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Title: Overview of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society


1
Overview of the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society
  • K. Meredith Taylor, MPH
  • Manager
  • HIMSS State Government Relations

2
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

3
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.

4
HIMSS Strategic Direction
  • Vision
  • Advancing the best use of information and
    management systems for the betterment of health
    care.
  •  
  • Mission
  • To lead change in the healthcare information and
    management systems field through knowledge
    sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation, and
    community affiliations.

5
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

6
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

7
HIMSS Government Relations
8
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)

9
Background on HIMSS Advocacy Activities
10
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

11
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

12
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)

13
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
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