HIMSS - Track Services with Real-Time Attendance

HIMSS - Track Services with Real-Time Attendance

Real-time attendance can be recorded by staff using a mobile device such as a tablet or smart phone. This can reduce the need for paper attendance sheets and increase the speed of recording participation.

Record Real-Time Attendance

  1. Use your smart device to access and login to your HIMSS site
  2. In the left navigation menu, tap ‘Attendance’
  3. Locate the ‘Enter Attendance by Session’ card
  4. Tap ‘Enter Attendance’ and the screen below will appear where you will pick the Activity, Session, and Date you wish to take attendance for from the provided drop-down fields. 
  5. Tap ‘Select Participants>’



  6. Choose one or more options to select which people to record attendance for
    1. ‘Roster’ (if a roster was created previously for this session),
    2. ‘Search’ (uses the Search feature)
    3. By participants names grouped together by last name A-H, I-R, and S-Z.
  7. Tap the participant names to record participation
  8. Tap ‘Review Attendance>’ when done



  9. All selected names will appear together in green marked Pending. To remove a name, tap to mark it for deletion from this list (the name will turn red)
  10. Tap the blue ‘<Select Participants’ button to go back and add name(s) if missed.
  11. Tap ‘Save Attendance’ upon completing review and the names will turn gray.
  12. Tap ‘Finish>’ to complete the process.



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