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The CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award honors an organization that has excelled in developing and deploying transformational information technology that improves the delivery of care and streamlines administrative services. The award is given to the organization’s Chief Information Officer and Chief Executive Officer, who recognizes the need for a strong partnership between its technology team and executive leadership.
Transformation is a fundamental change in the way an organization or community delivers and/or administers healthcare, enabled by health information technology, with documented improvement in quality, efficiency, and/or financing.
The transformation must have been large-scale, significant, and demonstrated sustainability at the member’s organization or in the community, as applicable. Examples can include deploying electronic prescribing tools, CPOE, personal health records, electronic health records, data mining, community or RHIO efforts, and others.
The organization must have documented results in quality improvement, efficiency gains, and/or positive financial returns.
The specific process changes and benefits should be replicable in other organizations.
The organizational transformation and/or results must have happened or been completed in the past year.
The CEO must validate the change, the process, the benefits, and the role of the CIO in the transformation efforts.
Applicants must provide a written, detailed description of the organizational transformation, what role IT and the CIO played in that transformation, and the positive results that the change made in the organization and its delivery of quality healthcare. They must also describe how this transformation change will be maintained and why/how it is replicable in other organizations.
All entries should include a 2 paragraph executive summary, and be limited to no more than 10 pages total.
A statement/letter from the CEO that validates the organizational change, the impact, and the role played by the CIO is also required as part of the application.
The deadline date to submit applications is August 3, 2009.
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