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December 22, 2010
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At a Glance |
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CHIME Notes |
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) would like to welcome you to our healthcare IT executive newsletter! For those of you who are unfamiliar with
our organization, we have started this bi-monthly publication to help readers stay up-to-date on what is happening in the industry. With more than 1,400 members, CHIME is the professional
organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. CHIME enables its members and business partners to collaborate; exchange ideas; develop professionally;
and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve.
Read on to find out what 1,400 healthcare CIOs already know, CHIME is the CIO’s voice in the industry.
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Join CHIME Today to Attend the CHIME/HIMSS CIO Forum |
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Leading in an Era of Unprecedented Change
Innovative Perspectives and Strategies for Excellence
February 20 – Orlando, FL
As a new era of health reform takes shape, CIOs are facing a whole new landscape of change at every level
of their organizations. The 2011 CHIME/HIMSS CIO Forum will focus on optimizing leadership to advance your
organization into this new era and beyond. Keynote speakers include Nate Kaufman, Dr. Iris Firstenberg and
Captain Charlie Plumb. This year’s Town Hall, with CHIME member CIOs Gretchen Tegethoff and Neal Ganguly,
along with Kaiser Permanente CMIO John Mattison, MD, will focus on HIEs, exploring such important issues as
interoperability, sustainability, innovation, community, and trust.
The CHIME/HIMSS CIO Forum will be held on Sunday, February 20 at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.
Only CHIME members are eligible to attend – Join CHIME today!
To view the complete agenda, please click here.
Want More Information about Joining CHIME?
Stop by the CHIME booth at HIMSS11
Booth #20 – Lobby B
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Preparing for the CHCIO Examination |
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The CHCIO Program is the first certification program in the
healthcare industry developed for CIOs by CIOs. With the
assistance of more than 75 CHIME members, CIOs are
involved at all levels of examination development, including on-going item writing and long-term examination review and validation.
To help members better understand the content that is tested for on the CHCIO Examination, CHIME is publishing a series of articles on each of the eight content areas in our members-only publication, the CIO Connection. The following is an excerpt from the content area article on Corporate Compliance.
Corporate Compliance: The corporate compliance content area focuses on the knowledge associated with laws and regulations that CIOs deal with on a routine basis.
Each over arching content area corresponds to numerous knowledge and skills statements that indicate specific skills that may be tested for on the examination.
Below is one of the knowledge and skills statements associated with corporate compliance along with an explanation from CHIME member David Furnas, CHCIO.
Knowledge of laws and regulations associated with patient rights, including such items as HIPAA privacy regulations, medical records policies, advance directives, durable power of attorney, and involuntary commitments.
CIOs must constantly monitor new regulations to know how they will impact their IT operations within their healthcare organizations. This is a challenge because nuances of the regulations often aren’t always obvious.
One such example lies in the recently released final regulations on meaningful use objectives. The final rules received a lot of attention because of the impact they have on healthcare organizations’ ability to receive federal stimulus funds. However, the final rule has one important objective and several associated measures relevant to information assurance, which could be easily overlooked.
The objective on information assurance requires healthcare organization to “Protect electronic health information created or maintained by the certified EHR technology through the implementation of appropriate technical capabilities.”
Measures for this objective are spelled out specifically. They are to “Conduct or review a security risk analysis per 45 CFR 164.308 (a)(1) and implement security updates as necessary and correct identified security deficiencies as part of its risk management process.”
To read more about Corporate Compliance and the other content areas of the CHCIO Examination, join CHIME today!
About David Furnas, CHCIO
For more than 28 years David has served as an executive and technologist
supporting the architecture, engineering, and life cycle management of
information systems and solutions for some of the nation's leading
enterprises in the healthcare, financial
services, and electric utility sectors. As
Chief Information Officer for Gila Regional
Medical Center (GRMC) in Silver City, New Mexico, he is accountable for all aspects of
strategy and operations for business and clinical solutions at New Mexico’s only
Planetree-affiliated hospital. Gila Regional Medical Center is one of the most modern
health care facilities in the state and serves as southwest New Mexico's medical hub.
Gila Regional is licensed for 68 beds and 12 basinets.
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Next CHCIO Examination Dates
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Location: Peabody Hotel in Orlando, FL
*Only CHIME members and Affiliates may take the CHCIO Exam
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CHIME’s Advocacy Leadership – Get Involved |
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CHIME members play active roles in discussing and developing responses to legislation and regulations that affect healthcare IT and, more broadly, the role that healthcare IT can play in improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery in the U.S.
