GA-HIMSS welcomes its members to the 2011-2012 year! In July, we seated our new Board of Directors, and appreciate their volunteer service during this year of challenging industry trends, changing Healthcare legislation and exciting local events. To learn more about this year's leadership, as well as upcoming events, please visit our website at www.gahimss.org.
The Georgia Chapter of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (GA-HIMSS) provides statewide leadership for the advancement and management of healthcare information technology. GAHIMSS is dedicated to improving the value and utilization of healthcare information technology through advocacy, collaboration and education, and to the effective use of technology in supporting the delivery of quality patient care.
Thank you for your membership and participation in your Georgia Chapter.
In This Issue:
 Message from the President
Advocacy Update
Georgia HIE Update
Regulatory Update
Clinical Informatics Update
Collaboration with GNA
GA HIMSS Sponsors
6th Annual Georgia Trade Faire and Regional Conference
Public Health Informatics Conference
Thank You to Our GA-HIMSS Sponsors!
2nd Annual Golf Tournament Sponsors
Share Your News!
eNewsletter Committee
Message from the President
Denise Hines, PhD, PMP, FHIMSS
Welcome to each of you to the new GAHIMSS year! It is truly a privilege to be elected to serve as your 2011-12 GAHIMSS Chapter President. Having one of the most active, and one of the largest Chapters of HIMSS, makes me proud to serve as leader of such an outstanding organization.
Last year our Board of Directors and members stayed very energized and enthusiastic throughout the year, with a variety of activities across the state. Multiple signature events occurred as well as several networking social events for members. Our Chapter was effective in increasing membership, providing education to the community, and actively collaborating with other HIMSS Chapters. Many of our events have become so successful, that they will be repeated again this year.
Whether you are a current member, or considering joining HIMSS and GAHIMSS, we welcome each person to become actively involved with our Chapter. It is our goal to become the society of choice for healthcare technology professionals.
The board members this year have a vast amount of experience and skills in the field. They represent a variety of areas in healthcare, and bring with them a variety of ideas and knowledge. Many are new to the Board, while some members continue on the Board. We are very lucky to include an ‘Advisory’ group of past presidents to provide us with their leadership expertise as we make plans and decisions for our Chapter.
The GAHIMSS vision to Advocate, Collaborate, and Educate (ACE) will remain our focus this year. Our committees revolve around these three activities. Advocacy will include being proactive at the state level, including being part of the State Capital IT Advocacy Day. Participants will be able to meet with policy leaders and agency influencers to advocate and educate others on healthcare information technology. As HIT advocacy leaders, we can provide subject matter knowledge and information to Federal agencies and other organizations. Collaboration has only just begun with our Chapter. Last year we collaborated with other states during conferences and networking events such as the National HIMSS Conference. While attending there we joined two other Chapters in providing a social event in the exhibit hall area, where we all came together as one large group with a future focus on technology. Other states continue to engage us to collaborate with them during events with a common goal of educating and improving healthcare technology for the future. We will attempt to build on these collaborative relationships with other Chapters and organizations. Finally, Education of members, other healthcare IT professionals, information technology students, and the community will be in the spotlight as well. Multiple education events occurred last year with the ‘Lunch and Learn’ Sessions, the Town Hall, CPHIMSS training and the Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics conference. This year aims to be even more exciting, with more ‘lunch and learn’ educational sessions, a clinical informatics conference, and another Trade Faire and Conference, which is expected to be larger with more educational sessions than in the past.
Again, it is an honor to lead your Chapter as this year’s President. I look forward to serving you, as I know the Officers and the Board of Directors do as well. Working together, and making the most of our Chapter will only increase knowledge and strength in GAHIMSS as well. We need each and every member, and would love to have an increase in participation at all of our events this year.
Sincerely,
Denise Hines, PhD
President, GAHIMSS
Advocacy Update - HIMSS 10th Annual Policy Summit
September 14 – 15, 2012
Washington, DC
Dan Stewart, Advocacy Chair
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, have been made to move the nation toward impactful healthcare reform.Advances in health information technology (HIT) and the possibility of a nationwide exchange of clinical information is putting healthcare reform and dynamic improvements in healthcare within reach. However true reform is impossible without system-wide adoption of electronic health records and nationwide health information exchange.
