Inside CHIME: TransformIT’s Benchmarking Tool Gives CHIME Members a Strategic Edge

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3.14.18
By Shafiq Rab, M.D., MPH 

Last week I had the pleasure of sharing good news with members: the rollout of TransformIT. As chair of CHIME’s Strategic Planning Committee, I have been enthusiastic about the potential of this new benchmarking tool. Judging by your responses, you are, too.

TransformIT is an easy-to-use tool that will let you view member organizations and compare data in categories such as financials, organization type and location. For instance, you can search for health systems that are similar to yours and, based on the comparative data, build a case for adding more IT or staffing resources. You may gain some insights that give you a competitive advantage in your region or help you identify where you have vulnerabilities.

Beyond that, TransformIT provides a platform for you to identify what vendors and products your colleagues use. Imagine you are in the market for a certain product or service and you are trying to choose between two suppliers. The vendor dashboard will display CHIME colleagues who use those two vendors or products along with the members’ contact information. You can narrow your search by various categories, too. If you want to know what vendors supplied large academic institutions that had budgets between a selected range and were located in California, you can do so. Or if you run into a glitch with a product, you can find colleagues who use that product, reach out to them, see if they encountered similar issues and discuss how they resolved them.

TransformIT has one huge advantage over other analytical tools, too. As a participant, you will have access to your institution’s data. You will be able to review the data, identify any inaccuracies or out-of-date entries and correct them. You are empowered to make sure the data in TransformIT is current, reliable and robust. 

We unveiled TransformIT on March 5 at the CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum in Las Vegas – fittingly to the theme song, “The Best is Yet to Come.” That same day, CHIME began the tiered release of email invitations to members with instructions for creating an account in the portal. The rollout began with attendees at the CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum, and we added an incentive for them. The first 100 members to sign up became eligible for a drawing, with one winner getting a drone. Within 24 hours, well over 100 of you had logged in.

The rollout has now been completed. We encourage you to create an account once you receive your invitation, explore the dashboards, review your data and continue to ensure your entries are timely and accurate. Collectively we will make this already valuable resource is the very best it can be.

If you have any questions, contact [email protected].

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