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Minnesota Chapter of HIMSS
Executive Board Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, January 14th, 5:15-6:45 p.m.
Fairview Pharmacy Services
711 Kasota Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Attendance
Present - Andy Galbus, Dana Kimmel, Steve Kimmel, Jeff Huxley, Scott Azbill,
Van Grotenhuis, Cindy Findorff, Ray Gensinger, Pam Graves
Absent - Clark Averill, Stephen Parente, Bobbie
Caroll, Tom Loch, Shawna Schueller
Nominations Committee
needed - Dana
Shawna, Dana, and Steve
K. have volunteered for the nominating committee.
Others are welcome and encouraged to serve also. Ray agreed to stay on as
Education Chair.
The CIO Liaison position was removed from the Board by unanimous vote.
Online voting
for Chapter - Dana
Board
agreed to have Scott contact Telusys regarding contracting
with them for credit card services as well as on-line
voting. The cost
is less than E-Services and the customer support is
better.
Program
Updates/Plans -
Jeff
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March update - as
Fairview does not have a video conferencing facility big
enough for our needs, the host site will be HCMC. David Page, Fairview
CEO will be guest speaker, talking about patient
safety. Tom
will put this in our next newsletter (Jan 16) as well as the
fact that any employee of a hosting site (Fairview, HCMC,
St. Lukes, Mayo) will not be charged for the event, but must
register on-line. Dana and Shawna will look into whether or
not we should provide honorariums for quarterly
presenters.
Scott will put our tax ID on the on-line mail in
registration form.
May update -
things are progressing, but are a bit behind
schedule.
Shawna and Steve P. will follow up with possible
speakers between now and next meeting. Mayo will decide
1/23 if they will be willing to speak at the event. Carlson will not be
able to pick up any costs this year due to budgeting
problems. Board
agreed that taking a loss of up to $1,000.00 on this program
would be acceptable as our reserves are high. This should cover
all expenses including parking and the Atrium for lunch.
Board also agreed to have the faculty at Carlson attend the
keynote speaker for free, but Carlson must provide us a list
of the faculty attending so that we can check off those in
attendance.
Sponsorship
Update - Steve P. - Absent.
Dana did talk to Steve P. before the
meeting. Next
Friday Steve P. will meet with Judy Beck at Fairview regarding
promised Sponsorship dues we have not received. There have been no
Scholarship applications this year. Board agreed to
contribute this $1,000.00 to the National Scholarship Fund in
the event there are no submissions by the January
31st
deadline.
Treasurers Report - Cindy
The 2004 operating
budget was handed out and approved by the Board. Total liabilities and
equity to date is $30,305.50. Net income is
$6,034.22.
Publishing Update -
Tom
Newsletter
submissions are due to Tom by January 30th. Topics
include: Dana-Chapter Advocacy Liaison opportunity &
nominations; Pam - scholarship offering;Jeff - recap of
December program and March & May upcoming programs. (I
don't think there were any additional newsletter items, but I
have them documented at home.)
Membership Update - Scott
To date we
have 256 National members, 32 Chapter only members, 36 student
members for a total of 324 members. Demographics are 72%
Twin Cities, 18% Rochester, 3% Duluth, 7% Outstate (including
St. Cloud).
Educational
Update - Ray
All running
smoothly.
Next
Board Meeting
February 11th, 5:15-6:45, Fairview Pharmacy Services
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