This document summarizes the winners of the 11th Annual HISsies Awards, which honors the best and worst of healthcare IT as voted by readers of HIStalk. Key award categories and winners included Smartest Vendor Action Taken (Cerner convinces VA to choose its system without bidding), Stupidest Vendor Action Taken (EClinicalWorks accused of falsifying EMR certification data), Best Healthcare IT Vendor (Epic), and Most Effective Healthcare IT Figure (John Halamka of BIDMC). The awards recognize significant people, organizations, technologies and events in the healthcare IT industry each year.

1. The Eleventh
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
Allscripts acquires Practice Fusion
Cerner convinces the VA to choose its system
without bidding
EClinicalWorks steps up its game after settling
with the DOJ
Epic releases product versions for small hospitals

3. The Winner ...

4. Smartest Vendor Action Taken
Cerner convinces the VA to
choose its system without bidding
2017 Winner: McKesson plans its exit from healthcare IT
2016 Winner: Cerner partners with Leidos for the DoD bid

5. Stupidest Vendor Action Taken
EClinicalWorks is accused of falsifying EMR
certification data
Allscripts gets involved with Patrick Soon-Shiong
Cerner sues UIC after it chooses Epic
Allscripts buys McKesson’s HIT assets
Cerner acts as its own prime contractor with the
VA

6. The Winner ...

7. Stupidest Vendor Action Taken
EClinicalWorks is accused of
falsifying EMR certification
data
2017 Winner: Everything done by Theranos
2016 Winner: Cerner requires employees to sign an arbitration
agreement to get future raises

8. Best Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
Cerner
Epic
Divurgent
Nordic

9. The Winner ...

10. Best Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
2017 Winner: Epic
2016 Winner: Epic

11. Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
Allscripts
Athenahealth
Deloitte
Epic
HCI Group

12. The Winner ...

13. Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
2017 Winner: GE Healthcare
2016 Winner: Allscripts

14. Best Leader of a Vendor or
Consulting Firm
Bruce Cerullo, Nordic
Carl Dvorak, Epic
Judy Faulkner, Epic
Colin Konschak, Divurgent

15. The Winner ...

16. Best Leader of a Vendor or
Consulting Firm
Judy Faulkner, Epic
2017 Winner: Judy Faulkner, Epic
2016 Winner: Judy Faulkner, Epic

17. Best Provider User of
Healthcare IT
Beth Israel-Deaconess
Cedars-Sinai
Intermountain Healthcare
Kaiser Permanente
Lahey Health

18. The Winner ...

19. Best Provider User of
Healthcare IT
2017 Winner: Kaiser Permanente
2016 Winner: Kaiser Permanente

20. Most Promising
Technology Development
Blockchain
EHR voice-powered personal assistants
FHIR and APIs
Nudge-type lifestyle apps

21. The Winner ...

22. Most Promising
Technology Development
FHIR and APIs
2017 Winner: Telehealth
2016 Winner: Predictive analytics

23. Most Overrated
Technology
Artificial intelligence
Blockchain
FHIR and APIs
HHS’s TEFCA trusted framework

24. The Winner ...

25. Most Overrated
Technology
Blockchain
2017 Winner: Wearables
2016 Winner: Apple Watch

26. Most Overused
Buzzword
Artificial intelligence
Big data
Blockchain
Disruption

27. The Winner ...

28. Most Overused
Buzzword
Big data
2017 Winner: Big data
2016 Winner: Big data

29. When ______ Talks,
People Listen
Andy Slavitt, General Atlantic
John Halamka, BIDMC
Judy Faulkner, Epic
Micky Tripathi, MA EHealth Collaborative

30. The Winner ...

31. When ______ Talks,
People Listen
John Halamka, BIDMC
2017 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
2016 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC

32. Most Effective Healthcare IT
Provider Executive
Darren Dworkin, Cedars-Sinai
John Halamka, BIDMC
David Reis, Hackensack Meridian Health
Tim Tarnowski, UMass Memorial Health Care

33. The Winner ...

34. Most Effective Healthcare IT
Provider Executive
John Halamka, BIDMC
2017 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
2016 Winner: Marc Probst, Intermountain

35. Most Effective Medical / Clinical
Informatics Professional
Atul Butte, UCSF
Peter Embi, Regenstrief Institute
John Halamka, BIDMC
David Milov, Nemours Children’s Clinic

36. The Winner ...

37. Most Effective Medical / Clinical
Informatics Professional
2017 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
2016 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
John Halamka, BIDMC

38. HIS Industry Figure with Whom You’d
Most Like to Have a Few Beers
Russ Branzell, CHIME
Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth
Judy Faulkner, Epic
Ivo Nelson, Next Wave Health

39. The Winner ...

40. HIS Industry Figure with Whom You’d
Most Like to Have a Few Beers
2017 Winner: Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth
2016 Winner: Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth
Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth

41. HIS Industry Figure in Whose Face You’d
Most Like to Throw a Pie
Paul Black, Allscripts
Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth
Judy Faulkner, Epic
Girish Kumar, EClinicalWorks
Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantHealth

42. The Winner ...

43. HIS Industry Figure in Whose Face You’d
Most Like to Throw a Pie
Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantHealth
2017 Winner: Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos
2016 Winner: John Hammergren, McKesson

44. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Industry Figure of the Year
Grahame Grieve, Health Intersections Pty Ltd
Steve Lieber, HIMSS (retired)
Neal Patterson, Cerner (deceased)
David Shulkin, VA

45. The Winner ...

46. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Industry Figure of the Year
2017 Winner: Andy Slavitt, CMS
2016 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
Neal Patterson, Cerner

47. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Lifetime Achievement Award
Clem McDonald, National Library of Medicine
Terry Ragon, InterSystems
Dana Sellers, retired
Ted Shortliffe, Arizona State University

48. The Winner ...

49. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Lifetime Achievement Award
2017 Winner: Neal Patterson, Cerner
2016 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
Clem McDonald, NLM

50. HISsies 2019
Monday, February 11, 2019