Here Are Tips for Submitting a Knockout Proposal for CHIME18

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3.28.2018
By Michael Martz, Market information Officer, Gulf Coast Market, Ascension Information Services

CHIME is accepting proposals for Track Session and Leadership from the Edge presentations for the CHIME Fall CIO Forum that will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 2 in San Diego. Whether you’ve never spoken at a forum before or you are an old hand at forum presentations, we encourage you to use this opportunity to highlight your achievements and educate your peers.

The fall forums stand out for educational content provided by CHIME and CHIME Foundation members. After all, who knows better what challenges we face and what strategies have worked to meet those challenges than healthcare IT leaders who live and work in this environment day in and day out? We have broken the track sessions into four topics – strategy and leadership; business and care transformation; emerging issues in healthcare and health information technology; and clinical informatics. If you have a proposal that doesn’t fit within those topics, don’t despair. The CHIME18 Planning Committee welcomes new insights and ideas. If your proposal has merit, the committee will try to find a spot for it.

Preference is given to proposals that feature one or more CHIME members who are provider health IT executives. CHIME Foundation partners who are senior-level executives are eligible to submit proposals as well, but we recommend the proposal includes at least one CHIME provider health IT executive. Presentations should focus more on a solution process – how something was accomplished – and not the solution itself – what was accomplished. For instance, we are less interested in a proposal that details implementation of an EHR than a proposal that explains how the implementation process changed the hospital’s culture. Proposals that are sales pitches will not be accepted.

You can submit up to four proposals, one in each topic area, and you can indicate if you would like your submission to be considered for other CHIME programs such as regional events, webinars, international programs and programs under CHIME’s three associations: the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS), the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology (AEHIT) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications (AEHIA).

CHIME introduced Leadership from the Edge at CHIME17 to allow members to share their vision of healthcare’s future and the role of IT and senior healthcare IT executives in that future. These presentations resemble TED Talks, with 20-minute sessions that push boundaries and stretch the imagination.

You can learn more about track session submissions here and about Leadership for the Edge submissions here. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. ET April 27. I encourage you to begin working on your proposals soon. As a presenter at the inaugural Leadership from the Edge program last year, I learned that putting together a compelling proposal takes some time and effort – all of which is worth the opportunity to share a topic you are passionate about with your peers in CHIME.

The Planning Committee is holding a webinar at noon today (March 29). Planning Committee Vice Chair Steve Stanic and I will discuss elements of a strong proposal and how to make your proposal stand out. You can register here. The webinar will be archived for those who cannot attend but want to learn more about the proposal process.

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