2. Smartest Vendor Action Taken
Athenahealth exits the hospital EHR business
Cerner partners with Amazon Web Services
Allscripts extends its contract with Northwell
Epic integrates its system with insurers
Epic temporarily closes App Orchard for security
4. Smartest Vendor Action Taken
Athenahealth exits the hospital
EHR business
2019 Winner: GE and McKesson exit health IT
2018 Winner: Cerner convinces the VA to choose its system
without issuing an RFP
5. Stupidest Vendor Action Taken
Cerner gives four board seats to an activist investor
who holds just 1.2% of shares
Allscripts partners with Northwell to develop the
Avenel EHR two years after its debut
Dexcom doesn’t communicate with its CGM users
when its cloud data sharing fails
Cerner replaces most of its executive team
7. Stupidest Vendor Action Taken
Cerner gives four board
seats to an activist investor
who holds just 1.2% of shares
2019 Winner: Athenahealth hires Immelt, fires Bush, and
enters the inpatient market
2018 Winner: EClinicalWorks falsifies EMR certification data
8. Best Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
Epic
Nordic
Athenahealth
Arcadia
13. Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or
Consulting Firm
2019 Winner: IBM Watson Health
2018 Winner: Allscripts
14. Best Leader of a Vendor or
Consulting Firm
Carl Dvorak, Epic
Judy Faulkner, Epic
Charles Tuchinda, First Databank
Brent Shafer, Cerner
Susan DeVore, Premier
31. When ______ Talks,
People Listen
John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
2019 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
2018 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
32. Most Effective Healthcare IT
Provider Executive
John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
Shafiq Rab, Rush University Medical Center
Anna Turman, CommonSpirit Health
Criss Ross, Mayo Clinic
34. Most Effective Healthcare IT
Provider Executive
John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
2019 Winner: Ed Marx, Cleveland Clinic
2018 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
35. Most Effective Medical / Clinical
Informatics Professional
Amy Abernethy, FDA
John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
Christopher Longhurst, UC San Diego
Dan Nigrin, Boston Children’s
37. Most Effective Medical / Clinical
Informatics Professional
2019 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
2019 Winner: John Halamka, BIDMC
John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
38. HIS Industry Figure with Whom You’d
Most Like to Have a Few Beers
Jonathan Bush, Firefly Health
Seema Verma, CMS
Farzad Mostashari, Aledade
David Shulkin, formerly of the VA
Judy Faulkner, Epic
40. HIS Industry Figure with Whom You’d
Most Like to Have a Few Beers
2019 Winner: Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth
2018 Winner: Jonathan Bush, Athenahealth
Jonathan Bush, Firefly Health
41. HIS Industry Figure in Whose Face You’d
Most Like to Throw a Pie
Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantHealth
Rusty Frantz, NextGen Healthcare
Paul Black, Allscripts
Rishi Shah, formerly of Outcome Health
Brent Shafer, Cerner
43. HIS Industry Figure in Whose Face You’d
Most Like to Throw a Pie
Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantHealth
2019 Winner: Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantHealth
2018 Winner: Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantHealth
44. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Industry Figure of the Year
Eric Topol, Scripps Research Institute
Judy Faulkner, Epic
Amy Abernethy, FDA
Glen Tullman, Livongo
46. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Industry Figure of the Year
2019 Winner: Atul Gawande, Brigham and Women’s
2018 Winner: Neal Patterson, Cerner
Judy Faulkner, Epic
47. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephanie Reel, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Bernard Tyson, Kaiser Permanente (deceased)
Russ Branzell, CHIME
John Mattison, Kaiser Permanente
Ed Hammond, Duke University
Amy Abernethy, FDA
49. HIStalk Healthcare IT
Lifetime Achievement Award
2019 Winner: Eric Topol, Scripps Research
2018 Winner: Clem McDonald, NLM
Bernard Tyson, Kaiser
Permanente (deceased)
