CHIME offers several awards honoring the outstanding efforts and accomplishments of those who have demonstrated leadership, innovation and collaboration through the application of technology in healthcare.
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AWARDS
Innovator of the Year Award
Eligibility: Awarded to a current CHIME Member CIO
This award recognizes a CIO who has demonstrated value to their respective organization through the creative application of technology in support of their organization’s key and strategic business objective(s). This also acknowledges the creative and innovative application of technology in support of some segment of the healthcare industry (i.e. Provider, Managed Care/Payer, etc).
CHIME Outstanding Service Award
Eligibility: The recipient must be a CHIME member with a minimum of three years of membership (cannot be a current CHIME Board Member)
This award recognizes a CHIME member CIO who has shown outstanding dedication to the CHIME organization, and the industry, as evidenced by participation in CHIME’s programs, initiatives, and through volunteer service.
CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award
Eligibility: Jointly awarded to a CHIME member CIO and his/her organization’s CEO
CHIME and the American Hospital Association offer this award to acknowledge transformational leadership using IT in healthcare. This award recognizes an organization that has excelled in developing and deploying transformational information technology that improves the delivery of care and streamlines administrative services.
CHIME Collaboration Award
Eligibility: Jointly awarded to a CHIME Member CIO and CHIME Foundation Firm
The Collaboration Award was designed to recognize a collaborative effort by a CHIME Foundation firm and CHIME member. The award will provide organizational and industry recognition to Foundation firms and CIOs. The co-authored paper should have value for the healthcare IT/IS arena in terms of both the collaborative effort and the overall topic.
CHIME Foundation Partner Award
Eligibility: Current CHIME Foundation members in good standing
The recognizes the CHIME Foundation organization that has demonstrated exceptional dedication, support, and made outstanding contributions to the healthcare IT industry, CHIME, CHIME Foundation and other CHIME organizations.
CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award
Eligibility: 5+ years of membership / involvement with CHIME and/or the CHIME Foundation PLUS 20+ years of health IT industry experience
This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and has made an outstanding contribution to the healthcare IT industry, as well as the CHIME Foundation.
Healthcare Heroes
Eligibility: Any member of CHIME or the CHIME Foundation may submit a nomination. Nominees must be a member of CHIME or a CHIME Foundation partner.
Many of our CHIME and CHIME Foundation members have been working behind the scenes, finding new and better ways to deliver health and care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s your chance to honor them for their outstanding service.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Healthcare IT – Randy McCleese’s 2017 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award
By Zach Donisch, CHIME Director of Membership Service
A CHIME awards series journey in five acts. For our first installment, we talked with Randy McCleese, 2014 CHIME Board Chair, recipient of the John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year award. As CIO of a small hospital, Randy has his ear to the ground every day.
No Other Place – Liz Johnson’s 2014 Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership
By Zach Donisch, CHIME Director of Membership Service
A CHIME awards series journey in five acts. For our second installment, we talked with Liz Johnson, 2017 Board chair, recipient of the 2014 Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership, and much more across CHIME’s many programs. She explains why there’s no other place quite like CHIME.