Inside CHIME: News of Note

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9.14.17
By Candace Stuart, Director of Communications & Public Relations, CHIME

Here is a roundup from CHIME of recent news and upcoming events.

CHIME and DirectTrust announce collaboration: CHIME and DirectTrust announced Aug. 30 that they are collaborating to promote the universal deployment of the DirectTrust framework and health information exchange network as the common electronic interface for health information exchange across the U.S. DirectTrust’s network is the largest standards-based network for the exchange of health information, with more than 1.5 million send and receive endpoints, at over 100,000 healthcare organizations, via more than 350 ONC-certified EHRs. More information is available here.

Interoperability webinar counts for one CEU: Two leading CHIME members will participate in a webinar on interoperability on Sept. 19. Attendees to the webinar, which is produced in partnership with CHIME, can earn up to one Continuing Education Unit for the CHIME Certified Healthcare CIO program. CHIME Board Chair Liz Johnson, CIO of Acute Care Hospitals and Applied Clinical Informatics at Tenet Healthcare, and Brian Patty, M.D., vice president and CMIO at Rush University Medical Center, will share their experiences and insights along with Andrew Mellin, chief medical officer at Spok. Anthony Guerra, editor-in-chief of healthysystemCIO.com, will moderate the live event. The webinar is produced by healthysystemCIO.com in partnership with CHIME. Register here.

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