Inside CHIME: Got Population Health?

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GeorgeReynolds B&W 10.13.16 by George Reynolds, MD, MMM, FAAP, CPHIMS, CHCIO
Retired CIO & CMIO, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha, NE

The CHIME-AMDIS Fall Symposium on Population Health is designed specifically to address the needs of CIOs and CMIOs.

How do you build a population health program? Or maybe a better question is, how do you break down silos and create a pop health program from a bunch of disparate work groups that are trying to solve different but related problems? How do you engage patients in meaningful and measurable ways? Does your analytics program meet the needs of your customers? Wait—do you have an analytics program defined by a robust governance program?

If you can answer “yes” to all of these questions, you can safely skip the CHIME-sponsored AMDIS Fall Symposium on Population Health. For the rest of us mere mortals, this may be the most important two days you can invest in your organization’s future and your career.

There is no shortage of pop health conferences; it is one of hottest topics in our little corner of the world. Most of these programs are focused on the needs of the care manager or the rev cycle team, but we know that the care manager and the rev cycle team are looking to the CIO and CMIO to address their problems. Do you have an answer for them? The remarkable faculty of the AMDIS Fall Symposium does. To my knowledge, this is the only program designed to address the needs of CIOs and CMIOs.

Let me be blunt. CMIOs have been signing up for this program for weeks, but CIOs (CHIME’s core constituency) have not. If I didn’t know better, I’d conclude that the CIOs have got the whole “pop health thing” wired. I know better. Pop health (and cybersecurity) are pretty much all CIOs are talking about.

The CHIME-AMDIS Fall Symposium is designed to meet the needs of CIOs and CMIOs working together to build effective pop health programs. The conference follows the CHIME16 Fall CIO Forum. If you’re already planning to attend CHIME’s 25th Anniversary meeting, an extra day will net you some pretty impressive benefits. Take a look at the agenda, you won’t be disappointed.

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