News of Note: Interoperability Webinar and Baldrige Honor
12.6.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations Here is a roundup from CHIME of recent news and upcoming events: Interoperability webinar on Dec. 11: CHIME Chair-elect Shafiq Rab, senior vice president and CIO at Rush University Medical Center, and Marc Probst, a member of CHIME’s Public Policy Steering Committee and CIO at… read more
Learn moreEMR Helps Clinicians Screen, Treat Patients at Risk of Opioid Misuse
12.6.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations When the Substance Use Intervention Team (SUIT) at Rush University Medical Center wanted to add two questions to the list that nursing and social work staff asked patients receiving inpatient care, they knew they had to tread carefully. The questions were brief queries about misusing… read more
Learn moreCHIME Announces Top 10 Most Wired Recipients at CHIME18
11.08.2018 Michelle Patterson – VP, Operations CHIME concluded our first CHIME HealthCare’s Most Wired program on Nov. 2 at CHIME18 with a bang – or more accurately, with a drum roll. Many CIO members from hospitals and health systems that received Most Wired status were in the CHIME18 audience and were invited to stand… read more
Learn more3 Members Receive CHIME Awards at Fall Forum
11.08.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations One retired CIO and two active CIOs took to the stage on Oct. 31 at the 2018 CHIME Fall CIO Forum in San Diego to accept 2018 CHIME awards. The CHIME Board of Trustees surprised former Board Chair Bill Spooner, who retired in 2014 from Sharp… read more
Learn moreCHIME Foundation Award Winners Focus on Strong Relationships
11.08.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations Kali Durgampudi, vice president of innovation and mobile architecture at Nuance Communications, has repeatedly answered the call when CHIME and CHIME’s members asked for assistance. He served as a subject matter expert during a Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus briefing in Washington, D.C. And when CIOs… read more
Learn moreFormer Board Chair Lynn Vogel Shares Lessons Learned in ‘Who Knew?’
10.24.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations Lynn Vogel recognized he had the perfect title for his book “Who Knew? Inside the Complexity of American Health Care,” when the president described healthcare as “unbelievably complicated. Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.” As a founding member of CHIME, former Board chair… read more
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10.24.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations Here is a roundup from CHIME of recent news and upcoming events: CHIME and AISIS announce plans to launch a chapter in Italy: CHIME and Associazione Italiana Sistemi Informativi in Sanità (AISIS) announced that they have signed a letter of intent to establish a CHIME… read more
Learn moreCHIME18 Keynoter Emily Chang Weighs in on IT, Workplace Issues and More
Emily Chang, host of “Bloomberg Technology” and a keynote speaker at the 2018 CHIME Fall CIO Forum, discusses trends in healthcare IT, women in the IT workplace, the value of programs like Women of CHIME and diversity initiatives in a Q &A.
Learn moreNews Announcements at CHIME Advocacy Summit
10.11.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations Here is a roundup of CHIME-related news announced at the CHIME Advocacy Summit: Intermountain CIO Marc Probst wins CHIME federal policy award: Marc Probst, a nationally recognized healthcare IT leader who has served on the influential Federal Healthcare Information Technology Policy Committee, was named the… read more
Learn moreDiversity Initiative Aims to Increase Pipeline of Talented Health IT Workers
10.11.2018 Cletis Earle – Chair, CHIME Board A common theme emerged at last week’s CHIME Advocacy Summit, particularly in discussions about cybersecurity: Healthcare IT executives in many hospitals and healthcare organizations struggle to keep their departments properly staffed. Compounding that problem is the increasing sophistication of cyber criminals and the need for IT leaders with… read more
Learn moreVirtual Reality Provides Non-Pharmaceutical Approach to Assist Pediatric Burn Patients
10.11.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations The pharmaceutical industry introduced opioids to the medical community as a way for physicians to manage their patients’ pain. Simon Lin, chief research information officer at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, offers pediatric burn victims another way to cope with the pain and anxiety that occurs when… read more
Learn moreInterview with HCI CEO Ricky Caplin: Tough Times Call for Bold Leadership from CIOs
9.27.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations In an era of thin margins, consolidations and ever-growing complexity and challenges, what can senior healthcare IT executives do to ensure the long-term success of their health organizations? Be bold, advises Ricky Caplin, CEO of The HCI Group. Operating margins dropped to 2.7 percent in… read more
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