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30th Anniversary Podcast: Unity of command in healthcare with Rick Skinner

In this week’s 30th Anniversary podcast series, Russ Branzell visits with Rick Skinner, CHIME’s 1999 Board Chair. As the calendar approached 2000, anxiety spread across the world as people feared that computer systems would shut down. Rick recalls how the CHIME Board celebrated the phenomenon at the Fall Forum, hurricane and all!

Rick is a healthcare IT Executive with over 25 years’ experience in healthcare information systems, including positions as the CIO for hospitals, a medical research laboratory, independent consulting and as project manager for the development and implementation of the Department of Defense’s global medical information system. Joins us as Rick reflects on UNITY and what that has meant in his career, especially those years served in the military.

Guest:

RICK SKINNER

MS, MHA, FCHIME