CHIME members work together to shape unified and thoughtful responses to important issues by participating in the following CHIME advocacy initiatives:
- Policy Steering Committee (PSC): Comprised of ten senior leaders, this group is responsible for establishing the direction and priorities of CHIME’s advocacy strategy.
- Advocacy Leadership Team (ALT): With more than 65 CHIME members representing diverse settings, including community hospitals, large multi-hospital systems, teaching institutions, and critical access and specialty hospitals, this group currently focuses on issues related to the implementation of the ARRA health IT provisions.
- StateNet: StateNet is a state-by-state network of coordinators working together for the purposes of gathering and communicating relevant in-state health IT developments.
The outputs of these groups enable CHIME members to inform and influence public policy leaders and other officials on the role of information technology in transforming the delivery of healthcare, while providing members with the latest information regarding new HIT legislation, regulations and polices.
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Focus on StateNet |
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To ensure CIOs can leverage state-level HITECH implementation, CHIME established StateNet to support the dissemination of information related to
in-state health IT programs. State CIO Coordinators, representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia, are engaged in identifying key
developments and sharing best practices within and across states in preparation for demonstrating meaningful use of EHRs to improve health and healthcare.
“The primary reason to bring StateNet together is that so much is targeted at state-based initiatives,” said Russ Branzell, FCHIME, CHCIO and CIO
and vice president at Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, CO. “There was nothing out there that has attempted to provide this for all 50 states,
and offer common messaging and communication channels.”
StateNet leaders Russ Branzell; “Neal” Ganguly, CHCIO, vice president and CIO at CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ; and Randy McCleese, CHCIO,
vice president-IS and CIO at St. Claire Regional Medical Center, Morehead, KY, helped launch this ambitious project in March 2010.
In order to efficiently address widespread state-level concerns, StateNet established two workgroups, one focusing on Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)
and the other on Regional Extension Centers (RECs). A priority issue of the StateNet HIE Workgroup is encouraging consistency across states for HIE development
and identifying tools and strategies to help achieve that goal. The HITECH Act provided guidance to ONC on requirements for states, but much was left to state
discretion, which makes the CIO’s task even more difficult. The REC Workgroup was instrumental in reaching out to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology (ONC), which resulted in a joint letter released by the ONC and CHIME to Regional Extension Center (REC) project officers across the nation
seeking their collaboration in achieving an electronically enabled healthcare system.
StateNet is a public resource, and all CIOs are encouraged to participate and access its information, regardless of their CHIME membership status. To participate
in StateNet; simply complete the request to join form: http://www.ciostatenet.org/join.asp
About Sharon Canner, CHIME Sr. Director of Advocacy Programs
Based in Washington, Sharon provides leadership over the government
affairs function of CHIME. Prior to joining CHIME in April 2008, she served
as Director for Corporate Relations and the EHR Vendors
Association/Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS). Other recent government relations experience includes senior
positions with the eHealth Initiative and the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA).
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Second MU Survey of Members Finds Confidence Waning |
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The percentage of CIOs who expect their organizations to qualify early for stimulus funding for implementing electronic health records dropped by half, according to a recent CHIME survey.
Implementation of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) is looming as one of the more difficult objectives to achieve; with more than half of CIOs identifying CPOE as a challenge saying their biggest concern is getting clinical staff to use the systems.
Results from the CHIME survey, which garnered 191 responses from members, were released last week. Information from the report was published widely, including in the healthcare blog of the Wall Street Journal online edition.
From CHIME’s survey, CIOs from community hospitals now appear to be far less confident than they were in responding to a similar CHIME survey in August. In the recently completed survey, only 5 percent of CHIME member respondents at community hospitals expect to qualify for funding in the first six months of the stimulus funding program, compared with 23 percent three months ago.
Some 42 percent of community hospital CIOs also reported that they expect to accelerate plans to implement EHRs, nearly double the 24 percent who responded similarly in the previous survey. Additionally, the percentage of community hospital CIOs who believe their organizations are well positioned to qualify for funding dropped to 32 percent, down from 48 percent in the previous survey.
According to CHIME’s most recent survey, 15 percent of respondents said that they expect to qualify for stimulus funding in the first six months of fiscal year 2011, which began on October 1, 2010. By contrast, 28 percent reported in August that they expected to qualify for funding by April 1, 2011.
A full report on the results can be accessed here.
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