HITTG Throws a HISsies Script

Last night's HISsies Awards at the HIMSS conference were presented in a wholly new way. As a cartoon. We produced the seven-minute animated awards ceremony for the folks at the HIStalk blog and had no difficulty casting our co-stars, Cerner's Neal Patterson and athenahealth's Jonathan Bush. Of course, the anonymous Mr. HIStalk and Inga anchored the highjinx as awards presenters a la Oscar. Jon Bush's uncanny resemblance to Michael J. Fox, alongside Patterson's notorious hate-mail to middle management, gave us more than enough material to frolic with.

In case you forgot about Patterson's notorious management style, here's just a taste of that missive:

The parking lot is sparsely used at 8AM; likewise at 5PM. As managers -- you either do not know what your EMPLOYEES are doing; or YOU do not CARE. You have created expectations on the work effort which allowed this to happen inside Cerner, creating a very unhealthy environment. In either case, you have a problem and you will fix it or I will replace you. [Sic. sic sic sic.]

Oh, you didn't know that Healthcare IT Transition Group makes animated HIT videos? Catch up...

Don't Touch That Dial
Over the holidays we invested a few bucks and a lot more time in our media production capacity. This is just the beginning, with even more to come. Last fall, we quietly set up our (pre-beta)... 

...HITCHtv.net -- aka The Health IT Channel. Coming soon: Fresh video commentary on health IT issues, conference coverage, and, we anticipate, a one-stop resource for health IT product introductions and related vendor information. If it's healthcare information technology and somebody made it into dancing baloney, it belongs on HITCHtv.net. We're also making full-length video versions of our research and analysis projects.

Slammed by Success
The HISsies animation video forced a substantial upgrade of our server capacity (tripled it), but that wasn't enough. We were so slammed this morning that we added a mirror site. Now, as you will quickly note, there are only three selections among the featured videos, and a few dozen external links. Want to help us start fleshing it out? Funny non-commercial links go up for free. Vendor video goes up for not very darned much (email me).

Music Up!
So, in typical awards ceremony fashion: "I'd like to thank the Academy, my beloved family, and our sponsor, Mr. HIStalk, without whom I wouldn't have stayed up all night last week playing Hanna Barbera. And I'd like to get in a plug for my upcoming movie, but I don't know what it is until I get my next sponsor. Maybe somebody within the sound of my voice needs an eye-grabber for the World Health Care Congress, or the Annual WEDI Conference, or the Collaborative Communications Summit?" Hint hint.

Comments

[Curtis]

Y'all did a GREAT job! It was a big hit.