CHIME Recognizes Pursuit Healthcare Advisors’ Cyndi Vely Cahill with 2015 Industry Leader Award
ORLANDO, FL, October 16, 2015 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today honored Cyndi Vely Cahill with its annual CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award. The award, presented at the CHIME15 Fall CIO Forum in Orlando, recognizes Cahill’s work over the past 30 years to find innovative ways to solve problems facing healthcare providers.
“I am honored to be named CHIME’s 2015 Foundation Industry Leader,” said Cahill, managing partner, Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, LLC. “I have truly enjoyed working in this industry and can’t imagine a more dynamic and challenging place to be. Working in different sectors of healthcare, I feel like I have been able to help improve care delivery and, ultimately, a patient’s experience.”
Cahill’s extensive background spans a variety of healthcare settings. She held several management positions at Siemens Healthcare, including roles in sales, national implementations and running the International Siemens Medical Solutions Executive Briefing Center. Cahill also served as the chief information officer of Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia, and corporate financial applications manager at a five hospital group in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.
“Cyndi has been an active and influential CHIME member,” said Randy McCleese, MBA, MS, FCHIME, LCHIME, CHCIO, chair of the CHIME Foundation board; vice president of information services and CIO, St. Claire Regional Medical Center. “She’s been very involved in the Certified Healthcare CIO program and is a founding member of the Association for Executives in Health Information Applications (AEHIA), a new non-profit group that provides education resources and professional development to chief application officers.”
Cahill has also been instrumental in development of CHIME’s Performance Institute, which brings healthcare IT leaders together to share their stories on how health systems, hospitals and clinics across the country are working together with leading vendors to improve patient care.
“The Performance Institute is designed to be the go-to resource for healthcare executives to research and explore innovative programs or solutions that other healthcare organizations are utilizing successfully,” Cahill said. “With the Performance Institute, we hope to make healthcare delivery more efficient and cost effective.”
To learn more about the CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award, click here. To learn about AEHIA, click here.
About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,700 CIO members and over 150 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
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(Updated 11.2.15)