Connecting, collaborating and leading An insiders view of HIMSS

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Connecting, collaboratingand leadingAn
insiders view of HIMSS

• Iowa HIMSS Chapter Meeting, April 16th, 2004
• Joyce Sensmeier MS, RN, BC, CPHIMS
• Director of Professional Services

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HIMSS Vision Mission

• Our Vision is advancing the best use of
  information and management systems for the
  betterment of healthcare.
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• Our Mission is to lead the healthcare information
  and management systems field through knowledge
  sharing, advocacy, collaboration, and community
  affiliations.

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HIMSS Changes

• 1961 Mgmt engineering personal membership
  society
• 1980s Added information services professionals
• 2001 Included corporate members (CHIM)
• 2002 Enhanced content expertise (CPRI-HOST)
• 2003 Expanded communities (MS-HUG, Sun users)
• 2004 New research-based subsidiary (Dave Garets
  CEO)

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Society Today

• 215 Corporate Members
• 14,000 Individual Members
• 42 Chapters
• 70 Staff
• Locations
• Chicago, IL Ann Arbor, MI
• Washington, DC

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Individual Member Profile

• Professional level
• CIOs/senior management 46
• Director/dept head 25
• Senior staff/managers 19
• Other 10
• Work site
• Providers 80
• Vendors 11
• Consultants 9

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Strategic Audiences

• Today
• U.S. hospital enterprise focused Providers,
  Suppliers, Consultants
• Senior management CXOs via CIOs
• IS/ME middle management staff
• Military

• Future
• Non-enterprise based clinicians
• Ambulatory care
• Plans/employers
• LTC
• non-U.S.
• Life sciences

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Strategic Subjects

• Today
• Legislative/Regulatory
• HIPAA, privacy, security, patient safety,
  emergency preparedness
• Efficiency/Effectiveness
• Revenue enhancement, cost reduction, clinical
  systems, CPOE, ROI, quality of care, Auto-ID
  bar coding, standards, process improvement,
  project mgmt
• Enablers
• EHR, ERP/Supply Chain, PACs, best practices,
  wireless, outsourcing, system integration

• Future
• Legislative/Regulatory
• Genomics, national health information
  infrastructure
• Efficiency/Effectiveness
• Changing insurance models, worker shortages
• Enablers
• Robotics

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What is our personality?

• The Six Cs -
• Credible, not biased
• Current, not dated
• Change agents, not change resisters
• Collective good, not self interest
• Comprehensive, not concentrated
• Connected, not exclusive

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The HIMSS Model

• Industry Intelligence
• Provide credible industry intelligence that
  enables healthcare professionals and
  organizations to drive improvement, change and
  innovation

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The HIMSS Model

• Industry Affairs
• The expertise and knowledge of healthcare
  information and management systems professionals
  frame and lead healthcare legislation,
  regulations, policies, standards, and practices

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The HIMSS Model

• Professional Development
• Equip healthcare information and management
  systems professionals to achieve individual and
  organizational success

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The HIMSS Model

• Communities
• Foster primary connecting points among healthcare
  professionals through HIMSS communities

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What Have We Done? What Are We Planning?
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Annual Conference History
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ResultsOrlando 2004
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Staggering Statistics!!!
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Annual HIMSS ConferenceFebruary 22-26, 2004,
Orlando, FlEducation Sessions

• HIMSS Contact Deb Clough, Joanne Bartley, Gail
  Rice
• Annual Conference Education Committee (ACEC)
• 150 Education Sessions
• 85 sessions selected through the Call for
  Proposal Process
• 30 Views from the Top and Invited Sessions
• 30 CoSponsored Sessions
• 10 Roundtable Discussions
• 25 e-Sessions
• 20 Workshops

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Communications DepartmentProducts/Services

• Public Relations/Media Relations
• Press Releases (as needed)
• E-News-Individual Members (weekly)
• E-News-Corporate Members (weekly)
• Journal of Healthcare Information Management
  (JHIM)
• HIMSS Insider (monthly, as part of Healthcare IT
  News)
• Books

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Industry Affairs
2003 2004
HIMSS Staff
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Ambulatory Care

• Welcomed Mark Leavitt, MD, Ph.D, FHIMSS as
  Medical Director Director of Ambulatory Care
• Released Ambulatory Wireless Study
• Ambulatory Care Committee launched
• Environmental Assessment complete

