Intermountain CIO Marc Probst Wins CHIME Federal Public Policy Award

The Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership recognizes a CHIME member who has demonstrated leadership in educating Congress and administration officials at the federal level about the value of health IT and its role in patient care.   

 

Probst is CIO and vice president at Intermountain Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system based in Salt Lake City. He served as the chair of CHIME’s Public Policy Steering Committee (PSC) in 2017; chair of the CHIME Board of Trustees in 2016 and chair of the CHIME Foundation Board in 2017. As a member of the PSC, he has offered testimony on Capitol Hill, presented at several briefings in Washington, D.C, and represented the CHIME membership in numerous other ways. He also is a popular faculty member at CHIME’s Healthcare CIO Boot Camps.

“Marc always puts the patient at the center in any healthcare IT initiative or policy involving healthcare IT,” said Liz Johnson, chair of the PSC and chief innovation officer of Acute Care Hospitals & Applied Clinical Informatics at Tenet Healthcare Corporation. “He has been a champion of two issues that are priorities for our members: creating standards for exchanging patient information and having a reliable, safe and accurate patient ID protocol. And, he dedicated countless hours as a member of the Health IT Policy Committee, providing thought leadership as the government embarked on regulating the use of EHRs and health IT. We all benefited from Marc’s willingness to tackle some of the toughest issues head on.”

 

Probst has more than 30 years of experience working in healthcare IT planning, design, development deployment, operation, and speeding innovation to clinical practice. At Intermountain, his core competencies are systems design and implementation, strategic planning, system consolidation and project management. His major focus has been in healthcare, managed care, eCommerce and healthcare payer services. He and his team have played a key role in numerous innovative programs at Intermountain that use health IT and analytics to increase the quality of patient care and lower costs.

 

“It is an honor to receive this award from my peers at CHIME,” Probst said. “It is especially meaningful to have this happen now, at our first CHIME Advocacy Summit. The PSC and CHIME’s public policy team have come a long way in just 10 years, and it has been a pleasure to be part of the transformation.”

 

Prior to joining Intermountain Healthcare, Probst was a partner at Deloitte Consulting and Ernst and Young. In addition to his volunteer work at CHIME, he is a board member with the University of Utah School of Nursing and the Utah Food Bank. He earned a degree in finance at the University of Utah and a master’s degree in business management at George Washington University.

 

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,700 members in 51 countries and over 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.

 

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