In This Issue:
 September Luncheon
Next Luncheon - March 11th
Spotlight - AdvancedMD
KLAS Research Articles
Sponsors
Demographics of our Chapter Members
Advocacy Webinar
Picnic in the Park
September luncheon
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About 35 of our members braved the weather to enjoy our Picnic in the Park and educational luncheon on September 10th.
The educational presentation featured Joe Hales, PhD (Primary Children's Dir of IS and professor at the Univ of Utah). Dr. Hales spoke on "The Current State of Healthcare IT Security". Click here to view the presentation materials. Dr. Hales also presented the HIMSS Security Matrix.
Also, we presented the results of the August Membership Survey.
The picnic portion was catered by Pat's BBQ.
Our Next Education Luncheon
March 11th
Please join us for our next educational luncheon on Wednesday, March 11th.
Come join us for our March 11th UHIMSS Educational luncheon. This month we will have Mark Singleton from RxAmerica talking to us about E-prescribing and Clark Shaw will give us some insight and updates on RHIO and UHIN.
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Location: IHC Employee Services Map
Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm - Presentations will start at noon
Cost: Free
Mark Singleton from RxAmerica will be discussing how in the outpatient/retail world e-prescribing is used, how the different plans are involved, how nation standards are used, and how providers (both Prescribers and Pharmacies) use these systems.
Clark Shaw from NGIT Health & Human Services will be giving us updates and details from the national HIMSS RHIO/HIE groups. He will also be covering new developments from the UHIN and NHIN groups.
It is going to be another good luncheon with great information and networking opportunities. It is open to member and non-member guests alike and the cost is FREE.
Bring your friends and co-workers everyone is welcome. We will be giving away prizes! We look forward to seeing you there.
RSVP online
Local HIT Company Spotlight
AdvancedMD
As a new service to our membership, we have decided to highlight local companies that provide Healthcare IT services or products. Many of us are so busy delivering services to our customers, that we are not often aware of the other great organizations in our own backyard.
AdvancedMD is our company in the spotlight for this newsletter. AdvancedMD Software, Inc., founded in 1999 and located in Draper, developed a product that has grown to be the leader in Web-based, software as a service (SaaS) for the medical billing and practice management software segment. Click here for the full story.
KLAS Research Articles
Aggregation and Real-time Location Systems
We are pleased to provide synopses from KLAS Research regarding two recently published studies.
Beyond the CIS: Why are hospitals buying aggregation solutions?
Providers are investing in aggregation solutions to solve any of five key problems: Frustrated physicians, downtime, accessing information across care venues, core measures and changing reporting requirements and getting information where and when it is needed. No solution has yet been shown to aggregate data in such a way that a physician or clinician can take immediate action from the information presented and enter an order, chart care, or enter a progress note into the aggregation solution. Click here to read more regarding Aggregation Services.
RTLS (Real-time Location Systems) Perception Study 2009
Since 2005, several prominent industry surveys have suggested that a significant percentage of providers would be implementing RTLS technology within the next two years, yet we have only seen very modest growth. There appears to be a direct correlation between provider size and adoption. Click here to read more regarding RTLS.
Thanks to our Sponsors
We would like to thank our sponsors: Motorola and Accuvant. Thanks to our sponsors, we are able to deliver our educational luncheons and our Holiday Social at no-cost to our members.
Please click on the logos of our sponsors to learn more about these two companies.
If your company is interested in sponsoring your Utah Chapter of HIMSS, please visit our UHIMSS Sponsor page.
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In July, our chapter members elected five new board members.
o Jeremy Bikman - Secretary
o Michel Erdmann - Program Chair
o Amy Sneddon - Membership Chair
o Chris Reed - Board Member At-Large
o Scott Ferguson - Board Member At-Large
Click here to read bios of these new members.
We are very grateful to the following board members who have completed their service to the UHIMSS Board and have moved on to other endeavors:
o Paul Allen
o Jason Hess
o Jennifer Fynbo
o Kim Barry
Have you ever wondered how many peers you have in our Utah Chapter? Have you ever wanted to know more about the general makeup of our chapter and the job titles of our membership?
If so, click here for more information regarding demographics of our membership. We currently have 150 chapter members.
HIMSS Advocacy
Complimentary webinar
November 12th at 10:00am MST.
Post-Election Highlights and Implications for Health Information Technology Policy Changes in 2009
The November 4th elections are predicted to have a tremendous impact on anyone connected with the health information technology industry...and most importantly - you!
Learn from national experts and a former Congressman how to prepare for the new Presidential Administration and 111th Congress about the big changes ahead affecting your community...your state and the whole country.
Click here for registration information for a free, one hour webinar entitled "Implications for HIT Policy Changes in 2009".
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