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

Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That's particularly the case with my hospital.We started our EHR journey in 2004.
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Healthcare organizations have a lot to learn from health information exchanges.
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With the Oct. 1, 2014 deadline for the transition to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedures codes apparently set in stone, technology experts like Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, forecast how the change will unfold.
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George Hickman, executive vice president and chief information officer at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center and chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, discusses some strategic changes takiing place at CHIME, with Joseph Conn, reporter, at the HIMSS 2013 Annual...
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Joseph Conn, reporter for Modern Healthcare, previews the highlights of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibition, which is scheduled for March 3 to March 7, in New Orleans.
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Russell Branzell, the CEO of the Colorado Health Medical Group, has been named president and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.
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At the start of every new year, we're bombarded with resolutions and predictions of what will happen in the next 12 months. Almost every industry in 2013 is predicted to place a major emphasis on the use of tools that provide analytics, business intelligence, decision support or some other...
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”—Unknown
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James Turnbull, vice president and CIO of Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health Care, has been chosen as the John E. Gall CIO of the Year, an annual award sponsored jointly by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems...
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Last month, our hospital attested for Stage 1 meaningful-use incentives. Years of work, requiring the focus and determination of the entire organization, were integral to meeting this big milestone.
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