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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...

Congratulations to the recent graduates of the eighth cohort of the TN HIMSS and Belmont University Health IT Workforce Accelerator graduating class. The graduating students and their companies are: Christina Besh -- Veteran Affairs Rachel Bouton --...

Happy New Year! As the weather remains chilly while the hockey heats up, it’s a great time to reflect on 2018 and look ahead to new year.  Well into a second cup of coffee and a soothing playlist from Amazon Music in the background, I gathered up some calendars,...

TN HIMSS played a major role in supporting the Distributed:Heath 2018 conference held in Nashville on November 5-6 with several of the Chapter's Ambassadors moderating panels and participating as presenters. Additionally, HIMSS from a national perspective, sponsored...

by Helen Lane, Senior Managing Director at ankura Disruption is a litmus test. One industry particularly ripe for disruption, and the opportunities disruption creates, is healthcare. From the rising cost of care and consumerism, to lower reimbursements, to the rise of...