Digital Health Leaders Podcast

Building CIO Knowledge On a Strong Foundation In this week’s 30th Anniversary Podcast episode, Bill Reed engages in a thoughtful discussion with Russ Branzell about CHIME’s founding and how CHIME builds CIO knowledge. Bill is a founding Member of CHIME, the 1994 CHIME Board Chair, a CHIME Fellow, and Winner of the 1995 CHIME CIO of the Year award. Through CHIME’s programs, materials, conferences,...

Nuggets of Wisdom From 30 Years of CHIME Board Chairs This week, as part of CHIME’s 30th Anniversary celebration, we have a special treat for you: a compilation of bite-sized nuggets of wisdom from 10 of CHIME’s 30 Board Chairs. When you’re finished listening, head over to CHIME Media where you’ll find wisdom in larger quantities to fill your toolbox and feed you with inspiration. Featured in this...

Leader to Leader: Combating An Aggressive Cyber Climate through Strategy Cybersecurity technologies and strategies are evolving due to the changing threat landscape, where threats are becoming smarter and damaging. In today’s connected health environment, cybersecurity is no longer an option or afterthought whereas it is a critical strategic asset that is being addressed by every organization. Dur...

Leader to Leader: A Data Revolution in a Consumer-First World In this CHIMECast Leader to Leader podcast episode, Russ Branzell engages “Epic Viking” Kevin Field, President of Clearsense, in a lively discussion on the importance of harnessing data to solve healthcare problems. In a prior role, Kevin led major EMR implementations across the US and globally. He has moved into a role where data and t...

In this week’s 30th Anniversary Podcast episode, Russ Branzell chats with Ed Kopetsky. Ed is CHIME’s 1998 Board Chair, SVP & CIO, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, a founding Member of CHIME, and winner of the 2018 CHIME CIO of the Year award. From the very first CHIME meeting ever where the focus was a pivotal shift toward patient experience to improving provider/vendor relationships and a...

Advancing Health Equity During this informative CHIME Foundation Leader to Leader episode, CHIME President and CEO, Russ Branzell, and Executive Vice President and Chief Health Officer for Oracle Cerner’s Health Transformation Office, Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, discuss the broader implications of health disparities and how technology and data can solve challenges rather than perpetuate inequities. The...

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 an...

Geeking out, rallying the troops, and the value of listening In this CHIMECast Leader to Leader podcast episode, join Russ and Jeff Hendrikse, the Vice President of Enterprise Imaging Product Management at Canon Medical Informatics, Inc. Jeff has devoted his career to creating imaging solutions that transform data into visible results, so clinicians make better diagnoses. He has 25 years of expert...

Forward Looking and Beyond the Moment Join Russ Branzell, CHIME's President & CEO, in our 30th Anniversary podcast series featuring 30 weeks of digital health leaders who've made significant impacts on CHIME and our industry. Today's podcast welcomes CHIME's 2000 Board Chair, Timothy Zoph, FCHIME, CHCIO, recipient of a CHIME Legacy Award, and a thought leader who served as a founding faculty m...

During this informative CHIME Foundation Leader to Leader episode, CHIME President and CEO, Russ Branzell, and Baker Tilly's Healthcare Practice Managing Director, Steve House, discuss the value of 'Hospital at Home' as a care delivery model, whether or not it has the potential to change or disrupt healthcare delivery, and what healthcare providers really need to successfully implement a hospital-...

50 Years of Technology: Beyond the Horse & Buggy In this week's 30th Anniversary podcast series, Russ Branzell visits with Skip Hubbard, CHCIO, LCHIME, FCHIME, and CHIME's 2001 Board Chair. Skip’s life and career includes more than 50 years in technology, with more than 45 of those focused on healthcare. As the 2001 Board Chair, Skip was one of the first 10 CHIME Chairs, and one of the first 5...

Rapid Change, Remote Success & RPA... A Conversation with Digital Health Leader, Andy Smith, CFCHE, Managing Partner & Founder of Impact Advisors Join Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, and Andy Smith, CFCHE, Managing Partner & Founder of Impact Advisors, for an engaging conversation - covering everything from Venn diagrams to crystal balls! Hear the story behind Impact Advis...

Ivo Nelson In Memory of Gary Strong, 2003 Board Chair Trust, Love & Culture This week on our 30th Anniversary podcast, special guest, Ivo Nelson, joins us to honor the memory of CHIME’s 11th Board Chair from 2003, Gary Strong. Gary is remembered as a genuine and inspirational leader – he served at Fairview Health Services and Allina Hospitals and Clinics both in Minnesota, and before that, he...

