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HIMSS announced the 2009 Award recipients, recognizing their contributions in adopting interoperable EHRs and healthcare IT, and decided to provide more than $60,000 in scholarship monies to six deserving students.

“Each year, we see significant and innovative efforts to improve the delivery of healthcare with information technology from our HIMSS award recipients, who are nominated in the four award categories of industry service, HIMSS service, publications and chapters,” said Erica Pantuso, CAE, HIMSS Vice President, Member Services. “All of us at HIMSS congratulate these individuals for sharing their valuable expertise and example with the Society and the entire industry.” 

All award and scholarship honorees will be recognized at the HIMSS Awards Banquet on March 2, at the Omni Hotel at the CNN Center during the 2010 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition.

Following is a list of the 2009 HIMSS Scholarship and Award recipients:

 

Scholarships :

HIMSS Foundation Supported:

Undergraduate - Meha Goyal

Master’s - Michael Hoaglin

PhD -

Catherine Ivory, RNC, MSN

Richard P. Covert, PhD, FHIMSS, Management Engineering

Kezban Yagci, MPH

 

Chapter Supported:

New England HIMSS Dvora Brodie

Maryam El Kherba

 

The New York Chapter Scholarships:

Samuel Espino, MBA, PMP

Lindsay Speros

 

The HIMSS Northern California Chapter:

Lynn Bar

 

Publication Award - Book of the Year:

Improving Medication Use & Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-step Guide

Editor: Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI; Chief Clinical Information Officer, Thomson Reuters, Cherry Hill, NJ

 

Service Awards:

Distinguished Fellows Service Award:

Cindy McKinney, MBA, FHIMSS

Senior Managing Consultant; IBM; Kansas City, Mo.

 

Chapter Leader of the Year:

Duke Rohe, BS, FHIMSS

Performance Improvement Specialist; The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Houston, Texas

 

Chapter Innovations Award - Grand Prize:

HIMSS Arizona Chapter

HIMSS Northern California Chapter

 

Life Members:

Leroy Baker, CPHIMS, LFHIMSS; Mazomanie, Wis.

Michael Kusmin, MBA, CPHIMS, LFHIMSS; Westwood, Mass.

Harvey Z. Roth, CPHIMS, LFHIMSS; Orinda, Calif.

 

Board of Directors Service Award:

Charles Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS

Director of Information Systems and CIO; Good Samaritan Hospital; Vincennes, Ind.

Jay Srini, FHIMSS

Chief Innovation Officer; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Pittsburgh, Penn.

Sunny Sanyal

President, McKesson Corporation; Alpharetta, Ga.

John Blair III, MD

President; Taconic IPA, Inc.; Fishkill, NY

 

John A. Page Outstanding Service Award:

Helen Hill, FHIMSS; Henry Ford Health System; Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

Founders Leadership Award:

John Maese, MD, FACP, FHIMSS; President; Quality Physician Services; Brooklyn, NY

 

Joint Industry Awards:

ACCE-HIMSS Excellence in Clinical Engineering and Information Technology Synergies Award:

Adrian Johnson, BTECH, BEPS

Director, Biomedical Engineering; London Health Sciences Centre; London, ON

 

SHS-HIMSS Excellence in Healthcare Management Engineering/Process Improvement Award:

Barry Ross, MHSA, MSIE, DSHS, LFHIMSS, Life Member; IIE, Examiner, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (2009); Pittsburgh, Penn.

 

The HIMSS Davies Awards - Public Health Award of Excellence:

Boston Public Health Commission, Infectious Disease Bureau, Boston Syndromic Surveillance System, Boston, Mass.

Denver Public Health, Denver Public Health Information Service, Denver, Colo

 

HIMSS Davies Ambulatory Care Award of Excellence:

Virginia Women’s Center, Richmond, Va.

 

HIMSS Davies Community Health Organizations Award of Excellence:

Urban Health Plan, Bronx, NY;

Heart of Texas, Waco, Texas

 

HIMSS Davies Organizational Award of Excellence:

MultiCare, Tacoma, Wash.

 

Industry Service Awards:

Physician IT Leadership Award:

William Bria, MD; CMIO; Shriners Hospital for Children; Tampa, Fla.

 

Nursing Informatics Leadership Award:

Ida Androwich, RNC, FAAN, PhD; Professor and Director, Health Systems Management, Loyola University Chicago; HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award; Maywood, Ill

 

CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award:

Bill Spooner, FCHIME, Senior Vice President and CIO; Sharp HealthCare; San Diego, Calif.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS ) is a comprehensive healthcare-stakeholder membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. 

Source: HIMSS

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