George McCulloch has been appointed as CHIME’s first executive vice president of Membership and Professional Development. According to CHIME, the new role is designed to help promote the organization’s expansion initiatives to better serve its members. “We are extremely pleased to have a seasoned CIO and industry professional of George’s caliber join CHIME’s senior management […]
Ganguly, Babachicos, and Probst Named To CHIME Board
CHIME has added three new members to its Board of Trustees: Cara Babachicos, Neal Ganguly, and Marc Probst. Babachicos, who serves as CIO and Corporate Director of Information Systems for the Community Hospitals and Non-Acute sites at Partners Healthcare, is a Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) with 25 years of experience in the industry. She is […]
Gearing Up For The Data Deluge
How and when are we going to get the tools and processes that we need to capture and effectively use the patient physiological data that we have now, and all the new info that is coming? At the recent CHIME Fall Forum, Dr. Eric Topol described the new and innovative ways in which we will be getting […]
What’s Useful About Meaningful Use?
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 […]
Ganguly, McCulloch, Reed, Sunquist Named CHIME Fellows
Indranil (Neil) Ganguly, George McCulloch, Linda Reed and Joanne Sunquist have earned CHIME Fellowship status. CHIME’s Board of Trustees established the Fellow program to honor and recognize members who have actively participated in the organization and who have made significant contributions to the healthcare IT field as CIOs. Ganguly is VP/CIO at CentraState Healthcare System […]
George McCulloch, Deputy CIO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Chapter 3
George McCulloch, Deputy CIO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Chapter 2
*Thoughts on Meaningful Use
*”The biggest issue we have with Meaningful use is the collision with ICD-10″
*”CPOE is a huge cultural shift and will likely be the toughest one for community hospitals”
*Physician freedom versus evidence-based medicine
*”There’s still an art to this as well as a science”
George McCulloch, Deputy CIO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Chapter 1
CHIME Develops CIO Certification
No longer content to carry only broader designations like FACHE (Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives) or FHIMSS (Fellow Healthcare Information Management System Society), The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), recently launched the first healthcare CIO-specific certification program. According to CHIME Certification Steering Committee Member (CSCM) George McCulloch — CHCIO, associate […]