So now more than ever, it’s important to become better educated on health IT policy and take action that can bring about change. Across the nation, health IT stakeholders will participate in National Health IT Week, September 12-16, 2011. You have an opportunity to be directly involved by participating in HIMSS’s 10th Annual Policy Summit in Washington, DC, where you can:
• Become educated on how Congress is addressing healthcare reform
• Learn health IT policy issues and priorities
• Develop effective communication strategies when meeting with legislators
• Engage with your Members of Congress on health IT policy
• Be part of the decision-making process and have a real impact
“One Voice, One Vision.” With adequate knowledge and the right resources, we can work together to verbalize one voice with one vision: bettering our healthcare system through the use of health information technology.
For registration information go to: href="http://www.himss.org/policy/policysummit/index.aspx
Georgia’s Health Information Exchange: Innovative, Cooperative Technology Initiative
Dedra (Dee) Cantrell, RN, BSN, MS, FHIMSS
In early 2012, the Georgia Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) will begin operation as the only secure statewide network here in Georgia. The primary goal of this network is to facilitate the access and use of clinical data to provide safe, timely, efficient and effective patient-centered care by a variety of authorized, yet unaffiliated provider organizations. When completed, the statewide HIE will connect physicians and other health care professionals, hospitals and imaging centers, laboratories and pharmacies, health plan payers and patients.
Georgia’s Statewide HIE will transform health care around our state, as well as our nation. As the HIE becomes fully operational, we will see four key benefits for Georgians and those visiting our state. The Statewide HIE will:
• Enable better decision-making by bringing critical information to health care professionals when and where they need it. Better decisions mean better care for patients.
• Enhance the continuity of care by linking different types of providers who help to improve the continuity of care as patients move from one provider to another. Better continuity of care will improve patient safety and treatment effectiveness.
• Improve efficiencies and control costs by automating administrative practices, minimizing duplicate testing and eliminating unnecessary services.
• Stimulate economic development in Georgia by contributing to Georgia’s leadership role as the Health IT capital of the U.S.
The Georgia Health Information Exchange, Inc., (GHIE), a non-profit 501(c)( 3) organization will serve as the Statewide HIE’s governing body. GHIE’s board represents a full-spectrum of both public and private health care interests in Georgia including patients, physicians, hospitals, health plan payers, pharmacies, labs, imaging centers and more. Additionally, the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) will serve on the GHIE board, representing the interests of Medicaid and Public Health. With more than $13 million in grants received from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), DCH will provide strategic direction and oversight for the Statewide HIE’s initial operation. While the HIE will be statewide, it will not be state-run.
The Statewide HIE’s roll-out will be implemented in three progressive phases:
• Phase 1 – We will implement DIRECT standards to provide a secure pathway for providers to exchange clinical information. This secure exchange of clinical information is a required tool for providers to meet ‘meaningful use’ criteria under Medicaid and Medicare EHR Incentive programs. Phase 1 is slated to be completed by early 2012.
• Phase 2 – We will provide core services for the health information exchange. Providers will be able to use the statewide HIE to send and retrieve patient clinical information from other healthcare providers to establish a more comprehensive clinical background when treating patients, receive structured lab results, and use e-prescribing. In addition, providers will also be able to place electronic lab orders in this phase. Phase 2 is slated to be implemented in the third quarter of 2012 and will support ‘meaningful use’ Stage 1 and Stage 2 requirements for EHR incentives programs.
• Phase 3 – We will provide value-added services based on the needs of Georgia providers. Phase 3 services are still being determined but may include; eligibility checks, claims submission, submitting immunization information to registries, and lab results to public health. Phase 3 will be implemented starting in late 2012 or early 2013.
Georgia is also at work on a pilot program for a consumer-mediated health information exchange for cancer patients in Rome, Ga. This $1.7 million HIE Challenge Grant, awarded in late 2010 to DCH and the Georgia Cancer Coalition (GCC), was one of only 10 awarded in the nation. The Consumer-Mediated Health Information Exchange project will provide the tools to give cancer patients access to their health information and enable secure two-way communications between providers and cancer patients for outcomes reporting, subsequent treatment and other health information. The project, serving as a pilot for national use, will also allow individual health data to be sent to a cancer patient’s personal health record and permit cancer patients to decide who will have access to their information.
