CHIME22: ‘We’ve Learned to Be a Bit More Agile’ and Other Health IT Lessons

From the early days of emerging healthcare IT departments in the 1980s to today’s increased focus on cybersecurity, industry leaders have witnessed enormous change in the past 30 years.

John Glaser, the inaugural CHIME board chair and now an executive-in-residence at the Harvard Medical School Executive Education said during the CHIME22 Fall Forum’s Day 2 keynote address that by the early 1990s, conversations about the use of IT to improve competitive prospects across industries were already taking shape.

By 1992, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives launched with the goal of creating exceptional leaders that would transform health IT. CHIME is now celebrating its 30th anniversary in San Antonio. The keynote presentation featured Glaser; Theresa Meadows, senior vice president and CIO at Cook Children’s Health Care System; and Andrea Daugherty, interim CIO at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.