Press Release

 

Nominations opened in November 2010, and recipients of the HIMSS 50 in 50 Award will be recognized at the
2011 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 20‐24

CHICAGO - HIMSS celebrates its 50th anniversary by honoring 50 health IT professionals, academicians and others with the 50 in 50 Award, recognition of memorable achievements to the field or body of knowledge of healthcare information technology and management systems. Ten individuals are recognized for each of the five decades since the founding of the organization in 1961.

Former HIMSS Board Chair (1982) and retired HIMSS member Justin Myrick, PhD, LFHIMSS, noted, “Our fellow members of HIMSS have worked tirelessly for 50 years to create and improve IT and management systems. It has been a labor of love for our members to provide tools for those medical professionals who give hands‐on quality care to people in need‐‐often during times of their greatest need. It is a privilege for me to have been a part of this outstanding group of HIMSS professionals for parts of four decades.”

Eligibility for the award looked at accomplishments during the particular decade of consideration for the candidate. Other eligibility requirements included:

• Contributions to the field of health IT and management systems and to HIMSS and improvement of healthcare through technology; and
• Professional accomplishments, contributions to the body of professional knowledge, thought leadership, and organizational leadership as well as HIMSS membership.

With the development and evolution of new member communities within HIMSS during the last 50 years, nominees also could demonstrate membership activity with HIMSS, or similar activity with any former organizations now part of HIMSS, such as:

• Healthcare Management Systems Society ‐ HMSS
• Center for Healthcare Information Management – CHIM;
• Computer‐based Patient Record Institute – CPRI‐HOST
• Midwest Alliance of Nursing Informatics – MANI;
• Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions ‐ AFECHT; and
• Medical Banking Project ‐ MBP.

The award recipients appear below listed in alphabetical order by decade from the 1960s through the 2000s.

HIMSS 50 in 50

Memorable Contributors throughout HIMSS’ 50‐Year History

1960s

Karl G. Bartscht, FAAHC, CHE
Retired
HIMSS Board Member, 1965 ‐ 1970

Addison C. Bennett
Retired
HIMSS Charter Member & Chair, 1969, 1970

Edward H. Burnett
Retired
HIMSS Charter Member & Chair, 1965

William T. Delamar
Retired
HIMSS Charter Member & Chair, 1964

George L. Deschambeau
HIMSS Charter Member & Chair, 1963, 1967
Deceased, 1990

John R. Freeman, PhD, LFHIMSS
President, Arabian Careers Limited
HIMSS Charter Member & Chair, 1968

Edward J. Gerner
HIMSS Charter Member & Chair, 1962
First President, 1961
Deceased, 2007

Lillian M. Gilbreth, PhD HIMSS
Charter Member
Deceased, 1972

Fred W. Green
Retired
HIMSS Charter Member & Chair, 1966

Harold E. Smalley
HIMSS Charter Member & Chair, 1968
First Executive Director, 1962
Deceased 1994

1970s

Barton R. Burkhalter, PhD
Impact Evaluation Advisor
Management Sciences for Health Chair, 1974

Richard P. Covert, PhD, LFHIMSS
HIMSS Director, 1978‐1991
Retired

Louis E. Freund, MD
Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Director, Graduate Program in Human Factors/Ergonomics
San José State University

John E. Gall, Jr.
Health IT pioneer at El Camino Hospital in the 1960s
Deceased, 2001

Alan J. Goldberg, FACHE, FHIMSS
President
Applied Management Systems
Chair, 1979

Larry D. Grandia, FCHIME, FHIMSS
Board Member, PatientSafe Solutions, Inc.
Retired

Patric E. Ludwig
Chair, 1971
Deceased, 1996

Justin A. Myrick, PhD, LFHIMSS
Retired
Chair, 1982

Barry T. Ross, LFHIMSS, MHSA, MSIE, DSHS
Examiner, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
Chair, 1984

Richard L. Rydell, MBA, FACHE, LFHIMSS
Chief Operation Officer
Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
Chair, 1990

1980s

Nancy E. Aldrich, FASHE, FHIMSS
Retired
Chair, 1995 & 1996

William Childs
Vice President National Sales & Ambassador
Vitalize Consulting Solutions, Inc.

