The Ninth Annual HISsies

AwardsHonoring the best (and the worst) of healthcare IT, as nominated and voted by the readers of HIStalk

Smartest Vendor Action Taken

Cerner partners with Leidos for the DoD bid

Sunquest acquires Atlas and Data Innovations

Athenahealth acquires RazorInsights and WebOMR

NextGen sells its hospital division

CPSI acquires Healthland

The Winner ...

Smartest Vendor Action TakenCerner partners with

Leidos for the DoD bid

2015 Winner: Epic and IBM join for DoD bid2014 Winner: Allscripts replaces its executive team

Stupidest Vendor Action Taken

Athenahealth acquires RazorInsights/WebOMR

Cerner requires employees to sign an arbitration agreement to get future raises

Cerner pursues the DoD contract

Epic doesn’t join CommonWell

NantHealth acquires Harris and works with Allscripts

The Winner ...

Stupidest Vendor Action Taken

Cerner requires employees to sign an

arbitration agreement to get future raises

2015 Winner: Epic tries to expand its non-compete clause2014 Winner: Vendors form CommonWell and leave Epic out

Best Healthcare IT Vendor or Consulting

FirmEpic

Sunquest

Divurgent

Nordic

Cerner

The Winner ...

Best Healthcare IT Vendor or Consulting

Firm

2015 Winner: Epic2014 Winner: Epic

Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or Consulting

FirmCerner

Epic

Allscripts

EClinicalWorks

The Winner ...

Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or Consulting

Firm

2015 Winner: GE Healthcare2014 Winner: GE Healthcare

Best Leader of a Vendor or Consulting Firm

Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

Judy Faulkner, Epic

Matt Hawkins, Sunquest

Colin Konschak, Divurgent

The Winner ...

Best Leader of a Vendor or Consulting Firm

Judy Faulkner, Epic

2015 Winner: Judy Faulkner, Epic2014 Winner: Judy Faulkner, Epic

Best Provider User of Healthcare IT

Cedars-Sinai

UPMC

Kaiser Permanente

Beth Israel Deaconess

The Winner ...

Best Provider User of Healthcare IT

2015 Winner: Kaiser Permanente2014 Winner: Kaiser Permanente

Most Promising Technology Development

Cloud solutions

FHIR

Genomics

Predictive analytics

Telehealth

The Winner ...

Most Promising Technology Development

Predictive analytics

2015 Winner: API-based interoperability2014 Winner: Population health management

Most OverratedTechnology

Apple Watch

Big data

Cloud solutions

Fitness wearables

The Winner ...

Most OverratedTechnology

Apple Watch

2015 Winner: Google Glass2014 Winner: Google Glass

Most Overused Buzzword

Big data

Cloud

Interoperability

Population health

Patient engagement

The Winner ...

Most Overused Buzzword

Big data2015 Winner: Analytics/big data

2014 Winner: Big data

When ______ Talks, People Listen

Darren Dworkin, Cedars-Sinai

John Halamka, BIDMC

Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

Judy Faulkner, Epic

Karen DeSalvo, HHS

The Winner ...

When ______ Talks, People Listen

John Halamka, BIDMC

2015 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC2014 Winner: Farzad Mostashari, Brookings Institution

Most Effective Healthcare IT Provider Executive

Bert Reese, Sentara

Darren Dworkin, Cedars-Sinai

Marc Probst, Intermountain

John Halamka, BIDMC

The Winner ...

Most Effective Healthcare IT Provider Executive

Marc Probst, Intermountain

2015 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC2014 Winner: Ed Marx, Texas Health Resources

Most Effective Medical / Clinical Informatics

ProfessionalBob Wachter, UCSF

Rick Riggs, Cedars-Sinai

John Halamka, BIDMC

Susan Newbold, Nursing Informatics Boot Camp

The Winner ...

Most Effective Medical / Clinical Informatics

Professional

2015 Winner: Chris Longhurst, Stanford2014 Winner: Paul Tang, PAMF

John Halamka, BIDMC

Person You Would Most Like toSee on the HIStalkapalooza

StageJonathan Bush, Athenahealth

Judy Faulkner, Epic

Neal Patterson, Cerner

Zubin Damania, Turntable Health

The Winner ...

Person You Would Most Like toSee on the HIStalkapalooza

StageJonathan Bush, Athenahealth

2015 Winner: No award given2014 Winner: No award given

HIS Industry Figure with Whom You’d Most Like to Have

a Few BeersJudy Faulkner, Epic

Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

Neal Patterson, Cerner

Carl Dvorak, Epic

The Winner ...

HIS Industry Figure with Whom You’d Most Like to Have

a Few Beers

2015 Winner: Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth2014 Winner: Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

HIS Industry Figure in Whose Face You’d Most Like to Throw

a PieJudy Faulkner, Epic

Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

John Hammergren, McKesson

Matt Hawkins, Sunquest

The Winner ...

HIS Industry Figure in Whose Face You’d Most Like to Throw

a PieJohn Hammergren, McKesson

2015 Winner: Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth2014 Winner: John Hammergren, McKesson

HIStalk Healthcare ITIndustry Figure of the

YearJonathan Bush, Athenahealth

Matt Hawkins, Sunquest

John Halamka, BIDMC

The Winner ...

HIStalk Healthcare ITIndustry Figure of the

Year

2015 Winner: Karen DeSalvo, HHS2014 Winner: Farzad Mostashari, Brookings Institution

John Halamka, BIDMC

HIStalk Healthcare ITLifetime Achievement

AwardJohn Halamka, BIDMC

Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

Neal Patterson, Cerner

Ivo Nelson, Next Wave Health

Howard Messing, Meditech

Paul Egerman, IDX/eScription

The Winner ...

HIStalk Healthcare ITLifetime Achievement

Award

2015 Winner: Neil Pappalardo, Meditech2014 Winner: Carl Dvorak, Epic

John Halamka, BIDMC

HISsies 2017Monday, February 20,

2017Orlando, FL