Pacific Region Chapters Networking & Education Event

The HIMSS Northern California Chapter is partnering with six HIMSS Chapters for this special event. Each Chapter has a session agenda (see below) and attendees are welcome to participate in all of the sessions. View the exciting Chapter sessions and agendas here.

Join us on Wednesday, December 15, 6:00pm-7:30pm PST to network with healthcare professionals in six states: California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska.

Northern California Chapter Session

Clinician Roundtable & Networking

Moderators

• Dr. Howard Landa, MD, Vice President of Clinical Informatics and EHR, Sutter Health
• Dr. Justin Graham, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Gyant

6:15pm-6:45pm -- AMA How to Measure the Value of Virtual Health Care & The New Virtual Care Balanced Scorecard
Presenters & Discussion Leaders

• Meg Barron, Vice President, Digital Health Strategy, AMA
• Stacy Lloyd, Director of Digital Health & Operations, AMA 

6:45pm-7:15pm -- The Impacts of Anti-Information Blocking
Presenter & Discussion Leader

• Dr. Steven Lane, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FAMIA, Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability, Sutter Health, HIMSS 2021 Physician of the Year & Clinical Professor, Family & Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Southern California: Membership & Academic Alliance

• About SoCal Chapter - Memberships & Organizational Affiliates (AO) - Academic Alliance & Academic Organizational Affiliates (AOA) - Advocacy

Hawaii-Alaska: Workforce Development - How do we fix skilled worker shortages in our industry?

• This will be an open forum for Pacific Region Chapter members to share their experiences of Skilled Labor sh ortages in their organizations and ideas/solutions being implemented to fix the skilled labor shortages. The hope of this session is to learn new ways, given our geographic diversity, to solve this widespread issue affecting all of us. A September 2021 National poll by Morning Consult revealed that: 18% of health care workers have quit their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic 12% have been laid off 31% have considered leaving 79% of health care professionals said the national worker shortage has affected them and their place of work.

Nevada: Mentoring, Healthcare Scattergories Game, Wine Tasting

• 6:15-6:30pm - Best of Nevada Chapter - Mentoring 6:30-7:00pm - Scattergories for Healthcare 7:00-:7:15pm - Wine Drinking

Oregon: Welcome, What's New, Network

• For this session, we'll spend the first 20 minutes introducing our Board of Directors and sharing highlights from our strategic plan. You'll also hear from our Advisory Council Chair, who will recognize the efforts of our incredible healthcare IT community over the past 18+ months. After that, we'll shift into breakout rooms, where there will be a mix of "Two Truths and a Lie" plus topics for discussion/sharing/networking. Each break out room will be moderated by a member of the Board. In addition, we'd love to hear your thoughts on future programming for the year. We're gathering this feedback via an interactive poll during the session.

Washington: Trivia Game Night with Prizes

• A fun game night with HIMSS Trivia and Prizes, Prizes, Prizes

Speakers

• Dr. Howard Landa, MD, Vice President, Clinical Informatics and Electronic Health Records, Sutter Health
• Dr. Justin Graham, MD, Chief Medical Officer, GYANT
• Meg Barron, Vice President, Digital Health Strategy, American Medical Association 
• Stacy Lloyd, Director of Digital Health & Operations, American Medical Association
• Dr. Steven Lane, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FAMIA, Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability, Sutter Health & Clinical Professor, Family & Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco

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