HIMSS President and CEO Steve Lieber
H. Stephen Lieber, who has headed the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) since 2000, will retire at the end of 2017, the organization said Monday.
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Lieber, 63, has shepherded HIMSS through a period of rapid growth in size and clout during his tenure. That include a 2003 merger with another health IT organization, CPRI-Host.
The annual HIMSS conference has more than doubled in terms of attendance and vendor participation in the last 17 years, and now is the largest health IT event in the world. The Chicago-based organization was instrumental in getting the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed in 2009.
HIMSS also has established overseas affiliates in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, bought Sheldon Dorenfest & Associates to form HIMSS Analytics and created a media division during Lieber’s tenure. HIMSS Media owns several titles that compete with MedCity News, though those publications do retain editorial independence.
HIMSS said it would now begin looking for a successor. The association said it had retained executive search firm Egon Zehnder to head the search and is expecting to have someone hired by mid-2017 and on the job by the fall. Lieber will stay in place for several months to help with the transition.
Lieber said that he communicated his plans to the HIMSS board of directors in June. “We’ve been working on this for about six months at the governance level,” he told MedCity News.
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