The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and DirectTrust today announced they are collaborating to promote the universal deployment of the DirectTrust framework and health information exchange network as the standard electronic interface for health information exchange across the country.DirectTrust’s network is the largest standards-based network for the exchange of health information, with more than 1.5 million send and receive endpoints, at over 100,000 healthcare
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CHIME, OpenNotes Team Up to Accelerate Data Sharing Between Patients & Providers
As part of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative, The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and OpenNotes are teaming up to accelerate data sharing between patients and providers. The collaboration with OpenNotes continues CHIME’s efforts to improve information exchange across the healthcare continuum, including advancing interoperability and ensuring the accuracy of patient identification.
Neither a software program nor a new technology, OpenNotes is an
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CHIME Launches $1M Initiative To Solve Patient Mismatching
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today launched the CHIME National Patient ID Challenge, a $1 million crowdsourcing competition aimed at incentivizing new, early-stage, and experienced innovators to accelerate the creation and adoption of a solution for ensuring 100 percent accuracy in identifying patients in the U.S. For the challenge, CHIME has teamed with HeroX, co-founded in 2013 by XPRIZE CEO Peter Diamandis, to run the year-long
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CHIME Appoints 3 New Members to Board of Trustees
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has announced the election of members Cletis Earle, Theresa Meadows, R.N., CHCIO, and Donna Roach, CHCIO, to its board of trustees.
Earle is the chief information officer at St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh, NY. Since joining CHIME in 2006, he has been active in both regional and national activities. Earle is the co-chair of StateNet in New York. CHIME’s StateNet fosters information sharing and networking
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