Each year, the Baldrige Foundation recognizes leaders in several industry sectors through an awards program known as the Baldrige Foundation Awards for Leadership Excellence. CHIME is pleased to announce that three of our own have received the honor of recognition through this prestigious awards program for their work in the cybersecurity sector. On this Trailblazers podcast episode, Russ Branzell, CEO and President of CHIME, celebrates these three recipients of the Baldrige Foundation Awards fo...
Apr 08, 2024•31 min
Can science be applied to tackling change within an organization? Are there tools, strategies, and approaches that can make change productive rather than overwhelming? Can leaders reshape “failure” into “learning” and encourage their people to embrace innovation? The idea that organizations can use science to harness change features heavily on today’s Leader to Leader podcast discussion between Russ Branzell, president and CEO of CHIME, and Joe Grinstead, Chief of US Operations, Divurgent. “Thin...
Mar 06, 2024•25 min
Navigating Change: How to Embrace and Harness It The healthcare industry is going through a period of rapid growth and change. Workforce shortages, AI implementations, innovative technologies, changes to workflows, and more are stirring up the waters. Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, quizzes Mark Burgess, President of AGFA HealthCare, NA, on how he and his organization are adapting to this period of uncertainty. Mark shares over 25 years of insights on how to embrace change, achieve ...
Feb 15, 2024•31 min
Can compassion relieve burnout? Is the healthcare professional’s cup half empty, half full, or refillable ? Can AI help doctors return to better quality patient care? Russ Branzell, CHIME’s President and CEO, welcomes Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE, Co-President and CEO, Cooper University Health Care, to CHIME’s newest Trailblazers podcast. Dr. Mzzarelli is the author of two books related to compassionate healthcare, Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference as ...
Jan 11, 2024•15 min
The experience of participating in a CHIME Boot Camp is unlike any other educational experience. The people and lifelong connections make it exceptional. Join Russ Branzell, CHIME’s President and CEO, as he interviews two brand new CIO Boot Camp graduates: Mike Mosquito, SVP, Digital Strategy & Innovation, Northeast Georgia Health System, and Maureen Nylin, Portfolio Manager at Oracle Corporation (Clinical Nursing Informatics Specialist). During the episode, both Mike and Maureen share their...
Dec 19, 2023•26 min
Join two seasoned healthcare experts as they delve into the hottest topics in the industry today—AI, machine learning, workforce strategies, cybersecurity, and the crucial value of connections and communication. Russ welcomes Ed Ricks, Managing Director at Baker Tilly, to the podcast booth to discuss pressing healthcare workforce challenges and how organizations can achieve more with fewer resources. Ed sheds light on the myriad ways AI and automation tools enhance the quality of care provided b...
Dec 13, 2023•26 min
When most of us think of AI, we envision automation, robotics, virtual assistance, and more. However, in today's episode, Russ Branzell, CEO and President of CHIME, engages in a compelling conversation with Dr. Shafiq Rab, MD, LCHIME, FCHIME, CHCIO, EVP, Chief Digital Officer and System Chief Information Officer at Tufts Medicine, to explore his unique perspective—the human side of AI. Dr. Rab, honored as the CHIME 2024 CIO of the Year, challenges the traditional perception of AI as a mere a...
Dec 08, 2023•21 min
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.
Nov 30, 2023•25 min
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 ...
Nov 22, 2023•31 min
With critical workforce shortages rampant, how can digital health leaders reduce burnout of their teams? Can leaders help their teams be productive but also satisfied in their work? Is it possible to teach the workforce to prioritize their mental health and well-being? This week’s unique CHIMECast episode focuses on the human side of healthcare. You don’t want to miss out on this podcast featuring CHIME23 Fall Forum keynote speaker, Jennifer Moss. She’s an award-winning writer, an internationall...
Oct 26, 2023•20 min
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 Off...
Oct 18, 2023•29 min
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 bus...
Oct 13, 2023•18 min
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, D...
Oct 11, 2023•33 min
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 reten...
Oct 04, 2023•25 min
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, GS Lab | 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 ...
Sep 21, 2023•36 min
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,...
Sep 19, 2023•26 min
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 organizatio...
Sep 14, 2023•23 min
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 pan...
Aug 28, 2023•19 min
On this week’s Leader to Leader podcast episode, Russ Branzell quizzes iMethod’s CEO, Clint Drawdy, about his take on the workforce challenges plaguing healthcare today. They talk top challenges, how to solve them, predictions on the future of healthcare and the workforce, as well as how to retain top talent. Tune in to learn more on iMethods' views on the workforce crisis and learn from this company’s experiences with working to resolve these problems.
