Care Delivery. (Medication management and ER-EHR Use Cases.)
• Consumer Empowerment. (Consumer access to clinical information Use Case.)
• Population Health. (Quality Use Case)
• Security and Privacy. (Security and privacy issues for all Use Cases)

Committee participation requires that your organization is a member of HITSP and your area of expertise is in any of the following areas:

• Subject matter expertise in any of the Use Case domains.
• Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) systems.
• HIT standard development and implementation.
• Healthcare providers/clinicians/informaticists.
• Healthcare Information Technology vendors/suppliers.

If you would like to volunteer for a HITSP Technical Committee please contact Jessica Kant, Standards Harmonization Coordinator. For further information or to see the Detailed Draft Use Cases, visit www.hitsp.org.

Join the Ambulatory Committee's Public Comment Task Force

The HIMSS Ambulatory Committee would like to invite interested volunteers to join and participate on the Ambulatory Committee's Public Comment Task Force. This Task Force will be focusing on ensuring that HIMSS provides public comment on those regulatory and industry public comment periods that impact the Ambulatory space. The Task Force will begin meeting in the summer to ensure HIMSS members are prepared to comment on CCHIT EHR Ambulatory Certification and other appropriate public comment periods. Please communicate your interest in participation to Mary Griskewicz, HIMSS Director of Ambulatory Information Systems.

Save the Date

June 19—11 a.m. (CST)
Free Webinar—RHIOs: No Physician Left Behind
According to a survey by Health Affairs, only 28 percent of U.S. primary care physicians utilize EHRs. How do we continue to advance without leaving paper-based physicians and facilities behind? Learn how the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange uses a federated system that includes an enterprise master person index, a record locator service, and an enterprise Internet portal to provide secure access to an integrated patient record. The use of a solution, encompassing document management and imaging enables all participants, especially members with predominantly paper-based records, to participate. This free, 60-minute Webinar is sponsored by the Connecting Communities Regional Forum, and qualifies for 1.2 contacts hours toward recertification of the CPHIMS credential. To register, click here.
  
June 19—1 p.m. (CST)
Federated Identity Management
Appropriately accessing restricted information resources and securely sharing confidential information among “known” entities is critical to all enterprises conducting business in cyberspace. This is particularly true for healthcare. Today, most organizations and communities of interest recognize that identity management (IdM) systems and their associated policies and procedures are a necessity. However, nearly all IdM projects currently utilize policies and procedures that are applicable only to a single institution or community of interest and hence do not facilitate easy, appropriate sharing of restricted resources across organizational boundaries—an absolute, real-world necessity. This 60-minute Webinar will summarize core IdM concepts and components, and consider what is required to develop federated identity management infrastructures. This activity qualifies for 1.2 contacts hours toward. Register for the Webinar here.

June 21—1 p.m. (CST)
Free Webinar—Leveraging Healthcare Communication Technology to Improve Patient Safety
Meda Newell, Healthcare & Life Sciences Segment Executive, IBM Corp., and Pat Carroll, Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s COO, will review current communication challenges in the healthcare environment. Christine Gamlen, RN, MSN, Vocera Communications, will discuss the impact of wireless, mobile technology on patient safety. Ms. Gamlen will describe several case studies where Vocera’s instant peer-to-peer voice communication has positively impacted patient safety. This free, 60-minute Webinar is co-sponsored by IBM Integrated Solutions, and qualifies for 1.2 contacts hours toward recertification of the CPHIMS credential. To register, click here.

June 22—12 p.m. (CST)
Webcast: Microsoft and the Reality of Mission Critical Systems: Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Security
John Gomez, CTO/EVP of Eclipsys Corp., will present a spirited discussion on the development of mission critical applications using Microsoft platforms and tools. PSRS, a framework which focuses on performance, scalability, reliability and security, is a key paradigm in the design of mission critical systems. During this session you will learn the key considerations to take in assuring your systems can meet the objectives of this framework and how to best take advantage of Microsoft technology to achieve those goals.
*Please note the time on the opening email is incorrect - 12pm (CST) is the correct time.

