New Faculty Changing CMIO Leadership Academy’s Dynamic

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3.28.2018
George Reynolds, Retired CIO & CMIO, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center – Omaha

 

The CHIME CMIO Leadership Academy scheduled for May 18-20 in Chicago will have a new dynamic, thanks to some changes we have made this year. The program will continue to incorporate the success factors that form the foundation of the popular CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp, with modifications to meet the needs of clinical participants. But we have added new faculty members to bring a fresh perspective on the challenges that today’s CMIOs, CNIOs and clinical leaders face.

This year we are welcoming Albert Chan, M.D., M.S., vice president and chief of digital patient experience at Sutter Health, and Amy Sitapati, M.D., CMIO of population health at University of California, San Diego Health. These rising stars will join Natalie Pageler, M.D., CMIO at Stanford Children’s Health; Marc Chasin, M.D., former CIO at St. Luke’s Health System; Brian Patty, M.D., vice president and CMIO at Rush University Medical Center; and me. (I retired in 2015 from Children’s Hospital in Omaha where I was vice president, CIO and CMIO. I now serve as CHIME’s interim vice president for education).

The CHIME CMIO Leadership Academy is designed to give clinical informatics executives the skills and tools they need to be effective leaders in their organizations, gain influence, and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders such as the CMO, CIO and other C-suite members. Patterned after the highly successful CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp, the CMIO Leadership Academy reinforces key leadership skills through the use of real-world case studies. Participants work collaboratively to solve problems and deal with challenges that they face back home. Those challenges include optimizing health IT as healthcare organizations shift from volume- to value-based care and preventing physician burnout.

Participants will learn how to develop strategic plans that meet goals within their areas of responsibility and simultaneously support their organizations’ strategic objectives. We will discuss the importance of demonstrating the clinical and economic value of IT-related projects; team building; how to be change leaders; and how to achieve these goals in spite of limited positional or budgetary authority—a dilemma many clinician executives face.

Several of our faculty have experience as clinician CIOs and clinical thought leaders. We look forward to sharing our experiences and serving as mentors to participants. Our new faculty members also bring a wealth of experience as innovators who use IT to enhance the patient’s healthcare experience. They have powerful stories to tell about innovating to solve problems, advance the health of populations and demonstrate value. As with boot camps, we expect the CHIME CMIO Leadership Academy will provide an educational and networking platform that CMIOs, CNIOs and others will be able to use throughout their careers.

If you are a CIO, we encourage you to send your clinician executive colleagues. Perhaps you have up-and-coming physicians or nurse informaticists who are looking to improve their skills and take their careers to the next level? You will find the skills they gain will be a boon for your entire health IT program. If you are a CMIO, we hope to see you in Chicago for this career-changing opportunity. Please email us at [email protected] if you have questions or need anything.

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