This document summarizes the winners of the Eighth Annual HISsies Awards which honors the best and worst of healthcare IT as voted by readers of HIStalk. Categories include smartest and stupidest vendor actions, worst healthcare IT vendor, best provider user of healthcare IT, most promising and overrated technologies, most overused buzzwords, influential speakers, effective executives, medical informatics professionals, and lifetime achievement awards. Epic and IBM winning for their DoD EHR bid and Epic's expanded non-compete clause are highlighted as award winners in several categories.

1. The Eighth Annual
HISsies Awards
Honoring the best (and the worst) of
healthcare IT, as nominated and voted by
the readers of HIStalk

2. Smartest Vendor Action Taken
Cerner buys Siemens Healthcare
Health Catalyst partners with Allina
Nordic expands its consulting scope
Epic and IBM join for DoD EHR bid

3. The Winner ...

4. Smartest Vendor Action Taken
Epic and IBM
join for DoD EHR bid
2014 Winner: Allscripts replaces its executive team
2013 Winner: Allscripts replaces its executive team

5. Stupidest Vendor Action Taken
Cerner buys Siemens Healthcare
Allscripts cuts ties with Medfusion’s portal
McKesson asks Horizon customers to move to
Paragon
Epic tries to expand its non-compete clause

6. The Winner ...

7. Stupidest Vendor Action Taken
Epic tries to expand its
non-compete clause
2014 Winner: Vendors form CommonWell and leave Epic out
2013 Winner: Allscripts sues NYCHHC/Epic after losing the deal

8. Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
GE Healthcare
McKesson
Epic
Allscripts

9. The Winner ...

10. Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
GE Healthcare
2014 Winner: GE Healthcare
2013 Winner: Allscripts

11. Best Provider User of
Healthcare IT
Kaiser Permanente
Cedars-Sinai
Texas Health Resources
ThedaCare

12. The Winner ...

13. Best Provider User of
Healthcare IT
Kaiser Permanente
2014 Winner: Kaiser Permanente
2013 Winner: Kaiser Permanente

14. Most Promising
Technology Development
Wearables
API-based interoperability
FHIR
Analytics

15. The Winner ...

16. Most Promising
Technology Development
API-based
interoperability
2014 Winner: Population health management
2013 Winner: Analytics

17. Most Overrated
Technology
Analytics
Google Glass
Wearables
HIE
Biometrics-based security

18. The Winner ...

19. Most Overrated
Technology
Google Glass
2014 Winner: Google Glass
2013 Winner: Cloud

20. Most Overused
Buzzword
Patient engagement
Analytics/Big Data
Optimization
Patient-centered

21. The Winner ...

22. Most Overused
Buzzword
Analytics/Big Data
2014 Winner: Big Data
2013 Winner: Cloud

23. When ______ Talks,
People Listen
Judy Faulkner, Epic
Karen DeSalvo, HHS
John Halamka, BIDMC
Darren Dworkin, Cedars-Sinai

24. The Winner ...

25. When ______ Talks,
People Listen
John Halamka, BIDMC
2014 Winner: Farzad Mostashari, Brookings Institution
2013 Winner: Farzad Mostashari, ONC

26. Most Effective Healthcare IT
Provider Executive
Bert Reese, Sentara
Darren Dworkin, Cedars-Sinai
Sue Schade, University of Michigan
John Halamka, BIDMC

27. The Winner ...

28. Most Effective Healthcare IT
Provider Executive
John Halamka, BIDMC
2014 Winner: Ed Marx, Texas Health Resources
2013 Winner: Ed Marx, Texas Health Resources

29. Most Effective Medical / Clinical
Informatics Professional
Robert Murphy, Memorial Hermann
William Hersh, OHSU
Chris Longhurst, Stanford
Susan Newbold, Nursing Informatics Boot Camp
Alan Weiss, Memorial Hermann

30. The Winner ...

31. Most Effective Medical / Clinical
Informatics Professional
Chris Longhurst, Stanford
2014 Winner: Paul Tang, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
2013 Winner: Ferdinand Velasco, Texas Health Resources

32. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ivo Nelson, Next Wave Health
William Spooner, Sharp HealthCare (retired)
Neil Pappalardo, Meditech
Sheldon Dorenfest, Dorenfest and Associates

33. The Winner ...

34. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Lifetime Achievement Award
Neil Pappalardo, Meditech
2014 Winner: Carl Dvorak, Epic
2013 Winner: George Halvorson, Kaiser Permanente

35. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Industry Figure of the Year
Susan DeVore, Premier
Karen DeSalvo, HHS
Neal Patterson, Cerner

36. The Winner ...

37. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Industry Figure of the Year
Karen DeSalvo, HHS
2014 Winner: Farzad Mostashari, Brookings Institution
2013 Winner: Judy Faulkner, Epic

38. And Now For
Something Completely
Different, Our First-Ever
Bi-Directional Awards
Presentation

39. Best Leader of a Healthcare IT
Vendor or Consulting Firm
Judy Faulkner, Epic
Best Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
Epic

40. Industry Figure With Whom You’d
Most Like to Have a Few Beers
Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth
Industry Figure In Whose Face
You’d Most Like to Throw a Pie
Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

41. HISsies 2016
Monday, February 29, 2016
Las Vegas, NV