Minnesota Chapter of HIMSS

Chapter Board Meeting - Minutes

 

Friday, September 10, 2004 7:00AM

StoneBridge Group Offices

701 Xenia Ave. South, Suite 170

Minneapolis, MN

 

 


Present: Andy, Bobbie, Dana, Jeff, Ken, Pam, Scott, Shawna, Susan, Ray

Absent: Clark, Mike, Steve, Tom

 

Standing Items

 

Program Updates – Andy

September program

·          Alden unable to travel to Minneapolis for program.

·          Successfully tested teleconferencing from Chicago – Program is still on!

·          CIO dinner cancelled, but CIOs very interested in rescheduling

·          Currently 75 attendees

q       Scott to communicate final numbers / attendee list to board on morning of 9/13. 

October program

·          Paul Glen prefers NOT handing out presentation slides during presentation.

·          Board agrees to having books available at program sites.

q       Andy to include discussion of handing out slides at end of presentation in program prep notes.

q       Andy will investigate to see if books that are sent to the sites can be signed.

q       Andy to include in text of communication: “bring your copy of Leading Geeks to be signed by the author.”

PACS (Pat Berger / Mark D. - Fairview)

·          Unable to present National Conference topics locally before the conference

·          Pat / Mark willing to present after Nat’l conference – slated for March / May.

 

Steering committee update

·          Dec program (12/1 or 12/2) topic: “Clinical Adoption”, format: panel discussion with providers (Fairview, Park Nicollet, Allina, Children’s)

·          Other topics that were rated the highest from survey are being worked into March and May.

 

Dairyland

·          Board suggests that WI would be responsible for covering the cost of connecting to our programs

q       Ken will discuss cost of programs with the Dairyland chapter.

 

Outreach Update – Dana / Scott

MedCentrus

·          Scott, Dana and Tom visited studios and felt very positive about the technology, the staff and the fit with our needs. 

·          Next steps: (1) Work through the logistics of setting first program up (2) Broadcast Live program as teleconferencing alternative (3) What is the program for which we would want to use this technology?

·          Slides

·          Pricing

q       Dana to transition coordination of this to Tom

q       Outreach Cmte. and Programs Cmte. to meet as discuss

FUMC

·          Scott made contact with Marshall Hoff at U of M.  VideoConf site available at 550 Diehl Hall on U of M Campus.  Can accommodate 40+ people.  Can bridge to other sides. 

q       Scott to contact Marshall week of 9/13 to determine pricing and hold site visit.

Children’s

·          Viable site, Needs further investigation

 

 

Educational Update - Ray

September Program

 

·          CPHIMS certificates received and e-mailed to Andy

 

October Program

·          In Progress

q       Andy / Ray to submit request for approval.

 

Sponsorship Update - Shawna

Current sponsors

 

·          StoneBridge sponsor for 2004-2005

q       Scott to update website with 2003-2004 sponsors and 2004-2005 sponsors.

q       Scott to update website with recognition of the employer sites of board members.

q       Shawna to e-mail Bobbie sponsorship information

q       Bobbie to present information to Children’s

 

Member Relations Update - Scott

Current Numbers

 

·          Handout available

·          National members: 199

·          CHIME members: 18

·          Complimentary: 42

·          Chapter Only: 25

·          Student: 34

·          Total: 318

q       Board Members to review the “please renew” e-mail and submit suggestions to Scott

q       Scott to provide a graph with running membership numbers for 12 months

q       Scott to investigate: What are “COMP” memberships?

 

Advocacy Update - Mike

No Update

 

 

 

Chapters Task Force – Bobbie                        

Chapters Task Force

·          Bobbie on the program and student workgroups

 

 

Treasurer Update - Pam

August Numbers

 

·          Total net income of $840.08

·          Total liabilities / equity $24,019.97

q       Pam / Jeff to work on reconciling budgeted numbers with actuals for May program

q       Scott to e-mail Jeff and Pam with the website registration information from the May program

 

Journal Club Update - Pam

No Update

 

 

 

Board Recruitment Committee Update - Dana

No Update

 

 

 

CIO Engagement - Shawna

Round Robin

·          No takers – Shawna working on determining next site for meeting.

 

CIO Dinner

·          Cancelled for this program

q       Shawna to investigate rescheduling

CIO Board Member

·          Potential candidate identified

q       Andy to approach potential candidate for this position

Mayo Health System

·          Shawna in the process of attempting to engage the multiple CIOs that make up the Mayo Health System

 

 

New Business

 

Board Meeting Time Review - Shawna

Revisit Board Meeting Time

·          Board decided to leave meeting scheduled for 2nd Fri at 7am.

 

 

Bylaw Revision and Approval – Mike, Tom, Scott

Member Relations

·          Scott created draft for bylaw revision

q       Scott to distribute to board via e-mail for approval

Outreach

·          No Update

 

Advocacy

·          No Update

 

 

MISRC - Andy

MISRC

·          Tabled

 

 

Awards – Andy / Shawna                    

Innovation

·          Tabled

 

Chapter Leader

·          Andy has received 5 votes

q       Board Members to submit vote to Andy ASAP.

 

Mentoring Program - Shawna

Mentoring Program

·          Tabled

 

 

HIMSS NHII Task Force – Peter Palmer (guest)

NHII Task Force

 

·          Peter Palmer presented a brief overview of the goals of the Task Force.  Peter is interested in determining if the MN Chapter of HIMSS is interested in participating in this venture. 

·          Board agrees that we are interested in discussing next steps and getting further details on this effort.

·          Peter will work on identifying who would be able to come to MN Chapter to present on topics of NHII and RHIO followed by a CIO Round Table.

·          Slides available here

·          The Decade of Health Information Technology (U.S. gov’t publication)

 

Transition Planning / SOPs - Shawna

Transition Planning

·          Tabled

 

 

Website Doc Archive Demo - Scott

Demo

·          Tabled

 

 

Next Board Meeting:

October 1, 2004 7:00am – 8:30am

StoneBridge Group Offices