Mr. HISTalk nominations for 2008 HISsies Award

Yes folks it is that time of the year again. Mr. HIStalk – HISsies nomination for 2008: your nominations for “The Brutally Honest Healthcare Information Systems Awards” in 18 categories are now welcome. Among them: who’s the worst vendor, what’s the biggest HIT news story of the year, who is the HIS industry figure in whose face you’d most like to throw a pie, and who gets the biggest award: the “HIStalk HIT Industry Figure of the Year.” Nominations will run until the end of next week, then voting begins. Don’t discount the importance of voting now: only the top handful of nomination vote-getters appear on the final ballot. If you’re new, don’t think this is a joke just because the categories are cheeky: it draws 1,000 or more voters each time, some vendor always tries to rig the voting by urging employees to vote for them as Best Vendor, and the number of people who read the results announcement is off the scale.