Peter Embí, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, professor and chair of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, was elected to the Tennessee Chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (TN HIMSS) board of directors. He will serve as a board member until July 1, 2023.
The TN HIMSS works to improve health care by providing leadership for professional growth, workforce development and advocacy related to health information technology (HIT). The organization is composed of volunteers who strive to provide quality education, programming and networking for HIT professionals.
Embí was nominated by TN HIMSS president Brad Morrow for his “expertise in the industry, his passion of the transformational impact of Health IT and his desire to be involved within the community.”
“There’s so much we can and must do to fully leverage the incredible power and capabilities of our Health IT ecosystem in and across Tennessee,” Embí said. “The greatest value I see in being a TN HIMSS member is the opportunity to gather and discuss the pressing needs we’re all working to tackle, sharing of experiences, and finding opportunities to work jointly to improve our collective IT capabilities for the benefit of our organizations and the community as a whole. We are definitely stronger together, and TN HIMSS provides a home for HIT professionals that is focused on our local and regional needs, across systems and institutions, more so than any national organization can.”