Looking Back, Stepping Up & Letting Go In today's 30th Anniversary podcast, we welcome our Board Chair from 2004, Jim Turnbull. Jim is a Lifetime CHIME Member with a 47-year professional career in the health care industry. He retired as CIO of the University of Utah Health in 2020, and before that, served as the Senior VP & CIO of The Children’s Hospital in Denver. Jim was awarded the...

In today’s 30th Anniversary podcast, Russ welcomes Pat Skarulis, FCHIME, LCHIME, CHIME’s 2005 Board Chair. Pat was the Senior Vice President and CIO of Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York before retiring in 2020. She’s been recognized as one of the 50 most influential women in health IT by Health Data Management. Join us as Pat shares how and why she first entered the healthcare industry; the imp...

Shaping Change into Meaningful Progress Tune in to today’s 30th Anniversary podcast episode featuring Bill Spooner! Bill shares tips, lessons learned, experiences, and success stories extracted from a 45-year career in healthcare. 2006 CHIME Board Chair, 2009 CIO of the Year, winner of CHIME’s inaugural Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership, and winner of CHIME’s 2018 Legacy Award, there...

Rolled Sleeves, Dirty Hands & Deep Dives Description: In this week's 30th Anniversary podcast, we welcome our 2007 CHIME Board Chair and CHIME Fellow, Ron Strachan, the Principle and Founder of Optimize Health IT. Ron has worked in information technology for over 37 years - focused on healthcare IT for most of that time - and has served in the CIO role at prominent healthcare organizations. In...

Beyond Yourself and Your Role 2008 CHIME BOARD CHAIR Rodney C. Dykehouse, FCHIME, LCHIME President and Founder, CIO Consulting, LLC Today’s 30th Anniversary podcast welcomes Rodney Dykehouse, CHIME’s 2008 Board Chair and President and Founder of CIO Consulting, LLC. Rod has served as a dedicated Member of CHIME since 1994 and was awarded the Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership in 2005....

Just Go For It This week's 30th Anniversary podcast welcomes CHIME's 2009 Board Chair, Joanne Sunquist RN, MS, FCHIME, LCHIME. Before retiring in 2018, Joanne was the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minnesota. She practiced as an RN and Nurse Executive for ten years before moving into healthcare IT and becoming a well-known and respected l...

Pushing Boundaries Today's 30th Anniversary podcast welcomes Dr. Tim Stettheimer, CHIME's 2010 Board Chair, former CIO, a CHIME Fellow, and "everything CHIME" you can think of. Tim has traveled the world representing the CHIME community and now serves in the inaugural role as Provost of CHIME University. Join Russ as Tim shares a story about white water rafting and a lack of oxygen during his time...

Collaboration, Facilitation and Influence In this special 30th Anniversary podcast episode, Russ visits with CHIME's 2011 Board Chair, Dr. Lynn Vogel, who was a founding CHIME Member back in 1992! Dr. Vogel is balancing semi-retirement while working with Huntzinger Advisors following an impressive career as a CIO, university professor, and published author of the 2019 book: Who Knew?  Inside...

Healthcare is a Team Sport Tune in to this week's 30th Anniversary podcast with CHIME's 2012 Board Chair and CHIME Fellow, Drex DeFord. After a long and distinguished career in the United States Air Force, Drex served in numerous CIO positions across our industry and is now Executive Healthcare Strategist at CrowdStrike.  From being a "young punk" to a now "seasoned veteran," Drex shares...

Join Russ and 2013 CHIME Board Chair, George "Buddy" Hickman, a 30-year industry veteran - accomplished CIO and leader in digital health - and the only two-time, elected CHIME Board Member. As a long-time and valued Member, Buddy is both a CHIME Fellow and a CHIME Life Member, and continues to serve as an active faculty member of CHIME's Healthcare CIO Boot Camp. "It was the idea of networking tha...

Tenacity, Trustworthiness and Persistence in Learning Russ welcomes CHIME's 2014 Board Chair, Randy McCleese, to today's 30th Anniversary podcast. Having led a long and renowned career in digital health in first Tennessee and then Kentucky, Randy now runs his own healthcare IT consulting business. Enjoy a few moments of levity and Randy's special memories - from being "Secret Service" to sharing a...

In this Leader to Leader podcast, Russ visits with long-time CHIME Member, CIO Boot Camp Graduate and CHCIO, Ed Marx. After years of holding numerous CIO executive positions in addition to serving as a Digital Strategy Executive, Ed has recently added a NEW 3-letter title to his portfolio: CEO of Divurgent. Ed and Russ discuss the challenges and rewards of "crossing over" and transitioning ro...