HIMSS names IT Leadership Award winners
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced its 2010 Clinician IT Leadership award winners. Liz Johnson, RN-C, has won the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award, and Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD, has received the HIMSS Physician IT Leadership Award.
Award Recipients are honored for their contributions to HIMSS, their organizations and the health IT profession.
Johnson, vice president of applied clinical informatics at Tenant Healthcare, served as vice chair of the HIMSS board from 2009-2010. During her tenure, she led the board’s strategic planning session and introduced competency of nursing informatics and a “patient-first” approach to quality into discussions.
She has chaired the HIMSS Nominating Committee and National Health Reform Task Force and served on the Nursing Informatics Task Force and Governance Committees, Patient Safety Committee and HIMSS Foundation Board. She also is a member of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health IT Standards Committee and co-chairs its Implementation Workgroup.
Zaroukian is CMIO and director of clinical informatics and care transformation at Michigan State University. In accepting this EMR leadership assignment, he stepped down after more than seven years as program director of Michigan State University's (MSU) internal medicine residency program. Under his leadership, the MSU residency program was one of the first in the U.S. to systematically integrate handheld computing technology into teaching and patient care at the bedside.
Zaroukian is a fellow member of HIMSS and the physician community, and serves on the HIMSS Ambulatory Committee. He is editor of “Clinical Problem-Solving Cases” a web-based educational tool produced by the American College of Physicians (ACP), and was a participating member of the informatics group of the Institute of Medicine Health Professions Education Project. As a counselor of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, Zaroukian also advanced IT use in graduate medical education nationally.
Johnson and Zaroukian will receive their awards during the 2011 Annual HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Fla., later this month.
Award Recipients are honored for their contributions to HIMSS, their organizations and the health IT profession.
Johnson, vice president of applied clinical informatics at Tenant Healthcare, served as vice chair of the HIMSS board from 2009-2010. During her tenure, she led the board’s strategic planning session and introduced competency of nursing informatics and a “patient-first” approach to quality into discussions.
She has chaired the HIMSS Nominating Committee and National Health Reform Task Force and served on the Nursing Informatics Task Force and Governance Committees, Patient Safety Committee and HIMSS Foundation Board. She also is a member of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health IT Standards Committee and co-chairs its Implementation Workgroup.
Zaroukian is CMIO and director of clinical informatics and care transformation at Michigan State University. In accepting this EMR leadership assignment, he stepped down after more than seven years as program director of Michigan State University's (MSU) internal medicine residency program. Under his leadership, the MSU residency program was one of the first in the U.S. to systematically integrate handheld computing technology into teaching and patient care at the bedside.
Zaroukian is a fellow member of HIMSS and the physician community, and serves on the HIMSS Ambulatory Committee. He is editor of “Clinical Problem-Solving Cases” a web-based educational tool produced by the American College of Physicians (ACP), and was a participating member of the informatics group of the Institute of Medicine Health Professions Education Project. As a counselor of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, Zaroukian also advanced IT use in graduate medical education nationally.
Johnson and Zaroukian will receive their awards during the 2011 Annual HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Fla., later this month.