Michigan HIMSS Interest Group
Minutes from
Meeting
Participating: Helen Hill, Chris Holden, Ron Wheelock (from
beautiful Cheboygan), Jim Brown and Alicia Brown
The focus
of this phone call is to further movement on the October 15 program.
Chris
deposited money in our account. Helen
has an additional check for $1100.
We
received $3,900 from national for FY02 as dues for the past year since we began
set up of Chapter in June. We will have $5,060 total in our account.
3 people
are confirmed for panel participant:
1. Jim Shirack from
2. Dr. Bill Conway, CMO at Henry Ford
3. Mike Slibowski from Trinity is unconfirmed
but we have a back up in Dr. VanCleef from Trinity
4. Dr. John Burns, Spectrum Health
Dr. Sudman
from U of M is a possible candidate.
Chris feels she would enjoy participation and would make a fine
contribution.
Bruce
Bradley will talk about:
1. Leapfrog involvement
2. GM initiatives, measures of HMO performance,
community involvement, drug legislation, The focus
will be primarily public policy, not
The panel
is from
The
revised agenda has the panel discussion from 11-12:30. Future directions will be talked about at the
beginning of the program, rather than the beginning of the program. Helen will do the introduction and Ron L.
will do closing remarks.
The title
of the program will change a bit because we are not specifically focusing on
ACTION
ITEM: Helen will call
ACTION
ITEM: Helen will draft a sponsor form
for review on Tuesday.
Next
Tuesday's meeting will be primarily focused on program development.
The survey
was published at the web site last week.
The survey
is designed slightly different than Rick's original intent, due to limitations
with the software. Options in the survey
are limited to answers available through checkboxes, radio buttons and free
text, which limits our ability to get all the answers we want. We may want to rethink the survey to better
get the data.
ACTION ITEM: Jim will have Telusys add a direct link off the main page, and will also fix the typos of HIPAA on the survey page. Also, we should add ACHE as another organization in question #5. Add 'Consultants' as another type on question #4. He will also make sure the survey gets sent to Rick and Jim. Add 'Choose all that apply' in question 8 to distinguish it from question 9 (modify so they don't look the same).
We are
getting closer to doing an announcement.
After Tuesday we will have our direction.
Jim has
started posting our event on www.computer-directory.com and has contacted Matt
Rousch at the Great Lakes IT Report, Crain's, MI-Tech News, local marketing
combined with things that Quilogy is doing.
Helen suggested that we find a contact at some of the quality groups
since our focus is quality, as well as the Ann Arbor IT Zone. They have a web site of IT companies in
On the web
site, prices per transaction for accepting credit card are depending on dollar
amount. Helen took maximum amount ($100)
applied 4% then figured with Amex, for a maximum outlay of 8%. We believe there are no additional bank
specific charges, Jim will check.
ACTION ITEM: Jim will investigate if there are additional bank specific charges.
Our
account limits us to 100 free deposits per month, 200 written checks then 20
cents for processing on all additional checks.
Chris will
have to do a mock invoice, and will check Quicken and/or MS Word to see if
there are sample templates. Chris and
Helen will meet tonight to set up the bank account information. Chris will bring the bank papers to the
meeting next Tuesday.
ACTION ITEM: Chris will bring bank papers to the meeting Tuesday.
The panel
does not expect an honorarium. We will
be providing them dinner and lunch as gratis.
Helen
advised us to think about process. How
do we bring in additional people for the event?
We need to drum up interest from people that aren't yet HIMSS members. We will need to include names of people from
each committee. In brainstorming ways to
get involvement, Ronson thought we could poll people on what they read,
local/internal publications. Circulating
things via email would work. We agreed
that we can use people to help at all levels.
We need to make a goal of a specific need, rather than leaving things
open ended.
During the
program break, we could have participation of members to answer questions for
anyone that is not a member.
ACTION ITEM: ALL REVIEW THE PLAN AND BRAINSTORM based on Ron's initial list of needs and talk to people that could help us work on details before next Tuesday.
Ron will
be getting an additional room for lunch, but otherwise, the conference is all
set.
Meeting
adjourned at 3:55.
Next
Steps:
ACTION
ITEM: Helen will call Leon and bring him
up to date on the program and his part in the program.
ACTION
ITEM: Helen will draft a sponsor form
for review on Tuesday.
ACTION
ITEM: Jim will have Telusys add a direct
link off the main page, and will also fix the typos of HIPAA on the survey
page. Also, we should add ACHE as
another organization in question #5. Add
'Consultants' as another type on question #4.
He will also make sure the survey gets sent to Rick and Jim. Add 'Choose all that apply' in question 8 to
distinguish it from question 9 (modify so they don't look the same).
ACTION
ITEM: Jim will investigate if there are
additional bank specific charges.
ACTION ITEM: Chris will bring bank papers to the meeting Tuesday.
ACTION ITEM: ALL REVIEW THE PLAN AND BRAINSTORM based on Ron's initial list of needs and talk to people that could help us work on details before next Tuesday.
Next
Meeting:
In Okemos, Tuesday, August 13
from 3 pm – 5 pm at Covansys in Okemos.
If you cannot attend in person, please call in! The toll free dial in number is:
(866)680-0146 with a participant
code of 297455 and host: Helen Hill.
Meetings
are currently scheduled for the second Tuesday of every month in Okemos and the
fourth Tuesday of the month via conference call. Okemos meeting dates for the rest of the year
are: September 10, October 8, November
12, and December 10.
Communication:
To
join the working group email list, contact Alicia Brown at abrown@relware.com
To communicate with everyone in the HIMSS Michigan Chapter Working Group, send email to himss-mi@yahoogroups.com