In a hearing convened by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), witnesses outlined opportunities to improve health information exchange, citing the absence of a nationally-recognized identifier as an ongoing challenge to matching patients to their healthcare data.
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In official comments submitted to the CMS, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) called federal plans for the third stage of meaningful use too ambitious and in need of several important changes.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the healthcare industry’s leading professional organization for chief information officers and senior IT executives, is calling on innovators throughout the U.S. and around the world to participate in the CHIME National Patient ID Challenge.
Showcasing a mix of distinguished panel discussions, case studies and small group breakout sessions, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce its Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Forum series in collaboration with iHT2 for 2015.
Building on the announcement from HHS, pledging much-needed changes to the Meaningful Use program, healthcare IT leaders praised the release of the Office of the…
The 2015 Most Wired Survey is now open, the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced. Published annually by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, Health Care’s Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study is a leading industry barometer that measures information technology (IT) use and adoption among hospitals nationwide.
Sue Schade, FCHIME, FHIMSS has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year Award. Schade is Chief Information Officer at University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor, one of the largest and most-recognized academic health systems in the country.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) formalized its partnership agreement with KLAS Enterprises, an independent researcher of healthcare technology vendors, products and services for the provider market.
Last week AMA, HIMSS, CHIME and MGMA issued statements calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to shorten the 2015 reporting period for providers to attest to meeting the Stage 2 meaningful use.