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

The choice for the next chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives represents a major new programming thrust for CHIME -- how to help small and mid-sized hospitals ramp up their efforts in deploying the latest information technologies to achieve the next phase in...
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Some healthcare CIOs hope to create a platform for dialogue and to create consensus around two sensitive privacy issues—patient record identification and consent management.
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Hospital officials looking to improve drug compliance or help patients with pain management might consider including video games in their armamentarium.
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Being a top information officer at a hospital or physician practice these days requires juggling skills. Should a system's scarce capital for information technology be funneled into achieving the next stage of interoperability to maintain government incentive payments or would it be better deployed...
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Detailed record-keeping is essential to surviving an EHR incentive payment audit and it's doubly important with Stage 2 meaningful use and ICD-10, IT leaders like Pam McNutt say.
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While Congress focuses on the budget impasse, there's also acknowledgement that healthcare IT will play a key role in improving our healthcare system, according to CHIME's president and CEO.
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As expected, outgoing CHIME board Chairman George Hickman made an appearance at CHIME's opening keynote session. Unexpectedly, he came out singing.
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The bad news is, if your healthcare organization hasn't yet had a privacy and security breach hit the media, it probably will, consultant Steven Bennett says.
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' 2013 Fall CIO Forum kicks off Oct. 8 and runs through Oct. 11 in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Modern Healthcare Editor Merrill Goozner and health IT reporter Joseph Conn will be covering it with stories and video interviews at Live@CHIME. For...
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Getting patients more involved in taking responsibility for their health is the current quandary for providers. In most healthcare reform scenarios, patient engagement is seen as the key to success. How to achieve it seems mysterious, and most believe that the “unknown” can be solved by...
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