David Merritt Receives the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) “Book of the Year Award” for Paper Kills: Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology, published by CHT Press
Date: February 26, 2008Location: Orlando, FL
The Center for Health Transformation’s David Merritt received the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) “Book of the Year Award” for outstanding practical guidance and strategic insight for healthcare information and management systems professionals. Merritt, a project director for The Center, received the award as editor for Paper Kills: Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology, published by CHT Press.
The “Book of the Year Award” is given every year at the HIMSS’ Annual Awards Dinner at the Annual Conference and Exhibition, held this year in Orlando, Florida. HIMSS’ vision is to lead change in the healthcare information and management systems field through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation and community affiliations.
Paper Kills addresses the most pressing issues in the drive to modernize and improve healthcare through health information technology. This unique book guides the reader on a tour of the evolving health information technology and health policy landscape, covering topics from protecting privacy and advancing research to building health information exchanges and achieving interoperability.
Other chapters explore the role of state governments, health plans and hospitals in implementing health information technology, as well as the potential of health IT to promote the adoption of best practices in ambulatory care and focus on prevention, wellness and early detection.
Paper Kills features contributions from the leading minds in healthcare, such as Brandon Savage of GE Healthcare; Scott Serota of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association; Richard Umbdenstock of the American Hospital Association; Glen Tullman of Allscripts; Ed Hammond of Duke University; Tom Fritz and Jac Davies of Inland Northwest Health Services; Ed Fotsch of Medem; Mark Frisse of Vanderbilt University; Richard Bankowitz, Eugene Kroch, and Meg Horgan of CareScience; Beryl Vallejo of BJV Consulting; Mark Rothstein of the University of Louisville; and Michael Heekin, former chair of the Governor’s Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board for the State of Florida.
“David’s insight into the logical need for health IT and his grasp of the resources needed to accomplish this feat made him an excellent editor,” said The Center’s CEO Nancy Desmond. “While the book has garnered many accolades and has even been adopted as a text book for classes at Princeton, the HIMSS book of the year award truly shows that health IT experts validate its accuracy.”
The book sold out on the first day of the conference and reorders have been sent.
