Schooler Named CIO of the Year

Rick Schooler, CIO, Orlando Health

Rick Schooler, senior vice president and CIO at Orlando Health, has been named the 2011 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year. Schooler is in his 12th year as CIO at Orlando Health and has been in the health IT industry for more than two decades. He is a Fellow of CHIME and was [...]

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DeFord Named CHIME Board Chair

Drex DeFord, VP/CIO, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Drex DeFord, CIO and senior vice president of Seattle Children’s Hospital, has been named 2012 Chair of CHIME’s Board of Trustees. DeFord, who serves on the healthsystemCIO.com Advisory Panel, is a CHIME fellow and Certified Healthcare CIO. He has been on CHIME’s board for three years, and has been a member of the organization for 13 [...]

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 4

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Managing meeting politics
Becoming a strategic CIO
Supporting physicians — “They don’t leave messages”
Setting (and re-setting priorities)
Taking the best of a survey — and leaving the rest
Expanding one’s comfort zone

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 3

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Meditech’s performance
The CHIME Survey on HIT steering committees
Getting docs involved in governance
The nitty gritty of successful meetings
As always, communication is key

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 2

Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System

Ligon’s CHIME survey on IT steering committees
New boss, new priorities
Prioritization and governance
Acceptable rates of change — “There’s only so many things that people can absorb”
The role of nursing in HIT transformation

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 1

Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System

Running a Meditech Magic 5.64/LSS shop
Hospital/physician practice integration, HIE
Looking to the states to facilitate integration
The final frontier — inpatient CPOE
Going 6.0 someday?

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McCleese, Costin Join CHIME Board Of Trustees

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Randy McCleese CHCIO, VP of IS and CIO at St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Kentucky; and Melinda Costin, VP at Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, have been elected to the CHIME Board of Trustees. McCleese has more than 24 years of IS management experience, with 16 years in healthcare. He has been a [...]

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