College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) news and information

The College of Health Information Management Executives' 2013 Fall CIO Forum wrapped up Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz., with a spate of announcements and award presentations.
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Information technology officers and their CEOs will be forced to make some tough choices in the months ahead. On a battlefield, it is called triage.
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Health information technology leaders have a lot on their plates today and more to come—implementing systems to match the federal IT incentive payment program upgrades, satisfying auditors roaming the land, meeting privacy constraints and preparing for the switch to a huge set of updated...
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Chief information officers aren't running their healthcare organizations, but maybe they should, says Jamie Heywood, chairman and co-founder of PatientsLikeMe.
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Who's still stumping for a national patient identifier? “I want an identifier,” said Joey Sudomir, CIO at Texas Health Partners, Arlington, and Bill Spooner is right there with him.
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Earlier this year, Allegiance Health in Jackson County, Mich., began investigating whether to join Medicare's shared-savings program after seeing it was losing patients to neighboring counties.
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Russell Branzell, the new president and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, told the 750 chief information officers gathered in Scottsdale, Ariz., for CHIME's annual fall forum that the health IT industry will face numerous challenges over the next year. The former...
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives laid out an ambitious lobbying agenda to the 750 members gathered Oct. 8-11 in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the group's annual 2013 fall forum. Pamela McNutt, a member of CHIME's policy steering committee and CIO of Methodist Health Systems in...
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari didn't quite bare his soul to a bunch of hospital CIOs, but the man who was indefatigably buoyant as the nation's federal health information technology czar did pull back the curtain a bit and offered an assessment of his own concerns as well as some "insider clues" in his...
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The start date for the modernization of the coding system that healthcare systems and physician offices use for everything from billing to population health management is now less than a year away. To get ready for ICD-10, thousands of coders and physicians must be retrained. Modern Healthcare...
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