When completed, this Consumer-Mediated Health Information Exchange as well as numerous regional and enterprise-wide exchanges will be interoperable with Georgia’s Statewide Health Information Exchange.
Additional information about the Georgia Statewide HIE can be found the DCH website at the DCH website.
Dee Cantrell
CIO, Emory Healthcare
Board Member, Georgia Health Information Exchange, Inc.
Regulatory Update: Meaningful Use Proposed Stage 2 Objectives
Ginny Meadows, RN
While many of us have been working towards achieving Meaningful Use Stage 1 these past few months, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have been very busy looking ahead to the next phase of the EHR incentive program. On June 8, the Meaningful Use Workgroup of the ONC Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) presented its Stage 2 recommendations to the HITPC, and after much discussion, they were approved. The key recommendation was to delay the start of Stage 2 by one year for providers that will qualify in FY11 for Stage 1 incentive payments. These "early entrants" would remain on Stage 1 for 3 years, while the schedule will not change for providers who don't start Stage 1 until 2012.
This delay provides much-needed time for both EHR vendors and FY11 Stage 1 entrants between the release of the Stage 2 final rules (anticipated mid-year 2012) and the current start of Stage 2 [for eligible hospitals, October 1, 2012 (CMS FY 2013), and for eligible providers, January 1, 2013]. In the July 8th HITPC meeting, Farzad Mostashari , MD, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, indicated the ONC Office’s support of delaying Stage 2 for providers that attest in 2011 to 2014. CMS has yet to officially comment on the delay recommendation, but this provides a strong signal that they are aligned with the delay. It is still not known when or how CMS will comment on this officially.
Beyond the recommendation to delay Stage 2, the Meaningful Use workgroup members worked hard to strike a balance between adding too many difficult objectives, and not continuing to move providers up the escalator of EHR adoption and improved outcomes. Here is a high level summary of their recommendations:
• All Menu items converted to Core (no more menu items in Stage 2)
• Provides “signaling” for Stage 3 and overall intent and direction of objectives
• Few new items
- Eligible Hospital: 6
- Eligible Professional: 8
• Instructions for the HIT Standards Committee to define data and structure needed for successful implementation (i.e. text to structured values)
• 2 objectives eliminated or merged
• Quality Measures not addressed in this round of recommendation.
- Quality Measures recommendations should be made sometime this fall.
A copy of the draft letter outlining the recommendations and an appendix with additional details are posted on the ONC’s website.
CMS is now working on the EHR Incentive Program Stage 2 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), anticipated late December or early January 2012. At the same time, ONC is also working on final definitions of Standards to be used to achieve the proposed objectives, along with the certification criteria, and the Standards and Certification rules should be released around the same timeframe. Following a comment period, the Final Rules will be created and are anticipated early summer 2012.
Clinical Informatics: Soaring to the Top
Shirley Woodhead, MA, RN-BC, BSN, PMP
It’s no secret that Healthcare Information Technology is listed by many authors and web sites as one of the fastest growing careers today. It is only expected to grow even more over the next decade. Information technology was somewhat affected, in the past few years, by the slip in the economy. Healthcare facilities were forced to cut back on spending, while government initiatives continued to push them forward towards technology. Many facilities cut back on implementing the technology needed to meet these initiatives. Health care itself appeared to be, and continues to be a growing industry. There is always a need for professionals to provide quality care across the nation. Therefore this is also listed as the top 5 careers for now and the future. What better combination than healthcare professionals with technology knowledge or background! This lends to the recent and future proposed growth of not only Nursing Informatics but also Clinical Informatics, encompassing a variety of healthcare professionals.
In January of 2011, the Hays Group published an article called: ‘Healthcare Organizations Find Clinical Informatics Positions Hard to Fill’. This article focused on healthcare organizations that either hire their own employees to move to IT roles, and they frequently leave once they obtain the knowledge needed for the role. It also discussed the surge of interest in the role when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed to help push the development and implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR’s). This initiative was meant to increase efficiencies in Healthcare, but also helped create jobs in Healthcare technology as well. Nearly all (96%) of respondents to a survey done by the Hays Group, of healthcare organizations, indicated they began creation of positions and structuring departments in preparation for implementing EHR’s. Click here to view the entire article.
