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www.HealthcareITNews.com February 2008 s Healthcare IT News 47 IMSS recognizes more than 30 outstanding industry leaders and organizations during its Awards and Recognition Banquet on Tuesday Feb. 26 at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando. Held in conjunction with HIMSS08, the banquet honors the 2007 award recipients for their significant contributions to the Society, their organizations and the healthcare IT profession. These special contributions may vary widely due to the diverse membership of HIMSS and the broad definition of the healthcare professions encompassed by the HIMSS Mission. Award recipients are selected by various HIMSS Committees, Work Groups and Task Forces, and then are given final approval by the HIMSS Board of Directors. The call for nominations for the 2008 Awards opens in August. Fore more information on the Awards Program, visit www.himss. org/awards or contact awards@himss.org with questions. Congratulations to the following 2007 award recipients: Publication Award Book of the Year Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer H HIMSS honors 2007 award winners in Orlando Chapter Leader of the Year Colin B. Konschak, MBA, RPh, CPHIMS Georgia Chapter Western Pennsylvania Chapter New England Chapter Oregon Chapter WELCOME PLATINUM NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS Resolute Solutions Inc. Resolute is a world-class business and technology consulting firm, offering solutions based on Microsoft technologies, including .NET, MOSS, Silverlight and Unified Communications. Resolute creates intuitively usable solutions for increased productivity, collaboration, communication and business insight. Its full lifecycle approach includes innovative mobile training support. www.resolute.com Chapter Innovations Award Grand Prize Recipients Absolute Software Absolute Software Corp. is a leader in Computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking™ solutions. With over 2 million subscriptions currently under contract, Absolute Software provides individuals and organizations of all types and sizes with solutions to manage regulatory compliance, data protection and theft recovery. www.absolute.com Runner-Up Recipients GOLD Industry Service Awards ACCE-HIMSS Excellence in Clinical Engineering and Information Technology Synergies Award Google Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine, Google is an easy-to-use, free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second. www.google.com Cogon Systems Inc. Cogon Systems Inc. is a Pensacola, Fla.-based healthcare software company that provides hospitals with leadingedge information technology solutions. Cogon Systems raises the standard for patient safety and clinical efficiency through data integration and mobile technology. www.cogonsystems.com John D. Hughes Jr., MS SHS-HIMSS Excellence in Healthcare Management Engineering/Process Improvement Award Identity Engines Identity Engines delivers fine-grained network access based on identity and role. Centralized policy authoring and management solve today's most pressing access and compliance challenges for heterogeneous networks including locking down open ports on wired networks, and differentiated wireless access for visitors and contractors. www.identityengines.com Phytel Inc. Phytel was founded in 1996 to provide physicians with tools for better managing patient-physician communications and care-related activities. Phytel uses evidence-based disease management and preventive care protocols to identify non-compliant patients that are overdue for service and then automatically notifies them of needed healthcare actions. www.phytel.com Editor: Kenneth R. Ong, MD, MPH Editor: David Merritt John L. Templin Jr., LFHIMSS, FAAHC, FACHE, DSHS Physician IT Leadership Award Nursing Informatics Leadership Award CHIME/HIMSS John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award Ipswitch Inc. Ipswitch develops and markets software products and services for businesses worldwide. More than 100 million people use Ipswitch software to monitor their networks with Ipswitch WhatsUp®, transfer files over the Internet using the marketleading Ipswitch WS_FTP® Professional client and Ipswitch WS_FTP Server, and communicate via IMail™ Server. www.ipswitch.com Salar Salar is a healthcare software company focused on enhancing the EMR. Integrated with hospital or practice EMRs, Salar's mobile solutions boost clinical productivity and operational efficiency. At the core of Salar's Compliance+ Advanced Clinical Productivity Suite™, is its interactive tablet technology that powers TeamNotes™. www.salarinc.com Paper Kills: Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology Peter Basch, MD, FACP Service Awards Outstanding SIG Member Award Patricia C. Dykes, DNSc, MA, RN Dexter D'Costa, MBBS, MHA, CPHIMS Dean J. Athanassiades, PMP, CPHIMS, FHIMSS Paul Mermelstein, LHIMSS Frank