Richard Correll, LFHIMSS
President & CEO
College of Healthcare Information Management Executives

Robert J. Durej, PMP, CPHIMS, LFHIMSS
Principal
Productivity Leadership Group, Inc.
Chair, 1983

Robert D. Gunn, LFHIMSS
President
BG Consulting
Chair, 1986

Dennis P. L'Heureux, MS, CPHIMS, LFHIMSS
Senior Vice President& CIO
Rockford Health System
Chair, 1992

Peter J. Ryerson, LFHIMSS
President
Ryerson Healthcare Consultants, LLC
Chair, 1985

Ned J. Simpson, LFHIMSS
Healthcare Systems Program Director
AdvanTech, Inc.
Chair, 1989

Mark Tepping, LFHIMSS
Retired

Pamela Wilcox Arlotto, MBA, FHIMSS
President and CEO
Maestro Strategies, LLC
Chair, 1987

1990s

Wayne Anderson, LFHIMSS
President
First Coast Management Engineering, Inc

Jeff A. Cooper, FHIMSS
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Henry Medical Center

Marion J. Ball , EdD FAAN, FCHIME, FHIMSS
Senior Advisor, Healthcare & Life Sciences Institute, IBM Research
Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Lawrence E. Dux, MBA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Director, Clinical Information Systems and Process Improvement
Froedtert Health Community Memorial Hospital
Co‐Chair, 2004

John P. Glaser, PhD, FACMI, FCHIME, FHIMSS
CEO
Siemens Health Services Division
Chair, 1991

Ivo D. Nelson, FHIMSS
Chairman
Encore Health Resources

Rosemary Nelson, MSN, MA, RN‐BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
President and CEO
MDM Strategies, Inc.

John A. Page, LFHIMSS
Executive Director, 1991‐1999
Chair and Speaker
Vistage International Inc

Charles Platt, FHIMSS, FACHE, DSHS, CMRP
Assistant Director, Supply Chain Services
The Medical Center of Central Georgia

William C. Reed, FHIMSS, FCHIME
Healthcare Sector Lead
Bloomberg Government
Chair, 1993

2000s

William Braithwaite, MD, PhD, FACMI, FHL7
Chief Medical Officer
Anakam, an Equifax company

Judith R. Faulkner
CEO
Epic Systems Corporation

Kent Gale
Founder
KLAS Enterprises

Dave E. Garets, FHIMSS
Executive Director, Healthcare IT Program Suite
The Advisory Board Company
Co‐Chair, 2004

John D. Halamka, MD, MS
Chief Information Officer
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

Liz Johnson, MS, RN‐C, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Vice President, Applied Clinical Informatics
Tenet Healthcare Corporation

H. Stephen Lieber, CAE
President and Chief Executive Officer
HIMSS
2000 ‐ present

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, FHIMSS
Corporate Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development
Partners Healthcare Systems, Inc.
Chair, 2006

Neal Patterson
Chairman, CEO, and President
Cerner Corporation

David Roberts, MPA, FHIMSS
Vice President, Government Relations
HIMSS
2002 ‐ present

 About HIMSS 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 50 years ago, HIMSS and its related organizations have offices in Chicago, Washington, DC, Brussels, Singapore, Leipzig, and other locations across the United States. HIMSS represents more than 30,000 individual members, of which two thirds work in healthcare provider, governmental and not‐for‐profit organizations. HIMSS also includes over 470 corporate members and more than 85 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, and research initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to improving the quality, safety, access, and cost‐effectiveness of patient care. Visit our website at www.himss.org to learn more about HIMSS and to find out how to join us and our members in advancing our cause.

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