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Let your voice be heard! Show your commitment to health IT

NHIT Week Overview

• NHIT Week is an annual nationwide awareness week

focused on the value of health IT.

• NHIT Week Partners across the country will conduct their
• wn local events and activities to demonstrate the progress

they are making to improve healthcare delivery through the adoption of health information technology.

NHIT Week

• Joins thought leaders from the nation's most renowned and

progressive healthcare organizations to raise awareness and assemble key healthcare constituents dedicated to working together to elevate the necessity of advancing health through the best use of information technology.

• Goals:

– Bring Attention to the Value, Opportunities, and Challenges of Health IT. – Celebrate our accomplishments in policy and practical implementation of Health IT. – Expand our grassroots and grasstops engagement.

National Health IT Week 2016

Theme: Value of Health IT

Points of Engagement:

• Value of Health IT in Innovation

– Highlight: Precision Medicine

• Value of Health IT in Expanding Access to Care

– Highlight: Telemedicine

• Value of Health IT in Making Communities Healthier

– Highlight: Interoperability Across the Spectrum of Care: Linking Public/ Population Health and Human Services

• Value of Health IT in Expansion of Economic Opportunities and Job

Creation – Highlight: Women in Health IT and STEM Careers for Health

Mark your calendars

• 9/30

6TH Annual Privacy & Security Forum Newport Beach, CA See all NHIT Week events at http://www.healthitweek.org/events

• 10/20

Annual Maine Event Jeff’s Catering in Brewer, ME

• 11/10

November Educational Event Tuscan Kitchen in Burlington, MA

• 12/8

Holiday Party Harvard Club in Boston, MA

Social Media

http://www.healthitweek.org/ten-ways/participate

Facebook: www.facebook.com/himsspage Twitter: www.twitter.com/himss LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/himss

NE HIMSS Northern Maine Conference

• When: October 20th a full day from

8:30 am – 3:30 pm

• Where: Jeff’s Catering in Brewer
• Presenters:
• Barb Armstrong – Director Privacy &

Security Maine Medical Center

• Dev Culver – CIO HealthInfo Net
• Mike Keighley – IT Security Officer

MaineGeneral

• More to come…

Interoperability & Health Information Exchange Community

• Winter 2017 Interoperability and Health Information Exchange

Roundtable: Wednesday, January 18 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM ET

• Register here:
• http://www.himss.org/event/winter-2017-interoperability-health-

information-exchange-community-roundtable

HIMSS Media - Big Data & HealthCare

• When: October 24-25, 8:30am – 3:30pm
• Where: Westin Coley Place
• More Info: http://www.bigdatahitforum.com/
• NE HIMSS members received $200 off!

HIMSS Media - Revenue Cycle Summit

• When: December 6 & 7th
• Where: Westin Boston Waterfront
• Revenue Cycle 2 day conference
• NE HIMSS members received $200 off!

New England HIMSS November Educational

• When: November 10th 5:30 – 8pm
• Where: Tuscan Kitchen, Burlington MA
• Welcome Special Guests from NENIC!

HIMSS Media - Privacy & Security Forum

• When: December 5 – 7th
• Where: Westin Boston Waterfront
• Privacy & Security - 3 day conference
• NE HIMSS members received $200 off!

New England HIMSS - Holiday Social

• When: December 8th
• Where: Harvard Club Commonwealth Ave

HIMSS - Women in HealthIT

• Bimonthly webinars, including:

Critical Success Factors for Building a Professionally Mature Health IT Team​

• When: Wednesday, October 26, 10:00 am - 11:00 am CST
• Speaker: Karen Marie Wilding, Director, IS&T Operations,

University of Maryland Medical System, Member of Maryland Chapter of HIMSS

HIMSS17 - Orlando Convention Center

• National convention in

Orlando, Florida February 19 – 23rd

• Watch for more on the

NE HIMSS reception

• Catch us at the

Town Hall expo – win great prizes!

New England HIMSS – Call for Proposals

• Call for Speakers and Presentations for our Annual April Spring Event.