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Leadership
CHIEF created for health IT executives
QUÉBEC CITY – CHIEF, a national
forum to promote discussion and information sharing among Canadian
health information executives, was launched at the eHealth 2009
conference in June.
CHIEF is short for Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum. “These
executives have a huge responsibility in making major transformative
change happen across the health informatics landscape,” said Heather
Jones, executive director of the new organization. “CHIEF provides an
effective channel for our members to build the leadership capacity, the
relationships and the knowledge that they need to address critical
business issues and mitigate large-scale risk.”
COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association has launched CHIEF in
partnership with CHIME, the U.S.-based College of Healthcare Information
Management Executives. CHIEF promotes the COACH goal of advancing HI as
a profession - at the executive level - and is governed by the COACH
board.
So far, CHIEF has attracted over 35 executive members from federal
entities, provincial health ministries and agencies, LHINs, hospitals
and other organizations. “CHIEF addresses the particular challenges,
including those around the shortage of qualified HI professionals, that
CIOs face,” said CHIEF member Roger Girard, CIO, Manitoba eHealth.
“As a CIO, I welcome the opportunity to open dialogue and share
knowledge and best practices with my peers from within the CHIEF member
network, while accessing inspiring visionaries and other important
resources. CHIEF will help CIOs to deal effectively with ongoing
challenges, support succession and facilitate career advancement.”
Special guest speaker Jim Balsillie, co-CEO, Research in Motion, spoke
at the CHIEF Inaugural Symposium, held in conjunction with the e-Health
conference.
The CHIEF Institute was also launched, to ensure the involvement of
private sector solution providers. Founding Institute members include
Courtyard Group, Borden Ladner Gervais, Nightingale Informatix and C & D
Strategic Consulting. For more information about CHIEF and the CHIEF
Institute, contact: Heather Jones, executive director,
hjones@coachorg.com
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