ScaleHealth Workforce Challenge Showcase at CHIME23 Fall Forum. The event in which Keith Fraidenburg and Taylor McPartland explain the Challenge Series and introduce the finalists and honorees of the Workforce Challenge ..read more

Imagine a future where 95% of the administrative tasks nurses handle are automated. According to CHIME's President & CEO Russ Branzell, this future is not so distant—he predicts it will be a reality in as little as five years. On today's Leader to Leader podcast episode, Russ is joined by two leaders from the prestigious Cook Children's team, Charity Darnell, Vice President and Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, and CHIME’s 2023 CIO of the Year, Theresa Meadows, who weigh in on this bold vision. They also provide their own insights on how emerging technology will be leveraged in the futur ..read more

Data, analytics, and AI continue to be hot topics in healthcare, with digital health leaders scrambling to make use of new AI technology and the vast stores of data being collected in healthcare. How do we extract meaning from data? Can we use AI to help us with that? Once we derive meaning from the data, how can we use it to improve patient outcomes, experiences, and costs?   This is what Phillips is focused on and these are the questions that Dr. Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer, Enterprise Informatics, Chief Business Leader at Phillips and Russ Branzell, President ..read more

Digital health leaders have many different titles and responsibilities, but their roles, skills, and goals are always intended to improve their organizations, patient satisfaction and outcomes, and healthcare as a whole. Russ Branzell, CHIME President & CEO, sat down with Stacy Rasmussen, Vice President, IS Business Relationship Management, Planning, and Growth, UW Health, at the Healthtech Leader 3.0 event at the Cleveland Clinic. Together, they explored the following questions: What is business relationship management and how is it helpful for an organization? What are some positives ..read more

As a follow up to a recent thought leadership roundtable, this week’s Leader to Leader podcast episode focuses on how healthcare leaders can work to solve the “big four” top challenges in digital healthcare today: financial pressures, labor/workforce issues, artificial intelligence (AI), and cybersecurity. Russ Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME, meets with Divurgent’s Executive Vice President of Delivery, Joe Grinstead, MBA, Healthcare Technology, and Divurgent’s Vice President of Delivery, Dana Locke, to get their opinions on resolving today’s difficult healthcare challenges. Joe and Dan ..read more

On this week’s Leader to Leader podcast episode, Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, discusses how to create a thriving workforce with Andy Smith, CFCHE, Managing Partner and Founder of Impact Advisors. Andy has a 30+ year career in the industry and Impact Advisors was recently recognized as the #2 best place to work by Consulting Magazine.   Together, they review the state of the industry today, some of the challenges in healthcare, particularly in workforce recruiting, hiring, and retention. They consider the question: What’s important to the next generation of leaders and work ..read more

Artificial intelligence has been around for years, so why is the health tech community suddenly abuzz about it? Because there’s a new type of AI known as “generative AI”, and it’s shaking up the world as we know it.   Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, sits down with Sumit Ganguli, CEO, GAVS Technologies , to chat (no pun intended) Chat GPT and other forms of generative AI. What is it; why it’s not just a passing fad; the difference between analytical (regular) AI and generative AI; and specific uses for this new, trendy technology. Can it really help the healthcare communi ..read more

Burnout is having a major negative impact in healthcare, and this issue is global. Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, meets with BJ Schaknowski, CEO of symplr and proud Georgia Bulldog, to address tackling burnout through technology.   While most organizations are dedicated to patient care, symplr is focused on the healthcare worker. Their goals include helping the overworked healthcare workforce by reducing burnout through technology. Technology can automate processes, remove obstacles, integrate systems, and ultimately reduce the time healthcare workers spend at a computer ins ..read more

Health systems are under constant attack and breaches are catastrophic. Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, meets with Carter Groome, CHIME Board Member and CEO of First Health Advisory, to discuss the critical needs in cybersecurity today.   Together, they talk cybersecurity technology, challenges, regulations, and patient safety regarding “connected” medical devices. Carter shares his views on how best to obtain leadership buy-in from non-technical leaders such as healthcare organization Board members. He discusses how to prepare leaders to understand the “risks to the business ..read more

During this Leader to Leader podcast episode, Russ Branzell meets with Trent Sanders, Vice President, US Healthcare & Life Sciences, Kyndryl, to talk about how to turn healthcare challenges into opportunities. Trent describes what he sees as healthcare’s top three challenges today as well as Kyndryl’s mission of helping individual health systems drive quality care. Russ and Trent discuss healthcare’s slow transformation over the past hundred years and some of the lessons learned from the pandemic. Tune in now to learn about “the golden concepts” as well as about the “power of partnerships ..read more