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Assembled by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Board of Trustees,
the following mission and supporting goals serve as guideposts in identifying and
delivering CHIME's services to its members and the industry:
Mission
To serve the professional needs of healthcare Chief Information
Officers; and to advance the strategic application of information technology in innovative
ways aimed at improving the effectiveness of healthcare delivery.
Supporting Goals
- Networking--provide forums and other networking opportunities
for members to meet and exchange information and experiences that support their
professional growth and job performance.
- Education--provide a variety of educational opportunities to
those constituencies most able to advance the strategic application of information
technology in healthcare including CIOs, senior IT professionals, and solution partners.
- Career Development--provide services to members that will
enable them to enhance their value to healthcare organizations and effectively map their
skills to job requirements and career opportunities within the healthcare industry.
- Information Access--support easy access to current IT trends,
research and benchmarking practices as well as information pertaining to the use of IT in
healthcare.
- Partnership Advancement--support an ongoing dialogue with
healthcare solution partners that will facilitate a sharing of ideas and information that
can ensure that IT solutions map to the business and clinical requirements of healthcare
organizations.
- Advocacy--pursue advocacy and educational programming efforts
with organizations that share our common goal of advancing the effective use of IT in
healthcare.
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