New York State Student Informatics Conference on November 19, 2010
The New York State Chapter of HIMSS is sponsoring the first-ever New York State student informatics conference on November 19, 2010, at the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan. Co-sponsors include the New York Academy of Medicine, Columbia University Center for Advanced Information Management, and Medical Informatics New York.
The nation will need 51,000 new healthcare I.T. professionals to implement ARRA/HITECH. This conference seeks to nurture and develop tomorrow's HIT professionals locally in New York State.
The event will be focused on work force development with panels comprised of employers (e.g. health care organizations, consulting, EHR vendors), former students now working in HIT, and recruiters.
A student poster presentation competition will be sponsored and an iPad awarded to the best presentation.
You are invited to participate in one or more of the following opportunities:
Attendee ($30 for non-HIMSS members; $10 for HIMSS members): Register now.
Starting September 2010, Ken will be the CMIO of New York Hospital Queens, a member of the New York-Presbyterian Health System.
Ken most recently served as the VP of Medical Informatics at Catholic Health Services of Long Island.
His responsibilities there included the enterprise-wide Clinical Information Transformation Initiative, physician practice EHR subsidy program, evidence-based medicine order sets, physician performance reporting and CHS's transitions of care work group.
Ken's past projects include developing and implementing an acute care EMR with CPOE; clinical decision support for the ambulatory EMR; a hospital pharmacy system; web-based results review, and mobile physician charge capture.
Ken is active in a number of professional groups. He is a member of the Hospital Association of New York State's Health Information Strategy Group, a member of the Greater New York Hospital Association Health I.T. Steering Committee, a past president and current at-large board member of the New York State chapter of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS); past president and board member of Medical Informatics New York; and, a reviewer for the Informatics Review and the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
He enjoys teaching and is adjunct faculty at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University's School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics. Ken's medical informatics seminar was among the top rated in 2005. He is a previous recipient of the AMDIS Award In Applied Medical Informatics and the Centers for Disease Control Charles C. Shepard Science Award. Ken is a former deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Ken is residency-trained and board certified in family practice, internal medicine, and infectious diseases. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America, HIMSS, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He received his MPH at Columbia University, MD at Wayne State University, and BS at University of Michigan.
Ken's proudest accomplishments are his children, Kimberly and Ryan. His most remarkable collaboration has been and continues to be with his wife, Donna.
