By Vince CiottiH.I.S. (not very) Professionals, LLC

Merry Xmas!

At the risk of antagonizing the many HIS vendor CEOs who have been so helpful in writing my HIS-tory series of their firms over the past year, this week features another special episode for the Christmas season.

To make this holiday a little merrier (and with a little inside help from the NSA), we managed to get copies of the leading HIS vendor executives’ private letters to Santa.

So sit back in your office chair, warm up your egg nog (or that stale office coffee), and enjoy these somewhat “punny” missives meant to poke a little fun at the bosses of our top 13 HIS vendors, listed by order of revenue. Hope Yule like it!(PS - our attorney can be reached at: 800/555-1212)

Vendor Letters to Santa

Dear Santa,To make this season a Paragon of Christmases, I would like to see a whole Series of Stars spread across the Horizon.

Sincerely, John Hammergren

McKesson Provider Technologies5995 Windward Pkwy

Alpharetta, GA 30005

Dear Mr. Claus,To make my day this

Xmas, I’d like another epic sale the size of IHC...

Yours truly, Neal Patterson

Cerner2800 Rockcreek ParkwayNorth Kansas City, MO 64117

Dear Santa,For this Christmas,

I’d sure be interested my old job back at Partners, in case you run across anybody there in your travels...

Sincerely, John Glaser

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.51 Valley Stream ParkwayMalvern, PA 19355United States

Dear Santa,This Christmas, I

really don’t need anything... but thanks for asking!

Yours truly, Judy

Epic 1979 Milky Way

Verona, Wisconsin 53593

Santa,Since we are based in

Chicago, the biggest help you could be is to get those Bulls to start beating the Bears! (on Wall Street, that is…)

Sincerely, Paul Black

ALLSCRIPTS222 Merchandise Mart, Suite 2024

Chicago, IL 60654

Dear Mr. Claus,Could you please

help us find a buyer for our BDM Pharmacy Division? (…what? Oh…) Sorry, never mind.

Sincerely, Jan DeWitt

GE HealthcareEvery Kitchen

USA & The World

Santa,This year, I’d like a

Magic wand so all of our Clients can be Served on a single Release (6).

Yours, Neal Pappalardo

MeditechMEDITECH Circle

Westwood, Mass. 02090

Dear Santa,All I want for

Christmas is that our next Opus encompasses the whole Sphere of our ambulatory systems.

Sincerely yours, Steve Plochoki

NextGenAustin, Texas

Santer,All we’d really like this yeah is

to sell our system to just one really big hospital for a change – say, one that’s over 100 beds. Oh awright, howabout one over 25 beds?

Y’all have a merry one! Boyd Douglas

CPSI6600 Wall St.Mobile, Alabaam 36695

Dear Santa,We’d really

appreciate it if you could make that other “HMS” in New York change their initials.

Many thanks, Tom Stevenson

Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.6550 Carothers Parkway, Suite 100Franklin,

Tennessee 37067

親愛なるサンタ、

あなたは、米国の前に、今年東京で停止を確認してください、

ありがとうございました

NTT DataToyosu Center Building, 3-3Toyosu 3-chome Koto-ku, Tokyo

Dear Mr. Claus,Can you please find us some nice

office space in Reston, Virginia, that is located on a street that is named something besides “Sunset?” You see, we really have this Affinity for making Quantim leaps forward…

Many thanks, Jeff Bender

Harris12110 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 600          Reston, VA 20190    

Dear Santa,As you may know, I just

moved here from McKesson down in Atlanta. The people up here in Minnesota are wonderful but the weather is just dreadful. Could you possibly back off the snow for few weeks this summer?

Many thanks, Chris Bauleke

Healthland1600 Utica Avenue South; Suite 300Minneapolis, Minnesota    

Dear Santa,

Please have Vince stop sending me any more of these silly episodes next year – they are costing me too many sponsors. In return, I promise I will start being a very good boy.Fondest regards to you and Mrs. Claus,

Yours truly,Mr. HIS-talk

And Last But Not Least: