Overview of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

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Overview of the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society

• K. Meredith Taylor, MPH
• Manager
• HIMSS State Government Relations

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Agenda

• What is HIMSS?
• HIMSS Strategic Direction
• Society Today
• Areas of Focus

• HIMSS Government Relations
• Background on HIMSS Advocacy Activities
• Current Advocacy Activities
• Upcoming Events

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What is HIMSS?

• The Healthcare Information and Management
• Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare
• industry's membership organization exclusively
• focused on providing global leadership for the
• optimal use of healthcare information
• technology (IT) and management systems for
• the betterment of healthcare.

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HIMSS Strategic Direction

• Vision
• Advancing the best use of information and
  management systems for the betterment of health
  care.
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• Mission
• To lead change in the healthcare information and
  management systems field through knowledge
  sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation, and
  community affiliations.

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Society Today

• 20,000 Individual Members of which 73 work in
  the field (non-vendors, non-consultants)
• 330 Corporate Members
• 90 committees, task forces, work groups
• 47 Chapters
• 3 corporations, over 175 staff
• Top 5 largest healthcare conference in US
• Top 50 largest conference of any kind in US

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Areas of Focus

• Subjects
• Interoperability
• IT Adoption
• Privacy Security
• Quality P4P
• Financial Systems
• Clinical Informatics
• Patient Safety
• Management Systems
• Standards architecture
• PHRs

• Settings
• Acute
• Ambulatory
• Life Sciences
• Payer
• Public Health
• Long-Term Care
• Home Health

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HIMSS Government Relations
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Background on HIMSS Advocacy Activities

• Board of Directors
• Advocacy Public Policy Steering Committee
  (APPSC)
• 14 voting members
• 5 non-voting members
• 5 Board Liaisons
• HIMSS Government Relations Roundtable (HGRR)
• Legislative Review Taskforce
• Chapter Advocacy Liaison Roundtable (CALR)
• Individual members and staff (including Member
  Relations)

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Background on HIMSS Advocacy Activities
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Current Advocacy Activities

• HIMSS State Advocacy Activities
• Sponsoring discussions, visits, and briefings for
  State officials and
• their staff
• Facilitating State Advocacy Days
• Chapter Advocacy Liaison Roundtable (CALR)
• Events at US Annual Conference and Exhibition
• HIMSS State Government Membership
• January Web Conference Call Presentation Health
  IT 101

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Current Advocacy Activities

• HIMSS National Advocacy
• Activities
• Sponsoring discussions, visits, and briefings
• for federal/ congressional officials and their
• staff
• Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill
• Public Policy Forum
• National Health IT Week
• Congressional Luncheon Seminar
• Series

• Testimony opportunities/Collaborative Friday
  Group/Congressional Office Visits
• Events at US Annual Conference and Exhibition
• Advocacy and Public Policy Steering Committee
• Legislative Review Taskforce
• HIMSS Government Relations Roundtable

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Upcoming Events

• HIT 101 Educational Session for State Officials
  and their Staff (January 24, 2008 / 1200-130pm,
  Eastern Time)
• US 2008 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition
  (Orlando, Florida February 24 -2 8, 2008)

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Questions?

• HIMSS State Government Relations
• Thomas S. Keefe, MA
• Senior Director, State Government Relations
• tkeefe_at_himss.org
• K. Meredith Taylor, MPH
• Manager, State Government Relations
• mtaylor_at_himss.org
• Arnol Simmons
• Coordinator, State Government Relations
• asimmons_at_himss.org