Description:
This session is all about you. It offers information about the state of the healthcare IT job market and offers tools and tips to assess your skills and set your career direction. In a dynamic panel format, three perspectives will be explored -- the employee, the employer and the recruiter. Using real examples, participants will critique ugly resumes and will learn and practice the skills involved in writing a professional results-getting resume. In this fast-paced session, participants will also learn strategies for effective interviewing, negotiating, and networking. To top it off you will receive information on where to find job postings to target your search. Participants are urged to bring their resumes, use their newfound skills to enhance it, and walk out of the session with a stellar resume to use at HIMSS.

Speaker Information:
Kathleen Kimmel, RN, MHA, CHE
VP Nursing Informatics, McKesson Corporation
Brenda Herrmann, BSN, RN, BC

Bonnie Siegel
Vice President, Hersher Associates, Ltd.

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Understand the dynamics of the current IT job market
• Evaluate personal skills and career path options
• Dispel common myths about resume writing -- healthcare is a different market
• Develop insightful resume critiquing skills, editing abilities -- and apply them to a personal resume writing makeover
• Improve your interviewing and negotiating skills

CEUs Information:
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Room:
257

Description:
Take this opportunity to interact with some of the top vendor execs as they share their perspective on healthcare and their personal leadership style and share insights and experiences. Hear more from the leaders of businesses with whom you do business.

Speaker Information:
Mark Biviano, SAP
Vice President of Healthcare Solutions, Economic Policy Institute
Louis Burns
Vice President, General Manager, Digital Health Group, Intel
Matthew Long
Director of Marketing, Div. of Medical Systems, Phillips
Brandon Savage, MD
CMO, GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions

Level:
Advanced

CEUs Information:
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell AB

Description:
Knowing where you want to land is the key to a successful, high-flying career. Learn more about how professional success depends as much, if not more, on your human-relations skills than your technical knowledge.

Speaker Information:
Tom Walsh, CHS, CISSP
President, Tom Walsh Consulting, LLC

Level:
Introductory

Objectives:

• List your priorities and create a happier work environment without sacrificing your values
• Manage events before they manage you
• Identify the three greatest time robbers: Interruptions, procrastination and clutter
• Integrate productivity and job satisfaction by becoming more resilient in the workplace
• Assemble a personal inventory of your current work habits that may ground you from personal and professional growth

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
291

Description:
An executive IT recruiter and a Chief Information Officer share the trends and pressures that are affecting IT organizational changes and what actions can be taken to manage change internally and externally.

Speaker Information:
Lac Tran, BS - CE, BS - MSSD
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer and Dean, Rush University Medical Center
Moderator: Betsy Hersher, BS, Fellow in HIMSS
President, Hersher Associates, Ltd.

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Plan how and when to invoke major stakeholders, executives and clinicians in IT initiatives and vision
• Establish a plan to keep your IT initiatives moving forward through a sea of organizational change
• Manage your boards, vendors and outsourcers
• Identify ways of utilizing and developing the IT team
• Formulate a plan to effectively manage change both internally and externally

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
291

Description:
Join Duncan Regional Hospital's Chief Information Officer as he discusses how leadership and constant communication, in an ever-changing healthcare environment, is key to you and your organization's success and stability.

Speaker Information:
Roger Neal
Chief Information Officer, Duncan Regional Hospital

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Organize open and on-going dialogue with members of your facility's executive team
• Manage a relationship with key people within the organization so that each has a respect and understanding of each other's role

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
353