ECG Celebrates 50 Years as a Leading Adviser to the Healthcare Market
Released January 30, 2023
San Diego, CA – ECG Management Consultants, a leading healthcare consulting firm, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Since its founding in 1973 in Seattle, ECG has grown from a single-office company with 7 employees to a nationally acclaimed consulting firm with more than 325 employees across 9 offices. ECG stands as the longest-serving healthcare consulting… read more
TrueCare Chief Innovation Officer Tracy Elmer and Artera Receive 2022 CHIME Collaboration Award
Released November 18, 2022
ANN ARBOR, MI, November 18, 2022 – Reducing patient no-show rates by 4 percent while giving staff back more time for what matters most- patient care supportive activities- is highly valuable. Promoting health equity and putting the patient in control of when and how they like to communicate is priceless. That is exactly what the collaborative… read more
Cook Children’s Health Care System’s Trailblazer, Theresa Meadows, Receives CIO Of The Year Award From CHIME
Released November 16, 2022
ANN ARBOR, MI, November 16, 2022 – In the 1990s, Theresa Meadows was tapped to teach a new system to physicians given her rapport with them, as a cardiac transplant and interventional cardiology nurse. That temporary role ignited a passion for health care IT that would lead her to the mainstage at the College of Healthcare… read more
Supply Chain and Clinical Quality Technology Trends Highlight Findings In The CHIME 2022 Digital Health Most Wired Survey
Released November 8, 2022
ANN ARBOR, MI, November 8, 2022 – As healthcare organizations rebound from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, greater emphasis on enhancing supply chain technology and clinical quality and safety highlight the findings from CHIME’s 2022 Digital Health Most Wired survey. The National Trends Report, released today at CHIME’s Fall Forum, shows how the last 3… read more
Digital Health Is A Critical Muscle Needed For Pandemic Rebound According To CHIME
Released October 31, 2022
Digital Health Most Wired Survey ANN ARBOR, MI, October 26, 2022,– The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today celebrates revolutionary achievement in digital health for 18 organizations awarded at the highest level of the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey with level 10 certification. These 18 healthcare providers have demonstrated a sterling commitment… read more
CHIME Announces Incoming Board Members and 2023-2024 Board Officers
Released October 12, 2022
ANN ARBOR, MI, October 12, 2022 The College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) proudly introduces three (3) new CIO members and one (1) new Foundation member representative that will join the CHIME Board of Trustees in January 2023. Collectively, the board members include leading digital health and business experts who will provide strategic oversight… read more
10 Healthcare Organizations Band Together To Urge HHS To Postpone Information Sharing Compliance Deadlines
Released September 26, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC, September 26, 2022 – Today, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), along with nine (9) other healthcare provider organizations, sent a letter to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Xavier Becerra, requesting that HHS offer providers an additional year to comply with the October 6th, 2022 information sharing… read more
AEHIA Announces Stacey Johnston, MD as AEHIA Board Chair to Lead Association’s Efforts to Re-focus from Applications to Data
Released May 26, 2022
ANN ARBOR, MI, May 26, 2022 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has added a prominent executive to the volunteer leadership team of its Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications (AEHIA). Stacey Johnston, MD, Vice President, Chief Application Officer (CAO) and Epic Program Executive of Baptist Health has joined the professional association… read more
Trinidadian Re-Appointed to State eHealth Commission and Has Been Selected to Chair the Rural Health IT Steering Committee
Released May 26, 2022
Michael Archuleta, Trinidad Colorado resident, and technology leader has been re-appointed by the Polis-Primavera Administration as an eHealth Commissioner based on his unique and diverse insights, perspectives, and experience to advance administration health priorities through health IT and digital health. Michael has also been recently selected to chair the Rural Health IT Steering Committee. The goal of… read more
CHIME and WEDI Launch the “THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK” Campaign to Arm Consumers Against Loss of Health Information
Released May 23, 2022
ANN ARBOR, MI, and WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2022 — As patients increasingly permit access to their health information by way of third-party applications (apps), the need to ensure the privacy and security of this data has exponentially grown. Many of these apps are not covered entities under HIPAA and are not bound by any current… read more
119 Healthcare Organizations Sign Letter to Congress Urging Removal of Ban on Funding for National Patient Health Identifier Standard
Released May 5, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC, May 4, 2022 – Today, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) along with the Patient ID Now Coalition and over 100 other organizations sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations committees urging them to reject the inclusion of outdated rider language in an appropriations bill that prohibits… read more
David Garets, Healthcare IT Visionary, Passes Away at 73; CHIME and HIMSS Pay Tribute
Released March 29, 2022
ANN ARBOR, MI, March 29, 2022 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) join together in mourning the passing of a great healthcare leader with the news of the death of Dave Garets on March 28 at the age of 73. Garets had battled… read more