Himss

Legal name: Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363906745
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2022
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2022
Location
Chicago, IL, United States
Phone
3126644467
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$74,491,725
Expenses
$83,281,363
Assets
$22,870,413
Liabilities
$63,841,700

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

31 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HAROLD WOLF III (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • TOM LEARY (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & HD GOVT OPERATIONS)
  • LYNDA BATCHELOR (VICE PRESIDENT MARKETING)
  • FRANK BILICH (VICE PRESIDENT, MEDIA SALES)

Highest reported compensation

  • HAROLD WOLF III (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,336,616 total reported compensation
  • SEBASTIAN KROLOP (CHIEF OP. & STR. OFF. (END 7/22)): $921,580 total reported compensation
  • BRUCE STEINBERG (MANAGING DIRECTOR/HIMSS INTERNATIONAL EVP): $595,530 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To create an empowered and informed community of providers, innovators, and individuals.

What it reported doing in 2022

The himss analytics department is a global healthcare advisor, providing guidance and market intelligence solutions to hospitals and clinical practices that move the industry forward with insight to enable better health through the use of information and technology.the himss analytics department offers comparative information and technology adoption benchmarking capabilities for healthcare organizations through its global benchmarking suite, which includes the electronic medical record adoption model (emram), the outpatient emram (o-emram), the continuity of care maturity model (ccmm), the adoption model for analytics maturity (anam), the digital imaging adoption model (diam), the infrastructure adoption model (infram), and the healthcare supply information maturity model (h-simm).

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 58
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.79; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.3M · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.8M reported
  • Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 13 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.