Aug 22, 2023•21 min
On today's podcast episode: Russ Branzell, CHIME President & CEO Daniel Nigrin, MD, CHCIO, CDH-E
Jul 27, 2023•21 min
On today’s Trailblazers episode, Russ welcomes to the podcast booth Dr. Stacey Johnston, Vice President and Chief Applications Officer for Baptist Health, and current AEHADA Board Chair. Together, they discuss AEHIA’s rebranding to AEHADA and what’s on the horizon for CHIME’s applications- and data & analytics-focused association. They also tackle the reason AEHADA came to be as well as Dr. Johnston’s views on what the next five years will look like in the industry. Tune in now to find out w...
Jul 19, 2023•16 min
On this week’s Trailblazers episode, Russ welcomes CHIME CIO of the Year, Theresa Meadows, and CHIME’s own resident cybersecurity expert, David Finn, to talk all things cybersecurity! Both esteemed guests recently received recognition through the Baldrige Foundation, and they share what this recognition means to them personally and professionally. Discussions on recent cybersecurity "battles" take place, plus they share the biggest cybersecurity challenges they have each faced over the...
Jul 13, 2023•26 min
This week, Russ Branzell is joined on the Trailblazers podcast by three esteemed female healthcare leaders: Novlet P. Mattis, Senior Vice President and CDIO, Orlando Health, Sarah Richardson, Senior Vice President and CDIO, Tivity Health, and Anika Gardenhire, Chief Digital Officer, Centene Corporation. They talk women at work with a focus on gender equity, the lack of women in healthcare leadership roles, and the importance of networking. Additionally, each guest shares the most important leade...
Jun 28, 2023•37 min
Join Russ Branzell and three special guests as they explore how healthcare providers can harness the power of technology to bridge the equity gap in patient care. Discover how technology, when used effectively, has the potential to close disparities and ensure equitable access to quality healthcare. Hear from industry experts, including Andrea Daugherty, CISSP, Head of Digital Health, SHI International Corp. (former CIO, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas in Austin), Oscar E. Perez, ...
Jun 21, 2023•24 min
In today's episode, host Russ Branzell welcomes two distinguished members, Chani Cordero, CIO at Brooke Army Medical Center, and Rusty Yeager, SVP, CIO and Head of Design and Construction at Encompass Health. These esteemed guests have not only served the digital health industry but also their country as members of the armed forces. They discuss how their military careers shaped their leadership strategies in the digital health industry, focusing on "future readiness." They also ex...
Jun 13, 2023•21 min
In this episode of our CIO Trailblazers Podcast, host Russ Branzell is joined by two distinguished representatives from the CHIME Board of Trustees Freshman class: Tressa Springmann, CIO of LifeBridge Health, and Terri Couts, SVP and CDO of The Guthrie Clinic. Tune in as they delve into the workforce challenges that many healthcare providers are currently facing and explore the potential of combining technology with human ingenuity to alleviate pressure on organizations, and improve the patient ...
Jun 08, 2023•29 min
The Next Generation of Digital Health Transformation On this episode of our CIO Trailblazers podcast, join Russ Branzell and special guest, Matthew Kull, CIO at the Cleveland Clinic, as they discuss how digital transformation in healthcare can help organizations become nimbler in the face of evolving business models and tightening budget constraints. Also hear insight from Matthew on his biggest piece of advice for digital health leaders and some of his biggest leadership lessons....
Jun 01, 2023•19 min
In the inaugural episode of CHIME's New Trailblazers Series, join Russ Branzell as he embarks on a captivating and thought-provoking conversation with Danielle Rodriguez, Sr. Director of Customer Excellence at Baptist Health, and Aaron Miri, Senior VP, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Baptist Health. Together, they dive deep into their transformative experiences at the CHIME CIO Bootcamp, discuss their visionary outlook on the future of healthcare, share invaluable leadership lessons...
May 23, 2023•20 min
Leader to Leader: Managing Digital Infrastructure L2L Podcast Interview • Russ Branzell, CHIME President & CEO • Rick Shepardson, our Chief Strategy Officer
Apr 26, 2023•20 min
Health care organizations continually face evolving cyberthreats that can put patient safety at risk. While awareness around these issues has drastically improved, the need for a zero trust in healthcare will be crucial moving forward given the sector’s staffing gaps, limited resources, and other challenges. CHIME sat down with Imprivata President and CEO, Gus Malezis, to dig deeper into how zero trust in healthcare can keep pace with the threat landscape. Together, these industry leaders agreed...
Apr 18, 2023•18 min
