Modern Healthcare and HIMSS Announce 2004 CEO IT Achievement Award Call For Nominations

Modern Healthcare and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced today the call for nominations for the 2004 CEO IT Achievement Award. The award, launched last year, recognizes one or more healthcare industry chief executive officers who demonstrate leadership and commitment to using information technology to advance their healthcare organizations strategic goals.

(PRWEB) January 29, 2004 --Modern Healthcare and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced today the call for nominations for the 2004 CEO IT Achievement Award. The award, launched last year, recognizes one or more healthcare industry chief executive officers who demonstrate leadership and commitment to using information technology to advance their healthcare organizations strategic goals.

The award is open to CEOs of any type of healthcare organization and will be judged by a panel of healthcare CEOs, CIOs and other senior-level executives from healthcare provider organizations. To nominate a CEO, visit modernhealthcare.com or himss.org. The submission deadline is March 8, 2004.

We feel honored to present this award program because of its critical significance to the healthcare industry," said Chuck Lauer, publisher of Modern Healthcare.    

Modern Healthcare will announce this years recipient(s) in its April 26 issue, and profile them in a special supplement to be published with its June 14 issue. The recipient(s) also will be honored at a banquet held in conjunction with the HIMSS Summer Conference 2004 to be held June 14-15 in Las Vegas.

CEOs in healthcare play such an integral and a crucial role in the integration of information technology into their organizations," said H. Stephen Lieber, HIMSS president and CEO. We are pleased to join with Modern Healthcare once again to be part of this award and to recognize these industry professionals."

For application guidelines, visit modernhealthcare.com or himss.org. For more information on the award, contact Brenda Stewart, Director of Marketing, Modern Healthcare at 312-649-5499 or Erica Pantuso, Director of Member Relations, HIMSS at 312-915-9277.

About Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare is the industrys only healthcare business news weekly, providing top healthcare executives—and now the nations physician leaders—with the most reliable, up-to-date and comprehensive business and policy news and information. In addition to the weekly print magazine, Modern Healthcare keeps readers informed on a daily basis via its daily e-newsletter, the Daily Dose, and its Web site, modernhealthcare.com. Modern Healthcares coverage of the industry recently expanded through its merger with its sister publication, Modern Physician, adding physician executives, leaders and entrepreneurs to its readership base. Modern Physicians publications include four quarterly special sections; modernphysician.com; a daily e-newsletter, MP Stat; a breaking e-mail news alert, MP Point of Care; and a soon-to-be-launched electronic magazine, MP IT Monthly, which will cover clinical and financial information technology news and information of interest to the nations physicians leaders.

About HIMSS
HIMSS (the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is the healthcare industrys membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology and management systems for the betterment of human health. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., and other locations across the country, HIMSS represents more than 14,000 individual members and some 150 member corporations that employ more than 1 million people. HIMSS shapes and directs healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems contributions to quality patient care. Visit www.himss.org for more information. HIMSS. The Source for Healthcare Information.
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