HIMSS Keystone Chapter
President's Message
Pennsylvania HIMSS Keystone Chapter Achieves HIMSS CHAPTER BRONZE Recognition for 2024
I am very proud to announce that our Pennsylvania Keystone HIMSS Chapter has been awarded BRONZE recognition by HIMSS National for our progress and achievements over the past year!
Our Pennsylvania HIMSS Keystone Chapter is celebrating our sophomore year as a new Chapter in the Commonwealth - a result of the merger of the former Central Pennsylvania HIMSS Chapter and Western Pennsylvania HIMSS Chapter almost two years ago - with a newly combined membership of over 1,500 Pennsylvania Healthcare IT, Clinical Informaticist, Medical, and Clinician professionals, and healthcare member organizations throughout Pennsylvania and our neighboring regions. On behalf of our Keystone HIMSS Executive Board of Directors, we’d like to thank our HIMSS National/International corporate leadership for this recognition, and our individual and organizational Keystone Chapter members for your on-going support!
Although we’re still a growing young Chapter, our Keystone Chapter Executive Board is made up of some of the most experienced, passionate, and dedicated healthcare IT executive thought leaders in the Commonwealth and from across the HIT industry. I’m proud to be just one part of this team and representing our Keystone Chapter in my current role as Chapter President!
I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate each of our Executive Board members here and introduce them to you – I’m sure you’ll see some familiar faces. Please feel free to visit their LinkedIn profiles to congratulate them as well, along with following the link below to our Pennsylvania Keystone HIMSS webpage and click on the 'About Us' tab to view our ‘Board of Directors’ profiles.
My personal thanks and congratulations to our Executive Board of Directors…
Mike Jones – President Elect
Carissa Stajnrajh, MSW, LCSW – Past President
Dr. Michael Seavers, Ph.D – Secretary
Ryan Brown – Treasurer
Aleshia Polk, MBA – Communications
Jordan DuBose – Programs Chair
Kelly Hoover Thompson – Advocacy Chair
John Ritter – Advocacy Team Lead
Camille McWhirter – Sponsorship Chair
Sophia Moran – Member At Large
Jake Sarver – Member At Large
Peter Zullo – Member At Large
Kaleb Linn – Member At Large
We're looking forward to seeing our industry colleagues at upcoming HIMSS National and Chapter events throughout the year. More news coming on some exciting regional Chapters’ collaboration and reception at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas, and some exciting summit and government/public-health advocacy events in Pennsylvania in late spring 2025.
We welcome you to please drop by and follow our Pennsylvania Keystone HIMSS Chapter page here on LinkedIn.
THANK YOU ALL !!!
Jim Sullivan – President, Pennsylvania HIMSS Keystone Chapter
https://lnkd.in/ecsjD5i7
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About Us
- Overview
- Keystone HIMSS represents Western Pennsylvania and the Central Capital region. It is one of more than 50 affiliated chapters of HIMSS, the largest health care information systems professional organization in the nation.
- Our Formation
- In May of 2022 the Western PA and Central PA HIMSS chapters entered into an agreement to pilot combining the two chapters with the goals of
- Providing support from a Board and Committee perspective to assist with filling any individual chapter gaps to ensure a scalable model
- Identifying and implementing best practices relative to finances, sponsorship, meetings, student support and leadership
- Demonstrating greater value to our members and sponsors
- In May of 2022 the Western PA and Central PA HIMSS chapters entered into an agreement to pilot combining the two chapters with the goals of
- Our Chapter
- Fosters professional growth, relationships, knowledge and collaboration among healthcare information management professionals.
- Presents educational seminars/conferences, networking opportunities, and a forum for the exchange of ideas among those committed to the goal of improving patient care through the effective use of information technology.
- Includes members from diverse backgrounds ranging from hospitals and clinic organizations, third-party payors, 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.
- Leads health information technology advocacy efforts in Pennsylvania.
