Leader to Leader: Filling the Talent Pipeline with Geoff Blanding
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Geoff Blanding, Executive Vice President, Optimum CareerPath and Implementation Services. Blanding discusses Optimum CareerPath’s partnership with CHIME to help high-aptitude, non-traditional students and workers train for careers in healthcare IT. As recruiting and retention become ever more challenging due to the tech talent war, Blanding encourages digital health… read more
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CHIME 30th Anniversary Podcast: “LEADERSHIP” with John Kravitz, 2020-2021 CHIME Board Chair
Join us as we celebrate our three decades of dedication to digital health leadership with this special edition podcast! For each of the 30 weeks until our Fall Forum, we’ll visit with a digital health leader who has made a very special impact on CHIME, including many of our Board Chairs. In this episode, Russ… read more
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Community: 3 Examples of How CHIME Brings People Together
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) was founded 30 years ago to provide a space where Chief Information Officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders could come together to collaborate, share ideas, and advocate for the effective use of information management to improve healthcare outcomes everywhere. CHIME brings people together across organizations… read more
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Sharing Best Practices in Healthcare IT with Dr. Zafar Chaudry
In this podcast episode, Russ chats with Dr. Zafar Chaudry, SVP, CDIO, Seattle Children’s, about the need for digital health leaders to share best practices for common scenarios and projects that characterize the journey to digital transformation. Chaudry reveals his phased process for engaging stakeholders in a major change such as an ERP implementation. He… read more
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CHIME 30th Anniversary Podcast: “COMMUNITY” with Tanya Townsend, 2022 CHIME Board Chair
Join us as we celebrate our three decades of dedication to digital health leadership with this special edition podcast! For each of the 30 weeks until our Fall Forum, we’ll visit with a digital health leader who has made a very special impact on CHIME, including many of our Board Chairs. In this episode, Russ… read more
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Children, Teens and the Pandemic with Theresa Meadows
In this podcast episode, Russ chats with Theresa Meadows, SVP and CIO for Cook Children’s Health Care System, about the changing needs of children and teens through successive waves of the COVID pandemic. Meadows highlights the need for more mental health resources as young people continue to experience the mental and emotional aftereffects of illness and… read more
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Interoperability and Cloud Hosting: Synchronizing Business and Clinical Operations
Introduction Infor recently hosted a thought leadership roundtable featuring members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) to explore cloud hosting, interoperability, and the potential of a connected platform to synchronize business and clinical operations. Chief information officers (CIOs) and other digital health leaders discussed their current strategic perspectives on whether to migrate… read more
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Leader to Leader: Getting to Interoperability with Ajay Kapare and Marc Probst
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with two leaders from ELLKAY: Ajay Kapare, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, and Marc Probst, Chief Information Officer. Kapare and Probst discuss ELLKAY’s unique five-segment effort to unify healthcare IT with interoperability for ambulatory, hospitals, labs, payers and vendors. The leaders weigh in on whether federal policy will help… read more
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Solving Healthcare Inequities with Andy Crowder
In this podcast episode, Russ chats with Andy Crowder, SVP, CIAO, Atrium Health, about the mission that keeps his team motivated: closing the gap on healthcare inequities. Crowder shares his tips for recruiting and retaining talent, including giving employees choice and flexibility by focusing on outcomes, not on rigid schedules or dress codes. Crowder also… read more
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Corporate Culture After the Pandemic with Laura Wilt
In this podcast episode, Russ chats with Laura Wilt, System Vice President and CIO, Ochsner Health, about how she holds herself accountable as a leader with the help of a personal coach. That self-insight assists Wilt as she works with her team to strengthen corporate culture to meet the needs of a post-pandemic workforce. Wilt… read more
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Leader to Leader: “You Can’t Outsource Your Brain” with Paul M. Black and Zane Burke
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with two leading innovators in the healthcare industry: Zane Burke, CEO of Quantum Health, and Paul Black, CEO of Allscripts. Burke and Black discuss their secrets of success in leadership as well as the immense opportunity available for companies that can step in now to unify systems and data… read more
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Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence
Introduction Cerner recently hosted a thought leadership roundtable featuring members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) to explore ethical issues related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Chief information officers (CIOs), chief information and digital officers (CIDOs) and other digital health leaders discussed topics including algorithmic bias, measuring healthcare disparities across demographic… read more
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