Milewski, LHIMSS Ned Simpson, LHIMSS Joseph J. Wagner, MPA, LFHIMSS Thomas Webb, LHIMSS Distinguished Fellows Service Award George T. Hickman, CPHIMS, FHIMSS QualityMetric Health Outlook Solutions QualityMetric is a leading provider of health status and outcomes measurement products and services that use proprietary and analytical methodologies to capture, benchmark and interpret actionable patient-reported health information. The company was founded to translate years of patient-reported outcomes research into practical applications that would support improvement in healthcare. www.qualitymetric.com UNI/CARE Systems Inc. UNI/CARE has been providing technology solutions for Health & Human Services for over 25 years. The company's mission is to provide our customers with technical systems and related services designed to ensure their ability to compete for a leadership status in their area of expertise. www.unicaresys.com Lifetime Members The Nicolas E. Davies Awards of Excellence Board of Directors Service Award Marion J. Ball, EdD, FCHIME, FHIMSS Simon P. Cohn, MD, MPH, FACEP Janet M. Dillion, FHIMSS Raymond A. Gensinger Jr., MD, CPHIMS, FHIMSS George T. Hickman, CPHIMS, FHIMSS Karen J. Ondo, FHIMSS, MTASCP John L. Templin Jr., LFHIMSS, FAAHC, FACHE, DSHS To learn more about the benefits of corporate membership, please visit www.himss.org or contact HIMSS Senior Director of Business Development Kelly Laidler at 312-915-9285 or klaidler@himss.org. Illinois - National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (I-NEDSS) Springfield, Ill. Public Health Award of Excellence Institute for Family Health Ambulatory Care Award of Excellence New York, NY John A. Page Outstanding Service Award Leadership Award Emma Cartmell Lyman Dennis, PhD, CPHIMS, FHIMSS Valdez Family Clinic San Antonio, Texas Village Health Partners Plano, Texas N Organizational Award of Excellence Allina Hospitals and Clinics Minneapolis, Minn. Save the Date DAVIES HIMSS Summit08 Watch for details in upcoming issues of the HIMSS Insider and at www.himss.org. [continued from page 45] June 9-10 Washington, DC Application materials, including “Who Can Apply” guidelines and additional resources, are available online. HIMSS08 attendees interested in the Davies Award program can plan on attending the Davies Breakfast Reception on Tuesday, Feb. 26, from 7 am to 8 am in Room 303AB. The reception is the place to network with Davies recipients and learn tips and tricks on the application process from Davies Award Chairs, including Davies CHO Chair Linda Travis Macomber. s ational Health IT Week 2008, the leading annual forum where public and private sector organizations unite to advance adoption of health information technologies for transforming healthcare, will be held June 9-13. Organizations with diverse perspectives on healthcare will gather in Washington, DC, to work together under one banner with the goal of improving healthcare efficiency, quality, cost-effectiveness and patient safety through health IT. To become a partner or learn more about participating, visit www.healthitweek.org. The first National Health IT Week was held in 2006, with 46 public and private entities uniting in a broad-based, collaborative effort to accelerate national health IT adoption. In 2007, National Health IT Week brought together 60 partnering organizations and culminated in a press conference showcasing bipartisan congressional support of health IT and related legislation. Recently, planning for the week officially kicked off with the appointment of members to the National Health IT Week 2008 Honorary Steering Committee, which is comprised of national and state-level healthcare and policy leaders. The co-chairs of the committee are Aneesh Chopra, secretary of technology, Commonwealth of Virginia, and Holly Miller, MD, MBA, vice president and chief medical information officer of University Hospitals in Cleveland. Activities to be held during National Health IT Week 2008 are continuously being added and include the following: • HIMSS Summit08, June 9-10 • HIMSS Advocacy Day, June 10-11 • National Health IT Week/Advocacy Day Networking Reception and Awards Ceremony, June 11 • Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics Technology Showcase and Capitol Hill Press Conference, June 12 Additional details about these events are available at www.healthitweek.org. National Health IT Week 2008 Scheduled for June 9-13 Save the Date http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.resolute.com http://www.absolute.com http://www.cogonsystems.com http://www.google.com http://www.himss.org/awards http://www.himss.org/awards http://www.identityengines.com http://www.phytel.com http://www.ipswitch.com http://www.salarinc.com http://www.qualitymetric.com http://www.unicaresys.com http://www.himss.org http://www.healthitweek.org http://www.himss.org http://www.himss.org http://www.healthitweek.org

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