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In partnership with CHIME, healthsystemCIO.com has developed a blogger series featuring insights from hospital and health system CIOs and other key IT leaders representing organizations from around the country. The blogs, which will be featured on our site on a biweekly basis, will focus on the major issues affecting CIOs, including the health IT workforce [...]
In comments submitted yesterday to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, CHIME called the decision to postpone ICD-10 by one year an appropriate “middle ground” for all stakeholders and urged the agency to remain committed to ICD-10. In the letter, CHIME stated that “a longer delay would seriously disrupt ongoing efforts to convert to ICD-10” and would [...]
In comments submitted earlier this week, CHIME is calling for the creation of a 90-day reporting period for the first payment year of Stage 2 Meaningful Use. In comments filed with both CMS and ONC, CHIME also identified concerns related to CMS’ varying approach to clinical quality measures (CQMs) and provided recommendations on all 42 [...]
CHIME has announced that 21 of its members and one CHIME Affiliate program participant have earned the Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) and CHCIO-Eligible designation. The CHCIO designation represents achievement of one of the highest standards of professional development for healthcare CIOs. “This certification program has experienced strong growth in the past year, as its correlation [...]
A prolonged delay to ICD-10 implementation, or “more specifically, prolonged uncertainty about the timing and details of a delay, will create more problems than it would solve,” stated CHIME in a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “Everyone in the healthcare IT world is working against numerous deadlines,” said George Hickman, EVP/CIO at Albany Medical [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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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