Beacon Partners is proud to be a Diamond Corporate Member of HIMSS.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) provides leadership in healthcare for the advancement and management of information technology. Headquartered in Chicago, HIMSS provides services to more than 13,000 members, including IT health care corporations, firms and professionals from around the globe. Through the collaboration of 41 chapters and 20 special interest groups, HIMSS directs and shapes the healthcare industry, encourages emerging technology and promotes public policies that will improve healthcare delivery.

As a HIMSS corporate member, Beacon Partners will focus on expanding it’s relationships with healthcare IT organizations in order to share experiences that will affect and advance industry issues, as well as to develop its IT knowledge and expertise of emerging technologies for the benefit of its clients.  For more information visit www.himss.org.

HIMSS Chapter Affiliations

• Florida Central North
  
• Greater Chicago
  
• New England
  
• Northern California

Beacon Partners is proud to be a member of the CHIME Foundation.

More than 1,245 members strong, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is the premier association dedicated to serving the professional development needs of healthcare CIOs and advocating the more effective use of information management in healthcare. Through a variety of educational and networking events and research tools, CHIME members stay connected with each other and stay on top of the cutting edge trends in the healthcare IT industry.

A hallmark of CHIME’s success has been a close collaborative relationship with the HIS vendor and consulting community. The CHIME Foundation was established to enable this community to support the educational initiatives of CHIME. The Foundation educates its member organizations, enabling them to better address the needs of CIOs and the healthcare industry. For more information please visit www.cio-chime.org.
CHIME: The Premier Organization for Healthcare CIOs

Beacon Partners is proud to be a Corporate Affiliate of the MGMA.

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is the nation's principal voice for medical group practice. MGMA's 19,000 members manage and lead 11,000 organizations in which approximately 220,000 physicians practice. MGMA leads the profession and assists members through information, education, networking and advocacy. MGMA's mission is to improve the effectiveness of medical group practices and the knowledge and skills of the individuals who manage/lead them. For more information on MGMA, visit www.mgma.com.

Beacon Partners is a proud commercial member of MUSE.

MUSE is a non-profit organization of facilities that use the MEDITECH healthcare information system. MUSE is the largest independent MEDITECH users group in the world and has hundreds of hospital members throughout the world. Members include facilities using both the Magic and the Client/Server platforms of MEDITECH. For more information on MUSE, visit www.museweb.org.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is the dynamic professional association that represents more than 46,000 specially educated health information management professionals who work throughout the healthcare industry. Health information management professionals serve the healthcare industry and the public by managing, analyzing, and utilizing data vital for patient care -- and making it accessible to healthcare providers when it is needed most. For more information on AHIMA please visit www.ahima.org.

The American Medical Informatics Association is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization of individuals, institutions, and corporations dedicated to developing and using information technologies to improve health care. For more information on AMIA visit www.amia.org.

Beacon Partners is a proud Advantage member of the AHA.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA.

Through our representation and advocacy activities, AHA ensures that members' perspectives and needs are heard and addressed in national health policy development, legislative and regulatory debates, and judicial matters. Our advocacy efforts include the legislative and executive branches and include the legislative and regulatory arenas.

Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. For more information on AHA visit
www.AHA.org