Greetings,

As I step down from my role as InSight President, I could not be more pleased with all that’s been accomplished this past year with InSight. We’ve been innovative, dynamic, progressive, and most importantly successful in all of our endeavors throughout the year.

I can confidently say that in 2007, we not only focused on the ‘now,’ but put emphasis on our future at every level within this association. I attribute our successes to those who continue supporting the vision, voice and value of InSight.

As with any organization, a leader is only as effective as his or her team and the community that he or she supports.

For that, I’d like to extend my most sincere thanks to this year’s Board of Directors, and the volunteer committees that continue to champion, advocate and drive this organization, including: the CIO Forum Task Force, Membership Committee, Nominations Committee, Web site Committee, Clinical Management Council, Infrastructure Council, International Council, Resource Management Council and Revenue Cycle Management Council.

Take advantage of lower rates by renewing your InSight membership before February 1, 2025. In addition to the value InSight already provides members, InSight has many exciting changes coming in 2008 including online learning opportunities, Web site updates that include new collaboration tools and greater functionality and usability.

For more information on membership renewal, click here.

Coming in 2008, InSight will reveal its improved Web site to drive more year-round networking and community collaboration.

Some of the 2008 updates are as follows:

• Upgraded Web technology framework
• Improvements to navigation and usability
• Upgraded document repository
• Updated discussion forum
• Improved Strategic Enhancement Process
• Reorganized home page

We look forward to this roll-out in anticipation of creating a stronger, more united InSight community.

McKesson’s OR Benchmarks® Collaborative database now contains data from more than 2.5 million surgical cases, collected from more than 350 facilities across North America. Launched in February 2006, the service is the healthcare industry’s first automated national service specifically for surgery benchmarking, enabling hospitals to use a Web-based dashboard to measure and report their operating room (OR) performance and compare it to similar facilities in the United States and Canada.

With OR Benchmarks Collaborative Release 2.0, users have greater flexibility to set defined benchmarks so they can compare themselves against other subscribers with similar characteristics. Read the press release for further details.

In January, InSight will welcome SUMMIT as a new SIG in our community. The addition of SUMMIT will not only strengthen InSight’s numbers, but will be an overall benefit to InSight membership as well.

A larger community creates a larger network to communicate and share knowledge which will benefit both our individual organizations as well as our industry. SUMMIT members joining InSight will be able to take advantage of full membership benefits such as Web site access and eLearning opportunities, as well as a special SIG track focused on SUMMIT at the InSight 2008 Annual Conference.

Continue to watch for more details regarding this community moving forward.

This is a reminder that although there is no formal December discussion period for CSEs, they are still being accepted for submission during the reconstruction of the Web site and will be included for discussion in the first round of the new 2008 Enhancement Process.

Stay tuned for an improved Enhancements section in 2008 based on membership feedback and suggestions!

If you would like to volunteer with InSight in 2008, there are still open positions for SIG Leadership! To see a list of open positions, please click here.

Be sure to plan ahead and start securing funds now for the InSight 2008 Annual Conference on September 24-27, in Grapevine, Texas.

We hope to see you there!

Be on the lookout for the 2007 Annual Report coming in January. InSight will make the Annual Report available on the Web and will announce its arrival in the January issue of NewsLink.

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