Reflecting on a Year of Growth and Achievements in 2017

12.12.17
By the CHIME Foundation Team

The year 2017 has been an exciting and busy year for the CHIME Foundation, and we’d like to reflect on the accomplishments we achieved with your support and participation. We started the year with a bang at CHIME/HIMSS17, held mid-February in Orlando, Fla. In early March, we added new CHIME Foundation team members, Rose Lucas and Arika Lycan, to expand our ability to support our membership and help you to maximize your involvement and investment with the CHIME Foundation. In April, Kevin Cleary departed for new horizons and Barb Sivek, vice president of business services at the time, stepped up to the helm, ultimately being named as the new vice president of the CHIME Foundation.

In 2017, the CHIME Foundation organized 197 in-person focus groups and 30-plus online focus group sessions, and 25 Foundation firms shared College LIVE presentations with CHIME CIO members. We worked to reinvigorate our CHIME CIO Liaison program by pairing up even more Standard and Premier tier members with CIO Liaison volunteers and hosting an informative webinar on the program in April.

In July, we published our first-ever edition of this e-newsletter, CHIME Foundation’s Insight. The Insight has been a great opportunity to share relevant, timely content with you and your teams. We’ve featured different CHIME CIO voices in our reoccurring CIO Speaks article, as well as profiled CHIME award winners, highlighted fellow Foundation firm members and their tips and thoughts. You can find past articles archived here.

The CHIME Foundation also held another successful CHIME Partner Education Summit (CPES17) in Chicago this September, where attendees learned from CHIME CIO faculty what it takes to develop valuable long-term partnerships with our members. This was our second annual CPES, and despite Harvey and Irma causing havoc with travel plans, it drew 158 attendees from 44 firms.  Stay tuned for more on next year’s event.

Another milestone for CHIME and the CHIME Foundation this year was the successful launch of CFCHE (CHIME Foundation Certified Healthcare Executive) certification. We introduced this industry-based healthcare IT professional credentialing program for CHIME Foundation members in late June of this year. Since then, we’ve awarded certification to nearly 30 of your colleagues, and the list of CFCHE recipients is steadily growing.

CHIME’s International growth in 2017 has opened up opportunities to leverage our Foundation firms’ presence internationally. We look forward to sharing the 2018 CHIME international calendar by the end of this year.

Lastly, it was great to have the opportunity to connect with so many of our Foundation firm members at the CHIME17 Fall CIO Forum in San Antonio. Engaging with our members at CHIME’s annual event is a highlight for our team each year. Your generous support enables CHIME to provide top-notch programming that benefits the entire CHIME community and has a lasting impact on helping us achieve our mission of developing “exceptional leaders to help transform healthcare.”

Thank you for working with us to make 2017 such an exciting year. We look forward to deepening our relationships with our Foundation firm members in 2018 and we remain committed to the mission of returning value to you for your investment in CHIME.

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