HIMSS Honors Award Recipients For Health IT Contributions
Recognizing the exemplary contributions and leadership of HIMSS members in moving forward the adoption of interoperable electronic health records, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has announced the recipients of its 2009 Awards program. The HIMSS Foundation and three HIMSS chapters also provided seven individual annual college scholarships to students enrolled in health IT and management systems university degree programs.
"Each year, we see significant and innovative efforts to improve the delivery of healthcare with information technology from our HIMSS award recipients, who are nominated in the four award categories of industry service, HIMSS service, publications and chapters," said Erica Pantuso, CAE, HIMSS Vice President, Member Services. "All of us at HIMSS congratulate these individuals for sharing their valuable expertise and example with the Society and the entire industry."
All award and scholarship honorees will be recognized at the HIMSS Awards Banquet on March 2, at the Omni Hotel at the CNN Center during the 2010 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition. Tickets for the dinner are available for purchase on the HIMSS10 Web site.
Following is a list of the 2009 HIMSS Scholarship and Award recipients. A description of each award and scholarship, and the respective selection process, appears on the HIMSS Web site.
Scholarships - HIMSS Foundation Supported
Undergraduate
Meha Goyal
Master's
Michael Hoaglin
PhD
Catherine Ivory, RNC, MSN
Richard P. Covert, PhD, FHIMSS, Management Engineering
Kezban Yagci, MPH
Chapter Supported
New England HIMSS Dvora Brodie
Maryam El Kherba
The New York Chapter Scholarships
Samuel Espino, MBA, PMP
Lindsay Speros
The HIMSS Northern California Chapter
Lynn Bar
Publication Award - Book of the Year
Improving Medication Use & Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-step Guide
Editor: Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI; Chief Clinical Information Officer, Thomson Reuters, Cherry Hill, NJ
Service Awards
Distinguished Fellows Service Award
Cindy McKinney, MBA, FHIMSS
Senior Managing Consultant; IBM; Kansas City, Mo.
Chapter Leader of the Year
Duke Rohe, BS, FHIMSS
Performance Improvement Specialist; The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Houston, Texas
Chapter Innovations Award - Grand Prize
HIMSS Arizona Chapter
HIMSS Northern California Chapter
Life Members
Leroy Baker, CPHIMS, LFHIMSS; Mazomanie, Wis.
Michael Kusmin, MBA, CPHIMS, LFHIMSS; Westwood, Mass.
Harvey Z. Roth, CPHIMS, LFHIMSS; Orinda, Calif.
Board of Directors Service Award
Charles Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS
Director of Information Systems and CIO; Good Samaritan Hospital; Vincennes, Ind.
Jay Srini, FHIMSS
Chief Innovation Officer; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Pittsburgh, Penn.
Sunny Sanyal
President, McKesson Corporation; Alpharetta, Ga.
John Blair III, MD
President; Taconic IPA, Inc.; Fishkill, NY
John A. Page Outstanding Service Award
Helen Hill, FHIMSS; Henry Ford Health System; Ann Arbor, Mich.
Founders Leadership Award
John Maese, MD, FACP, FHIMSS; President; Quality Physician Services; Brooklyn, NY
Joint Industry Awards
ACCE-HIMSS Excellence in Clinical Engineering and Information Technology Synergies Award
Adrian Johnson, BTECH, BEPS
Director, Biomedical Engineering; London Health Sciences Centre; London, ON
SHS-HIMSS Excellence in Healthcare Management Engineering/Process Improvement Award
Barry Ross, MHSA, MSIE, DSHS, LFHIMSS, Life Member; IIE, Examiner, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (2009); Pittsburgh, Penn.
The HIMSS Davies Awards - Public Health Award of Excellence
Boston Public Health Commission, Infectious Disease Bureau, Boston Syndromic Surveillance System, Boston, Mass.
Denver Public Health, Denver Public Health Information Service, Denver, Colo.
HIMSS Davies Ambulatory Care Award of Excellence
Virginia Women's Center, Richmond, Va.
HIMSS Davies Community Health Organizations Award of Excellence
Urban Health Plan, Bronx, NY
Heart of Texas, Waco, Texas
HIMSS Davies Organizational Award of Excellence
MultiCare, Tacoma, Wash.
Industry Service Awards
Physician IT Leadership Award
William Bria, MD; CMIO; Shriners Hospital for Children; Tampa, Fla.
Nursing Informatics Leadership Award
Ida Androwich, RNC, FAAN, PhD; Professor and Director, Health Systems Management, Loyola University Chicago; HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award; Maywood, Ill
CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award
Bill Spooner, FCHIME, Senior Vice President and CIO; Sharp HealthCare; San Diego, Calif.
Register for HIMSS10, scheduled for March 1-4 in Atlanta, Ga.
Find out more about the HIMSS Awards Banquet on March 2.
The Call for Nominations for the awards and the scholarship program will begin in August 2010 with the online applications available on the HIMSS Web site.
About HIMSS
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a comprehensive healthcare-stakeholder membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., Brussels, Singapore, and other locations across the United States, HIMSS represents more than 23,000 individual members, of which 73% work in patient care delivery settings. HIMSS also includes over 380 corporate members and nearly 30 not-for-profit organizations that share our mission of transforming healthcare through the effective use of information technology and management systems. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its educational, professional development, and advocacy initiatives designed to promote information and management systems' contributions to ensuring quality patient care.
SOURCE: Healthcare Information And Management Systems Society