Realize the Value of Health IT with the HIMSS Health IT Value Suite

Today, at a press conference in Washington, DC, HIMSS introduced the Health IT Value Suite.  Carla Smith, MA, CNM, FHIMSS, HIMSS Executive Vice President, led off the press conference noting that “HIMSS created the Health IT Value Suite to identify, classify and discuss many known examples of health IT value.  It is a robust library of value-focused, evidence-based use cases organized into Value STEPS™.”

Panelists from left to right: Carla Smith, MA, CNM, FHIMS, Executive Vice President, HIMSS; Dr. Carol Steltenkamp, MD, MBA, FHIMSS, HIMSS Board Vice Chair, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky; Bryan Sivak, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Rob Tagalicod, Director of eHealth Standards and Services, CMS; Angela Duncan Diop, ND, CHCIO, Vice President Information Systems, Unity Healthcare; 

According to panelist speaker Dr. Angela Duncan Diop, Vice President of Information Systems at Unity Health…