Clinical and business intelligence is the aggregation, analysis, and use of clinical, financial, operational, and non-traditional data captured inside and out of the healthcare setting to directly inform decision-making. It has the power to positively impact patient care delivery, health outcomes, and business operations. Leveraging the power of clinical & business intelligence will improve our nation’s entire healthcare system as well as the medical and economic wellness of patients.
Mission. HIMSS’s clinical & business intelligence efforts empower members with practical guidance and unbiased information on how to harness data to inform accountable, high-quality patient care and fuel unparalleled business insight – all the while improving an organization’s fiscal performance.
Strategic Intent. With the achievement of widespread acquisition & foundational IT implementation, HIMSS leads efforts to enable data-driven organizations to derive the highest value and actionable intelligence to improve outcomes.
Clinical & Business Intelligence Committee & Community
The HIMSS Clinical & Business Intelligence Committee is responsible for creating thought leadership, resources and tools to support the needs of our members and the healthcare industry. Our areas of focus address the role of health information technologies in supporting the effective management of clinical & business intelligence.
Topics of focus for the Clinical & Business Intelligence Committee and Community include:
- Data aggregation and access through EDW and cloud solutions
- Data management, validation, quality and integration
- Governance
- Resource management
- Retrospective, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
- Reporting, dashboards, and visualization techniques
- Population Health
- Predictive modeling
- Precision medicine
Find tools and resources to help you along your clinical and business intelligence journey in the Resource Library!
Committee Members
Claudine Beron, MA, PMP
Chair
Chief Executive Officer
Initiate Government Solutions, LLC
Debbie Bottomley
Director, Product Marketing
Verscend
Sharon D. Davis, MS, CPHIMS, PMP
Clinical Programs Manager
Government Programs – Clinical Operations Solutions Team
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
Carole L. Ettinger, MA, PMP, CPHIMSS, CHCIO-eligible
Senior Director, Information Services Division
Akron Children’s Hospital
Dave Fitzgerald
Architect Advisor (Office of the CTO)
CVS Health
Charles Gabriel
Clinical Analytics Branch Chief, J-5
Defense Health Agency
Kevin Gormley, PhD
Principal Data Scientist
The MITRE Corporation
Amin Hakim, MD
Medical Director, Clinical Analytics
PSLP
Mitch Kwiatkowski
Vice President, Enterprise Data Hub
Highmark Health
Helen Catherine “Kate” Liebelt
Chief of Staff/Precision Medicine and Supply Chain Management Consultant
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Sudha Kodati, MD
Senior Lead Informatics Specialist – Clinical Informatics
Integrated Health Information Systems Pte Ltd
Madhuri Kudrimoti, MS, FHIMSS
Director – Clinical Informatics
Froedtert Health
Radha Nagarajan, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
University of Kentucky
Carrie Powers
Business Intelligence Manager
St. Luke’s Health System
Todd Price, MBA, MSEd, PhD
Senior Decision Support Analyst
Mount Nittany Health
Carl D Swift, MBA
Health Information & Technology Director
Pfizer Inc.
Hamilton S Todd Jr, Jr., MSM, FHIMSS
Senior Revenue Analyst – Revenue Cycle
Mayo Clinic
Anthony Villanueva
Chief Information Officer
Neighborhood Health
Joe-Max Wakim, MSc, CPHIMS, CHIO
IT Director, Medical Center Processes and Systems
American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Amber Zimmermann, MBA, RN-BC
Sr. Manager, Health Data Analytics
Royal Philips
Clinical & Business Intelligence Community
The HIMSS Clinical & Business Intelligence Community promotes peer-to-peer networking, problem-solving, solution sharing and education. Through membership, you will obtain practical knowledge and guidance to help you effectively manage and use data.
Areas of focus include:
- Data aggregation and access through EDW and cloud solutions
- Data management, validation, quality and integration
- Governance
- Resource management
- Retrospective, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
- Reporting, dashboards, and visualization techniques
- Population health
- Precision medicine
- Predictive modeling
Community Membership
All current HIMSS members who have a high interest in or are already working with clinical and business intelligence are encouraged to participate.
The Clinical & Business Intelligence Community meets quarterly on the 4th Thursday, 1:00-2:00 pm eastern.
Join the Community
Community Co-chair(s)
Arthur Panov, MPH, CPHIMS
Partner Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences
Amazon Web Services
Contact HIMSS Staff
For more information on the HIMSS Clinical & Business Intelligence Committee or Community listed above, please contact:
Shelley Price, MS, FHIMSS
Director, Thought Advisory, Technology and Innovation, HIMSS
Phone: (703) 562-8846