June 25 & 26
HIMSS Summit 07
HIMSS Summit 07 is one of the most important healthcare IT events of the year. Join HIMSS and hundreds of your peers June 25 and 26, in San Diego, for two days of high-quality education sessions, solutions-based vendor interaction and insightful peer-to-peer networking opportunities. HIMSS Summit 07 is a tremendous opportunity to gain relevant knowledge you can use everyday. Take advantage of the unique and interactive education tracks HIMSS Summit 07 has to offer.

June 26
HIMSS EMEA eSeminar—How Can ICT Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Care?
HIMSS in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will sponsor an eSeminar, which will address the need for a comprehensive strategy in the area of patient safety that includes human, cultural and organizational factors. This event will suggest that implementation should take account of interoperability, certification and accreditation processes, as well as a comprehensive policy on R&D. Other topics to be touched on include Computerized Physician Order Entry and Decision Support Systems, and the need to integrate them both with alerting systems. HIMSS EMEA eSeminars are online seminars in which healthcare professionals are able to send and receive information as well as discuss issues with a global audience. The seminar will take place June 26 at 3:00 p.m. (Central European Summer Time). To register, click here. For more information on eEducation, click here.

June 26—11 a.m. (CST)
Join the Management Engineering/Process Improvement Task Force for a free, one-hour Webinar “Strategies for Managing Financial and Supply Chain Solutions.” Hosted by Chris Williams, ERP Systems Director, PMP for Harris County Hospital District, learn how the hospital moved from a multi-mainframe system solution to one with PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain. The hospital enhanced revenue by reducing the number of days from a 120-day Procure-to-Pay process to a 37-day Procure-to-Pay process, they reduced accruals by $14 million, and they implemented a same day stockless program, thus eliminating $2 million in Central Supply on-site inventory. For more information please e-mail rachel.copp@oracle.com

June 26—11 a.m (CST)
Free Webinar—Health Information Exchange: The Delaware Experience
The Delaware Health Information Network has successfully implemented a statewide health information exchange. The presentation will provide an overview of Delaware's path to system implementation as well as the plan for expanding the network and developing a sustainable business plan. This free, 60-minute Webinar is co-sponsored by Connecting Communities Regional Forum, and qualifies for 1.2 contacts hours toward recertification of the CPHIMS credential. To register, click here.

June 27—1 p.m. (CST)
NI Quarterly Webinar—Using IT to Support Evidence-Based Nursing Practice at the Point of Care
This presentation will describe a methodology for identification of evidence-based nursing content, the translation of this content into an electronic health record using automated knowledge management tools and the concomitant evaluation of outcomes. The Webinar costs $75 for HIMSS members and members of ANI organizations, and $125 for non-members. Attendees can qualify for 1.2 contacts hours toward recertification of the CPHIMS credential; one hour of pre-approved Category II (non-ACHE) continuing education credit for this program toward advancement; recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives; or 1.2 contact hours of continuing nursing education. To register, click here.

Aug. 21-22
MS-HUG Tech Forum 2007
The MS-HUG Tech Forum 2007 offers attendees an inside glimpse of Microsoft, with a behind-the-scenes look at Microsoft Corp., in Redmond, Wash., and insight into up-and-coming Microsoft healthcare technologies. The experts behind Microsoft's product development will demonstrate the latest development tools, resources and solutions for building next generation applications. The two-day conference will feature networking, examples of healthcare IT best practices and educational sessions focused on Microsoft's IT solutions for the healthcare industry. Check here for more information about MS-HUG Tech Forum 2007 as it becomes available.

Chapter Calendar

Arizona Chapter
Clinical IT Solution
June 22

Join the Arizona Chapter to see what is up and coming in the clinical environment and IT! Click here for registration information.

Visit the HIMSS Chapter Calendar on the HIMSS Web site to find the Chapter meeting in your area.