CHIME’s Third Opioid Webinar Focuses on Innovative Way to Help Pediatric Burn Victims

ANN ARBOR, MI, Oct. 15, 2018 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the CHIME Opioid Task Force will host a free and open webinar on Oct. 17 as part of an educational initiative to reduce opioid addiction and death rates in the U.S.

 

Simon Lin, chief research information officer at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, will share results from a study that assessed a virtual reality app that engages pediatric burn victims in a game while clinicians remove and replace dressings. The non-pharmaceutical approach, which was developed by the informatics team in

collaboration with the Center for Pediatric Trauma Research and the Pediatric Burn Unit at Nationwide Children’s, is designed to help children cope with the pain and anxiety that may occur during these procedures. Clinicians at Nationwide Children’s had approached Lin’s group of 75 heath IT specialists with the idea, which developed into a research and development project that they pilot tested on 59 pediatric burn patients aged 7 to 17.

 

This is the third free and open webinar being presented by CHIME and the CHIME Opioid Task Force. The task force was launched in early 2018 to leverage the healthcare IT knowledge and expertise of CHIME’s more than 2,800 CIOs and healthcare IT executives to address the opioid crisis.

 

The webinar is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. ET Oct. 17. To register for the webinar, go to here. More information about the CHIME Opioid Task Force is available here.

 

 

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,800 members in 51 countries and over 150 healthcare IT business partners 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.

 

Candace Stuart

Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME

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