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The Full Spectrumof Care Settings
Critical Care Units
Inpatient Med/Surg Units
Hospital Outpatient Departments
Large Group Practices
Small Physician Offices
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Ambulatory Care vs Acute Care
Critical Care Units
Inpatient Med/Surg Units
Hospital Outpatient Departments
Large Group Practices
Small Physician Offices
Acute Care
Ambulatory Care
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Contrasts Ambulatory Care vs Acute Care
Critical Care Units
Inpatient Med/Surg Units
Hospital Outpatient Departments
Large Group Practices
Small Physician Offices
Acute Care
Ambulatory Care
Sources Health Affairs W4-79, 2003 NAMCS
Report, CDC, 2002
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Health Expenditures Comparison
Strategic Bottom-Line Ambulatory Care is as big
as Acute Care and growing even faster
Critical Care Units
Inpatient Med/Surg Units
Hospital Outpatient Departments
Large Group Practices
Small Physician Offices
Acute Care
Ambulatory Care
Source Health Spending Projections, Health
Affairs W4-79, 2003
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Electronic Health Record

• National Health Information Infrastructure
• National Preparedness Response
• Nicholas E. Davies Award Program
• Continuity of Care Record
• HL7s Standard for the EHR
• Patient Safety
• Voluntary Patient Identifier

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National Health Information Infrastructure

• Task Force chaired by C. Martin Harris, MD of the
  Cleveland Clinic
• Submitted ePrescribing grant proposal
• Relationship with Health Human Srvcs
• Considering grant proposal opportunity through
  Robert Wood Johnson
• NHII Survey underway

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Privacy Security

• CPRI Security Toolkit v4.0
• Professional Certification Programs Security,
  Privacy, and Privacy Security
• Security Features of the EHR Workgroup
• CPRI Toolkit Workgroup
• Medical Device Security Workgroup

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Auto-ID and Bar Coding

• Coming Soon!
• Auto-ID Virtual Tour Delivering Safe, Efficient
  and Effective Patient Care
• A brief, interactive presentation, available on
  HIMSS Web site and via CD-ROM
• www.himss.org/autoidbarcode
• Implementation Guide for the Use of Bar
• Code Technology in Healthcare
• Provides a general understanding of the use of
  bar coding technology in the healthcare
  enterprise
• www.himss.org Go to Bar Coding Hot Topics

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National Preparedness Response

• Task Force chaired by Col. Rosemary Nelson, RN
  (Ret.)
• Resource Grid on our website
• NPR Survey released this week
• Coordination with Federal Govt and private
  sector

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Nicholas E. Davies Awards

• Organizational
• 2004 Winner is Cincinnati Childrens Hospital
• Primary Care
• 2004 Winners are
• Roswell Pediatric Center
• Evans Medical Group
• Cooper Pediatrics
• Public Health Launched in January

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Patient Safety

• Clinical Decision Support Workbook
• Implementation Tools underway
• Dont Count the Errors Prevent Them
• ROI White Paper

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Standards

• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
• Making interoperability possible by bridging the
  gap between standards and their implementation
• HIMSS is the Secretariat for ISO/TC 215 Health
  Informatics and Administrator for the U.S. TAG
  for TC 215
• International and national standardization in
  health informatics and communications technology

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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

• IHE is a joint initiative to improve systems
  integration
• Process for coordinated adoption and
  implementation of standards
• Clinicians/IT staff define needs
• Vendors and IT Professionals develop solutions
• Technical Framework
• Professional societies supervise documentation,
  testing and demonstration/promotion
• Vendors consistently deploy standards into
  products
• Sponsored by HIMSS, RSNA and ACC
• More info at http//www.himss.org/IHE

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IHE 2004 achievements and expanding scope
Over 80 vendors involved world-wide, 4 Technical
Frameworks 24 Integration Profiles, Testing at
yearly Connectathons, Demonstrations at major
exhibitions world-wide
Provider-Vendor cooperation accelerates standards
adoption
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International Organization for Standardization
(ISO)

• ISO/TC 215 Technical Committee
• Develops standards for health informatics
• Comprised of 26 countries working together
• Standards development areas
• Health Records and Modeling Coordination
• Messaging and Communications
• Medical and Nursing Terminology
• Privacy and Security
• Smart Cards
• Pharmacy

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What is the U.S. TAG? Technical Advisory Group
for ISO/TC 215

• Each member country represented on the Technical
  Committee organizes a TAG
• The U.S. TAG develops U.S. positions and
  identifies the need for new work
• HIMSS is the U.S. TAG administrator

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HIMSS Connects You

• Be a visionary
• Use your knowledge and expertise to assist in the
  health information standards development
  activities
• Be a change agent
• Collaborate with national and international
  producers, vendors and end users in the health
  informatics domain
• Be connected with HIMSS and 26 countries
  developing health informatics standards
• Contact us at iso.standards_at_himss.org

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Public Policy

• Two Branches Legislative Affairs Federal
  Affairs
• Focus on Congress, DHHS, DoD, VA, and Homeland
  Security
• White Papers, Position Papers, Draft Legislation,
  Testimony, Comments
• Chapter Advocacy Liaison Roundtable

