July 2009
Dear Chapter Members,
Interested in attending a Summer Chapter Networking Event? Please complete the following survey and watch for information about this social networking event in the next few weeks. Complete Survey Online
HIMSS Board Election News, the votes are in for the 2009-2010 election and:
Carl R. Hill is our new Chapter President
Angela Rivera is our new President Elect
Despina Hopkins is our new Vice President Program Services
Paul Salmon is our new Vice President Finance/Treasurer
Save the Date for The 19th Annual HFMA California Fall Conference
September 13 - 15, 2009
Hyatt Regency Monterey, Monterey, California
Please see attached brochure for more details! Click Here or visit their website at
www.hfma-cafallconf.org
West Coast Nursing Informatics Summit
California HIMSS Chapters were proud to present our West Coast Nursing Informatics Summit on Friday, June 12, 2009. Thanks to Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) for hosting the event.
This dynamic educational program included several nationally recognized key note speakers and panelists representing single facility acute care hospitals, large multi-facility IDNs, academic medical centers and nursing informatics associations.
*Dr. Patricia Hinton Walker, VP for Nursing Policy and Professor, Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences
*Kathleen Sanford, Sr. VP and Chief Nursing Officer at Catholic Health Initiatives
*Dr. Diane Skiba, Health Care Informatics and Project Director at University of Colorado
*Dana Bledsoe, VP, Patient Care Services & CNO at Children's Hospital of Orange County
*Dr. Willa Fields, Professor in Graduate Nursing Leadership at San Diego State University
This event offered education and first hand perspectives how Nursing Informatics currently and will continue to impact the delivery, documentation, administration and evaluation of patient care. Additionally, this summit provided opportunities to collaborate with colleagues. We hope to make this an annual event.
HIMSS California Advocacy Day was held on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 in Sacramento. We were honored to have as our keynote speakers two of the state’s top Healthcare Officials Herb Schultz, Senior Advisor to the Governor and Jonah Frohlich, the newly appointed Deputy, Secretary of Health Information Technology, California Health and Human Services and Dave Roberts, Vice President of HIMSS Government Relations.
The action pack day included an afternoon at the State Capitol meeting our legislative representatives and concluding with a Peer networking reception.
Please visit our Chapter Advocacy page (under the tab About SoCal HIMSS) for more information about the event and our speaker presentations.
Great News for our Chapter! The HIMSS Membership and Board of Directors have informed the Southern California Chapter of HIMSS that we have been chosen as the recipient of the 2008 Chapter Innovations Grand Prize Award – Large Chapters. The Award recognizes innovative and quality practices in HIMSS Chapters. Click Here to read the press release.
Thank you for visiting the HIMSS Southern California Web Site. It is an honor to be Chapter President for 2009-2010. I want to express my deep appreciation to the HIMSS Southern California Chapter board and all of our chapter members for providing me this exceptional opportunity. I have been involved with the Chapter board for more than seven years, and the current board is an amazing group of people dedicated to making our chapter one of the best.
The Southern California Chapter of HIMSS is one of forty-six affiliated chapters of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the largest health care information systems professional organization in the nation. Our purpose is to bring health care professionals together to promote the exchange of experiences and knowledge among colleagues and to assist members in their professional growth. We accomplish these objectives by presenting educational seminars/conferences, networking opportunities, and a forum for the exchange of ideas among those committed to the goal of improving patient care through the effective use of information technology.
Chapter members come from diverse backgrounds, all involved in some aspect of health care information systems and management. Our members consist of professionals from hospitals, clinic organizations, third-party payors, administrators, information technology vendors, nurses, consultants, physicians, and essentially anyone interested in the trends of health care information and management systems.
Why You Should Join Our Chapter
- Opportunity to grow professionally
- Career investment, development, advancement
- Learn new things from others
- Network with other health care professionals
- Educational opportunities
- Leadership opportunities
- Gain peer recognition
- Collaborative work on healthcare community common initiatives
- Collective voice for health care professionals
- Influence the industry direction
- Opportunity to submit and publish your work and get others' publications
- Give back to the profession
Volunteer Opportunities
The Southern California Chapter of HIMSS is dependent upon the volunteer efforts of our Board of Directors and Committee members. Are you looking for a great way to get to know your fellow Southern California Healthcare professionals and gain additional leadership experience?
We need you and your input. Please contact anyone on the Board of Directors or any of our Committee Chairs for information on how you can help keep our chapter healthy so we can continue to provide meaningful value to you and your peers.
Listed below you will find links to the Chapter Annual Standards Report that we provide to National HIMSS and our Southern California HIMSS Chapter By-Laws.
Annual Standards Report
Chapter By-Laws
In closing, I would like to thank Adnan Hamid for being an inspirational role model and for giving me a chance to see first-hand how to be an effective chapter president. I hope that you all have a restful and relaxing rest of your summer. Stay tuned for announcements of our upcoming events.
Best regards,
Carl R. Hill
President, HIMSS Southern California Chapter
2009-2010
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