HIMSS Inspires Today’s Leaders to Solve Healthcare’s Challenges

With Healthcare Transformation Project, HIMSS brings together C-suite executives to transform their organization, and healthcare, with the best use of information technology and management systems

HIMSS Inspires Today’s Leaders to Solve Healthcare’s Challenges

HIMSSJoyce Lofstrom, 312-915-9237

The collaborative efforts of healthcare’s senior executives are contributing to the effective transition from paper to digital patient records. Building on this synergy, introduces to develop a committed community of healthcare provider senior leaders dedicated to positively transforming the quality, safety, cost-effectiveness, and access to care at the local level. This interactive and innovative forum, with peer-to-peer discussion and debate, will be held from Nov. 14-16, at the PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

“Thanks to our research with C-suite leaders, we know they look for programs with actionable knowledgeable and tangible deliverables they can apply to their own healthcare settings,” said H. Stephen Lieber, CAE, HIMSS President and CEO. “Healthcare Transformation Project provides those benefits by bringing together like-minded executives to learn more about best practices, develop collaborations to enhance their organizations and communities, and most importantly, commit to action.”

Healthcare Transformation Project offers year-round engagement with networking, community, events and research. In addition to the annual forum in November, members of the community will meet through virtual events and at HIMSS13 in New Orleans from March 3-7, 2013. Research released to the community through June 2013 will look at “IT’s Impact on Organizational Culture,” with a report scheduled for release at the November gathering.

In November, participants will hear from and work with ThirdRiver Partners, LLC, during a Meaningful Discussions Workshop with peer conversation and action plan development. Jennings is a respected healthcare strategist and futurist and author of two books, and .

“We know senior executives love learning from each other and rarely have a chance to sit with their colleagues – a chance to learn from peers. At this first gathering of Healthcare Transformation Project, these C-suite leaders will have a unique chance to hear from others who are struggling with the same strategic questions. Then, they will be able to see how their peers address the situation, while at the same, try out their own ideas in a safe and energetic environment.”

At the forum, each member of this senior executive community can create a Commitment to Action by developing a plan of specific and measurable steps addressing an important challenge facing that individual’s health organization, stakeholder group or community. Supported by information technology, each action is driven by a guiding principle of transforming healthcare on a micro level, and it must be new, specific and measurable. Jennings explained participants will leave at the close of forum with a concrete plan anchored with the challenges identified at HTP and actionable when they get home.

The focus on dialogue between participants and speakers. The event opens with dinner on Wednesday, Nov. 14, with speaker 43rd governor of Florida. The on Thursday, Nov. 15, offers insights on organizational transformation followed by a review of innovation and inspiration across the organization with , president and CEO, Banner Health, a leading healthcare provider in clinical excellence and innovation. Jennings leads the afternoon workshop, and then, dinner and the evening’s conversation with:

“Healthcare Transformation Project supports the HIMSS cause to improve healthcare with the best use of IT and management systems by empowering these executive leaders to impact their respective organizations and communities,” says Lieber. “Their focus may be local, but the decisions and commitments made, through the collaborations formed as part of this initiative, will impact people and lives throughout the world.”

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HIMSS is a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded 51 years ago, HIMSS and its related organizations are headquartered in Chicago with additional offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. HIMSS represents more than 44,000 individual members, of which more than two thirds work in healthcare provider, governmental and not-for-profit organizations. HIMSS also includes over 570 corporate members and more than 170 not-for-profit organizations that share our mission of transforming healthcare through the effective use of information technology and management systems. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare practices and public policy through its content expertise, professional development, research initiatives, and media vehicles designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to improving the quality, safety, access, and cost-effectiveness of patient care. To learn more about HIMSS and to find out how to join us and our members in advancing our cause, please visit our website at .