President's Message
By Sal Volpe, MD
HIMSS 11 will be held in Orlando, Florida next week.
This is the 50th Anniversary of our Society. The schedule has presentations that will be of value to all. Many of Chapter members will be speaking, be sure to give them our famous New York support.
This is an excellent opportunity to network with your peers and to make connections among the over 29,000 conference attendees.
On Sunday, February 20th, we will be holding our 2nd Annual Chapter Reception. All HIMSS NYS member are invited to attend and share ideas.
Follow the link for details: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=215524.
Registration, while not required, will help in managing the event.
Our Chapter sponsored our first-ever New York State Student Informatics Conference on November 19, 2010, at the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan.
It's estimated the nation will need 51,000 new healthcare I.T. professionals to implement ARRA/HITECH. This conference sought to nurture and develop tomorrow's HIT professionals locally in New York State.
The event focused on work force development with panels comprised of employers (e.g. health care organizations, consulting, EHR vendors), former students now working in HIT, and recruiters.
Our Keynote Speaker, JoAnn Klinedinst, HIMSS Vice-President of Professional Development, gave an excellent presentation on building and sustaining a career through HIMSS which was well received.
The winner of the Poster competition was Dr Daniel Stein. His topic was “Supporting Cooperative Physician Checklists in an Enterprise EHR”. The prize was an iPad, which Dr Stein later said was also being used toddler, a future Chapter member. The remaining poster submissions were very engaging and offered a glimpse in the creative and intellectual abilities of our next generation of HIT professionals.
The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) has given us an opportunity to share the value of a HIMSS membership during their current round of HIT presentations. We were visited by many physicians and their staff members. The remaining dates for the presentations are:
- Tuesday, February 15: Syracuse Doubletree Inn at Carrier Circle
- Wednesday, February 16: Rochester RIT Conference Center
- Thursday, February 17: Buffalo Adams Mark Hotel
This is a great opportunity to learn about our state’s two Regional Extension Centers: NYeC and NYC REACH, as well as, about the MSSNY’s new HIT Service Bureau.
For next month, I am pleased to announce our next event in cooperation with the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA). The GNYHA/HIMSS Conference will be on “The Role of Meaningful Use on Nursing Practice”. The conference will take place on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 in the GNYHA Conference Center (555 W. 57th Street, 15th Fl). Registration details will be available on our site.
Get away from the cold and snow and meet us in Orlando next week!
Sal Volpe MD
HIMSS NYS Welcomes you to Meet Our Chapter Board and Fellow Members
The time and location for our Chapter event during HIMSS11 has been confirmed. We look forward to seeing you at HIMSS11!
- Date: Sunday, February 20th
- Time: 8:00 – 11:00 PM
- Location: Peabody Hotel
- Room: Rainbow Spring, Convention Level
Career Development: Tips from the Experts
Lessons learned from the New York State Student Informatics Conference on November 19, 2010
From JoAnn W. Klinedinst, CPHIMS, PMP, FHIMSS, Vice President, Professional Development, HIMSS (jklinedinst@himss.org)
- Identify one or two professional societies that relate to your passion. Serve one with dedication, commitment, and enthusiasm.
- Take time to network with others by developing lasting relationships.
- Volunteer to do those tasks that others may not. One never knows where the next opportunity may present itself.
- Commit to lifelong learning to supplement one’s skillset.
- Earn a professional certification or two thereby demonstrating your commitment to your industry.
From Laura J. Schachter, President, Professional Placement Associates (LSchachter@ppasearch.com; www.ppasearch.com)
- Do your homework in advance about the company where you are interviewing
- Check out their website
- Go onto Linkedin or Facebook etc and see who you might know who works there
- If it is public company check their K-1
- You must prepare in advance for potential questions you will be asked
- Think, write, practice and polish at home as there is no time to think in an interview
- Arrive 10 minutes early and be calm- enjoy yourself in the interview process
- Never say anything negative about a former manager or employer
- At the end of the interview make a graceful exit-it is acceptable to say that you are truly interested in the position and look forward to the next step in the interview process-you might ask what their process will be going forward. Be sure to get a business card so you can write a thank you note to the interviewer(s)
A great resource book is the Ultimate job Seeker’s Guide, Knock’em Dead by Martin Yate.