In May of 2008, Joyce Sensmeir presented ‘Clinical Informatics: Nurses Creating Value With Innovation’ to the Northern California HIMSS Chapter. She presented how HIMSS has grown the Nursing Informatics Community, with a desire to provide a cohesive voice for them across the Nation. Ms. Sensmeir also indicated that since this Community was formed, the group had (2008) grown to over 2,000 nurses representing 10% of HIMSS individual members. She also discussed the many organizations at local, state, and national levels available for Nursing Informatics. Her presentation relayed that the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) represents many of these nurses, and has helped to bring a consortium of member organizations under their umbrella. She talked about the TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) initiative and their goal to better prepare nurses and student nurses to use technology and informatics to improve patient care delivery. Joyce also quoted one respondent of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics 2007 survey to say: “Nursing Informatics is one of the most critical pieces in getting physicians and other clinicians to use technology, and Informatics Nurses can help bridge the gap”. HIMSS recently released results of their 2011 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey, which they said continued to suggest that “Nursing Informaticists play a critical role in the implementation of a various clinical applications including clinical/nursing documentation, clinical information systems, and computerized practitioner order entry (CPOE). A total of 660 usable responses were obtained on the survey. http://www.himss.org/content/files/2011HIMSSNursingInformaticsWorkforceSurvey.pdf
HIMSS also recently (Approved June, 2011) published their ‘Position Statement on Transforming Nursing Practice Through Technology and Informatics’. This statement aligns HIMSS with the American Nurses Association (ANA) and ANI. It provides the background on issues with specific recommendations to help eliminate barriers and address nurse’s role in the use of technology in healthcare. The HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community helped develop the statement. This committee represents more than 2900 Nurse Informaticists. The position statement can be found on the HIMSS website, however click here for immediate access.
Your HIMSS Chapter Board Members want to rekindle the Clinical Informatics Community in Georgia. We would like to re-align our goals and mission with the Clinical Informatics HIMSS Chapter strategies. Recently, Georgia Nurses Association (GNA) initiated a ‘GNA Nursing Informatics Chapter’ with Roy Simpson and Kaye Dawson as Co- Chair’s. We would like the opportunity to collaborate with them. Several board members of the Georgia HIMSS Chapters are members of the GNA Chapter. In winter or fall of 2012, we will be presenting a Clinical Informatics conference. We hope to see many of you and other nurses there.
My goal this year as a Board Member is to advance Clinical and Nursing Informatics in Georgia by including updates on the HIMSS Informatics initiatives and activities in our local Chapter E-news. As technology grows, looking at various sites and gathering information from a variety of areas is difficult in our busy world. Hopefully, by keeping our Chapter members aware of items that come out at the National level, such as the above position statement, etc., will help you sort through what is important to know. As Membership Chair, my goal is to seek out Informaticists across the state that are not yet members, and get them involved in this important state chapter. If you are aware of potential members interested, please feel free to have them contact me at: shirleybw@msn.com with a subject: GAHIMSS Nursing Interest. I look forward to meeting many of you at our events throughout the year.
Shirley Woodhead
Stoltenberg Consulting Group, Inc.
Georgia Nurses Association – GNA Informatics Chapter
Collaboration with GNA
Regina Cole RN-BC, BSN, MA
The Georgia Nurses Association (GNA) is proud to announce the formation of the GNA Informatics Chapter, effective August 20th, 2011. GNA leads the nation by being one of a few state nurses’ association with an informatics chapter. Kaye Dawson and Roy Simpson, the Chapter Co-Chairs have worked with many other founding members for the past year to get this Chapter established and officially recognized by GNA. Currently there are 30 members, many who also hold HIMSS membership.
The GNA Informatics Chapters’ mission is to have their members shape the future of Georgia professional nursing informatics, and create meaningful, diverse opportunities and services related to nursing informatics for GNA members. According to Chapter Co- Chair Kaye Dawson their focus is education and the Chapter has already offered an educational program on Meaningful Use given by Ginny Meadows our GA HIMSS Board Member. The Chapter hopes to partner with other like mind groups in offering educational programs in the future.
