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Pam McNutt, Bill Spooner, and Gary Barnes were among the individuals recognized for outstanding leadership, and Sutter Health and Trinity Health were among the organizations acknowledged for their contributions to the field at the CHIME13 Fall CIO Forum, held last week in Scottsdale, Ariz. McNutt, who serves as senior VP and CIO of Methodist Health […]
In a comment letter submitted to AHRQ in response to its RFI on the convergence of health IT and clinical quality measures, CHIME urged the organization not to bite off more than the industry can chew. Specifically, that means accepting the fact that abstractors will remain part of the data collection process for some time, […]
John Wade, former CIO/VP at Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, and former HIMSS Board Chair, passed away last week. His friends and colleagues have offered the following remembrances …
Proposed HIPAA changes establish standards that would be difficult for providers to meet and should be scaled back, according to comments filed by CHIME. The organization said the rules rely too much on technical capabilities that are not widely available and fail to acknowledge the amount of human intervention that will be necessary to achieve […]
Of great concern to CHIME is a proposed rule by CMS that gives patients enrolled in an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) the ability to restrict access to their health information, according to a comment letter the organization recently filed in response to CMS’ NPRM. “If beneficiary claims data are withheld, the ACO’s ability to improve […]
As a physician, former CIO and now CMIO, Lynn Witherspoon has operated in the healthcare system from a number of angles. And having lived through Hurricane Katrina, he has a better handle on disaster recovery issues than most. But while Ochsner Health System survived the storm, did that experience leave it at a disadvantage when […]