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Advocacy Resources

• Committees of Volunteers
• Chapter Advocacy Liaison Roundtable (CALR)
• HIMSS Government Relations (Diamond) Roundtable
  (HGRR)
• Advocacy Committee
• Special Projects Work Group
• Chapter Outreach Work Group
• Legislation/Regulation Work Group
• Tools
• Legislative Action Center
• LegAlert
• Speakers Bureau
• eNews
• Chapter Leaders Newsletter
• Chapter Advocacy Workbook

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Legislative Affairs
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HIMSS Certification Programs

• CPHIMS
• Certified Professional in Healthcare Information
  and Management Systems
• AHIMA HIMSS Collaboration
• Certified in Healthcare Privacy (CHP)
• Certified in Healthcare Security (CHS)
• Certified in Healthcare Privacy Security
  (CHPS)

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Professional Development

• Promotes healthcare information and management
  systems professionals by
• Recognizing individuals who meet the eligibility
  requirements and pass the exam
• Encouraging continued personal and professional
  growth
• Providing a national standard of knowledge

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About the CPHIMS Exam

• Designed to test a well-defined body of knowledge
  representative of professional practice.
• Content was defined by a national role
  delineation study.
• Developed through a combined effort of qualified
  subject-matter experts and testing professionals.

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CPHIMS Self-Assessment Exam

• New in 2004! Take the CPHIMS Self Assessment Exam
  (SAE)
• 100-question online practice examination designed
  to match the cognitive and content areas of the
  CPHIMS examination.
• Offered as a benefit of membership, the price of
  this online SAE is
• HIMSS Members 115
• Non-members 150

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Renewal of CPHIMS Certification

• Attaining certification is an indication of
• mastery of a well-defined body of knowledge
• at a point in time. Renewal is required every
• three years.
• Documentation of 45 contact hours of continuing
  professional education over the three-year
  period. Renewal fee
• HIMSS Members 100
• Nonmembers 175
• Successful re-examination

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Who is taking the CPHIMS Exam?

• Director 31
• CxO 19
• Senior Staff/Manager 23
• Consultant 4
• Other Senior Staff 12
• RN 9

• 558 Tested
• 465 Passed
• 93 Failed

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CHP, CHS, CHPS Certification

• Demonstrates dedication to quality healthcare and
  to the high standards for managing confidential
  healthcare information.
• Presents solid evidence to implement best
  practices and apply current technology solutions.
• Sets a person apart from un-credentialed job
  candidates and augments career development.
• Ensures current knowledge through continued
  education.

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Sponsoring Organizations

• AHIMA and HIMSS have joined forces to develop
  these unique certification programs for
  healthcare privacy and security.

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Whos taking the CHP Exam?

• 227 Tested
• 132 Passed
• 95 Failed

• Director 38
• CxO 30
• Consultant 5
• Vice President 5
• Other 22

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Whos taking the CHS Exam?

• Manager 31
• Director 28
• Information Security Officer 14
• Consultant 10
• Vice President 7
• Other 10

• 28 Tested
• 20 Passed
• 8 Failed

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Whos taking the CHPS Exam?

• 51 Tested
• 16 Passed Both
• 7 Passed Privacy Only
• 3 Passed Security Only
• 25 Failed

• CxO 42
• Director 29
• Manager 10
• Vice President 10
• Other 9

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Continuing Education Program

• HIMSS encourages chapters to offer continuing
  education credit for their sponsored programs
• Applicable to CPHIMS and CHS criteria
• Each 50 minute program qualifies for 1 contact
  hour
• 150 fee per contact hr. is waived for chapters
• Contact jkazragys_at_himss.org or download form at
  www.himss.org Go to Certification

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Exam Administration

• Primary mode of delivery is via computer at over
  120 AMP Assessment Centers throughout the United
  States.
• No application deadlines (computer admin only)
• Monday through Friday at 900 a.m. and 130 p.m.
• Exams are also offered in paper-and-pencil format
  in conjunction with HIMSS Annual Conference

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Community Affiliations

• A Growing Membership
• Individuals
• Corporations
• Organizations
• Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Chapters
• User Groups

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Nursing Informatics

• New collaborations with National and Regional
  groups
• Nursing Informatics Collaboration Task Force
• Nursing Informatics Symposium
• 311 attendees
• 681 nurse attendees at Annual Conference
• First national Nursing Informatics Survey
• 539 respondents http//www.himss.org/content/files
  /nursing_info_survey2004.pdf

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Contact Information
HIMSS Website www.himss.org

• Joyce Sensmeier MS, RN, BC, CPHIMS
• Director of Professional Services
• Direct 312-915-9281
• Email jsensmeier_at_himss.org