CHIME Supports Obama’s HIT Plan, Offers Guidance

ANN ARBOR MI – Rich Correll, President and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), recently wrote to the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team in support of President-elect Barack Obama’s goal of health reform. The letter, addressed to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary-Designate Tom Daschle, praised the plan’s inclusion of electronic health record systems and other technologies to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.

In addition, CHIME also offered seven recommendations on health IT in the areas of federal leadership, standards policy, incentives, national infrastructure for health IT, health IT workforce, underserved populations and privacy and security.

“These reforms and improvements to the healthcare IT system will affect patient safety, which is the ultimate goal,” Correll said. “I’m pleased that the federal government is taking a serious interest in utilizing the tools of health information technology that will help doctors, nurses and other clinicians more effectively and efficiently do their jobs.”

As a professional organization for healthcare CIOs, CHIME has offered to provide more information and guidance to the administration as it seeks more input.

Download a PDF of the letter


About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) was formed with the dual objectives of serving the professional development needs of healthcare CIOs and advocating the more effective use of information management within healthcare. CHIME's events and activities were designed to reflect that purpose, including CIO-oriented surveys, education programs, and networking activities. With membership of more than 1,300 CIOs, CHIME has established itself as the premier organization serving the needs of healthcare CIOs. CHIME's educational initiatives are supported by the CHIME Foundation, a group of 67 providers of healthcare IS products and services. To learn more about CHIME and the CHIME Foundation, see www.cio-chime.org.


Contact:
Katie Weitkamp
Communications Coordinator, CHIME
(734) 665-000
kweitkamp@cio-chime.org
www.cio-chime.org

UPDATED: 1/8/2009 8:47:28 AM