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TN HIMSS Board Is About Engagement, Experience and Serving Chapter Members
Did you know that your TN HIMSS Board or Directors is comprised of 35 diverse members from across the state? In fact, your TN HIMSS board is one of the largest and most engaged boards out of all HIMSS chapters—and one of the most decorated. The chapter was named Large...
TN HIMSS Ambassadors Enjoy Family Time Together
Our TN HIMSS Ambassadors recently took time away from the hustle and bustle and time away from the computer screen to enjoy family time -- and a little friendly conversation with a pumpkin carving contest. What's your favorite pumpkin design?
TN HIMSS Chapter Represented At The 2019 Leader Bootcamp
By Guice Smith, TN HIMSS VP of Collaboration TN HIMSS VP of Collaboration Guice Smith TN HIMSS President-Elect, Tod Fetherling, and I recently attended the National HIMSS Bootcamp in Santa Clara, CA. This afforded us the opportunity to hear firsthand the strategic...
TN HIMSS Recognizes World Mental Health Day 2019 With Behavioral Health Event At Envision Healthcare
by Eric Thrailkill, VP and CIO of AMSURG/TN HIMSS Chapter President We recognize National Mental Health Week from October 7-11 and the World Health Organization recognizes (WHO) (to promote awareness and recognize care providers, patients and families) World Mental...
NHIT Week In Action: TN HIMSS Supporting Local Community Health Efforts
By DJ King, Principal at Altitude Ventures and TN HIMSS Advocacy Committee Member On September 26, TN HIMSS joined state and local leaders for the unveiling of Nashville Health’s 2019 Nashville Community Health and Well-being Survey. This is the first...
Nashville’s Healthcare Analytics Scene Is Robust And Growing
By Tod Fetherling, President & CEO of Perception Health/TN HIMSS President Elect The Nashville Analytics Summit hosted by the Nashville Technology Council in partnership with TNHIMSS created a healthcare focused track. The two-day event was a success by all...
Celebrate National HIT Week By Creating Healthy Communities
This week -- September 23-27 -- is National HIT Week and this year's theme is Supporting Healthy Communities. Supporting Healthy Communities requires the same level of coordination, cooperation, and connectivity among healthcare individual stakeholders as it does data...
Find Out What HIT Week Means To Your Colleagues
What does HIT Week mean to you? Healthcare technology has the power to transform and evolve our industry for the better. In one of the most complex industries in the world, wrought with inefficiencies, lack of care coordination, rising costs, and sub-optimal levels of...
September 23-27, 2019 – National Health IT Week: Supporting Healthy Communities
By Josh Harvey, CPHIMS; TN HIMSS Advocacy Committee Member; Director, Health IT Policy & Strategy, HCA Healthcare Since 2006, health IT advocates have raised their voices in unison to demonstrate the power and promise of information and technology to transform our...
Fall 2019 Update From TN HIMSS President Eric Thrailkill
With daily highs hovering in the mid-90’s, the weather in Tennessee certainly doesn’t have the appearance of the onset of Fall. However, with college football, pro football and yes, Nashville Predator hockey cranking up, I know it’s just a matter of time until...
Tennessee HIMSS Announces President-Elect and Five New Board Members
The Tennessee Chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), has welcomed the election of Perception Health CEO J. Tod Fetherling as President Elect, along with five new members to its Board of Directors. Fetherling will serve a one-year...
Nashville Medical News Interviews TN HIMSS Board Members Tod Fetherling, Antoine Agassi On “State of Technology” in Healthcare
TN HIMSS Board of Directors, Tod Fetherling who is also CEO of PerceptionHealth, and Antoine Agassi who is also Chairman and CEO of Trinisys, were recently featured in the Nashville Medical News speaking about the state of technology in healthcare. Read the article to...
Reflections from Attending the Harvard Medical School Executive Education Program for HIMSS
by Justin Mooneyhan, TN HIMSS Ambassador Committee Chair/Sr. Director IT Project Management -- AMSURG As I reflect on my three days at the first-of-its-kind Data, Insights, and Strategies for the Health Enterprise: a Harvard Medical School Executive Education program...
TN HIMSS-TennCare: Shaping Healthcare for Tennessee
By Caleb Graves, TN HIMSS Advocacy Committee Chair/Director of Business Development--Staffing as a Mission In early July, the TN HIMSS Advocacy Committee met with state officials from TennCare and the Office of eHealth to discuss ways to work together. TN HIMSS has...
President Update – What a Year (almost)!
By Eric Thrailkill, TN HIMSS Chapter President and Vice President/Chief Information Officer of AMSURG As we near the end of June 2019, and the end of the HIMSS fiscal year (HIMSS fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30), I wanted to pass on a few reflections of the past...
Support the Modernization of the Nation’s Public Health Data Systems
HIMSS is leading a new campaign with the Association of Public Health Laboratories(APHL), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), and National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) to support legislative efforts in...
Reimagining the Hospital Service Center
By Tommy Lewis, CPHIMS, FHIMSS; Past President TN HIMSS; Chief Transformation Officer Tivity Health Well for me it was nine airports over a period of 11 days and I was thrilled to get back to Nashville on the morning of Thursday June 13; even after a long raucous red...
An “Epic” Exploration From Two Healthcare Thought Leaders
by Eric Thrailkill, TN HIMSS President and VP/CIO of Amsurg It certainly started like “just another Wednesday night” in the Gulch neighborhood of downtown Nashville, complete with the sights and sounds of music, pedal taverns and overflowing dining...
A Perspective on the HIT Workforce Accelerator Program
by Justin Mooneyhan, TN HIMSS Ambassador Committee Chair/Amsurg Sr. Director-IT Project Management Monday, April 29th, 2019, marked the commencement of the 9th HIT Workforce Accelerator Certificate Program, a partnership certificate program between the TN HIMSS...
Ninth Cohort of the Health IT Workforce Accelerator Program Graduates
Congratulations to the recent graduates of the ninth cohort of the TN HIMSS and Belmont University Health IT Workforce Accelerator Spring 2019 class. The graduating students and their companies are: Holly Anderson-BCBS TNRegina Dozier-BCBS TNJosh...