The next meeting of the GNA Informatics Chapter will be October 20th, 2011 at 5PM offered as part of the GNA Conference and Membership Assembly at the Atlanta Marriott Northwest. This conference is also offering a panel discussion on informatics: “Nursing Informatics – Not the Newest Kid on the Block!” For more information on the next GNA Informatics Chapter meeting and conference go to http://www.georgianurses.org/conference.htm.
GA HIMSS congratulates GNA and the members of the Informatics Chapter on the development of the GNA Informatics Chapter.
6th Annual Georgia Trade Faire and Regional Conference
Sponsored by GA-HIMSS
Our 6th Annual Trade Faire and Regional Conference is fast approaching. If you have not already registered, please click here to use your e-Ticket link to do so.
This year’s conference features state HIT leaders speaking on topics critical to healthcare information technology within the state of Georgia. Sessions include presentations on Clinical Quality Measures, ACOs, Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and Georgia HIE Initiatives. Please visit our Conference site for the latest updates on topics and speakers for this outstanding conference at href="http://www.healthcaretradefaire.com/Georgia/11/.
This year's 6th Annual Georgia Healthcare Trade Faire & Regional Conference sponsored by GA-HIMSS will be held on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011, from 7:15 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in downtown Atlanta.
GA-HIMSS members, who work full time at a Georgia-based hospital, health system organization, medical clinic, healthcare provider organization, or within the IT department of a medical college or university, are eligible to attend this year’s Regional Conference as a guest of GA-HIMSS. The $185 attendance fee will be waived for these members. In addition to access to our panel and speaker sessions, entry into the event will also include a buffet breakfast, buffet lunch, beverages at all scheduled breaks, a name badge with lanyard and a printed color event guide.
For members who work for solution providers, consulting groups and/or services companies, attendance to the Trade Faire and Regional Conference will require a $185 registration fee.
Click here to register today!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Public Health Informatics Conference
Hosted by CDC in Atlanta
Lawrence S. Lin MSHS, MBA, PMP
The Public Health Informatics (PHI) Conference hosted by CDC, took place from August 21-24 in downtown Atlanta. More than 1000 attendees and 700 “virtual attendees” participated in this event, focusing on healthcare information technology topics such as Meaningful Use, Health Information Exchange, Syndromic Surveillance, Electronic Lab Reporting and E-Prescription.
Many Atlanta area IT professionals participated in this event, as reflected in the attendee list. However, this event also attracted international attendees from 28 different countries. Throughout the event there were international sessions highlighting other countries’ PHI experiences, demonstrating that public informatics excellence has transcended a mere local, regional and national perspective, but continues to take on global significance.
The event also marked a significant milestone – CDC organizers have offered all of the sessions, plenary meeting and numerous exhibits on an experimental “virtual conference,” free of charge. People from afar dialed into Live Meeting and interactively participated remotely. Many also followed numerous Twitter and Gacebook coverage (hash tag is “#2011PHI”), as the key concept of “engagement … putting the ‘Public’ back into ‘Public Health’ “ came alive through these technologically advanced sharing mechanisms. Note that the entire conference’s material (presentation PPT files, session recordings, keynote speaker recordings) will be made available free to the public on 9/28 at http://www.cdc.gov/phiconference/virtual.html in a “re-release event.”
This event gave participants contrasting yet powerful impressions – there was definitely the excitement of Meaningful Use empowerment, incentive dollars turning into action, PHI enablement through EHR systems increased deployments (e.g. BEACON programs). On the other hand, there was a sense of uncertainty about PHIN standards evolution, concerns about further federal funding cut-back, HIE sustainability questions and sense of overwhelming with the multitude of technical offerings and data exchange complexities. All in all, everyone benefitted from “information exchange,” in the context of learning from each other during a top-notch conference.
HIMSS recognized two organizations during this event, with the prestigious Davies Award for public health excellence – City of New York and State of Florida. Read more at HIE resources.
Thank You to Our GA-HIMSS Sponsors!
Become a Corporate GA-HIMSS Sponsors Today
Claire Shults, Sponsorship Chair
The Georgia Chapter of HIMSS would like to thank our Chapter Sponsors for their generous support. Sponsors help underwrite our events, keeping member attendance costs low. In September, we will post enhancements to our chapter sponsorship packages on our website at http://gahimss.org/sponsors/sponsors1.html. To learn more about being a sponsor please contact Claire Shults, Sponsorship Chairperson @ Claire.f.shults@intel.com.
