/ Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors
Board and Committee Report Form
Please e-mail your report to:
Michelle Cunningham, Account Executive

No later than March 14, 2012
/ Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors
Board and Committee Report Form
Please e-mail your report to:
Michelle Cunningham, Account Executive

No later than March 14, 2012

Name of Committee: Technology Committee

Committee Chair: Gail Hormats

Daytime Phone #: 413-794-7958

Email Address:

Board Liaison: Dagmar Herrmann-Estes

Committee Members: Roger Brown; Bill Daniels; Johan Lidros, Susan Smoger, Chase Whitaker , Amy LaBarge, Victoria Bischoff; Charles LeGrande, Casey O’Brien

Committee Goal(s) From Strategic Plan:

  1. Develop/expand IT auditing and CAATs references and resources and post in Audit Library (1 per quarter) (See library enhancement subcommittee)
  2. Redesign and recreate the Website (including the new logo) for a new look and feel (e.g. more appealing and user friendly) (see Website Modernization subcommittee)
  3. Develop process, procedures, responsibilities for Website management and changes.(see Website Modernization subcommittee)
  4. Develop a process for leveraging social media (e.g., Facebook, Linked In) to market AHIA and its events. (completed)
  5. Establish liaison relationship between Education and Tech Committees to increase IT education through webinars, seminars, conference sessions. (see Liaison subcommittee)
  6. Tech Talk growth (10% increase by end of year) (see Tech Talk sub committee below)
  7. Organize user group membership and interactions (e.g., conference calls, meetings) (in conjunction with Education committee) (see EMR and Liaison subcommittees)
  8. Get an internal audit track added to vendor (e.g., Epic, Cerner) annual user group meetings.(see EMR subcommittee)

Accomplishments:

Sub- Committee / Accomplishment
Tech Talk and NP articles based on Tech Talk. / March Tech Talk scheduled for March 16, 2012; Topics arePCI Compliance and Security Monitoring/Logging.
Website modernization /
  1. Draft Guidelines in review with Dagmar and Gail
  2. Survey on new site re-sent to membership. Still minimal response; will try 3rd time.
  3. Phase II discussions started on March 1, 2012;
The following are the items that will be concentrated on for Phase II implementation:
1)Website governance
2)Improve search capabilities
3)Level One Committee sites (private committee web page similar to one already created for PPC)
4)Mobiles optimization research and plan implementation (website, publication, conference app)
5)Starting discussions with PPC
Next sub-committee meeting will be in April
Website maintenance / Tested monthly. New website maintenance plan completed; new plan tested in February; will fine-tune in March and April
Audit Library enhancement – Tech Material / Submissions beginning: Interface Testing (Tech Committee); HIPAA Privacy Assessment Tool, HIPAA Security Rule Assessment Tool ( tools submitted by Phyllis Patrick at behest of tech committee chair) submitted in February.
Establish liaison with Education Committee / On-going; established. See EMR below
EMR (HER) / Held conference call with Education committee to coordinate efforts on EHR track – March 8, 2012;EHR track will be held Monday during annual conference at end of day; Finalizing speakers.
  1. AHIA Social Networking - Currently, the Linked-in site has 720 members as of March 9, 2012, an 8% increase since January 13, 2012(666). There were 7 new conversations started since January 13, 2012. Of these, 1 was a conference announcement and one was a job solicitation. There were no new promotions on the promotions tab. There were no new jobs posted on the jobs tab. The graph below shows the membership growth over the past year. Since last March we a nearly doubled the membership on the linked-in site.

Website Metrics - Specific metrics of use still need to be better identified. Now that the new website is up and functional, the committee will work with the Resource Center to get metrics on a routine basis.

Problems/Challenges in meeting Committee Goals:

None currently – Tech focused Library submissions have finally started!

Committee meeting(s) and key outcomes since last Board meeting:

January 19, 2012

February 16, 2012

March 15, 2012

Tech Talk – March 15, 2011

Action needed, motion or policy to be approved by the Board:

None at this time.