CHIME Foundation Board Transitions and Additions in 2018

12.12.17
By the CHIME Foundation Team

The CHIME Foundation Board of Directors will undergo some changes in 2018. While the steady presence of veteran members will remain,  you’ll see some new additions to the board and several valued members will finish out their board service.

As the result of elections in fall of this year, CHIME is pleased to announce the election of Steve Eckert, president of Divurgent, to the CHIME Foundation Board. He has more than two decades of experience in senior- and executive-level leadership positions at multiple industry-leading organizations. He has been an active member of CHIME for more than 10 years and served as an appointed Foundation Board member in 2017. He will begin his term on Jan. 1, 2018.

Liz Johnson, CIO of Acute Care Hospitals & Applied Clinical Informatics at Tenet Healthcare, and CHIME’s 2017 Board Chair will be stepping into the role of chair of the CHIME Foundation Board. Cletis Earle, Theresa Meadows and Donna Roach are all CHIME Board of Trustees members, and will be serving as officers on the CHIME Foundation board in 2018.

In 2018, Kali Durgampudi, David Finn, and Marc Probst will transition off the CHIME Foundation board. They have each embodied our mission of “Exceptional Leaders Transforming Healthcare” and will be greatly missed. During his tenure on the board, Durgampudi (VP, Innovation, Mobile Architecture, R&D – Healthcare Solutions at Nuance Communications) has worked closely with CHIME leadership to help CHIME develop and expand the membership base in India. His contributions helped CHIME attend several major healthcare IT industry events in India and expand CHIME’s presence abroad.

Probst wrote recently of Finn, “I credit David’s foresight for CHIME’s current focus on cybersecurity. David pushed the board, as the body that determines CHIME’s strategic direction, to look beyond what we traditionally pursued and make cybersecurity a priority.” Finn ‘s influence helped to shape the direction CHIME has taken, serving as “a driving force behind the creation of the Association of Executives in Healthcare Information Security, or AEHIS, which CHIME launched in 2014. He emphasized the importance of having an educational and networking association to keep chief information security officers well informed and engaged. AEHIS now has more than 700 members.”

As the exiting CHIME Foundation Board Chair, Probst will leave behind a strong legacy. His ability to connect with and build strong relationships with Foundation firm partners was evidenced at the CHIME Partner Education Summit in September when he shared his down-to-earth, genuine and sincere feedback on the ingredients necessary to build valuable, long-lasting partnerships. As the board chair, he provided solid and consistent guidance during a year of major transition for the Foundation staff. We will miss his presence and we appreciate all that he has done to serve CHIME and the CHIME Foundation so well over the last several years.

Your 2018 CHIME Foundation Board of Directors:

Liz Johnson, Chair, CHIME Foundation Board
CIO, Acute Care Hospitals & Applied Clinical Informatics, Tenet Healthcare

Cletis Earle, Chair, CHIME Board
CIO, Kaleida Health

Theresa Meadows, Treasurer
Senior Vice President and CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System

Donna Roach, Secretary
CIO, Via Christi Ascension Information Services

Steve Eckert
President and COO, Divurgent

Frank A. Nydam
Healthcare Vice President and CTO, VMware

Zane Burke
President, Cerner

Carina Edwards
Senior Vice President of Customer Experience, Imprivata

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