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CHIME slams proposed ACO rules on data sharing

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), representing the nation's chief information officers, sent the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) some hard-hitting

CIOs wary of health IT staffing shortages

The specter of staffing shortages as the nation's hospitals gear up for EMR implementations and "meaningful use" of health IT has shown its face again, this time in the form of a survey of healthcare

CIOs get candid about meaningful use at CHIME meeting

A dozen CIOs from hospitals and health systems nationwide were asked to write down their own definitions of "clinical adoption" within the context of applications they associate with "meaningful use"

CHIME, ONC offer EMR adoption expertise to regional extension centers

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology are urging the new, ONC-designated network of regional

Nine of 10 hospital CIOs expect to have 'meaningful use' by 2012

Just 10 percent of healthcare CIOs do not expect to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid bonuses for "meaningful use" of EMRs during Stage 1 of the federal incentive program, 2011-12, according to a new

A lot can happen in a week of health IT

I'm back from my first full week off in more than a year. While it was nice to be able to sleep in, play some tennis, ignore tons of email and generally recharge my batteries, I have to say it's

New Cius tablet takes on Apple's iPad

Many people thought the iPhone was going to shake up mobile healthcare until Google's Android operating system came along. The same could happen for larger devices, too. Though Apple has sold more

Gartner analyst: Health CIOs must develop mobile strategies soon

Despite all sorts of forecasts indicating that usage of mobile and wireless technologies will skyrocket in the coming years, many healthcare CIOs have not implemented strategies to accommodate new

Hospital CIOs look to unify communications on a single mobile device

As far as hospital CIOs are concerned, the new buzzword in mobile healthcare is "unified communications." In other words, they want to deliver voice, data and text services to a single device, or at

Healthcare CIO job often is so much more than managing IT

Healthcare CIOs pretty much manage IT operations for their organizations, right? Well, it's not so simple anymore. Some, like Orlando (Fla.) Health vice president and CIO Rick Schooler, also oversee