Inside CHIME: Membership Survey Helps ID Directions for 2018

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By Michelle Patterson, Director, Membership & Professional Development

Thank you to our members who participated in CHIME’s annual member survey. Your feedback will help us set this year’s course for CHIME and ensure our programs align with your needs.

We are pleased that the vast majority of you rated your overall satisfaction with CHIME as excellent or very good. Almost three quarters of respondents said they were extremely likely to recommend CHIME to a colleague with most others responding that they likely would.

We appreciate your support in our efforts to reach more health IT executives. The CIO’s role continues to evolve and the demands made on you and your colleagues have only increased with time. You are helping CHIME build a community of CIOs who can share insights and guide each other through these challenges.

Respondents also praised the quality of CHIME’s educational programs, ranking the CHIME Fall CIO Forum followed by the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum as the most valuable offerings. The vast majority of respondents said CHIME plays a critical role in their professional development.

Some members suggested CHIME offer regional events to allow members to meet more than twice a year. In 2017, CHIME collaborated with the Georgia chapter of HIMSS by offering CHIME members a track session on CIO leadership during the GAHIMSS annual conference. Please let us know if similar regional programming would be of interest to you.

Respondents said CHIME’s public policy efforts properly represent them as CIOs. They listed cybersecurity, interoperability, patient identification and telemedicine as their top issues for the year. That is helpful information for our Washington, D.C., team to know as they identify opportunities to proactively address healthcare IT policies that can have huge repercussions for health organizations.

Some respondents also recommended that we look for ways to improve our website’s navigability. We see our website as a valuable resource, and several respondents cited the website as their go-to source for information about CHIME. We will be working this year on ways to make the website a seamless experience for users. Please check chimecentral.org often to learn about new offerings.

You don’t have to wait for our annual survey to give us feedback, either. Feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you want to make a suggestion, have a question, or need anything. We welcome any opportunity to help you in any way.

 

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