Summer 2014 Newsletter

Message from the President

Clark KegleyWelcome to the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Southern California Chapter website! HIMSS celebrated its 52nd Anniversary in 2013 with over 52,000 members, 600 corporations, and 250 not-for-profit partner organizations, and is focused on providing leadership in healthcare for the management of systems, technology and information. The Southern California Chapter has over 2200 members across Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Imperial, Kern, Riverside, San Bernadino and Ventura counties. Thanks to the unrivaled commitment of our members, sponsors and chapter leaders, our Chapter received the 2011-2012 HIMSS Presidential Level designation for Recognition of Advocacy and the HIMSS National Chapter of the Year Award twice in the last 3 years.
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SoCal HIMSS Welcomes Incoming President James Brady

by Tim Jones

Jim BradyAs our 2014-15 year gets underway on July 1, we are pleased to welcome James Brady who takes over as President from Clark Kegley. I caught up with Jim at the annual planning meeting held at National University on May 30th to find out a little more about who he is, what he does, and what plans he has for our chapter this year.
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A Roving Reporter’s Review of the 6th Annual Clinical Informatics Summit - May 2, 2014

by Karen Keating
Necessity: the Mother of Invention
Apt words spoken by Bill Childs in his keynote address to the 6th Annual Clinical Informatics Summit on May 2nd.

CIS figBefore Bill was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades of contributions to HIT, he reflected on where we’ve come from, the early days of 1968 when Medicare/Medicaid were established. When engineers literally ‘built’ keyboards, monitors and DRGs were new. Leading up to now, when we need ‘Star Trek’ medicine – i.e. smart systems that do more and help us innovate costs out of the delivery process. As an early pioneer in electronic records, Bill was part of the team that wrote an EMR for Lockheed, which they installed at El Camino Hospital saving $1M dollars the first year.
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Advocacy Committee Update

by Sri Bharadwaj
AdvocacyOn Friday, May 2nd, the Southern California HIMSS Chapter hosted their 2nd Annual Advocacy Roundtable with local representatives, in conjunction with the 6th Annual Clinical Informatics event held at Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). This year, SoCal was honored to have State Assemblyman Donald Wagner and Field Representative Joe Sturges, Amy Walker, Deputy District Director for Congressman Darrell Issa, Scott Peotter, Field Representative for Assemblyman Alan Mansoor, and other local dignitaries.
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Do Informatics Nurses Add Value?

by Tess Settergren, MHA, MA, RN-BC
nurse"Informatics Nurse? What do you DO?” Most, if not all, nurses who are working in a nursing informatics (NI) role are asked questions in this vein at some point in their career. They may also be asked questions like; “Don’t you like to take care of patients?” or “Were you injured or something?” Sometimes informatics nurses find it difficult to articulate what they do, and how they bring value to patient care. And they DO bring value. Informatics has evolved in generally similar directions across many disciplines. Health informatics is probably the broadest term used, and comprises many disciplines and several distinct foci. HIMSS defined health and clinical informatics as interchangeable: “Clinical Informatics (aka Health Informatics) promotes the understanding, integration, and application of information technology in healthcare settings. This helps to ensure adequate and qualified support of clinician objectives and industry best practices1”.

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Health IT Career Roundtable Event: A Hit for Students and Executives

by Bella Zaghi
career roundtableAs evening set on April 30, 2014 and most people in the LA traffic began the route home, over two dozen students and five executives headed to Westwood for SoCal HIMSS Academic Alliance Committee’s Health IT Career Roundtable. The event took place in the Marisa Lief conference room at UCLA’s Medical Plaza. As the students and executives rolled in, they enjoyed refreshments and time to network and meet each other. The program officially began with Bella Zaghi explaining the services and programs in the Academic Alliance Committee and how the roundtable would work.

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The Twittersphere of SoCal Healthcare Providers: Let us see who has a handle on Twitter

by Nishant Jain
twitter tableIn order to begin tracking healthcare social media in SoCal, we looked at the Healthcare Social Media List1 and identified SoCal healthcare providers listed on this site that used twitter accounts. Following is a Mini-Directory with twitter handles for the SoCal region.

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Patient Engagement from Wearables and other Home-Health devices: The future is now

by Vikram Kumar, MD, FAAP, CMIO, Pediatrician, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker

Background
wearable4Patient generated health data includes data that is created, recorded or generated by or from patients and their families. In the past this included history (present illness, past medical, social, family, symptoms, medication/treatment) and biometric data.1 For centuries health educators have been preaching the value of good history taking in order to define the diagnosis and treatment.

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Sponsor Survey

by Angela Rivera
sponsorlikeIn the next few days all 2013/2014 sponsors should receive a copy of our Sponsor Survey. We would appreciate you taking a few minutes to complete the survey. We value your opinion and want to ensure we are continuing to provide opportunities for beneficial marketing and business growth for your organization.

Annual Sponsor Renewals - The new fiscal year for Southern California HIMSS begins July 1, 2014. Registration for annual sponsorship is open (link here). See below for a summary of Sponsorship Levels and associated benefits. For more information please contact Adam Burns atburns4@gmail.com or Angela Rivera angela.rivera@ctghs.com.

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3rd Annual Charity Golf Tournament

by Kelley Golden
golfThis past year, we held our 2nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament, benefiting Make-A-Wish of Orange County and Inland Empire. Headed up by the VP of Programs, Geri Pavia, we had a sold out event with players and sponsors! The success of this event allowed the chapter to donate nearly $18,000 to help make local childrens' dreams come true.

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Video from Two Recent Events Now Available Online

MattisonVideo from the April 1, 2014 Healthcare IT Conference is now on our YouTube channel! John Mattison, MD and Sunny Ramchandani, MD each gave excellent keynote addresses, and panel discussions on ACO and Patient Engagement, Health Information Exchange, and Collaboration in Southern California included some of the leading experts and thought leaders in our community. Nearly five hours of excellent presentations, conversations, and Q&A are available in this playlist. Please remember to subscribe to the YouTube channel to receive automatic updates when new videos are posted.
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