From Daniel Halevy, MD FASN, Executive Director of Medical Quality, Primary Care Information Project (PCIP), NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (dhalevy@health.nyc.gov)
- Volunteer with organizations that do things that are related to your interests (e.g., NYC REACH if interested in public health and IT – hint!)
- Find a mentor, preferably before you become someone else’s
- Don’t interview for a job that you don’t want
- Use all of the career resources that are available (school, city agencies like SBS), and invite coaching on your cv and interviewing
- Know yourself – your work should in some way reflect the things that you’re interested in (books and magazines you read, shows you watch, places you go) - you shouldn’t have to lead a double life
From Mitchell Brie, Regional Sales Manager, Greenway Medical (mitchellbrie@greenwaymedical.com)
- Smile!
- Differentiate yourself, Sell yourself… It is a sales organization
- At the end of the interview ask what the next step is…. You need to ask for the job.
New York State HIMSS Chapter Early History
By Barry Ross, LFHIMSS, DSHS, Life Member-IIE Examiner, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (2009) (barryhimss@msn.com)
As industrial engineers from manufacturing began gravitating to metropolitan New York City medical centers# as management engineers, these transplants found a need to share information and collaborate about the nascent field of hospital management engineering (HME). Since the first wave of HMEs came from industry, most had membership in the American Institute of Industrial Engineers (previously AIIE now the Institute of Industrial Engineers of IIE). However, these individuals sought an organization which would focus more on healthcare as opposed to general industrial engineering. Therefore, the Tappan Zee Chapter of AIIE established the Greater New York Hospital Section with Robert Cusa serving as president.
William C. Staib, Director of Management Engineering at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan, was active in the Tappan Zee Chapter but wanted a connection with the relatively new management engineering association, HMSS. As a result, HMSS of Greater New York was founded and became the first affiliated chapter on October 21, 1968. Since the members of both local groups were virtually the same, the two worked as one organization. Bill Staib served as the first president of Greater New York HMSS.
HMSS of Greater New York was quite active and lent support to the creation of the Delaware Valley Chapter in 1974. There was collaboration between the two chapters. However, by the mid-1970s, the landscape began to change; some HME functions began to disappear and some MEs began relocating to other parts of the country (Barry Ross was one of these). Official HMSS documentation shows that by 1982, the chapter no longer existed.
Barry Ross returned to the metropolitan area in 1986. He found that there were no longer formal ties among hospital practitioners for MEs nor was there a group to represent the relatively new HIT field. Working with his staff at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center and Edward H. Snyder of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a questionnaire went out to the metropolitan New York, New York State, New Jersey, and Connecticut HME and HIT communities to determine the level of interest for a HIMSS (by now HMSS had morphed into HIMSS) chapter. With overwhelming results that people wanted a group, the first organizational meeting and program was held on October 16, 1990.
The decision then became as to whether form a new chapter or resurrect the defunct chapter. In discussions with HIMSS in Chicago, it was decided that it would be best to begin with a clean slate thereby distinguishing between what had been and what will be a chapter. Therefore, the by-laws were drafted and in January 1991 and reviewed with the membership at a meeting on April 9, 1991. The approved by-laws were then submitted to Chicago as required for affiliation.
The chapter functioned with Barry Ross serving as its first president and Ed Snyder served as vice-president. It became affiliated in September 1991.
Earlier members of the original (1968 – 19??) Greater New York Chapter of HMSS*:
- Sheldon Auerbach, Lenox Hill Hospital
- Glen Barber, St. Luke's Hospital
- Les Brower, King's County
- Robert Cuza, Methodist Hospital-Brooklyn
- Chip Didden, St. Luke's Hospital
- Anita Diggle, NYU Medical Center
- Dave Folker, Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Doug Happ, Montefiore Medical Center-Bronx
- Marc Holland, Montefiore Medical Center-Bronx
- Bernie Jacobs, Nassau County Medical Center
- Fred Neldner, Lutheran Hospital-Brooklyn
- William Richel, Long Island Jewish
- Barry Ross, Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Paul Savage, Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Larry Shear, King's County
- William Staib, St. Luke's Hospital
- Dick Suhm, Lenox Hill Hospital
- GeoffreyGeoffrey Suszkowski, Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Walter Tannenbaum, Montefiore Medical Center-Bronx
- Robert Tsue, Long Island Jewish
- John Werner, New York Hospital
*Organizations given for identification purposes only
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