Elite Level Annual Sponsors
CDW Healthcare is a leading provider of technology solutions focused exclusively on serving the healthcare marketplace. Working closely with more than 15,000 healthcare organizations nationwide, its customers range from small rural providers to large integrated delivery networks. The dedicated healthcare team leverages the expertise of CDW technology specialists and engineers to deliver best-in-class solutions from data center infrastructure through to point of patient care.
CentriNet Corporation provides business technology solutions and support to the Southeastern United States. Our firm has a specialized focus on the virtualization of applications, desktops, servers, and storage to optimize security, improve availability and reliability, and increase manageability, all for a lower total cost of ownership.
Lawson Software is the leading provider of business applications to U.S. healthcare providers, serving more than 500 healthcare customers representing over 4,500 facilities. Lawson solutions help streamline processes, reduce costs and enhance overall operational performance so providers can focus on their mission - providing quality patient care.
Relay Health offers connectivity that links health systems, physicians, pharmacies, payors and patients. By providing real-time access to crucial information, this connectivity enables better care coordination, more informed decisions, reduced costs, and increased patient and provider satisfaction.
Premier Level Annual Sponsors
Informed by more than a decade of ethnographic studies, Intel has a vision of using innovative technologies to transform healthcare, improve chronic disease management, and enhance wellness and independence. Intel is connecting people and information for more personalized and effective management of chronic conditions in the home.
maxIT Healthcare is an IT consulting firm that provides seasoned professionals and expert guidance to maximize the quality, safety, and financial performance of healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada. maxIT has expertise in all major Health Information System (HIS), Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Payer software applications; as well as in Clinical Imaging services and Management Consulting services.
STONE Resource Group is a professional services and staffing company focused primarily in the IT, Telecom and Healthcare Information Technology space.
Westbrook Gallivan Group is a full service Atlanta based CPA firm that focuses on technology companies. Our multi-state and international tax expertise provide small and entrepreneurial enterprises a dynamic partner to provide guidance though national and global expansion.
Golf Tournament Sponsors
Thank you to all of our wonderful Golf Tournament Sponsors!
Following a sell-out event, GA-HIMSS would like to express our appreciation to our Golf Tournament sponsors and volunteers. We look forward to having them return next year.
Our Third Annual Golf Tournament and Fundraiser will be announced in October, to be held in May, 2012. Our Advisory Board will also be announcing the award of scholarships, made possible through the efforts.
TOURNAMENT SPONSORS
Awards Reception Sponsor
Global Net Access
Meaningful Use Sponsors
Alcatel-Lucent
AT&T
Intel
Breakfast Sponsors
Abacus Solutions and Xtend
Lunch Sponsor
SAGO
Beverage Cart Sponsor
Installation Resource Group
HIE Sponsors
Accenture
Billion's HealthDATA
Cisco
EDI
Presidio
Porter Research
Quality Technology Services
Sunesys
CPOE Sponsors
Apex Systems, Inc
Brocade
Dell
Elsiever
Global Net Access
GNA Solutions
Greenway
Gwinnett Braves
HIMformatics, LLC
Hunter Stokes & Associates
IBM
Infologix
Kaiser
Motorola
Nexus IS, Inc.
Realta Professional Staffing
SAGO
SHI
Stone Resource Group
TEMSS
Unisys
Driving Range Sponsor
HealthNovation
Putting Contest Sponsor
Brooksource
Closest to the Pin Sponsor
Kaiser
Longest Drive Sponsor
Kaiser
Course Marker Sponsor
Allscripts
Red Hat
Southern Imaging
Surgical Information Systems
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President
Denise Hines, Ph.D.,PMP,FHIMSS
Chief Executive Officer
eHealth Services Group
President Elect
Cynthia Windsor
Partner
iDragonfly Consulting
Past President
Robert Aaron, MA
Healthcare Industry Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Treasurer
Robert Shapiro
Services Sales Leader
IBM Information Protection Services
Program Chair
Anita Hembrick, CPHIMS
Healthcare Practice Director
Enterasys Healthcare, A Siemens Company
GAHIMSS
www.gahimss.org
Westbrook Gallivan Group
Liz Hansen, Communications Chair
Ginny Meadows, Communications Co-Chair
Shirley Woodhead, Membership Chair
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