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

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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Our organization has an informal climbing team made up of administrators and clinicians who tackle a couple of summits each year. We have lofty aspirations—the ultimate goal is to climb six of the "Seven Summits." Self-funded, the team's previous climbs have included Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount...
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You might think that as a career matures, things would slow a little and afford some opportunities for activities that are not directly connected to work. Sadly, this is not the case.
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Last month, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives celebrated its 20th Fall CIO Forum "back home" where the first one was held, the Coachella Valley in the Southern California desert.
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives is looking for someone from the CIO ranks to serve as its new president and CEO.
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Call it a health information network, a regional health information organization or a health information exchange—the concept of exchanging health records has been around for more than a decade. Unfortunately, by any name, it hasn't become mainstream, and records-exchange challenges persist.
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