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Announcements

The 2013 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition Call for Proposals
The HIMSS13 Call for Proposals is
now open through May 30, 2012. View
the HIMSS12 Open Forum recording.
Jointly sponsored by the Postgraduate
Institute for Medicine (PIM) and
HIMSS, the Annual HIMSS Conference
& Exhibition provides world-class
health IT and management systems
education. For more information,
please visit the HIMSS website at http://www.himss.org/asp/education_annualConf_callProposal.asp

mHealth Summit12 Call for Presentations
The 2012 mHealth Summit Call for
Presentations is open through June
29, 2012. The 2012 mHealth Summit will
take place from December 3 to 5, 2012.
Share your experience and expertise by
submitting your proposal in one of the
following 2012 Topic Tracks:

 Health and Healthcare Delivery
 Technology,
 Business Policy
 Research

For more information,
please visit the mHIMSS website at http://www.mhimss.org

Welcome to the Michigan Chapter of HIMSS.

The Michigan Chapter of HIMSS (MI-HIMSS) is dedicated to improving information systems management in Michigan's health care institutions. MI-HIMSS was formed in the Spring of 2002.

Chapter members come from diverse backgrounds, all involved in some aspect of health care information systems and management. Our members consist of professionals from hospitals and clinical organizations, third-party payers, administrators, information technology systems vendors, consultants, management engineers, telecommunications professionals, physicians, nurse and medical informatics professionals, and essentially anyone interested in the trends of health care information and management systems. Visit our Membership page to learn about how you can get involved.

SAVE THE DATE

Michigan is one of several HIMSS Chapters collaborating to host two days of outstanding education and networking for their annual Fall Technology Conference. This year's event will be held in Des Moines, IA on November 11 to 13, 2012. More information will be posted when it becomes available.

SLIDES FOR ANSI 5010 WEBINAR NOW AVAILABLE

The Michigan HIMSS Chapter recently joined with The Michigan Center for Rural Health and The Michigan Primary Care Association to present a webinar about the changes needed throughout the organization to address the conversion to ANSI 5010. Our speaker was Ron Sterling, who earned the 2008 HIMSS Book of the Year Award for his publication Keys to EMR Success.

Click Here To access the slides from the November 10, 2011 webinar.