The Blog

By Tod Fetherling, President & CEO of Perception Health/TN HIMSS President Elect The Nashville Analytics Summit hosted by the Nashville Technology Council in partnership with TNHIMSS created a healthcare focused track.  The two-day event was a success by all...

This week -- September 23-27 -- is National HIT Week and this year's theme is Supporting Healthy Communities. Supporting Healthy Communities requires the same level of coordination, cooperation, and connectivity among healthcare individual stakeholders as it does data...

What does HIT Week mean to you? Healthcare technology has the power to transform and evolve our industry for the better. In one of the most complex industries in the world, wrought with inefficiencies, lack of care coordination, rising costs, and sub-optimal levels of...

By Josh Harvey, CPHIMS; TN HIMSS Advocacy Committee Member; Director, Health IT Policy & Strategy, HCA Healthcare Since 2006, health IT advocates have raised their voices in unison to demonstrate the power and promise of information and technology to transform our...

With daily highs hovering in the mid-90’s, the weather in Tennessee certainly doesn’t have the appearance of the onset of Fall.  However, with college football, pro football and yes, Nashville Predator hockey cranking up, I know it’s just a matter of time until...

by Justin Mooneyhan, TN HIMSS Ambassador Committee Chair/Sr. Director IT Project Management -- AMSURG As I reflect on my three days at the first-of-its-kind Data, Insights, and Strategies for the Health Enterprise: a Harvard Medical School Executive Education program...

By Caleb Graves, TN HIMSS Advocacy Committee Chair/Director of Business Development--Staffing as a Mission In early July, the TN HIMSS Advocacy Committee met with state officials from TennCare and the Office of eHealth to discuss ways to work together. TN HIMSS has...

By Eric Thrailkill, TN HIMSS Chapter President and Vice President/Chief Information Officer of AMSURG As we near the end of June 2019, and the end of the HIMSS fiscal year (HIMSS fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30), I wanted to pass on a few reflections of the past...

HIMSS is leading a new campaign with the Association of Public Health Laboratories(APHL), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), and National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) to support legislative efforts in...

By Tommy Lewis, CPHIMS, FHIMSS; Past President TN HIMSS; Chief Transformation Officer Tivity Health Well for me it was nine airports over a period of 11 days and I was thrilled to get back to Nashville on the morning of Thursday June 13; even after a long raucous red...

by Eric Thrailkill, TN HIMSS President and VP/CIO of Amsurg It certainly started like “just another Wednesday night” in the Gulch neighborhood of downtown Nashville, complete with the sights and sounds of music, pedal taverns and overflowing dining...

by Eric Thrailkill, TN HIMSS President/Vice President and Chief Information Officer of AMSURG The Tennessee Chapter of HIMSS has adopted three key strategies from the National HIMSS organization for 2018-2019 fiscal year: Enhancing the member experienceContributing to...

by Caleb Graves, Advocacy Committee Chair and Director of Business Development at Staffing As A Mission (saam) On February 19, TN HIMSS partnered with the Nashville Technology Council for the 2nd Annual Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill in Nashville. It was a day packed...