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From
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Greetings,
Last month, I had the pleasure of joining
McKesson professionals from country-wide facilities at the InSight
2007 Annual Conference, held in the George World Congress Center in Atlanta. More than 2,700 customers
like myself, supporting solution-providers, and McKesson
representatives all gathered in one location to exchange on the
issues of most importance to us and our teams.
Topics crossed over McKesson systems—both
current and future. Those customers with a need for business-focused
or technical education were afforded the opportunity to tailor their
curriculum based on their area of interest.
Not only did the event draw customers for
exchange on leading practices around the McKesson products they’re
using, this year we additionally welcomed new members to the
McKesson family.
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Through recent McKesson acquisitions,
RelayHealth, ANSOS One-Staff and ORSOS One-Call customers joined our
circle at this year’s conference. We warmly welcomed this group with
focused programming, and in turn drew value from their participation
and fresh perspectives.
For the second year in a row, we welcomed
the more than 50 CIOs who joined this year’s enhanced CIO Forum.
Designed by CIOs, for CIOs, the forum combined true best practices
from peers that have applied, or are about to apply, strategies
within their own environments, and brought McKesson top leaders into
the fold so our CIOs could stay current and tapped into the
direction of McKesson. Through McKesson executive-led sessions, the
forum provided updates and roadmaps from McKesson, and customer
roundtables focused on critical strategic business issues.
To read the President's Message in its
entirety, click here.
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Award
Winners |
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Tom Utley
Award - Lou Hermans, Vice President and CIO,
Solaris Health System
Lou Hermans continues to dedicate his
career to being a visionary for improving healthcare delivery
through the use of technology and process improvement. Increasing
patient safety is important and looking for a business solution to
meet that need is always the objective. Lou has been instrumental in
challenging McKesson, on behalf and benefit of all customers, to
provide business solutions that create safe quality care to the
patients and communities we serve. His philosophy is that the
business and technology solutions we implement need to have
measurable and sustainable outcomes.
Membership Achievement
Award - Jenna Bowser, Senior Application
Analyst, Wheaton Franciscan
Healthcare, Milwaukee
As a member of InSight for seven years,
Jenna has presented at multiple conferences, such as a Webinar for
the PHS user group, and she earned the 2005 Best of Speaker InSight
Award. In addition to her presentation work, Jenna continues to
participate in discussion forums and enhancements. She truly
embodies qualities of a dedicated member because she consistently
goes above and beyond for InSight and for the healthcare
industry.
2007 SIG
Volunteer of the Year
This year, one
InSight SIG Volunteer was honored with the SIG Volunteer of the Year
Award at the InSight 2007 Annual Conference. Ruth
Riggleman won for her work as Education
Chair of the Electronic Commerce 2000 SIG within the Revenue Cycle
Management Council. She was awarded a plaque to honor her
contributions to InSight during the SIG Volunteer lunch.
InSight would
like to thank the SIG Volunteers for all they
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CIO
Events for 2008 |
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The 2008 CIO Forum Program will continue
with a series of Webcasts throughout the year, leading up to the CIO
Forum at the InSight 2008 Annual Conference.
For those planning your schedule for the
coming year, note that in 2008 the CIO Forum Webcast series, jointly
presented by InSight and McKesson, with support from InSight's V3
Partners, will present eight
Webcasts starting in February and extending through October. Exact
dates will be released when available.
The Webcast series will
once again lead up to the CIO Forum at the InSight 2008 Annual
Conference, which will take place September
24-27, in Grapevine,
Texas. |
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Enhancement
/ Website Committee Update |
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During the
InSight 2007 Annual Conference, two high-level Enhancement/Website
Update Sessions were held. These sessions were very successful and
focused on Web site changes, Strategic Enhancement Process changes
and SIG best practices. To see the topics covered at the sessions,
please click here. |
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2008
InSight Board of Directors |
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InSight recognizes the 2008 InSight Board
of Directors. Term is January 1 - December 31,
2008:
President
Janet
Stanek
Vice-President, Support Services &
CIO
Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center
President-Elect
Eileen
Donnelly
Director Information Systems
Solaris Health
Systems
Immediate
Past President
Deborah
Gash
VP/CIO
St. Luke's Health System
Secretary
Carla
Hopkins
RN, BSN, Document Imaging System Manager
St. Francis
Hospital and Health Centers
VP of
Finance
Nancy Macken
Vice
President, Finance/Info Resources
Southlake Regional Health
Centre
VP of
Education
Jasmine
Holloway
Director, IT
Methodist Medical Center of
Illinois
Director
of Education
Bernie
Porter
Corporate Director of Decision Support
Baptist
Healthcare System
VP of
Enhancements
Janice B.
Snow
Director of Patient Financial Services
Robinson Memorial
Hospital
Director
of Enhancements
Pam Rodriquez
IT
Senior Analyst
Methodist Medical Center
VP of
Membership*
Tammy Inglis-Drew
PACS
Administrator
McKenzie Willamette Medical Center
Director
of Membership
Amy W.
Thorpe
Director of Information Management
St. Luke’s Episcopal
Health System, Corp
* The VP of Membership is a new position
that was recently approved at the meeting of the membership at the
InSight 2007 Annual Conference.
InSight also
recognizes Rick
Warren,
Past President, VP & CIO W.A. Foote Memorial Hospital and
Sandra
Ott, Secretary,
Director, Applications Lutheran Hospital of Indiana who will be
rolling off the InSight Board of Directors at the close of 2007.
InSight thanks them both for their hard work and dedication to the
InSight organization. |
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Future Annual
Conferences |
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The InSight 2008 Annual
Conference will take place September
24-27 at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine,
Texas.
The
InSight 2009 Annual Conference will take place
September
9-12 at
the Gaylord Palm in Orlando,
Florida. |
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